This is a ready to go differentiated lesson on sports, more suitable for KS3. I used this for an interview lesson (and got the job). Included is the powerpoint presentation, a double sided stepped worksheet to use alongside the presentation and the lesson plan. Includes emphasis on using cognates and recognising false friends, a ‘spot the odd one out’ activity, battle ships, and encourages pupils to give opinions about sports with reasons. If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

Over a hundred slides of ready to print display or classroom aids including the following aspects of grammar and language: Greetings Opinion phrases Complex opinion phrases Positive adjectives Negative adjectives Connectives and conjunctions Time Phrases Negative sentence structures Verb tables, conjugation and structures (Regular verbs present, imperfect, perfect with avoir, perfect with être, near future, simple future, conditional future) All with the French flag colour theme in case of use in a multilingual classroom so as to avoid confusion with say German or Spanish. Can be printed as full slides or useful as classroom aids or handouts if printing several slides to one page. If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

A stand alone lesson about Mexico. Great to use when teaching Spanish to give a different hispanic country perspective. Resource includes a Powerpoint lesson and printable Worksheet for pupils to work from. Activities include: vocab match up Trapdoor activity (to use as Reading/Listening/Speaking/Writing as required) video with questions think pair share. If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

ALSO AVAILABLE FOR SPANISH: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-eurovision-2023-liverpool-uk-ukraine-mfl-spanish-12838886 OR AS A BUNDLE OF SPANISH & FRENCH LESSON RESOURCES: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eurovision-2023-liverpool-uk-ukraine-mfl-bundle-french-and-spanish-12838897 These resources can be used for a lesson or series of lessons on Eurovision for a French class with lots of discussion opportunities to learn more about Ukraine (last year’s Eurovision winners and who should have been hosting). Would work particularly well with Y9 and GCSE to get them using more interesting opinions but can be adapted for any year really and tasks are differentiated throughout to accommodate different abilities and levels. It’s a great scheme of work to use for Media/Culture topics (Music) and for writing with opinions. I have used a variation of this resource many times over the last few years and it has always gone down really well with students! They have lots of fun with this while learning a lot Resources include: Powerpoint Sweepstake of countries to cut out and distribute to students for them to follow their sweepstake country PLEASE NOTE! There’s a lot of information and ‘teacher heads up’ in the presenter notes. Be sure to have the presenter notes showing when you try out this lesson, to do so in Powerpoint go to: VIEW->Show presenter notes Activities include: Sweepstake - students to follow their selected country for homework A discussion about the contest and why the host country is the UK this year. Eurovision countries - how to say in French Facts and Figures match up about UK/France/Ukraine (2 differentiated tasks, choose depending on overall ability of the group Quiz about Ukraine Ukrainian-French vocabulary task to demonstrate difference in alphabet Quebec/French slang translation task (this year’s entrant for France is actually from Québec in Canada) Examples of previous iconic Eurovision performances followed by discussion of what makes a performance successful (or otherwise!) Discussion about UK & Ukraine’s performances last year and why they did well Chance to listen/watch each song entry for this year’s competition, students can give each performance a mark out of 12, and then do French writing practice using opinions.

Over a hundred slides of ready to print display or classroom aids including the following aspects of grammar and language: Greetings Opinion phrases Complex opinion phrases Positive adjectives Negative adjectives Connectives and conjunctions Time Phrases Negatives Verb tables, conjugation and structures (Regular verbs present, imperfect, perfect, preterite, near future, simple future, conditional future) All with the Spanish flag colour theme in case of use in a multilingual classroom so as to avoid confusion with say German or French. Can be printed as full slides or useful as classroom aids or handouts if printing several slides to one page. If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

ALSO AVAILABLE FOR FRENCH: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-eurovision-2023-liverpool-uk-ukraine-mfl-french-12838881 OR AS A BUNDLE OF BOTH FRENCH & SPANISH: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eurovision-2023-liverpool-uk-ukraine-mfl-bundle-french-and-spanish-12838897 This resource can be used for a lesson or series of lessons on Eurovision for a Spanish class with lots of discussion opportunities to learn more about Ukraine (last year’s Eurovision winners and who should have been hosting). Would work particularly well with Y9 and GCSE to get them using more interesting opinions but can be adapted for any year really and tasks are differentiated throughout to accommodate different abilities and levels. It’s a great scheme of work to use for Media/Culture topics (Music) and for writing with opinions. I have used a variation of this resource many times over the last few years and it has always gone down really well with students! They have lots of fun with this while learning a lot Resources include: Powerpoint Sweepstake of countries to cut out and distribute to students for them to follow their sweepstake country PLEASE NOTE! There’s a lot of information and ‘teacher heads up’ in the presenter notes. Be sure to have the presenter notes showing when you try out this lesson, to do so in Powerpoint go to: VIEW->Show presenter notes Activities include: Sweepstake - students to follow their selected country for homework A discussion about the contest and why the host country is the UK this year. Eurovision countries - how to say in Spanish Facts and Figures match up about UK/Spain/Ukraine (2 differentiated tasks, choose depending on overall ability of the group Quiz about Ukraine Ukrainian-Spanish vocabulary task to demonstrate difference in alphabet Cuban/Spanish slang translation task (last year’s entrant for Spain was actually from Cuba) Examples of previous iconic Eurovision performances followed by discussion of what makes a performance successful (or otherwise!) Discussion about UK & Ukraine’s performances last year and why they did well Chance to listen/watch each song entry for this year’s competition, students can give each performance a mark out of 12, and then do Spanish writing practice using opinions.

