This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about food you like/dislike and why" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous 10 Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 - 010).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Beat the teacher
Multiple Choice
This or that
Break the flow
Faulty translation
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Faulty translation
Listening Bingo
Narrow Listening Find the French for
Narrow Listening Gapped Translation
Narrow Listening Faulty Transcript
Structured Paragraph writing (recycling entire year 7 curriculum)
Grammar explanation on definite articles + tasks
Running dictation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Photo description
Group composition
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Each unit covers the full MARS EARS cycle based on EPI, and has enough material for 6-8 lessons depending on curriculum time. This is based on 2 lessons a week and has been designed to cover a full academic year.
The units included are the ones below:
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 10: Talk about school items & retrieval of previous 9 units (EPI/MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 9: Making comparisons & retrieval of previous 8 units (EPI/MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 8: Talking about jobs & retrieval of previous 7 units (EPI/MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 7: Talking about animals & retrieval of previous 6 units (EPI/MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 6: Family descriptions + total recall of previous 5 units (EPI / MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 5: Describing myself and others - Physical & Personality (EPI / MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 4: Describing where I live (EPI / MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 3: Describing hair and eyes (EPI / MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 2: Talk about my birthday (EPI / MARS EARS)
SPANISH Year 7. Unit 1: My name and my age (EPI / MARS EARS)
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about food you eat, drink and have" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Manger, Boire and Prendre with the partitive articles.
It also recycles the content of unit 1, previously uploaded, as well as content from the year 7 Bundle (labelled 01 - 010).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Finish my sentence
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
This or that quiz
Ghost time shadow reading
Spot the foreign sound
Break the flow
Faulty translation
Gapped translation
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Fill in table (comprehension task)
Narrow Reading Find someone who
LAM Collocation grids
Narrow Listening Find the French for
LAM Dichotomies
LAM Shadow reading
LAM Guess what comes next
Production : rock climbing
Production : mosaic translation
Production : tick and write
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on partitive articles + tasks
grammar explanation on verb prendre
tangled translation
One pen One di
Oral Ping Pong
Sentence stealer
Dictogloss
Pull the switch
One for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about what I do and how often" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on reflexive vers with retrieval of the previous 7 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the SB
Faulty echo
Find the error in my sentence
Multiple choice
Beat the teacher
Likely or unlikely
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading English comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Bad translation
LAM - Listening Chunk Bingo
LAM - Narrow Listening Find the French for (audio included)
LAM - Narrow Listening Find someone who (audio included)
LAM - Les mots qui manquent et les mots en trop (audio included)
Production : Translation
Production: Rewrite sentences in correct order
Production : Tripled Structured Paragraph wiriting
Grammar tasks on Reflexive verbs (all persons)
Sentence stealer
Mind reader
Running dictation
Oral Ping Pong
No Snakes No Ladder
Full Circle
Picture description
Group composition
Creative writing
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about future holidays" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is the near future using the “je” and “nous” pronouns. Final exercise recycles the entire Year 8 curriculum (previous 8 lessons).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the SB
Faulty echo
Match up
Multiple choice x2
Beat the teacher
Broken words
Sentence match
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading English comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Find someone who
LAM - Listening : Collocations / Colligations training
LAM - Narrow Listening Find the French for (no listening included)
LAM - Narrow Listening Gapped translation (no listening included)
LAM - Which is the correct translations? Narrow Listening (no listening included)
Production : Narrow translation (3 paragraphs)
Grammar explanation on near future + practice
Sentence stealer
Disappearing text
Mad dictation
Group composition
4,3,2
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about where I live and the room sin my house" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs HABITER with full retrieval of THE previous 6 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the SB
Finish my word
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
Ghost time shadow reading
This or that
Gapped translation
Faulty translation
Unjumble the sentences
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Find someone who
Narrow Reading gapped translation
LAM - Find the mispronounced words Audio included
LAM - Find the intruders Audio included
LAM - Fill in the missing words Audio included
LAM Spot the error Audio included
LAM Shadow tracking Audio included
Production : Translation
Production : Tangled translation
Production: Sentence chaos
Production: Quelque chose
Grammar SB on verb Habiter (all persons)
Grammar tasks on Habiter (all persons)
Sentence stealer
One pen one die
Disappearing text
Full circle
Picture description
Group composition
one for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Making comparisons" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous eight Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 - 08).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Beat the teacher
Sentence match
Fill the gaps
Faulty translation
Narrow reading Tick and Cross
Narrow Reading Comprehension
Narrow Reading Faulty translation
Listening Bingo
Narrow Listening Find the French for
Narrow Listening Gapped translation
Narrow Listening find the correct translation
Narrow Listening match text with picture
Translation Auction
Narrow Translation
Sentence stealer
Pyramid Translation
Mind reading
CHain Reaction
Photo description
Group composition
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Each unit covers the full MARS EARS cycle based on EPI, and has enough material for 6-8 lessons depending on curriculum time. This is based on 2 lessons a week and has been designed to cover a full academic year.
