A 3-page worksheet on past tense holidays recapping locations, transport, holiday activities, weather and opinions in the past tense. The exercises review key vocabulary and will support pupils to talk and write about where they went on holiday last year. The exercises include vocabulary review, translation and reading activities.
Format: Word Document & PDF with answers.
This resource is a compilation of 9 lessons in order to teach the topic of holiday to KS3 students. It teaches new structures and new vocabulary, but also implies prior knowledge.
The lessons include some key grammar points (grammatical gender with the preposition in/to, near future tense) as well as key vocabulary words (list of countries, means of transport, accommodation, activities, opinions, adjectives, weather phrases, time phrases).
The lessons are structures to work on all skills, with an emphasis on the reading/writing and translation skills.
The lessons also include some ‘Conti-fied’ activities to better support the pupils (faulty translation, mosaic listening, rock climbing translation etc).
It also includes a booklet that it ready to be printed, or individual lessons’ resources to print.
A collection of 21 lessons based on the new French GCSE by Edexcel.
All lessons contain a sentence builder, various activities, links / QR codes to Quizlet courses for homework. Each unit is divided into 4 lessons (2 focused on vocabulary retention, one on grammar points, and one on a summary, progress check)
It also includes a Revision Clock for pupils to fill in, and a half-term revision lesson.
Unit of work
Vacances de rêves
On part pour la Corse
Le monde en fête
Guide de voyage
Vive les vacances
Grammar focus :
Imperfect tense
Simple future
Asking questions.
French KS2/KS3 lesson on holidays, ideal for a Y5/Y6 taster or transition day or as something fun to do with Y7 at the end of the year.
EPI style activities with a Sentence Builder and modelling and LAM activities.
Uses the near future tense to talk about students’ holiday plans, includes cognates and high frequency vocab on the topic.
starter task to activate prior cultural knowledge and facilitate discussion
faulty echo
sentence chaos
identify which sentences are nonsense
sentence bingo
all English translations included on sentence builder
No printing of activities required unless preferred, I recommend printing the sentence builder and using mini whiteboards.
Editable version of PPT included.
Save 80% with this topic bundle of 20 different resource packs on the topic of holidays to use with GCSE or intermediate KS3 groups. The resources cover all aspects of the topic and a range of tenses (present, past, future and conditional).
I hope you and your pupils find this useful and please leave a review or get in touch with secondarymfl@gmail.com if you have any comments or feedback.
The task is designed to be an open lesson were students have freedom to choose where they want to go from the destinations. Both if you have time. It is a chance for students to discuss the fundamentals of booking a holiday as well as incorporating maths. Students will feel like they have achieved something even if they do not finish the whole task as each smaller task is designed individually and only impacting the final holiday cost at the end. Tasks included:
TASK AND MATHS TOPIC
Flights and Accommodation- Reading from a table
Vouchers- Percentages
Weather- Mean and Range from bar charts
Luggage and Weather conversion- Function Machines
New York Day trip- Time Planning
Florida Day trip- Route Planning
Filling in booking form- General Number. (Adding/Dividing/Multiplying)
SUITABLE FOR high school lower and higher maths ability. functionals skills.
3 lesson bundle
suitable for year 5 and year 6
engaging maths lessons based on saving for a holiday.
lesson 1: Pupils must pick flights and hotels
lesson 2: Pupils must pick items they are taking on holiday
lesson 3: Pupils must pick the activities that they are completing on the trip
pupils have a budget and they must then calculate the total cost
Includes:
Teaching slides
differentiated questions
modeled questions
answers for questions
A translation worksheet on the topic of holidays in the conditional tense and conditional structures. Six different translation exercises which recycle the same key language and introduce new linguistic items in a scaffolded way. The exercises are ramped in terms of difficulty and final activity is a plenary translation task into Spanish.
Answers included.
French GCSE Sentence Builder - Holidays in 4 Tenses (Présent, Passé, Futur, Conditionnel) Perfect for speaking, writing, and revision activities
Looking for an all-in-one tool to help your students master GCSE French tenses while talking about holidays? This Sentence Builder has been specifically designed for KS4 learners preparing for their GCSE French exams. It covers the topic of “Les Vacances” across four major tenses – present, past, future, and conditional - with scaffolded vocabulary and structures that support both higher and foundation tier students.
