A lesson based around food & eating out. The lesson begins with recap activities on food+diet vocabulary and sentences. It continues with a reading activity on restaurants and a listening activity based on a dialogue (ordering food in a restaurant). This last activity also serves as a model for the following speaking activities, where pupils will be recreating the dialogue to order their own food at the restaurant.

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 for Y7 or Y8 based on creating a dialogue inviting others to activities and making excuses. The lesson begins with a recap of activities based on a match-up exercise (match-up questions and answers). It moves on to a revision of common expressions related to answering propositions. Follows a speaking trapdoor game to get the pupils talking and practicing the expressions they’ve revised. Following this is a presentation of activities that can be used to make excuses when invited somewhere (eg. sorry, I have to wash the car; sorry, I have to walk the dog, etc.). This presentation is broken down with and followed by quizzes to help with memorisation and retainment. Finally, pupils can practiced these conversations with the help of a well scaffolded slide, before moving on to writing their own dialogue.

A short lesson on verbs ‘pouvoir’ and ‘devoir’ in the present tense. The lesson includes a reading/match-up task introducing these verbs in the context of activities + why we can’t do these activities; an explanation of modal verbs and the conjugations of ‘vouloir’, ‘pouvoir’, ‘devoir’; a simple mini whiteboard task; a fill the gap task; and a fun noughts and crosses game to end the lesson.

Lesson on ‘‘dans ma ville’’ vocabulary + negative form. Lots of activities including quizzes, translations, slap the board, sentence bingo, and beat the teacher.

Full lesson on present tense of -ER verbs. Includes detailed explanation of grammar rule and some knowledge consolidating activities (mini whiteboards, reading task, and a fun battleship game).

Full lesson on when to use me gusta, me encanta, me mola etc vs me gustan, me encantan, me molan etc. Recap of sports vocabulary; explanation of grammar rule with knowledge consolidating activities; recap of adjectives; battleship game and writing task with lots of scaffolding and support.

Lesson on animals and pets; presentation of vocab with retaining activity; intro to verb AVOIR; bingo. Ideal for online learning too.

A lesson on weather (presentation of vocabulary) and which clothes you wear with certain types of weather. Lots of activities to consolidate learning.

A PowerPoint slide with a fill the gap activity. The topic is sports. Includes expressions of opinion and adjectival agreement. Includes an extra translation task.

100 pages of Spanish grammar from the very basics to advanced grammar structures. This was created for the English GCSE exams, however it can be very useful for tutoring, private classes and self-teaching. It is a PDF but feel free to use a pdf converter to turn it into a PowerPoint or Word document. It includes: pronounciation, accents, alphabet numbers up to 100 numbers after 100 months and days of the week question words how to tell the date gender of nouns plural of nouns (with an exercise) definite and indefinite articles subject pronouns present tense of regular verbs (with an exercise) present tense of irregular verbs (TENER, SER, ESTAR, IR, HACER, DAR, SABER, SALIR) when to use SER and ESTAR (with an exercise) question form and negative form conjuctions/link words possessive adjectives DE + noun to indicate possession (with an exercise) adjectives and adjectival agreement intensifiers and quantifiers LO + adjective HAY constructions relative pronouns relative adjectives (with an exercise) direct object pronouns indirect object pronouns present continuos tense and gerundio (with an exercise) when to use POR and PARA reflexive verbs (with an exercise) telling the time how to use GUSTAR (with an exercise) how to use SOLER stem changing verbs double negation adverbs and how to make adverbs using ‘’-mente’’ or ‘‘con + noun’’ adverbs or adjectives? disjunctive pronouns TENER QUE + infinitive HAY QUE + infinitive verb DEBER imperative tense (with an exercise) negative commands comparisons and superlatives impersonal verbs how to talk about the weather prepositions demonstrative adjectives and pronouns immediate future (IR A + infinitive) future tense ordinal numbers perfect tense (HABER + past participle) past participles simple past tense (PRETERITO) imperfect tense HACE, DESDE HACE, DESDE HACIA imperfect continous tense (ESTAR + gerundio) subjunctive mood (SUBJUNTIVO) OJALA and ‘‘subjuntivo + que’’ used for wishes (with an exercise) imperfect subjunctive (SUBJUNTIVO IMPERFECTO) conditional tense SI + subjuntivo imperfecto + condicional (with an exercise) pluperfect tense (SUBJUNTIVO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO) active and passive voice

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A full lesson on passé composé with auxiliary avoir. It includes a complete recap of passé composé with ‘avoir’ (as seen in lesson 1 and 2) and an explanation of passé composé with irregular past participles. Activities include: the same noughts and crosses game as lesson 2 to use a starter to check for retainment and understanding (feel free to change the questions inside) a mini-whiteboard task that includes irregular verbs a translation task a delayed dictation task to use as a plenary (find the sentences in the slide’s notes or make up your own).

Full lesson on present tense. Recap of infinitive. Explanation of how to form present tense. Mini whiteboard or writing task. Reading task. Listening task (the text is in the notes, the teacher reads it to the pupils).

Christmas lesson on French traditions, presentation of Christmas related vocabulary, a fun quiz, and a link to a French Christmas carol.

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’.

Full lesson on sports. Vocabulary with consolidating exercise. Intro to jugar al / hacer. Includes a translation task.

A few slides that can be added to a lesson on music instruments with an explanation of how to use ‘‘prefiero a’’. Activities include a fill the gap task, a text translation task, a well scaffolded speaking task, and a quiz.

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.