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!
A ‘bad translation’ listening activity to practise vocab on physical descriptions such as hair and eyes - les cheveux et les yeux. Transcript and answers included - teachers read the sentences and students listen and correct the ‘bad’ English translation - this requires ‘thorough processing’ and not superficial listening.
A worksheet with a sequence of activities to introduce and practise talking about pets and colours for beginners’ Spanish. Activities include a matching exercise, a vocab table to fill out, a listening gap-fill and a ‘bad translation’ exercise.
A paired translation activity to practise adjective agreement rules in French in the context of personality. The game and answers are included along with a set of instructions on how it could be played as a translation race / an oral one pen one dice game / or a trapdoor game.
Suitable for KS3 French after introducing adjective agreement rules, or for KS4 French as revision.
3 x sentence builders & follow-up tasks to learn to say who is in your family, names/ages, how you get on with each and why, to help pupils answer the Qs: comment tu t’entends avec ta famille / parle-moi de tes relations familiales etc.
Activities:
Interactive activity suggestions for using with the SB
Pop-up grammar questions for paired discussion
listening gap-fill
reading comprehension
reading aloud battleships game
mini listening table
gapped translation and full translation
jumble writing task
Answers all included.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
Resources for teaching ser vs estar uses for the first time. Includes:
Inductive grammar ppt. exercise where pupils work out the rules
ser or estar worksheet with translations - teacher notes on other activities and answers included
ser or estar quiz sheet all in Spanish, where pupils also have to justify reason
A short sequence of teacher-led oral drilling activities to practise/revise the present tense of the big 4 irregulars in French. This activity should be after pupils have seen the tables of conjugations and are familiar with the English meanings. Possible sequence:
model the pronunciation of the sentences 1-5 on each slide, do some listen & repeat oral drills (choral repetition, individual repetition, whispering, shouting etc. to drill pronunciation)
pupils translate orally into english in pairs
pupils given 30 seconds / 1 minute to ‘memorise’ the verbs and their meanings on the sentences
memory task - recall the verbs
repeat for the other verbs
matching task to reinforce verb meanings - pupils do orally in pairs
gap-fill task - you could cold call pupils for this one. If it’s too hard, give them 2 options orally in French eg. ‘J’ai sept cours’ or ‘Je suis sept cours’ ?
matching task to summarise on other ppt.
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 mini sentence builder on topic of parler des professeurs, including vocab to describe people’s hair and eyes as well as opinion phrases and school subjects. French school topic, with some translations, list of possible teaching ideas, and mosaic translations à la Conti! Answers included, of course. Enough work for 1-2 lessons depending on ability.
Two sentence builders and an oral ‘mosaic translation’ activity to help answer the questions ‘Où est-ce que tu passes tes vacances?’ and ‘Comment tu voyages?’ - describing where you go on holiday and why, and the transport you take. 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 very simple reading or listening activity for learning about the pros and cons of living in the town / country. Pupils will need to be familiar with most of the vocab in these sentences before doing this activity. You can either project some of the sentences onto the board and have students read them aloud in pairs, then say whether it’s a pro or con, or you can do it as a listening - select perhaps 8-10 of the sentences. Say each one in a random order, and pupils note on miniboards / scrap paper if i’ts a pro or a con. You could follow up with a ‘vocab hunt’ - write a list of English words on the board that appear in these sentences and pupils have to find the vocab.
A 5-page mini booklet to practise describing personality in French / décrire les membres de la famille / les amis / personnalité / caractère with focus on different adjectives for describing personality, ajective agreement, the verb être, other verbs and some basic negatives. Activities include translation, structured writing, listening and sentence unjumbling. Answers included.
A variety of worksheets and multi-skill activities all relating to the topic of family - describing who is in your family, giving physical description of family members, describing personality/character, using object pronouns and depuis with the present tense, and describing relationships with family members using reflexive verbs on how well you get on and why. Activities include sentence builders, quick listening activities, translations, sentence jumble, gap-fills, gapped translations, bad translation / faulty transcript, aural sentence puzzles and other tasks.
A variety of lesson activities for 1-3 lessons to learn to describe the environmental problems in the world and the local area - a parallel text with suggestions on how to use it, a vocab hunt, delayed dictation, unscramble the sentences exercise, broken sentences to match up, another parallel text followed by a gap-fill, scaffolded translations from English into French. All answers included.
A variety of lesson activities to learn to say what you do / what you can do to protect the environment / ecology - including matching activity to introduce the vocab, vocab hunt, listening gap-fill with follow-up activity and guided writing task (complete the sentences)
A short listening, matching activity & reading comprehension exercise to consolidate the future tense through listening & reading alongside environment vocab.
Includes the following:
A variety of lesson activities for 1-3 lessons to learn to describe the environmental problems in the world and the local area - a parallel text with suggestions on how to use it, a vocab hunt, delayed dictation, unscramble the sentences exercise, broken sentences to match up, another parallel text followed by a gap-fill, scaffolded translations from English into French. All answers included.
A short listening, matching activity & reading comprehension exercise to consolidate the future tense through listening & reading alongside environment vocab.
A variety of lesson activities to learn to say what you do / what you can do to protect the environment / ecology - including matching activity to introduce the vocab, vocab hunt, listening gap-fill with follow-up activity and guided writing task (complete the sentences)
A variety of lesson activities on the topic of ecology (ce que je fais pour aider l’environnement) / environment and practising using negatives - ne pas, ne jamais and ne que. Exercises include a grammar recap, match-up of sentences, narrow reading with vocab hunt and comprehension, listening comprehension, quiz quiz trade and sentence unjumbling. Table of all vocab used in lesson is included for if you want to upload it to your own Quizlet / spreadsheet. Enough activities for 1-3 lessons depending on ability of group.
2 resources: An exercise to practise or test the future tense in French. I made it as a test but it could easily be just a practice exercise. Then a translation exercise that combines present, near future and future for consolidation.
A worksheet with two activities for practising writing about eating and drinking in past, present and future. You can begin by going over the verbs in the table at the beginning and could always match them to English ones jumbled up on the board. Then pupils do the jumble writing task and selecting tenses, then a translation activity. Answers included.
Reading comprehension on projets d’avenir / future studies / future work plans with true or false exercise, questions in French and extension translation work. Then a vocab worksheet of listening gap-fill, true or false and gapped translations. Answers included.
