Reading task to revise the perfect tense with Y9 after teaching illness with 'j'ai mal au...'. Pupils match 2 halves of sentences and work out which illness would result from which activity. As extension, I set 'find the French' on various time phrases and connectives used in the speech bubbles.

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.

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.

UPDATE: Added version for a more able group, including reading task. Goes with Expo 2 Vert, Module 3, Unit 1 'Tu veux sortir?' Covers 3 lessons with a low ability Y8 group. 1st lesson - activities/infinitives. Slide 4 is a sheet to print off. Forming Qs with 'tu veux', speaking activity. 2nd lesson - reading task. Understanding more detailed messages with meeting place, time, etc. 3rd lesson - writing own invitation. Extension work on French text speak.

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.

Pictures cut out and stick around the room. 1 grid between 2-3 pupils. 1 pupil per team can get up and bring back information to fill in the grid (fill in with the Spanish captions from under the pictures). Extension (especially if using with KS4) - cards with Spanish descriptions to match up. Powerpoint gives some clues to help with extension, then goes through answers, then has a quiz to finish.

French Christmas traditions activity for the end of term. To be done as a treasure hunt / kind of running dictation activity. Powerpoint slides printed 2 per sheet, cut up and stuck around classroom walls. Grid between 2-3 pupils. I pupil at a time per team can get up and look at the pictures, bringing back information (the French caption) to fill in the grid.

Reading tasks with grid to complete - the one in 2 tenses was aimed at a bottom set Y9 class and the one in 3 tenses was aimed at a middle/high set. But I'm planning to use the 2 tense one with Year 8s too. More or less the same task, so could be given out in the same class for differentiation.

Used with Y9 bottom set beginners Spanish - equally suitable for Y7 Spanish. True or false to recap colours. Give out sheet and pupils use prior knowledge to complete as much as possible. Can use dictionaries or just do a bit then go through answers and fill in gaps for corto/largo/liso/rizado etc. Reading task - understand the sentences and draw pictures based on them.

For a beginners Spanish Y9 class. Introduces animals vocab (pets) and includes a sheet for pupils to match up and record vocab. Speaking and writing including adjectives.

2 lessons for a top set Y8 class doing Spanish once per week alongside French. Using mas...que, menos... que and tan... como. Some slides found on TES and adapted/added to my own resources, so not entirely my own.

Focus on the past tense - an account of someone's career. For a low ability KS4 class.

A few lessons for a Y8 class. Using TV genres, telling the time, and introducing the past tense with one verb ready for doing the past tense in a bit more detail next lesson.

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.

A few lessons' worth of work on family members, hair and eye descriptions.

Various resources for low ability Y8 class. Follows Expo 2 Vert. A few weeks of powerpoint slides + worksheets and other resources used in class. The reading task (Reading A and Reading B) was sent out to pupils electronically so some had the underlined version to give them hints.

Several weeks worth of powerpoint slides following Expo 3 Vert Module 2 (L'avenir). Starts with on va + infinitive, mostly talking about free time. Then introduces rest of aller, and focuses on je vais + infinitive for writing a timeline of future plans at different ages. Have also included a few worksheets.

Introducing and using colours creatively with Year 7, based on poems by French primary children found online. Lesson 1: Presentation of colours and opinions. Lesson 2: Reading a poem, highlighting key features (nouns, adjectives), discussing similes. Pupils write first couplet of poem. Lesson 3: Preparing for independent working - dictionary skills, how to know if a word is masculine or feminine. Adjectival agreements. Continue drafting poem. 1 or 2 more lessons needed to produce display work.

To build on work on saying how often you go to the cinema (Expo 3 Vert - Module 1, adverbs of frequency). Recap of aller and adverbs of frequency, followed by work on reasons/for against cinema-going. Work out the meaning of the statements and categorise for and against. Key vocab given in word-bank on powerpoint to support least able.

Goes with Expo 2 - Module 1 - Unit 1 (Mon album de famille). Starter - matching 3rd person sentences to characters. Key 3rd person phrases. Presentation and practice of -ER verbs. Work on pronunciation. Writing descriptions of family members. Donner/garder les points game to finish.