Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
A full lesson on holidays.
It includes lots of vocabulary presentations broken down by tasks such as ‘‘beat the teacher’’. It follows with a reading/match-up task to consolidate learning. Then, it moves on to a short group reading task that serves as a scaffold for the following speaking task that the pupils will complete in pairs. Finally, the lesson ends with a writing task. It also includes a mini plenary (exit tickets) to quickly check for student understanding and retainment.
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 lesson on vocabulary about volunteering and verbs followed by infinitives (ex. pienso ayudar, quiero servir comida, etc.).
It includes a match-up, a fill the gap, and a translation task to prepare for the final activity which is a well scaffolded and modelled writing task.
A lesson on different types of volunteering.
It includes a recap on verbs + infinitives (quiero ser, pienso ayudar etc.) before presenting the vocabulary for different types of volunteering (with little quizzes to break down the repetition and drill in the vocab).
Following is a reading task, and a speaking/writing task with lots of scaffold. For this task, find attached the handout to print to help the students.
Lesson with recap match-up task for different types of volunteering, followed by a translation task.
The lesson goes on to explain how to use ‘‘me gustaria…’’ with an unjumble the sentences task to put this into practice.
Finally, there is an exit pass (writing task) with lots of scaffolding to get the pupils writing how they would like to help.
Full lesson on healthy/unhealthy diets with a full explanation on how to form negative sentences.
Activities include match-ups, fill the gap, translations, and a final quiz/challenge to check student retainment and understanding.
First of 2 lessons on the imperfect tense.
The lesson begins with an easy and well scaffolded wordsnake starter activity to get the pupils settled and engaged with the lesson. An extra/challenge is provided for higher achievers.
Following this the imperfect tense is presented and explained (when to use it, how it is in English, how to form it).
The lesson goes on with a well scaffolded practice on how to form the imperfect tense (students can use mini whiteboards for this task) and it ends with a Kahoot created by me.
The LOs are:
1.To recap vocabulary related to food and diet
2.To learn vocabulary
3.To use expressions with tener
slide to get pupils thinking of much food vocab they can recall
slide on typical food from Spanish speaking countries
a match up task on food and diet sentences
speaking task with lots of scaffolding and modelling
slide with tips on how to learn and recall vocabulary in foreign languages
presentation of expressions with verb ‘tener’
when to use muy or mucho/a with these expressions
exercise: choose the right expression for each sentence
speaking task with scaffolding and modelling
Y7 lesson on partitive articles with a recap of food vocabulary, explanation of partitive articles, exercises (word snake, fill the gap), and a link to a Quizziz that I created.
Lesson on animals introducing and explaining how to form the plural of nouns. Activities include a starter (bingo), a speaking task, a writing task, and a quiz.
Full lesson on weather vocabulary (with a slap the board activity), how to use ‘‘if’’ and ‘‘when’’ in Spanish, recap of activities’ and hobbies’ vocabulary, and finally saying which activities you do with a certain weather.
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.
A full lesson on physical descriptions ( presentation of adjectives such as bajo/a, alto/a, delgado/a, viejo/a…) with recall matching up activities. Following this there are two speaking tasks (the first one is a trapdoor activity which is an ideal model/scaffold for the following task). Finally, there is a writing task to finish off the lesson.
Full lesson on physical descriptions (hair and eyes).
Presentation of Spanish vocabulary with mini speaking and writing tasks in between to consolidate learning.
Presentation of TENER / to have conjugation. Memory exercise + fill the gap exercise to consolidate learning.
Guess Who speaking game.
Brain gym plenary (memory game).
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.