The units included are the ones below:
Year 8 Unit 9: FRENCH: Talk about future holidays (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 8: FRENCH: Talk about what I do and how often + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 7: FRENCH: Where I live + Rooms in my house + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 6: FRENCH: Talk about daily routine + Telling the time + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 5: FRENCH: Talk about hobbies + Whether + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 4: FRENCH: Talk about hobbies (Jouer / Faire / Aller) + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 3: FRENCH: Talk about clothes you wear (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 2 FRENCH: Talk about food you eat / drink / have (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 1 FRENCH: Talk about food you like / dislike + why + Year 7 retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about hobbies" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Jugar, Hacer and Ir with full retrieval of previous 3 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
Multiple choice quiz
Sentence match
This or that quiz
Break the flow
Gapped translation
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Bad translation
LAM Collocation grids
Narrow Listening Tick or Cross (no listening included)
Narrow Listening Gapped translation (no listening included)
LAM Faulty transcript (no listening included)
LAM Shadow reading (no listening included)
Production : Jigsaw translation
Production : Narrow translation
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on frequency words
Grammar explanation on “Ir + activities”
Running dictation
Sentence stealer
Photo description
Group composition
One for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about hobbies in different weathers" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs JUGAR, HACER, IR & QUEDARSE with full retrieval of previous 4 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the Spanish for in the SB
Gapped Translation
This or that
Spot the error
Finish my sentence
Faulty translation
This or that quiz
Unjumble the sentences
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading triple table
LAM Spot the intruders (no listening included)
LAM The missing words (no listening included)
LAM Mispronounced words (no listening included)
LAM Spot the error
Production : Delayed copying
Production : Tangled translation
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on “Quedarse"
Grammar tasks
Staircase translation
Sentence stealer
Act out a story
4,3,2 technique
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about food you eat, drink and have" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Comer, Beber and Tomar.
It also recycles the content of unit 1, previously uploaded, as well as content from the year 7 Bundle (labelled 01 - 010).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Finish my sentence
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
This or that quiz
Ghost time shadow reading
Spot the foreign sound
Break the flow
Faulty translation
Gapped translation
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading Fill in table (comprehension task)
Narrow Reading Find someone who
LAM Collocation grids
Narrow Listening Find the Spanish for
LAM Dichotomies
LAM Shadow reading
LAM Guess what comes next
Production : rock climbing
Production : mosaic translation
Production : tick and write
Grammar SB
Grammar tasks
Tangled translation
One pen One di
Sentence stealer
Dictogloss
Pull the switch
One for all and all for one
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***Edited 02.03.2024 January 2024 to add 5x communicative spoken tasks"
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about hobbies in different weathers" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Jouer, Faire, Aller & Rester with full retrieval of previous 4 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the SB
Gapped Translation
This or that
Spot the error
Finish my sentence
Faulty translation
This or that quiz
Unjumble the sentences
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading triple table
LAM Spot the intruders (no listening included)
LAM The missing words (no listening included)
LAM Mispronounced words (no listening included)
LAM Spot the error
Production : Delayed copying
Production : Tangled translation
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on “Faire and Weather"
Grammar tasks
Staircase translation
Oral Ping Pong
No Snakes No ladders
Find someone who
Communicative drills
Sentence stealer
Act out a story
4,3,2 technique
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about hobbies" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Jouer, Faire and Aller with full retrieval of previous 3 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
Multiple choice quiz
Sentence match
This or that quiz
Break the flow
Gapped translation
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Bad translation
LAM Collocation grids
Narrow Listening Tick or Cross (no listening included)
Narrow Listening Gapped translation (no listening included)
LAM Faulty transcript (no listening included)
LAM Shadow reading (no listening included)
Production : Jigsaw translation
Production : Narrow translation
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on “Jouer + sport / instruments”
Grammar explanation on “Faire + activities”
Running dictation
Sentence stealer
Photo description
Group composition
One for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about future holidays" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is the near future using the “Yo” and “Nosotros” pronouns in the near future. Final exercise recycles the entire Year 8 curriculum (previous 8 lessons).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the Spanish for in the SB
Faulty echo
Match up
Multiple choice
Beat the teacher
Broken words
Sentence match
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading English comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Find someone who
LAM - Listening : Collocations / Colligations training
LAM - Narrow Listening Find the Spanish for (no listening included)
LAM - Narrow Listening Gapped translation (no listening included)
LAM - Which is the correct translations? Narrow Listening (no listening included)
Production : Narrow translation (3 paragraphs)
Grammar explanation on near future + practice
Sentence stealer
Disappearing text
Mad dictation
Group composition
4,3,2
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about what I do and how often" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on reflexive vers with retrieval of the previous 7 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the Spanish for in the SB
Faulty echo
Find the error in my sentence
Multiple choice
Beat the teacher
Likely or unlikely
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading English comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Bad translation
LAM - Listening Chunk Bingo
LAM - Narrow Listening Find the Spanish for (no listening included)
LAM - Narrow Listening Find someone who (no listening included)
LAM - Las palabras que faltan y las palabras adicionales (no listening included)
Production : Translation
Production: Rewrite sentences in correct order
Production : Tripled Structured Paragraph wiriting
Grammar tasks on Reflexive verbs (all persons)
Sentence stealer
Mind reader
Running dictation
Picture description
Group composition
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*Please ensure you download all files onto your device one you have purchased the Bundle, as the Bundle may be ended at any point.
