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!
Six worksheets on the topic of describing my town and region.
Resource 1: Introduces key vocabulary of buildings and services in the town with vocabulary exercises, translation, reading and a sentence builder.
Resource 2: Reviews the key vocabulary from Resource 1 and introduces key prepositions e.g. junto a / detrás de/ delante de/ entre.
Resource 3: This focuses on grammar and the correct use of ser, estar and hay with practice.
Resource 4: Introduces key adjectives for description and recycles these with translation, vocabulary exercises, reading comprehension, a sentence builder and adjectival agreement practice.
Resource 5: Introduces the structure of lo mejor/ lo peor de mi zona with justifications.
Resource 6: This is an exam-style reading comprehension, using all the language from resources 1-5 with a vocabulary hunt and reformulation translations.
Format: PDF and Word docs with answers.
Quizlet of key vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/_9mo4rg?x=1jqt&i=2syx7b
4 worksheets to use in any GCSE lesson(s) on household chores, including a sentence builder/ knowledge organiser.
There is worksheet with key vocabulary, time phrases & language exercises
There is a sentence builder on the topic of chores with translation practice
There is a reading comprehension task with exercises
There is a grammar gap fill activity on this topic
Answers included.
Save** 91%** with this bundle of 17 translation worksheets on 17 different topics.
Each worksheet has six different translation exercises which recycle the same key language and introduce new linguistic items in a scaffolded way. The exercises are then ramped in terms of difficulty and final activity is a plenary translation task into Spanish.
To preview the quality, take a look at this free example worksheet here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-mi-barrio-mi-ciudad-town-and-my-area-translation-worksheet-12398469
Topics:
El medio ambiente
La pobreza y los sin techo
El transporte
Las tareas domésticas
Mi rutina cotidiana
Mi asignatura preferida
En mi infancia/ cuando era joven
El tiempo
Las vacaciones
Mi familia
Mis planes para el futuro
Mis próximas vacaciones
Mis vacaciones ideales
Mis últimas vacaciones
La Navidad
Mi barrio / mi ciudad
La tele
Four standalone resources to support pupils to talk about weather in the present, past and future tenses.
Resource 1: Introduces key weather vocabulary and recycles these expressions with various activities, including a sentence builder and translation practice.
Resource 2: Reviews key weather vocabulary in different tenses with reading exercises, translation and a sentence builder.
Resource 3: Plenary translation in all tenses on the topic of weather.
Resource 4: A GCSE note taking question on the topic of weather and where I live.
Format: Word and PDF with answers.
A set of four standalone resources on the topic of free time and hobbies - mes passe-temps.
Resource 1: Introduction to hobbies: vocabulary, writing/speaking mat & translation to embed vocabulary
Resource 2: Reading: a GCSE style reading comprehension with key vocabulary search and reformulation translation tasks.
Resource 3: Grammar practice, reading and further translation practice
Resource 4: A GCSE style reading comprehension - a multiple-choice style question recycling vocabulary in the previous resources.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
11 worksheets which make up an entire unit on the topic of school for Key Stage 3/ beginners. The worksheets are based on Unit 3 in Viva 1, ‘mi insti’, and will support pupils to talk about subjects, opinions, school description and what they do during break.
Format: 11 word/pdf documents with answers.
Save 82% with this set of 20 scaffolded writing resources, worth over £27 for pupils to hone their writing skills for GCSE Spanish.
These resources will provide support, scaffolding and model answers for pupils to improve their writing.
These are useful for revision and to use during the course to hone writing technique and to encourage pupils to use a wide range of structures in their work.
There are some free resources to inspect to get a sense of the quality before purchasing the bundle.
Contents:
My GCSE structures revision list with translation practice
A revision mat of Grade 9 writing constructions
A scaffolded writing task on holidays
A writing task on free time/ shopping
A writing task on healthy living
A writing task on household chores
A writing task on school
Three writing tasks on the environment
A writing task on media and technology
A writing task on future plans
A writing task on food & drink
A writing task on transport
A writing task on house & home
Free resources included:
A writing task on a visit to a school match
A writing task on my family
A writing task on sport & health
A resource for building a range of language
Two sets of standalone resource to introduce, or recap, clothes and colours to a KS3 group using opinion phrases such as ‘me gusta/me encanta/ prefiero llevar’ and the immediate future tense.
Resource 1: Introduces key vocabulary and contains lots of practice with vocabulary tasks, reading comprehensions, translation practice and a sentence builder.
