GCSE Spanish lesson on giving opinions on teachers. Suitable for a higher ability group. Includes vocabulary, several speaking and listening activities and an introduction to comparisons (más que/ menos que) as part of giving opinions. Full instructions for all activities are in the notes section for each ppt slide. Class dominoes time trial game to revise school subjects vocabulary as a starter. Brainstorm adjectives to describe people. Introduce higher level vocabulary to describe teachers. Slide can be printed as a vocab list to be glued in. Correct common mistakes made when giving opinions (agreement etc.). Introduce more than/ less than and activity to practise this in the context of giving opinions about teachers e.g. Pienso que mi profesor de geografía es más inteligente que mi profesor de francés. Scaffolded 20 questions game to practise speaking and listening while describing teachers. Trap door sentences game to ensure students have a model sentence in their books and to facilitate more speaking and listening practice. Timed plenary speaking activity.

Activity to practise all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in French around giving opinions on leisure/ free time activities. I have used this activity with a high ability year 7 or 8 class or with a year 9 class as revision. Use with grids in Word documents. Students complete in teams – one student per team may be on their feet at any one time. Filled in grids of the model text need to be stuck up around the room. One student per team goes to the model text, remembers what they can and dictates it to their team member, who fills in the empty grid (one word per box). Model texts may not be taken down. Students may not stand by model text and shout bits of their text back to their team (reading and writing). First team to finish wins but there are also points for accuracy. One point is available per box completed.

Worksheet to introduce or revise the passé composé French past tense. There is space to write out avoir and etre in the present tense and then there are English sentences to translate into French to practise the tense; 8x avoir sentences and 8x etre sentences. Worksheet suitable for a medium to high ability GCSE class or for a high ability KS3 class.

Powerpoint to revise free time activities and opinions in Spanish. Includes find the errors sentences and two slides with games (images flying across the screen and trap door sentences game - guess partner’s sentence with lots of opportunities for repetition and speaking practice).

Lesson for higher-ability GCSE class. Includes revision of free time activities and opinion vocabulary. Introduces extreme sport vocabulary. Translation activity, model text reading activity, differentiated writing task, games (including plenary).

Lesson suitable for higher ability group. Revises building sentences about chores and moves on to opinions about chores/ helping around the house. Starting to talk about what others do around the house is also included. Engaging activities included: hot seat game (could also be used as a plenary) trap door sentences game unjumble dictation (teacher and student grids provided) Model text to support writing/ homework Instructions for games are provided in notes on slides

List of French numbers up to 300. Useful as numbers revision sheet or numbers reference sheet.

Lesson introducing pets/ animals vocabulary in French. The vocabulary is introduced with images and a slap the board game. There is then a simple writing activity to help students practise making nouns plural in French.

Lesson for higher-ability group about how much pocket money they receive and how they earn it (through chores/ helping around the house). We revise numbers, start to write structured sentences around ‘If I do X, I receive Y’, Translation activity with answers and class plenary game included.

Introduction to Spanish preterit tense - regular verbs only. Verbs introduced through ‘petal endings’ - these slides can be printed as handouts. Gap fill activity and games to practise are included with full instructions in slide notes. Dice game and engaging whole-class team game included - excellent for AFL.

Lesson suitable for a medium/ high ability KS3 Spanish class. This lesson revises ir in the present tense and places in town before introducing the easy future tense (voy a ir). There may be enough material for two lessons. The lesson has a class game (treasure/ pirate - full instructions on ppt slide notes) to revise places in town and ir in the present tense. There is also a trap door sentences game to revise giving opinions about places in town (instructions provided in slide notes). The future tense is introduced and sentences are practised with a battleships game (2x grids included - one for medium ability, one for high ability). These are then extended by adding time phrases. There is a reading text and activity (find all the elements that make this text good). This text could be used as a model text for a writing activity/ homework. The text is suitable for a high ability class but details could be taken out to make it easier. There is a whole class plenary game (same pirate/ treasure game but this time using the future tense).

Revision of complex sentence starters and complex opinions with sports in Spanish. Engaging speaking activity to practise pronunciation/ speaking from memory (game - full instructions in ppt slide). Key verbs in imperfect tense introduced and model text provided.

Lesson on Spanish leisure activities in preterit tense. 9 activities are presented in preterit tense. Engaging game is provided (full instructions on slide - version of card game ‘cheat’ including printable cards on ppt slide) to help students practise saying sentences accurately from memory. Plenary team game.

Lesson to introduce Spanish GCSE technology phrases in the infinitive to use when giving opinions. Two games are included with instructions in slide notes (version of card game ‘cheat’ to practise the vocabulary and a plenary game).

Lesson for higher ability group about chores in past, present and future tenses using the set phrases tuve que, tengo que and voy a + infinitive. The lesson revises present tense sentences around what people do around the house and their opinions (unjumble dictation - grids and instructions provided). Model text activity and plenary game included.

Suitable for a higher-ability GCSE group. Introduces vocabulary for items students might buy with their pocket money then builds these into complex sentences through activities. Also introduces the set phrases: ‘si tuviera mucho dinero’ and ‘compraría’.

First lesson on giving opinions about school subjects. There is an interactive noughts and crosses game to revise school subjects. This could be played in 2 teams as a whole class on the whiteboard. There are slides to introduce opinion phrases and to facilitate a discussion about why we add ‘n’ to ‘me gusta’ for plural subjects and why ‘odio’ is the odd one out. There is an activity where students work out what the sentences need to be for the images provided - answers in slide notes. They are simple sentences such as me gusta la historia. There is an interactive team game to practise these simple sentences further. The class is divided into 2 teams and given numbers. When you call out a number, the 2 children with that number need to stand up and give the sentence for the images on the board - great for AFL. Full instructions in slide notes There is then a match-up activity for adjectives to describe school subjects.

Lesson for higher-ability GCSE class. Engaging activity (running dictation) with a model text about someone’s favourite sport in Spanish followed by writing activity. Interactive noughts and crosses game also included.