I used to teach French and Spanish in secondary schools. Now, amongst a variety of other endeavours, I tutor these languages and create languages resources.
I used to teach French and Spanish in secondary schools. Now, amongst a variety of other endeavours, I tutor these languages and create languages resources.
A worksheet and answers to learn the Spanish verb ‘tener’ in the present indicative. The worksheet includes ideas for learning strategies and some basic grammar explanations.
Revise Theme 1: Identity and culture; Topic 2: Technology in everyday life (AQA GCSE) in Spanish using these mind maps. More confident students will be able to use the versions with titles to fill in entirely their own content. Students who need a bit more support will be able to use the versions with examples in each box to get them going.
Use this resource as a way to see what your students can remember as they revise, at the end of completing a topic as a reminder of the key points or fill them in using notes and textbooks while you work on the topic so that students can use them for support with work at home.
Four mind maps included; ‘Mantenerme en contacto’ (two versions; one with examples, one without) ‘La tecnología móvil’ (two versions; one with examples, one without).
A worksheet to practise and consolidate learning on adjectives that follow the regular pattern of agreement. The activities increase with difficulty throughout the sheet and differentiated final tasks are offered.
Activities include:
identifying adjectives
identifying m/f/pl adjective endings
completing sentences with the correct adjective (with picture support)
translation from French to English
either: adapt sentences on the sheet or create own sentences
dictionary challenge
Revise Theme 1: Identity and culture; Topic 1: Me, my family and friends (AQA GCSE) in Spanish using this mind map. Students can use the titles to guide them to fill in key content for the part of this topic referring to family and friends.
A FREE taster activity from the ‘Spanish Family and Marriage’ set of mind maps.
Use this resource as a way to see what your students can remember as they revise, at the end of completing a topic as a reminder of the key points or fill them in using notes and textbooks while you work on the topic so that students can use them for support with work at home.
One mind map included; ‘La familia y los amigos’ (version without examples).
A role play resource to practise using restaurant vocabulary, foods and drinks.
Includes:
three role plays
vocabulary lists
comprehension questions
food/drink words presented with pictures to support pair/group work and/or for class presentation
Follow up activities could include translating the role plays, using the food/drink items to create a French menu or using the dialogues as models for students to create their own role plays.
A speaking activity using questions and vocabulary relating to the topic of ‘Me, my family and friends’ in a variety of tenses.
Suggested answer starter phrases are provided and an answer sheet is also included.
Designed for use with the current AQA GCSE specification but could also be used with the current Edexcel specification.
Revise Theme 1: Identity and culture; Topic 1: Me, my family and friends (AQA GCSE) in Spanish using these mind maps. More confident students will be able to use the versions with titles to fill in entirely their own content. Students who need a bit more support will be able to use the versions with examples in each box to get them going.
Use this resource as a way to see what your students can remember as they revise, at the end of completing a topic as a reminder of the key points or fill them in using notes and textbooks while you work on the topic so that students can use them for support with work at home.
Four mind maps included; ‘La familia y los amigos’ (two versions; one with examples, one without) ‘El matrimonio y ser pareja’ (two versions; one with examples, one without).
A speaking activity using questions and vocabulary relating to the topic of ‘Me, my family and friends’ in a variety of tenses.
Suggested answer starter phrases are provided and an answer sheet is also included.
Designed for use with the current AQA GCSE specification but could also be used with the current Edexcel specification.
A speaking resource designed to help students practise using the Spanish imperfect continuous to describe past events.
Formation of the imperfect continuous is provided for reference and prompts are provided to help students to give opinions and extend their answers.
In addition, an example sentence starter is included and there are follow up questions for further practice.
A worksheet and answers to learn the French verb ‘être’ in the present indicative. The worksheet includes ideas for learning strategies and some basic grammar explanations.
Learn or revise the imperfect tense in French (including the irregular verb être) with this worksheet.
Basic conjugation and short translation activities with answer sheet provided.
A French conversation worksheet on brothers and sisters, immediate family, physical descriptions, personality and pets. There are several activities provided and an answer sheet is also included.
A set of tasks to practise writing using the present, preterite, imperfect, immediate future, simple future and conditonal tenses. Prompts are provided for each task to elicit opinions and details, and a small selection of vocabulary is provided to help students extend sentences.