Lesson aimed at developing dictionary skills prior to writing Controlled Assessment. The aim is for pupils to know what type of words they are looking up, and to be able to use verb tables correctly to avoid handing in work peppered with infinitives. All examples are the Oxford School French Dictionary as this is what our pupils use in exams. The conjugation game on the last slide was sent to me by a colleague who found it on TES - you may need to search for it to get a clearer copy than my screeshot.

Disclaimer: adapted from a teacher at my placement school, not entirely my own work. First pupils do card-sort activity - match reasons for jobs in French and English. When they finish, start filling in the grid. As extension or homework - fill in the 3rd column with a job title (in French) that goes with the reason - there is more than one possible answer for this.

Cover lesson worksheet for a low ability Year 8 class. A series of tasks to work through to build up from learning the vocab to using it in a sentence. Not very exciting, but thought it might save someone a bit of time.

Writing assessment for Y9 topic of Healthy Living. Style of paper is based on the new AQA specification. Primarily Foundation but includes a Higher style translation and opportunity for pupils to complete the main writing task at either Foundation (90 words) or Higher (150 words) level of detail.

2 resources for studying the film Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopatre with a mixed ability Y9 group. Nothing too heavy going as it's an end of term treat after working really hard with lots of grammar for the past few months. 1st lesson = introduction. What is Astérix? What are bande dessinée? Pupils research online to complete worksheet. Then watch trailer. 2nd lesson = character info match-up starter, then watching the film for a good chunk of the lesson, then true or false quiz.

Recognition of differences between perfect and present tenses (a basis for discussion/questioning when going through answers). Extension gets pupils to apply this knowledge and use the perfect tense.

Starter worksheet to recap job titles

Pupils had covered perfect tense during module on hobbies/leisure in the previous term but had had a bit of a break from it. Used quiz to get them thinking about it again and prepare to apply it to the current topic. Could use to test how much they remember, or let them use their exercise books (opportunity for them to evaluate how good their note-taking is and if their books will help them revise).

A cover lesson introducing language for the photo card at AQA GCSE (for the 4-sentences writing task, and as a starting point for the speaking exam). This is for a low ability Y9 group. Covers: -il y a + nouns -il/elle est + height/build -il/elle a + hair description -il/elle a + basic clothing 4 pictures for students to describe.

Cover lesson on Jobs. Aimed at Y8 Set 3. They had already completed Linguascope vocab sheets for cover last lesson so had done a lot of words but nothing towards building up sentences. Translation. 3rd person. Answer sheet included for cover teacher.

Colous poem project for Y7 Spanish - will probably take 3-5 lessons depending on your group. After learning basics of colours, word order and adjective agreements, pupils read a poem and identify nouns and adjectives. They develop dictionary skills to research new vocabulary so they can be creative, producing similes using nouns (eg: blue like the sea) then add in adjectives to enhance their similes (eg: blue like the shimmering sea). After the 2-3 lessons provided on powerpoint they can complete their poems and write up in neat for display.

Lesson on sports using jugar + time phrases. Lesson on sports using hacer/practicar and choosing the correct one.

Lesson to prepare a bottom set Y9 group for writing about future plans. Settling starter (wordsearch) followed by team activity to practise using a word mat to write developed sentences. Pupils work in small groups with a mini-whiteboard and a word mat. A sentence appears on the board in English and they have to translate it (most of what they need is in the word mat). The team with the most complete answer when the time stops gets a point.

Text to introduce a class who are already familiar with the perfect tense of regular and irregular verbs with avoir to the idea of verbs which use etre as the auxiliary. Used as a challenging lesson for top set Y8 but would be suitable for KS4. 1) Reading for gist - give each paragraph a title (EXT: Come up with your own title for the last line as this doesn't have one provided). 2) Categorise verbs into avoir aux and etre verb (EXT: Identify the 2 types of verb that use etre - movement and reflexives) 3) True or false Qs.

Lesson to introduce personality adjectives with Y7 (they've already done loads of work on agreements for colours and physical description, so not that much time spent on it here). Goes with Expo 1 and does refer to reading and listening activities from it, but hopefully some of the slides will be useful even if you don&'t use this textbook.

2 lessons for a top/middle set Year 10 class. Focus is on getting pupils to write good sentences to include in controlled assessment preparation, exposing more able pupils to advanced structures without making it too scary for those who struggle more. EDIT: Just to say that several of the slides come from other TES resources so many thanks if you spot your own work.

Exercises to practise correct use of negatives with verbs in the perfect tense.

Used with an Asset Spanish class, so is fairly basic. Would probably be OK for KS3 or a Foundation GCSE group. Read descriptions of people's jobs/where they work, and match with job titles previously learned.

Goes with Mira 1, Module 2 (refers to listening exercises from the textbook, but there's plenty of useful stuff on the slides if you don&'t have access to this). My class are Y9 beginners Spanish, but this would be equally suitable for Y7. Lesson 1 - using cognates to work out school subjects, listening, writing about what subjects you study/don&';t study. Lesson 2 - vocab recap pic reveal, days of the week, reading. Lesson 3 - gender, listening, adjectives, using dictionary, opinion phrases.

A reading task about the real figure behind the character of 'Pere Jean&' in the film &';Au revoir les enfants' (information taken from wikipedia). I have a mixed ability class, so gave some pupils the version with line numbers as clues to help them cope with the text which is fairly challenging for Y9. Pupils seemed really interested and shocked by the fact that it was a real-life story, so I hope it works well for you too.