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).

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 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 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

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.

Lesson to introduce Spanish weather phrases in imperfect tense. These are then incorporated into complex sentences about leisure/ free time activities - activity to show students how to make sentences more and more complex. Speaking activity, writing activity and plenary game (full instructions on slide notes).

Lesson suitable for a GCSE class. Introduces phrases for helping around the house in the infinitive and present tense. Builds up to writing sentences including weather phrases and frequencies. Includes engaging activities and 2 games with instructions in the slide notes (battleships and a plenary speaking game).

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

GCSE Spanish holidays vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes countries, transport, accommodation, holiday activities and weather and the past tense. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish chores vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes chores, opinions, what other people do, weather and includes a range of tenses. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish leisure vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes opinions, leisure activities, comparisons, imperfect and future tense sentences. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.