Resource 2: Recaps items of clothing and types of weather and introduces ‘voy a llevar’ and conditional sentences with ‘si’. There is lots of reading, vocabulary and translation practice and sentence builder.
Format: Word and PDF document with answers.
Three worksheets and a quizlet (below) on the topic of ‘weather expressions’ in French to drill and perfect this key language point.
Resource 1: Introduces the ‘faire’ expressions, with exercises, and then the ‘il y a’ expressions. There is also a sentence builder, with si/quand, and a reading comprehension.
Resource 2: Reviews all weather expressions with match up , gap-fill & reordering activities followed by gapped-translation, translation into English and a mosaic translation introducing the immediate future.
Resource 3: GCSE Reading Comprehension on weather - ‘mets une lettre dans chaque case’
Answers included.
There is also a Quizlet link here with key weather vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/_8jfi3e?x=1qqt&i=2syx7b
Save 80% with this Bumper Bundle of 20 resource packs on media, social media, music, technology, Internet and TV for GCSE/KS3.
The worksheets, resources and activities are varied and include: reading comprehensions, vocabulary exercises, writing scaffolds and model answers, writing mats, translation materials and Grade 8/9 structures.
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.
Qué hacer para mantenerse en buena forma:
A comprehensive resource that will allow pupils to respond to the statement above using a range of language, tenses and structures. A complete set of language exercises on healthy living: key vocabulary, adverbs of time, facilitating A* constructions, translation into Spanish and English, a short reading task and a writing task. All the tasks recycle the same language and will allow pupils to write and to talk about healthy living in Spanish confidently. Answers included.
A double-sided standalone worksheet which introduces key holiday activities and opinion phrases to help pupils to say what they like/ do not doing during the holiday. It includes vocabulary match up, translation exercises, gap fill and reading comprehension tasks and a sentence builder.
Format: Word and PDF with answers.
A standalone two-page reading/translation worksheet on ‘mi familia’ for KS3 or Foundation GCSE. The worksheet assumes some knowledge of family/personal description and includes a variety of exercises: gap fill, comprehension, vocabulary search and translation exercises.
Format: word document and PDF with answers.
Seven resources to use for the topic of ‘mon école’.
Resource 1: Includes key adjectives, vocabulary and opinion expressions for describing your school with practice.
Resource 2: A worksheet to review the language in Resource 1 and to practice ‘il y a’ and ‘il n’y a pas de’.
Resource 3: A worksheet reviewing the language & structures from Resources 1 & 2 and introducing the structure ‘ce que j’aime, c’est…’
Resource 4: A GCSE style reading comprehension with a vocabulary search and plenary translation into French.
Resource 5: A GCSE reading comprehension on school - ‘who says what?’
Resource 6: My primary school - imperfect tense description.
Resource 7: A standalone worksheet to revise various aspects of this topic including vocabulary, translations and a reading comprehension.
Consider purchasing the full A Level Translation Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-spanish-translation-practice-bundle-range-of-topics-into-english-and-spanish-12050364
An exam style text on racism and xenophobia in Spain to translate into English followed by translation into Spanish, recycling the same vocabulary. Suggested answers are also included and the text provides key cultural references that can be used in the Speaking exam.
There is a free example here on the topic of paternity leave, to preview the quality: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-permiso-de-paternidad-translations-on-el-mercado-laboral-and-paternity-leave-with-answers-12043678
A worksheet with reading and translation practice for GCSE. There is a pre-reading task, a challenging reading comprehension (an exam-style question), a synonym search and a final translation task as a plenary activity, recycling vocabulary from all the tasks. The language and structures will also scaffold pupils’ own spoken and written answers to this question.
Suggested answers included.
Save 75% with this bundle of 6 resources on the topic of the environment for GCSE. It includes:
A worksheet on environmental problems
How to help the environment- present tense
A worksheet on Grade 9 (A*) constructions on this topic
Grammar practice: the environment with the past and future tenses
Helping the environment - vocabulary and reading
A worksheet on the problems that worry me and how I can help, with translation practice
A standalone resource to introduce pupils to the topic of racism in Spain with vocabulary, reading and translation activities. There are also key cultural references to refer to in the speaking exam.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
A standalone two-sided worksheet on ‘La Tomatina’ to enable a Year 8/9 group or foundation GCSE class to understand this hispanic festival.
The resource includes vocabulary activities, reading exercises and translation tasks which scaffold and reinforce the key language.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.