Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
A good sentence builder to use at the start of lessons to encourage target language and reinforce some key structures. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A multi skill set of activities based on the video ‘A quoi ça sert, l’école ?’ from the YouTube channel 1 jour 1 question - vocab activities, gap-fill, reordering, translation and sentence unjumbling. Answers included. Suitable for Year 11 or a good Year 10 group in my opinion.
This is a revision mat of ‘complex structures’ for GCSE French writing, but all on non-verb grammar topics. I have also made a double-sided verbs one available at this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12498822
This is a double-sided mat of ‘complex structures’ for GCSE French writing. This is only verb-related structures. A non-verb related one is available here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12501391
A sentence builder and translation activity on the topic of physical descriptions / describing family members in French to answer the question ‘comment sont-ils physiquement?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Worksheet to practise Spanish verbs in preterite and imperfect using the Toy Story song Cambios extraños ‘strange things’ - if pupils have already had plenty of receptive practice with these tenses, you could do this as a conjugation practice exercise - pupils complete the conjugations and then listen to the song and check their answers. Or, you could use this during the receptive processing stage of practice - by this point, they are familiar with the endings and this provides an opportunity to practise them through listening, they listen, and using their knowledge of endings and phonics, write what they hear. You could also ask them a few comprehension questions on the song or get them to find specific vocab or phrases, based on their level. Song available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLInAm_u_k
A sentence builder on the topic of what subjects you study and giving opinions on them. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A parallel text gap-fill in French to learn the vocab for different members of the family / Décrire la famille / les membres de la famille. Answers included.
A lesson with differentiated activities to accompany the French version of the Justin Bieber song ‘sorry’, covered by ‘Sara’h’, a French YouTuber. Activities include multiple-choice listening, gap-fills, rearranging the sentences in the correct order, translation / vocab-finding and matching. If you’re looking for something a bit more challenging, here is a KS4 lesson based on the same song https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/d-sol-e-justin-bieber-french-version-ks4-lesson-12284463
A worksheet designed for completion shortly after watching the film Julieta by Almodovar to consolidate understanding of the plot. They could either be completed as quite quick activities for students to quickly get an overview of the plot, or could easily be stretched out to cover a whole lesson with lots of discussion about the plot in more detail and students’ ideas about the themes of the film, the style and any other observations.
A reading comprehension in Spanish on some bullet points providing general background information about Almodóvar's 2016 feature Julieta. Intended for students studying the film at A Level or Pre-U. This is a good activity for homework or classwork to be completed either before watching the film or just after.
A big quiz of 30 questions on the Spanish-speaking world - can be used for beginners, done aurally in class or as a research task. Answers are included in the document. Great for starting off beginners in Spanish to get them interested in Hispanic world, or as an end-of-term fun activity!
This listening comprehension tests a range of topics that would have already been taught by the time pupils complete this - it can be used as an end-of-topic assessment and covers age, birthday, languages, family members, pets and physical description. The teacher reads the transcript and pupils answer, or you can record the transcript onto an audio file and set it as homework.
Quick reading comprehension task to consolidate vocab on describing family members. Also draws attention to adjectives and verbs. You could extend the activity by asking pupils to translate the boxes orally into English, or to rewrite each box changing TWO details in Spanish for each person.
After learning about el día de los muertos / day of the dead, beginners can learn how to describe someone in the past so they can write a simple ‘tribute’ to someone that has passed, this can be turned into a seasonal display and pupils can decorate their tribute with marigolds or other flowers, photos or drawings. Worksheets include:
2 sheets of vocab activities to do (after you’ve introduced pupils to some of the basic descriptions vocab)
Sentence builder for writing a tribute - modelled answers in grid to help. This can be used to do dictations, aural translations etc. using mini-whiteboards and having pupils use the sentence builder.
Blank writing sheet for once pupils have practised enough - can be used as assessment.