Francophone Countries display Ready to Print. Simply needs to be cut out and pieced together Optional Extras: Use string and push pins to show where the countries are on a world map Please note the flags only include Official Francophone countries

Plan and keep a track of your marking easily with this efficient marking timetable. Simply put a mark on the corresponding class and week, then when that groups books have been marked, it’s easy to tick off that it’s done! I have included an example for how I use this timetable, please note I am using both the school year calendar and the marking policy that I personally have to follow (KS3 books marked once every 3 weeks, KS4 books every 2 weeks) but you are obviously free to edit this as you need to according to your school’s policy! This really helped me balance out the workload and also make sure no books got left behind unmarked. A win for both teacher and pupil!

Plan and keep a track of your marking easily with this efficient marking timetable. Simply put a mark on the corresponding class and week, then when that groups books have been marked, it’s easy to tick off that it’s done! I have included an example for how I use this timetable, please note I am using both the school year calendar and the marking policy that I personally have to follow (KS3 books marked once every 3 weeks, KS4 books every 2 weeks) but you are obviously free to edit this as you need to according to your school’s policy! This really helped me balance out the workload and also make sure no books got left behind unmarked. A win for both teacher and pupil!

Eurovision 2023 - Liverpool, UK - AVAILABLE NOW: CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE UPDATED RESOURCES FOR EUROVISION 2023 LIVERPOOL, UK: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eurovision-2023-liverpool-uk-ukraine-mfl-french-12838881 Resources that can be used for a lesson or two on Eurovision for a French class. Would work particularly well with Y9 and GCSE to get them using more interesting opinions but can be adapted for any year really. It’s good to use for Media/Culture topic (Music) and for writing with opinions. Tasks are differentiated throughout. I have used a variation of this resource many times over the last few years and just changed it each year to make it up to date, it has always gone down really well with students! Resources include: Powerpoint Sweepstake of countries to cut out Countries match-up (English to French) Writing Table (optional - students can also do the writing task in their exercise books) Activities include: Sweepstake - students to follow their selected country for homework Countries match up French-English Eurovision facts and figures match-up Quiz about Italy (host country) Interesting linguistic fact followed by linguistic exploration of Breton language (This year’s entry for France is from Brittany) Chance to listen/watch each song entry, students can give each performance a mark out of 12, and then do writing practice using opinions.

Eurovision 2023 - Liverpool - AVAILABLE NOW! CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE UPDATED RESOURCES FOR EUROVISION 2023 LIVERPOOL, UK: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eurovision-2023-liverpool-uk-ukraine-mfl-spanish-12838886 Resources that can be used for a lesson or two on Eurovision for a Spanish class. Would work particularly well with Y9 and GCSE to get them using more interesting opinions but can be adapted for any year really. It’s good to use for Media/Culture topic (Music) and for writing with opinions. Tasks are differentiated throughout. I have used a variation of this resource many times over the last few years and just changed it each year to make it up to date, it has always gone down really well with students! Resources include: Powerpoint Sweepstake of countries to cut out Countries match-up (English to Spanish) Writing Table (optional - students can also do the writing task in their exercise books) Activities include: Sweepstake - students to follow their selected country for homework Countries match up Spanish-English Eurovision facts and figures match-up Quiz about Italy (host country) Interesting linguistic fact followed by linguistic exploration of Cuban slang (This year’s entry for Spanish was born in Cuba) Chance to listen/watch each song entry, students can give each performance a mark out of 12, and then do writing practice using opinions.

A Powerpoint presentation giving reasons why we learn languages. Good to use at the start of the year and to help with motivation. If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

AMDENDED SINCE LATEST REVIEW A highly engaging set of resources that could likely be used for 2-3 lessons. Activities include: vocab match up (differentiated) Tarsia activity (differentiated) A 5 min 37 sec youtube video in Spanish with subtitles, accompanied by worksheet with questions. Worksheet includes teacher copy with answers. (EDITED 28th September 2019 with new video and new worksheets) A quiz about day of the dead to consolidate learning examining a recipe for Pan de Muerto with differentiated translation activites three creative activities to either choose between or do all of: 1) design your own Ofrenda, 2) create papel picado to decorate the classroom, 3) sugar skull printouts for colouring. All worksheets are in PDF format (for ease of printing) and MS Word format (for ease of editing if desired). Wherever possible, activities are differentiated. If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

Spanish speaking countries display Ready to Print. Simply needs to be cut out and pieced together Optional Extras: Use string and push pins to show where the countries are on a world map Please note the flags only include Official Francophone countries

A printable cheat sheet for using accent codes on Microsoft operating systems. Complete with instructions. Simply print the pages needed depending on language codes you want to use. Codes for: French Spanish German Italian

French Language Resources and Teaching Pinterest Board https://pin.it/pfawgoybcqij3t A constantly updating Pinterest Board with an arrange of French language resources, posters, teaching ideas and more! If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.

Spanish Language Teaching Resources and Ideas Pinterest Board https://pin.it/6y7ms54urfge6r A constantly updating Pinterest Board with an arrange of Spanish Teaching and classroom resources, ideas, posters, classroom display and more! If you like my resources please don’t forget to leave a review. If you’re not happy with a resource or if you find a glitch please don’t hesitate to contact me so I can help you out and fix any problems.