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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!
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French KS3 GCSE Manger bien: food & healthy living speaking mat, vocabulary & translation
There are two resources here for introducing key vocabulary for the topic “Tu manges bien?” and also translation practice and and a reading gap-fill activity. The reading comprehension offers some stretch for KS3 or is a good starting point for GCSE and pupils can scaffold their own answers on this model.
There is also a speaking mat to use to support pupils with their speaking work. The speaking mat introduces some key impersonal structures: il faut/ il est important de/ il est essentiel de… etc. Answers to the worksheet included.
Spanish House & Home Reading Comprehensions (Mi casa) KS3 / GCSE
This is a reading comprehension task to stretch pupils in KS3 or to introduce the core vocabulary for this topic at GCSE (House & Home). There are four texts and pupils must read and understand them before completing the comprehension questions, vocabulary hunt, gap-fill task and translation into English.
Answers included.
Spanish GCSE Mi colegio: Describing my school (scaffolded speaking, reading & writing resources)
4 standalone resources on the topic of describing my school for GCSE.
Resource 1: Describing my school vocabulary builder - adjectives and nouns
Resource 2: Scaffolded reading & writing
Resource 3: Scaffolded reading
Resource 4: A sentence builder
All with answers.
Spanish KS3 GCSE holidays preterite past tense las vacaciones preterite reading writing
A stand alone lesson to introduce the topic of holidays using some key past tense verbs. The resources (a PowerPoint and Worksheet) will guide pupils to be able to talk about their holidays in the past tense by the end of the lesson.
The key verbs are introduced and pupils do activities to recognise and memorise these. These are then used in a reading so pupils can start to see how they work. Pupils are then introduced to the rules for -AR verb conjugation and have an opportunity to practise key verbs for the topic, with all subject pronouns. The plenary brings all of this together by asking pupils to write/ say a paragraph based on the visual information on a slide. They can then use this as a model for their own work.
There is also a plenary reading comprehension task with a gap-fill activity and this can then be used by pupils to model their own answer on.
Spanish GCSE revision vocabulary verb gap-fill revision A* structures
A quick vocabulary revision activity for GCSE classes to revise key verbs. There are fifteen sentences and pupils must choose the verb which makes the most sense in the given context.
Each sentence also contains an A* writing construction which pupils can note and use in their own work.
GCSE Spanish Shopping / Ir de compras - Scaffolded Writing & Grade 9 Structures
A standalone resource on the topic of shopping and free time to help pupils to succeed in a GCSE writing question. This resource is not exam board specific and is suitable for any question in which pupils respond to bullet points on a theme. The activities are scaffolded and include: tips for planning and writing, matching up connectives and opinions, complex structures translation and a scaffolded worksheet for pupils to write their own answers. There is a model answer too.
Spanish GCSE vocabulary revision find the odd one out game
A fun and pupil-led activity to revise 80 items of Spanish GCSE vocabulary quickly: encuentra el intruso. This game can be played against the clock for added competition and the format can be easily adapted.
All the vocabulary is from GCSE topics.
Perfect for GCSE revision.
Spanish Mi casa / My house - Estate agent style reading GCSE KS3
A standalone reading task on house and home for KS3 intermediate or GCSE. The reading comprehension consists of four descriptions of Spanish homes on sale with a vocabulary search, true or false comprehension questions, translation into English and a plenary speaking task.
With answers.
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GCSE Spanish Bundle: 20 Resource Packs on 20 topics
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)
Spanish GCSE KS3 holidays language mat sentence builder las vacaciones opinions
A language mat to allow pupils to build answers to talk about what they like to do in their holidays.
There are two examples for pupils to translate and then they can use the language mat to construct their own sentences and to scaffold their own answers.
Spanish GCSE Writing Media & Technology: a model writing answer with exercises & translation
A standalone resource to boost GCSE writing skills. It is based on a longer writing question on the topic of media and technology with exercises for pupils to work through, including error collection, a ‘structures search’, verb conjugation and gap-fill. The model answer can then be used to model success in writing.
