French & Spanish resources for KS3, GCSE & A Level. Questions, issues or feedback? Get in touch via email: secondarymfl@gmail.com. I hope you find my resources useful and please leave a review if you can!
French & Spanish resources for KS3, GCSE & A Level. Questions, issues or feedback? Get in touch via email: secondarymfl@gmail.com. I hope you find my resources useful and please leave a review if you can!
9 resources on the topic of hobbies and free time covering the past, present future tenses. Each resource contains scaffolded vocabulary, reading and translation activities. There are also sentence builders and grammar practice with the present, past and future tenses. The final resources are GCSE-style writing tasks on the topic of hobbies requiring all three tenses.
This bundle of resources includes:
Resource 1: Present tense 1 - ‘Tengo muchos pasatiempos’
Resource 2: Present tense 2 - ‘¿Qué haces en tus ratos libres?’
Resource 3: Immediate future tense 1 - ‘¿Qué vas a hacer el sábado?’
Resource 4: Immediate future tense 2 - 'Qué vas a hacer?
Resource 5: Past tense 1 - '¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana pasado?
Resource 6: Past tense 2 - ‘El domingo pasado entrené con mis amigos’
Resource 7: Past tense 3 - ‘El fin de semana pasado asistí a una fiesta’
Resource 8: 3-tenses writing
Resource 9: 3-tenses writing
Format: Word and PDF documents with answers.
This is a standalone resource for whole lesson on holidays for GCSE. The worksheet focuses on honing reading skills and technique, recycling key vocabulary and translation on this topic. Knowledge of holidays in the present and past tense required.
Activities:
Decode the questions on which the reading comprehension will be based;
Read three short texts about holiday preferences & where the speaker went last year;
Revisit the questions decoded in (1) and decide ‘who says what?’, highlighting the evidence in the text as pupils decide;
A ‘vocabulary search’ of English words/phrases from the texts;
Decoding French sentences which recycle the vocabulary above (translation into English);
Translation into French - a reformulation task revisiting all the structures and vocabulary which have been seen in this resource.
Answers included.
A resource for pupils to use when undertaking a writing task or for when they are preparing their speaking answers. There a range of complex structures: opinions, connectives, positive and negative viewpoints, constructions which work with infinitives in the present and past tenses and some set phrases and adverbs. There is also a list of 32 key infinitives to use. This will scaffold pupils well and allow them to widen their range of language easily.
There are also 40 sentences to translate to practise these constructions, with suggested answers.
10 separate reading exam questions in the format of the AQA gap fill task from Paper 1. The texts are on the following topics:
El racismo en España
El machismo
El divorcio en España
La inmigración ilegal
La gastronomía de España
Augusto Pinochet
La influencia de la iglesia católica en España
La convivencia en España
La influencia de los ídolos - Carlos Alcaraz
La influencia de los ídolos - Ester Expósito
Format: Word documents and PDF with answers.
A revision or study pack, for pupils, reviewing nearly aspects of all A Level grammar points through exercises and translation. There is a total of 12 Grammar Challenge sheets which target different topics. Each sheet also contains a translation activity focusing on a particular linguistic topic. Suggested answers are also included. The sheets are ramped in terms of difficulty and linguistic complexity and this can be given to pupils as a revision booklet, for homework or independent study.
(I have also included some separate previews of some of the pages).
The grammar topics include:
present tense
perfect tense
future tense
imperfect tense
pluperfect tense
conditional perfect tense
subjunctive mood
negation
nouns & gender
adjectival agreement
possessive adjectives
relative pronouns
interrogatives
verbs with prepositions
conditional sentences
adverbs
Save 83% with this bundle of 19 resource packs on the impact of tourism in Spain for A Level (Edexcel). There are enough new resources here to plan the entire unit. (At least 18 lessons).
The resources include all aspects of the topic:
The popularity of Spain as a tourist destination
Popular tourist destinations in Spain
The Economic Impact of Tourism in Spain
Impact of drinking tourism in Spain
Tourism in Benidorm: the positive & negative
The Environmental impact of Tourism in Spain
Mitigating the environmental impact in the Balearic Islands
Agrotourism/ ecotourism in Spain
Sustainable tourism in Spain
Subjunctive practice on this topic
Summary of advantages & disadvantages
Translation practice on this topic
2020: the impact of coronavirus on tourism in Spain
Mass tourism & more…
The resources include reading comprehensions, grammar activities and translations.
Save 75% with this bundle of 13 resources on the topic of Holidays. There are enough standalone resources here on which to base a whole unit, including the following:
Holiday preferences in the present tense
Holidays in the past tense + full review of forming the perfect tense
Challenging GCSE reading comprehension and translations on the topic of holidays in present & past tenses
The future tense - formation practice, reading and translation on my future holiday plans.
Holidays in the future tense - two worksheets with reading, grammar and translation
Useful ‘faire’ expressions for holidays in the present, past and future tenses
The importance of holidays
A ‘longer’ writing question on holidays requiring knowledge of the past, present and future tenses with a model answer and grade 8/9 structures support
A bumper topic knowledge organsiser/ language mat on this topic with targeted translation practice.
A resource on the impact of tourism - its environmental impact and the benefits.
A reading comprehension on holidays and weather.
Worksheets on ‘mes dernières vacances’
A worksheet on ‘mes vacances idéales’
Resources on the topic of TV & Opinions for GCSE/KS3. It includes:
A worksheet with key vocabulary, a language mat and translation practice
A reading worksheet with 8 texts, a comprehension question and vocabulary search.
Another reading comprehension task with multiple choice answers.
A work sheet with a gap-fill task, adjectival agreement practice with opinions and a plenary paragraph to translate into French.
A GCSE reading comprehension on TV - ‘who says what?’
