I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
7 pages looking at sentence structure/ how to incorporate higher level language and 2+ tenses
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I have developed a formula in line with the AQA specification (requirement advice for the Grade 5 and above) - this formula is easy to follow and helps student ensure their answers are developed well.
It includes formulas for 4 tenses (present, imperfect, future, conditional) which are easy to follow and covers multiple topics (mi barrio/ el medio-ambiente/ la salud) and the activities increase in challenge, there are also tasks throughout that get students to practise each formula.
Topics included:
family/animals vocabulary
basic descriptions (physical)
wide range of adjectives
comparitives/ superlatives
describing and comparing photos
Family relationships vocabulary in 3 tenses
translations on relationships
Common errors gap fill (personal a, bajo vs corto and other examples of wrong word usage, agreements and singular vs plural verbs focus)
challenge:
reflexive verbs - explanation and practise
subjunctive mood - common expressions AND manipulation tasks for MA
Most tasks have challenge tasks on the slides :)
I have included all vocab from the vocab pages
range of activities to revise/ consolidate vocab from this topic
could be printed as revision tasks/ booklets or used as starters to recap vocab as you move through
I often use starters to recap old topics then move on completely.
Great care has been taken to ensure it looks sophisticated, it is challenging - and easy to use.
animation and presentation of each activity is attractive and engaging.
In depth coverage of vocabulary and grammar - includes further practise of all grammar points covered in unit 2
extra detail of what’s included:
fly in answers for all slides
vocabulary (differentiated with challenge)
vocabulary categorization task
positives/ negatives of technology categorization task
habia vs era practise with translations
present perfect tense - how to form
present perfect tense conjugations - all topics
present perfect past participles - regulars/irregulars
present perfect technology translations
question words
select the correct question word task
por and para categorization task
I’ve put a lot of effort into these resource
all vocab from unit 3 vocab pages covered in a variety of ways - 11 different tasks
as stated above all have a consequent slide with fly in answers (exept one opinion task)
range of activities, cognitively demanding,
challenges on each slide so each one is differentiated
would be good as starters or revision tasks
Full half term's worth of work
Range of PPTs and Worksheets
topics included:
* expectations
* classroom instructions/ language
* target language
* pronunciation, alphabet and phonics
* stationary/ negatives/ inductive numbers 1-10
* plurals
* possessive adjectives
* TENER/ how to conjugate verbs
* Classroom items
* traffic light self-assessment lesson
Some extension worksheets
All lessons have been developed in line with the new GCSE
Developed with the new GCSE in mind. Students need to have an extremely high understanding of grammar and tenses, these resources will make students synthesis knowledge, look back through notes and use other resources, and allow revision of past topics/ tenses you may not have covered for a while to ensure they're not forgotten.
A wide range of activities looking at grammar and tenses from different angles
all templates are easy to adapt
range of cognitive demand/ different levels of challenge
challenges included for most activities
attractive and easy to access
Developed for an observation
this lesson breaks down reflexive verbs making them more accessible.
I have used this with HA Year 9 all the way up to GCSE and it always works well. I have even upped the challenge and used the same activities with my year 12 class.
Lots of opportunities to better understanding of the difference between reflexive and standard indicative verbs with lots of practice, challenge and engagement.
Well developed set of resources on the FAMILY/DESCRIPTIONS topic
includes:
*family vocabulary
*llamarse
*tener
* possessive adjectives
* animals/ colours
* adjectival agreement
* opinions/ reasons
* hair/eyes
* physical description
* personality
* comparisons
* sophisticated comparisons
* development tasks/ spot the mistakes (for following a writing exam).
Main focus of these lessons is the difference between the 2 past tenses,
in the context of Spanish customs/ festivals
lots of challenging grammar activities plus some bonus activities on the topic.
These lessons were developed to teach a MA group targets 4-8
Just under a full half terms worth of resources which look at developing writing skills.
A lot of lessons are named BOOST - this is because the sequence of lessons supports response to marking of smaller bits of writing - however, there is a WAGOLL included in case it's not been possible to mark.
it was developed to showcase the benefit of formative assessment and show students how little tweaks can really improve their grade.
There is also an assessment included and follow up lessons.
Range of short and full lesson activities, huge element of competition to encourage engagement from all students.
These games/ activities are TRIED AND TESTED, students regularly ask to play them again -
each PPT has instructions on how to play them and a model which is easier to adapt for new topics or even your second/ third language.
Lots of attractive, easy to adapt resources and activities that are tried and tested,
I am regularly complimented on resources I share with my dept and I have seen these being used by other staff
The games in particular are popular with students, the starters are all challenging and grammar focused which is good for the new GCSE requirements
Detailed coverage of the LLEGAR paradigm including inductive activities that allow students to work out the forms and practise using them in context
several speaking tasks to be done in pairs
past tense practise
trap door activities and original ideas including a murder mystery activity that always goes down well with year 9 groups
Specifically developed to address the 2 things which year after year stop students from accessing the 5+
I’ve used these worksheets as a starter with HA classes and adapted them to full lessons for LA and mixed groups.
Developed for a High ability year 7 group BUT COULD BE USED FOR FOUNDATION NEW GCSE SPANISH - easy to adapt for lower groups. See file names for vocab covered -
Grammar covered:
soy vs. soy de
vivir (full conjugation) & lots of practise
voy al/ a la
IR verbs
future tense
higher level language (inc. idioms)
conditional tense
prepositions of place
HACER/VER/IR present tense
se puede/ no se puede + infinitive
comparitives
Works towards a speaking assessment but all skills are covered. Speaking assessment (photo card and role play) included - new GCSE style.
These worksheets were made to support expo 3 ROUGE - MODULE 1 Ça t’intéresse
What’s included:
Explanation of reflexive verbs with examples
consolidation tasks to practice describing daily routine in the present AND passé composé with e’tre
All grammar tasks include good descriptions of how tenses work so students can use these as a model.
**All resources compliment / consolidate content from EXPO 3 ROUGE Module 1. There are no duplicated tasks from the textbook or workbook. **
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated. Tasks take 20-30 minutes PLUS (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for higher end vert students.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
Resources could be used to support class powerpoints, remote learning, homeworks, or additional support.
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated providing support and challenge for a range of abilities.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
Topics included:
Avoir/ family members
questions and answers (introductions/ greetings etc.)
Dans la salle de class vocab + describing a photo
talking about likes/dislikes
using the full paradigm of AIMER and DÉTESTER (with support)
adjectives + adjectival agreement
conjugating regular ER verbs
the French present tense (regular verbs) - extensive worksheet
Birthdays, numbers + months
Mat 1 - focus on key vocabulary and key verbs in multiple tenses
prepositions/ weather/ photo card language/ articles/ possessive pronouns
mat 2 - opinions/ connectives including higher level connectives/ time phrases for future and conditional
mat 3 - GRADE 7 and beyond - idioms/ infinitive phrases/ HL language