Full lesson. Recap on jugar / hacer with a consolidating exercise. Recap of sports and adjectives. Find the mistake exercise; speaking exercise (trapdoor); quick recap on link words task; writing task with lots of scaffolding and support.

This lesson gives helpful tips to prepare for the GCSE photo description task. It also helps students describe a picture by giving them scaffolding and support.

A full lesson on activities and suggestions using the contruction ‘‘on pourrait…’’ . The lesson includes a starter activity (word snakes), presentation of vocabulary and of ‘‘on pourrait’’ construction, a match-up activity to consolidate learning, and finally a writing task with lots of scaffolding.

A lesson based around Dia de Muertos and other traditional festivals of the Spanish speaking world. It includes a fun and captivating video on Dia de Muertos, a listening+reading task based on it, and a super engaging running dictation again based on Dia de Muertos! My class loved this running dictation and even the challenging pupils took part and tried their best. For the running dictation text, open the Word document, print it as many times as needed, and display it around the classroom allowing for enough space so the pupils need to get up and walk towards it to read it - it won’t work well if they can read it from their desks. Other slides include another listening+reading task about curious Spanish festivals - this task is a good revision for the present tense (focusing on ‘nosotros’ y ‘ellos/as’.

The lesson begins with a recall competitive activity to recap the previous lesson’s content. It follows with a recap of the negative form and an explanation on how to use the negative form with ‘‘il y a’’. Next are some knowledge consolidating exercises: reorder the words, make the sentences negative, slap the board with a twist (explanation in slide’s notes).

A really effective lesson to consolidate the students’ knowledge of passé composé with auxiliary avoir. The lesson is also good as a first presentation of passé composé with auxiliary avoir, as it includes the whole grammar explanation. Activities include: an initial word snake game that is an ideal starter to settle the pupils and get them thinking a reading task to recognise the passé composé in a text (and to work on general text comprehension skills) mini-whiteboard task with the challenge of extending into full sentences for higher achievers an English to French translation task a fun noughts and crosses game to check for understanding and retainment.

A full lesson based around foods introducing the passive form. The lesson includes a recap slide to get the pupils thinking about food vocabulary and quantities while the class settles. It continues with a fun video on traditional Spanish food; the students have to answer 3 questions based on the video. Following is a slide on tips for tackling reading tasks, and a reading tasks that the pupils will work on independently on in pairs. This text includes the passive form which is then clearly explained in the next slides, including a recap of the present tense of ser and how to form past participles. Now that the pupils should be able to recognise the passive form, they are asked to do so with the previous reading task’s text. Following this, they will tackle some Spanish to English translations (and an English to Spanish one for higher achievers) to put their skills to the test. The finally activity is a speaking/writing task to get the pupils talking about their favourite food without mentioning the name; the classmates will have to guess which food it is.

Full lesson. Starter activity on link words (match-up). Presentation of vocabulary (en mi mochila hay…) with recall/memory activity. Presentation of grammar : definite articles and how to form plural nouns. Activity: make nouns plural. Activity: describe what is in the bag. Plenary: slap the board.

A full lesson based around holidays, with a clear and complete recap of how to form the pretérito of regular verbs + a list of irregular verbs. The activities include: -a starter settling task where pupils sort out which activities can be done in different holiday destinations -conjugations of regular and irregular verbs -a translation match-up task -a fill the gap task that also serves as a model for the speaking activity -a well scaffolded speaking activity with a printable model/scaffold sheet

A series of exercises to recap the basics of French grammar and vocabulary for Y7 pupils. Also ideal for private tutoring. Tasks include match-ups, translations, reading and writing tasks. Topics include basic questions (where are you from, how old are you etc.) and answers; presentation of oneself and one’s hobbies; physical descriptions; pets; food; partitive articles.

A series of exercises to recap hobbies and activities in Spanish for Y7 pupils. Also ideal for private tutoring. Tasks include match-ups, translations, fill the gap, and a writing task. Word document ready for printing.