Answers included.
A 16 page GCSE Spanish verb workbook with detailed revision notes on all key tenses, with conjugation practice & answers. This can be used in class, for homework, for revision or independent study.
There is a free sample here to preview the quality: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-verb-revision-pack-free-sample-present-tense-regular-and-irregular-practice-with-answers-11913580
The grammar topics covered include:
Regular Present Tense Verbs,
Irregular Present Tense Verbs
The Gerund
Root-changing Verbs
Immediate Future Tense
The Pure Future Tense
The Conditional Tense
The Regular Preterite
The Irregular Preterite
The Imperfect Tense
Answers included.
A four-page resource to support pupils to describe their house, the rooms inside and the activities they do in each room. The resources include four pages of scaffolded activities, with vocabulary, reading and translation tasks.
Format: Word and PDF documents with answers.
A four page revision booklet of key complex phrases & structures that pupils should include in their speaking & writing to achieve Grade 9.
This is a definitive list of complex and higher structures that I encourage my pupils to use in their work. The phrases are split into 22 sub-groups across four A4 pages, each with some translation practice too, so as pupils can see how easy it is to manipulate these themselves in a variety of topics. Suggested answers are included and the document can be downloaded in .doc and .pdf.
**The structures are grouped in 22 mini-sections: **
Shiny phrases + infinitives
Opinion phrases
Structures of obligation
Conditional sentences
Imperfect constructions
Before/ after
Past tense phrases
Key past tense verbs
Pasar + gerund
Future tense constructions
Conditional constructions
Past conditional constructions
Subjunctive constructions
Acabo de + infinitive
Soñar con + infintive
Desde hace + present tense
Lo (adjective) es que constructions
Introducing someone else’s opinion
Interesting adjectives
Conjunctions
Adverbs
Opinions
A similar resource is available here in French too: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-complex-and-idiomatic-phrases-full-revision-list-with-translation-practice-12173311
Three resources to help pupils to talk about illness, health and body parts in Spanish.
There is a reading comprehension, vocabulary activities, practice with me duele/ me duelen and a grammar gap fill task.
There is also a speaking/writing mat on illnesses and needs with translation practice and answers.
A reading comprehension on the topic of body parts, accidents and injuries in the past tense (preterite) with a scaffolded text: tuve un accidente de esqui
Answers included.
Two stand alone whole lesson resources on Las reglas en mi colegio to help pupils to write, talk and read about school rules.It includes key vocabulary, expressions of obligation, translation, reading and opinions on rules.
Answers included.
Save 78% on this bumper bundle of GCSE resources costing over £53 separately. It includes 20 resource packs, some with multiple worksheets, on different GCSE topics. All with answers to save you time.
La familia (a whole unit of 13 worksheets)
Mi barrio (a whole unit of 6 worksheets)
El transporte (reading, speaking mat & translation)
Las costumbres (Writing mat & translation)
Mi cumpleaños (worksheets on present & past)
Mi colegio (5 page revision workbook)
Mis planes para el futuro (sentence builder)
Las vacaciones (holiday preferences and present tense)
Mis pasatiempos - hobbies & free time (whole unit)
Las tareas domésticas (resource pack)
Mi rutina diaria (a whole unit of 6 worksheets)
El medio ambiente (reading & translation)
La tele (writing mat)
Los problemas medioambientales y sociales en mi barrio
La tecnología (reading and translation)
Ir de compras (resource pack)
Mi salud (reading, translation, language mats)
Mi escuela primaria (reading & translation)
La comida (knowledge organiser & translation)
El tiempo (3 worksheets on weather)
A sentence builder/ knowledge organiser on the topic of food & drink in Spanish. It includes everything pupils need to talk about what they eat & why. It also included the immediate future and preterite tenses. There is an accompanying translation sheet with exercises which pupils can use to test their knowledge of the vocabulary for this topic. Answers included.
A comprehensive booklet of 24 exam style practice passages to translate into English and French.
The texts are exam-style in terms of length and challenge and incorporate a range of grammatical structures and tenses. They span a range of topics and the contents page can be viewed on the previews. Suggested answers are also included to allow pupils to self-assess their own work or to use these for revision.
Please preview the quality, download a sample here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-french-translation-social-media-and-technology-sample-of-booklet-11991036
Qu’est-ce qu’on peut faire pour protéger l’environnement ?
Resources to use in any lesson on the environment for GCSE. There is a range of activities including key vocabulary match up, translation both ways, reading comprehension and a ‘vocabulary hunt’.
Pupils can use these resources to model their own answers on ‘qu’est-ce que tu fais pour protéger l’environnement’ and the resources include lots of higher vocabulary and complex structures for them to recycle in their own work.
Answers included.
Various resources to use in any standalone lesson(s) on hobbies either in class, for homework or cover. These resources will allow pupils to confidently speak and write about what they do in their free time.
A worksheet that introduces key vocabulary, key opinion phrases, key adverbials of time and adjectives to justify opinions. With answers.
There are match-up activities, language tasks and translation both ways which recycles all the vocabulary on this sheet.
A worksheet to revise adverbs of time and frequency with hobbies with a grammar gap-fill and writing activity too.
A GCSE reading activity with answers.
Please leave if a review if you found these resources useful for your pupils, or if you have any ideas about how they can be improved.
Three resources to introduce or revise the topic of daily routine.
Resource 1: introduce key verbs, recaps adverbs of time and has a succinct speaking/writing which will allow pupils to talk about their daily routine.
Resource 2: recaps key verbs in the present tense and then there is also a reading comprehension with verbs in the past tense and revision of reflexive pronouns. The plenary is a writing task with key phrases to include and vocabulary to recycle in their own work.
Resource 3: a GCSE style reading task and plenary translation.
Answers included.