Each unit covers the full MARS EARS cycle based on EPI, and has enough material for 6-8 lessons depending on curriculum time. This is based on 2 lessons a week and has been designed to cover a full academic year.
The units included are the ones below:
Year 8 Unit 9: SPANISH: Talk about future holidays (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 8: SPANISH: Talk about what I do and how often + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 7: SPANISH: Where I live + Rooms in my house + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 6: SPANISH: Talk about daily routine + Telling the time + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 5: SPANISH: Talk about hobbies + Whether + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 4: SPANISH: Talk about hobbies (Jugar / Hacer / Ir) + Retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 3: SPANISH: Talk about clothes you wear (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 2 SPANISH: Talk about food you eat / drink / have (EPI / MARS EARS)
Year 8 Unit 1 SPANISH: Talk about food you like / dislike + why + Year 7 retrieval (EPI / MARS EARS)
This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about one’s daily routine and telling the time" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It also includes full retrieval of the previous 5 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the SPANISH for in the SB
Finish my word
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
Ghost time shadow reading
Spot the foreign sounds
This or that quiz
Gapped translation
Unjumble the sentences
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading Find someone who
Narrow Reading gapped translation
LAM Sentence Bingo (no listening included)
Narrow Listening Find the Spanish for (no listening included)
Narrow Listening Faulty translation (no listening included)
LAM Spot the error
LAM Shadow reading
Production : Rock Climbing
Production : Triple paragraph writing
Sentence stealer
One pen one die
Dictogloss
Group composition
one for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about where I live and the room sin my house" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs VIVIR with full retrieval of THE previous 6 units and some year 7 content.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the Spanish for in the SB
Finish my word
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
Ghost time shadow reading
This or that
Gapped translation
Faulty translation
Unjumble the sentences
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading Find someone who
Narrow Reading gapped translation
LAM - Find the mispronounced words (no listening included)
LAM - Find the intruders (no listening included)
LAM - Fill in the missing words (no listening included)
LAM Spot the error
LAM Shadow reading
Production : Translation
Production : Tangled translation
Grammar SB on verb Vivir (all persons)
Grammar tasks on Vivir (all persons)
Sentence stealer
One pen one die
Picture description
Group composition
one for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about clothes you wear" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verb LLEVAR. It also recycles the content of unit 1 and 2, previously uploaded, as well as content from the year 7 Bundle (labelled 01 - 010).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Finish my sentence
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
This or that quiz
Break the flow
Faulty translation
Gapped translation
Narrow reading Find the Spanish For
Narrow Reading Gapped translation
Narrow Reading Find someone who
LAM Collocation grids
Narrow Listening Missing words (no listening included)
Narrow Listening Spot the intruders (no listening included)
Narrow Listening Mispronounced words (no listening included)
LAM Faulty transcript (no listening included)
LAM Shadow reading (no listening included)
Production : Unjumble translation
Production : Tangled translation
Production : Triple paragraph writing
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on indefinite articles + tasks
Grammar explanation on adjective agreement + tasks
grammar explanation on verb LLEVAR
tangled translation
One pen One di
Sentence stealer
Photo description
Group composition
One for all and all for one
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Food” in the perfect tense, present indicative, and near future, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
More effective if used after Unit 21 previously uploaded on Food
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the Sentence Builder
Match up
Find the error in the sentence
This or that
Spot my error (phonological error)
Find the intruder in each sentence
Reading and listening tasks (no Audio included - teacher to read)
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Gapped translation
Comment dit-on?
Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM)
Listen and write the missing words - no gaps provided (LAM)
Listen and write the missing words and cross out the intruders (LAM)
Listen and answer the questions in French - focus on short answers (LAM)
Structured production: Narrow Translation (x3 paragraphs)
Structured production: Un stylo un dé
Expansion: Grammar explanation Passé composé
Expansion: Fast and Furious Passé composé
Expansion: Grammar explanation Near future
Expansion: Parsing grid Near future
Autonomy-Routinisation: Mad Dictation
Autonomy-Routinisation: Pyramid Translation
Autonomy-Routinisation: No Snakes No Ladders
Spontaneity: Communicative Drills
Spontaneity: Pull the Switch
Spontaneity: 4,3,2
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