Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Resources on mi tiempo libre / mis pasatiempos including regular verbs, sports and activities vocab, time phrases and connectives. Resources are mostly worksheets with different activities, often listening, matching, writing and translation.
Worksheet containing a matching activity, listening and reading tasks and translations on the advantages and disadvantages of living in the countryside. Audio file and answers included.
A worksheet with a few teacher-led activities to learn and consolidate vocab for giving positive and negative opinions on hobbies. Answers and instructions included.
Vocab sheet with some short translations and teaching ideas - enough for at least one lesson for teaching students to discuss the school rules in French.
A sentence builder to learn to answer the question ‘Si tu pudieras cambiar algo de tu colegio, ¿qué cambiarías?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A sentence builder on the topic of describing someone’s personality - may be useful within the topics of family or friends / le caractère / la personnalité / la famille / les amis / descriptions. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Sentence builder on family relationships, saying if you get on well or not with family members an why. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Two versions of the same sentence builder (a more ambitious one and a simpler one) to talk about your dream job and what qualities are necessary for this job / le travail / les professions / les métiers. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Here is a free set of vocab activities to go with the sentence builders https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dream-jobs-vocab-exercises-12453224
Various worksheets and activities to introduce and practise the future tense in French:
A few inductive grammar activities to introduce the future tense in French - a match-up exercise followed by inductive grammar exercise and links to a Quizlet and Quizizz games to practise the endings.
A variety of exercises to practise the future tense, including multiple-choice, gap-fill and translation. Mostly regular verbs but irregular verbs are introduced in the last activity. Answers included.
A short gap-fill on the future tense along with a speaking drill to practise conjugating orally.
A gap-fill worksheet to practise using the future tense and correct prepositions with countries in French.
Two sentence builders on the following topis: giving opinions on one’s job / work experience, and describing a past work experience + a jumble activity to go with the past work experience SB.
See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Intended for the study of films in Spanish, this handout provides introductory steps to analysing film, and a comprehensive glossary of vocabulary in English and Spanish with detailed explanations and examples. The examples relate to the Almodovar film, Volver, but the principles can be applied to any film. It is roughly aimed at students studying for A-Level, Pre-U or IB (aged 16+). Whilst this resource is designed to provide information, you can also create activities from it, for example, by mixing up the Spanish and English words to match up, or match words to definitions. Or, you could assign different students certain terms and ask them to produce a short analysis of these aspects in one key scene to present to the class.
A big quiz of 30 questions on the Spanish-speaking world - can be used for beginners, done aurally in class or as a research task. Answers are included in the document. Great for starting off beginners in Spanish to get them interested in Hispanic world, or as an end-of-term fun activity!
Set of worksheets and activities to introduce and practise describing people and comparing them using más… que, menos… que and tan… como
Short activity to complete orally projected onto the board (or printed out if you prefer)
Parallel text with sentences in Spanish and English - you can use it to ask pupils to ‘find the Spanish’ for certain phrases in the English eg. ‘taller than’, ‘I think that’ etc. - can be done as a quiz
Long worksheet practising it extensively
Starter recap translations for a following lesson
2 worksheets with activities to introduce and practise using different time expressions, connectives and basic negatives in Spanish to talk about when you do different pastimes. Pupils should already be familiar with the hobbies vocab before completing these activities.
Selection of worksheets and activities for learning how to introduce oneself and give other details such as where you are from, birthday, language you speak, age and where you live. Including:
Worksheets to be done in class or homework with matching activities, translations and reading comprehension, answers included
Ppt. oral matching task with memory game for basic questions & answers
Ppt. with a load of oral memory drills to recycle & retrieve the basic questions & answers
Basic intros ‘correct the facts’ listening comp with translations - a thorough processing task that extensively recycles the language to give the above info
1 pen 1 dice game (google 1 pen 1 dice for instructions)
Basic greetings recap starter sheet
narrow reading texts on ppt. - can be printed off or projected on screen for pupils to translate orally into English
A variety of different classroom activities and worksheets for teaching the irregular verb estar in the present tense to beginners in a few lessons. Includes:
dictation missing letters task to introduce verb and emotions and practise phonics
inductive grammar worksheet to fill in with translations
Interactive oral/memory tasks on ppt. to consolidate the conjugations
Worksheet introduce and extensively practise vocab to do with daily routines and school. The aim is for pupils to learn all this language, including the verbs as vocabulary, BEFORE you go on to unpack the grammar of reflexive verbs and practise the conjugations. This helps avoid cognitive overload (which often happens when trying to teach grammar rules and meaning at the same time) Answers included, of course.