Following this, there is a retranslation activity in which pupils can retranslate the model answer from English to Spanish, before writing their own.
Answers included.
Spanish GCSE House, Home, chores and routine topic revision pack_casa las tareas domésticas rutina
These four worksheets form a pupil work booklet and contain lots of activities that can be used as part of studying the topic of home, chores, and daily routine or for revision before exams.
There is a comprehensive revision of key vocabulary, scaffolded translation both ways, useful A* writing constructions, reading comprehensions and a plenary (exam) writing task.
GCSE Spanish las asignaturas: School subjects & opinions writing & structures mat
This is a vocabulary builder for teaching school subjects and opinions that will allow pupils to make progress quickly. The language mat contains all the vocabulary needed for pupils to be able to write and talk about their subjects and the activities are incremental and will engage pupils actively with the vocabulary. There is a plenary activity of reading in Spanish, translation into Spanish and a short writing question. This plenary allows pupils to demonstrate the progress made in lessons or can be used as a test or revision activity.
Answers included too.
Spanish GCSE Mi Familia: Family & Life at Home Resource Booklet
A comprehensive 4 page pupil workbook to review and consolidate all aspects of the this topic. Suggested answers included.
The activities are increasingly challenging and build on each other, including:
Key vocabulary
Revision of interrogatives
Useful verbs
Translation into English
Infinitive structures and practice
Adverbs of time
Translation into Spanish
Reading
Synonyms and antonyms match up
A longer writing task
French Crime Public order revision thematic vocabulary oral revision notes/ la criminalité
Vocabulary revision notes for A Level on different aspects of crime, linked by theme: types of crime, fighting crime, reducing public disorder and prison as a deterrent.
There are also some useful oral constructions for talking about these issues.
Spanish A Level subjunctive verbs grammar battleships game starter
This is a battleships game for practising the subjunctive with an A Level group or G&T GCSE group.
Pupils play battleships by marking 5 ships of different lengths (5 squares, 4 squares, 3 squares, 2 squares, 1 square) on their own grid. They must then use the subjunctive with the set grids to guess where their partner's ships are. Pupils can either just use the subjunctive trigger and conjugate a verb or they could create sentences which uses the verb, for example creating sentences on the environment or pollution.
You can adopt this worksheet to include different infinitives and constructions, perhaps to revise key topics.
GCSE Spanish Conditional Sentences Writing & Speaking Mat (Grade 9 Structures)
A standalone resource for pupils to practice this complex structure with a range of GCSE topic vocabulary and contexts. There is a speaking/writing mat and a worksheet with scaffolded practice.
Answers included.
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Spanish Environment / El medio ambiente: 20 GCSE Resources
Save 79% on this whole unit bundle of 20 Resource Packs, worth £28, which contains everything you need to teach this topic at GCSE.
The resources include a variety of language activities targeting different exam skills, including translation, vocabulary, complex structures & reading comprehension. There also writing and speaking mats to support pupils with structuring their own ideas. There are also some free resources in the bundle, so you can preview the quality of the resources before buying.
Bundle contents:
Talking about what you did in the past to help the environment.
Environmental problems worksheet
The environmental/ social problems in my area
What you do to protect the planet (various worksheets)
Talking about transport / public transport
A scaffolded writing task
An exam-style translation task
Translation drills
More writing tasks
A language mat on the topic
Reading tasks
… and more!
GCSE Spanish work experience la experienca laboral: reading comprehension & revision
Two resources to introduce work experience to pupils. The first resource is vocabulary rich and is structured as a language mat to allow pupils to build up orally or in writing what they did for their work experience.
The second resources is a reading activity. There are sentences in Spanish which give opinions about work experience and pupils must decide if they are positive or negative. There is also a gap-fill which pupils can use as model for their own answers.
French A Level immigration multicultural society revision translation exam practice l'immigration
This is a revision worksheet to quickly and effectively revise key vocabulary on immigration. There are two practice exam tasks: translation into French and into English. There are key infinitives too and pupils must decide which preposition follows them.
The final translation into French brings all these elements together.