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What’s Included:
Structured sentence starters and high-frequency phrases for each tense
Key verbs and vocabulary grouped by topic (transport, accommodation, activities, opinions)
English translations to support independent learning
Perfect for speaking, writing tasks, and exam preparation
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Ideal for:
GCSE French revision (AQA, Edexcel, and OCR)
Speaking and writing assessments
Homework and independent study
Building confidence in using complex structures and tenses
Eight standalone resources on the topic of past holidays. These resources will support pupils to talk about where they went on their holiday, who they went with, how they got their, simple activities and opinions.
Resource 1: Worksheet to introduce ‘fui’ with countries, people and transport and fue with opinion adjectives.
Resource 2: This worksheet reviews the language in worksheet 1 and introduces holiday activities.
Resource 3: A translation recall game reviewing all the language above.
Resource 4: A worksheet to learn and practise the -AR verb endings in the preterite tense.
Resource 5: A worksheet to introduce -IR verbs in the past: vi, conocí, salí, comí, bebí etc.
Resource 6: A scaffolded writing task with model answers, based on resources 1-5
Resource 7: ¿Cómo te fue? Ir and Ser in the past tense and opinions.
Resource 8: A reading comprehension with questions in English on a text which recycles all the language in the previous resources.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
This presentation and accompanying worksheets cover the GCSE topic of Holidays. Pupils will cover opinions and reasons, present tense verb conjugations, preterite tense verbs (regular and irregular), conditional and future tense verbs. Pupils will practice and develop their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through a range of different activities. There are enough resources here to cover at least 3 lessons on the topic of holidays, and they can be adapted to cover a range of different abilities.
Bumper French holidays-themed wordsearch containing 30 words. Then find the hidden message using the remaining letters. Perfect as a starter to revise key vocabulary or for the end of term!
A double-sided standalone resource to support pupils to talk and write about their ideal holidays using ‘je rêve de’, j’espère’ and some conditional sentences. It includes a review of how to say ‘to’ with countries/cities, expressions match up, translation practice, a sentence builder and a plenary reading comprehension.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Two standalone worksheets to support pupils to talk about holidays in the past tense.
Resource 1: Introduces key past tense verbs and recycles key language with a sentence builder, gap fill reading and translation practice. There is also a summary of how to form past tense verbs with avoir and a grammar gap fill task.
Resource 2: Review of key past tense verbs with a GCSE reading comprehension task (a note taking question with a vocabulary search).
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
This educational handout provides a practical guide for those looking to order at a restaurant with confidence. It contains a variety of useful expressions to facilitate communication in that context. From asking for the bill to communicating allergies or problems with dishes, this handout covers a range of common situations encountered at a restaurant.
Sections included:
Llegando al restaurante - Arriving at the restaurant
At the table - en la mesa
Taking an order - Tomando un pedido
At the table - en la mesa
Ordering a 3-course meal - Pidiendo una comida de tres platos
Asking about a dish - Preguntando sobre un plato
Asking for a missing item - Pidiendo algo que falta
How would you like your meat? - ¿Cómo quiere su carne?
Problems - problemas
Asking for the bill - Pidiendo la cuenta
SENTENCE BUILDERS - FOUNDATION AND HIGHER (WENN PHRASES FOR HIGHER), SENTENCE BUILDER ACTIVITIES, CROSSWORD OF KEY CONSTRUCTIONS, READING COMP INCLUDING TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH, TRAPDOOR, TRANSLATION INTO GERMAN, TANGLED TRANSLATION
MY CLASSES HAVE DONE THE REST OF THE HOLIDAYS TOPIC, SO THEY ARE WORKING THROUGH THESE INDEPENDENTLY AS LOTS OF VOCABULARY FROM FUTURE HOLIDAYS IS REPEATED
A set of 4 sentence builders on the topic of holidays:
¿A dónde vas de vacaciones y por qué?
¿A dónde fuiste de vacaciones es año pasado?
¿Con quien viajaste?¿Cómo? ¿Dónde te alojaste?
¿Qué tiempo hizo?
Long revision sheet on holidays with match ups, tense recognition word, long guided gap fill and comprehension and sentence builder.
Excellent for cover work (what I made it for), summary sheet before giving controlled conditions question, revision before GCSE exam etc.
Hope it is useful.
This Spanish Powerpoint introduces holiday type activities in the preterite tense to enable students to talk about what they DID on holiday. It also includes giving opinions - lo pase fatal etc.