A full lesson focussed on healthy living vocabulary and sentences, with a grammar explanation on how to form negative sentences. Activities include a fun reading and sorting out task (on Madame Terrible et Monsieur Parfait), an unjumble the sentences task, a translation task, and finally an engaging, relaxing activity that will let the children revise the lesson content with creativity: a poster making lab.

A full lesson on films, mejor/peor, and discussing whether it’s better to watch films at home (peli y manta) or go to the cinema. The lesson begins with an odd-one-out settling task, where pupils have to identify words that they might already know, or use a dictionary, and choose the one that doesn’t belong in the group. Once the pupils are settled and concentrated, the lesson moves on to a vocabulary presentation on film genres, with breaking-up tasks to help the pupils memorise these new words. Following is a match-up task on adjectives that are commonly used to talk about films. Again, the pupils can use a dictionary if needed or try to work out the translations independently or in pairs. The pupils can then complete a reading and matching-up task, where they will encounter even more adjectives and have to find the correct translation. Following this, there is a brief grammar presentation of mejor/peor, lo mejor/lo peor, and an unjumble the sentences (with a challenge) exercise so the pupils can apply their new knowledge. Finally, there is a cultural tip slide on the concept of peli y manta, and a slide to allow for a class discussion of peli y manta VS cinema.

This lesson is based on clothes vocabulary and on verb ‘porter’. The objective is to describe what you are wearing, what you like to wear, what you do not like to wear, what one wears on particular occasions. The lesson includes presentation of clothes vocabulary with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, the conjugation of verb ‘porter’, and some slides on colours and opinions. Activities include other mini quizzes, some associating tasks, some fill the gap tasks, a beat the teacher / slap the board slide, some speaking activities (could be made into writing tasks if needed), and a fun scrabble game. There is enough material to complete 1 long session or 2 shorter sessions.

A full lesson on ‘‘los necesitados’’ and using the expressions ‘‘nadie, nada, algo, alguien’’. The lesson begins with a match-up activity to get the students thinking about what vocabulary they already know to talk about ‘‘los necesitados’’. It then moves to a presentation of expressions related to ‘‘los necesitados’’ and a reading/match-up task to consolidate the learning. It then explains how to use ‘‘nadie, nada, algo, alguien’’ before moving on to a fill the gap practice. The lesson ends with a public Kahoot on the expressions learnt.

A full lesson on the environment and how people help protecting it. It begins with a presentation of useful vocabulary and expressions related to the topic before moving on to a slap the board slide to check for retainment and for consolidating this vocabulary. It follows with an explanation of word families and how pupils can make the most of these to learn and understand new words and expressions; then there is an exercise to get pupils thinking about word families trying to find the meaning of some new words. Following is an explanation of the difference between ‘‘me preocupa’’ and ‘‘me preocupan’’ and similar expressions. The final tasks are a reading task and two speaking tasks, one of them being a trapdoor which is engaging and fun and gives pupils the scaffold they need for the second conversational speaking task.

Full lesson on clothes vocabulary and present tense of ‘porter’ with activities

A full lesson on the topic of ‘‘medio ambiente’’. The lesson begins with a match-up that includes expressions and vocabulary related to the environment. It continues with a grammar explanation of ‘‘mucho, un poco, poco’’ with practice for the pupils. It then also explains ‘‘lo que menos’’ and ‘‘lo que mas’’. The final activities are a reading task and a fun battleship game to prepare students for the final English to Spanish translation task. The plenary is a short quiz to check student understanding and retainment.

A series of tasks to be completed independently offline or in class or to be set as homework. Ideal to prepare for assignments/tests and also for private tutoring. The document is ready for printing and it includes: a reorder the text activity based on family vocabulary a writing task based on the previous activity a French to English translation based on family vocabulary a reading + writing (with scaffold) task based on social media an unjumble the sentences activity based on passé composé and imparfait an English to French translation task based on imparfait

Full lesson on recap of verb ‘porter’ and explanation of adjectival agreement. Lots of activities to consolidate learning.