I am a qualified MFL teacher and a native speaker with over 20 years tutoring and teaching experience. I am passionate about creating well designed resources for students to help them improve their French and Spanish. I am currently teaching French and Spanish in a secondary school in Kent. My experience spans Year 7 to 11 in Spanish and Year 7 to 13 in French.
I am a qualified MFL teacher and a native speaker with over 20 years tutoring and teaching experience. I am passionate about creating well designed resources for students to help them improve their French and Spanish. I am currently teaching French and Spanish in a secondary school in Kent. My experience spans Year 7 to 11 in Spanish and Year 7 to 13 in French.
This resource contains:
A reference and practice sheet with:
4 French example phrases with their English translation
A summary of uses and formation
6 translations from French to English
6 translations from English to French
An answers sheet for all translations
Would you like to increase your students’ cultural awareness about Christmas in France with a range of activities of linguistic and cultural tasks?
In this 35 slide Powerpoint you will find:
• A key vocabulary search task with answers
• A reading comprehension task with answers
• A gap fill with answers
• A 12 question quiz with answers
• A jumbled word and sentence creator task with answers/ plenary translation
The document can easily be edited to suit your class needs.
Do you want to improve your students’ writing abilities for the 150 word task? This set of resources is specially designed for Higher tier students who will need to respond to 2 bullet points using a wide range of language and accuracy.
My resource pack includes:
6 x 150 model paragraphs that would score 100% or 32/32 in the exam
2 x Higher mats with structures that impress
9 x Grammar reference and practice sheets and answers (based on the Higher mats content)
1 x planning and tick box document to use ahead of a full write up
All resources are in WORD and can therefore easily be customized, copied and pasted into your slides, or turned into PDF’s.
Are your students confused about possessive pronouns? Then look no further!
This 14 slide Powerpoint will help you recap the key rules and allow for lots of practice.
It contains:
A quiz so students can work out what they already know
Rules recap with examples
Grid fill for knowledge retrieval
Practice tasks
Are you using exam board AQA? Do you want to improve your students’ FRENCH writing skills for the 90 paragraphs? Do you want to ensure your students can plan a successful paragraphs that meet the required criteria?
Then look no further! My specially designed GCSE French Writing Pack is designed to guide your Foundation and Higher tier students to success with a range of carefully designed resources created with the AQA mark scheme in mind.
**CONTENT: **
10 x 90 word model paragraphs that would score 100%, or 16/16 in the exam
Student tasks to get students to explore successful paragraphs and a visual analysis of the content that allowed the highest grade to be reached, + a lined paper practice sheet (paragraphs 1-3)
Planning and tick box document to use ahead of a full write up
The lesson starts with a mini quiz about the Higher Reading Exam to gauge how much your students remember.
You then have 3 different tasks with corrections:
Identify correct statements out of a list
A translation from French into English
A who says what task based on Fan Forum posts
The reflection tasks for each tasks allows you to pause and get your students to reflect on what went well + areas of improvement
In this 11 slide Powerpoint you will find:
Activities to aid student recall and discussion of false friends and cognates
Translations from English to French and French to English across all themes (with corrections)
A self-assessment grid for students to successfully identify areas of strength and improvement
Prepare your Year 11 students for their Reading assessment with this 20 slides Powerpoint containing:
A quiz to test your students’ understanding of the reading assessment
Tips for success
2 x reading comprehension tasks (Theme 1) with corrections
1 x translation into English task (Theme 1) with corrections
Sub themes: Food, clothes, celebrations
Celebrate all things to do with readng 2nd March or 23rd April with this 37 slide Powerpoint where you will find activities to grow your students’ vocabulary around books and reading in French, linking in with the LA LECTURE sub theme (Part of Theme 1: Identity and Culture) as seen in STUDIO (AQA Curriculum)
The Powerpoint presentation includes:
A class survey as a warm up task
A gap fill with answers
A quiz with answers
A follow up research task
ESSAY WRITING PREPARATION TASKS
Translations
True or False
Gap fill
With answers and teachers notes
The tasks model the type of language students should be using to score the highest marks in Assessment Objectives 3 and 4
In this 22 slide lesson you will find the following tasks:
A Knowledge Organiser with key phrases and opinions
A illustrated reading comprehension task
A match up task for Christmas activities (present tense)
A match up task for positive and opinions (present tense)
A speaking tasks so students can provide opinions on a range of Christmas activities
A writing task about Christmas
The emphasis is on present tense verbs and opinions, so this resource is suitable for Yr9- Yr11
This set of resources is designed to get your Higher students writing successfully about holidays (Unit 5, Theme 2).
It includes :
90-word tasks and activities working with a model answer
150 -word tasks and activities working with a model answer
*** Translation tasks (from French to English and English to French) with a recap on the conditional formation and further translation tasks **
Looking for high quality tasks to revise Theme 1? Then look no further, this 25 slide Powerpoint offers 3 tasks for each of Theme 1’s 4 topics including:
Reading comprehension tasks
Listening tasks (with full transcripts)
Writing tasks with model answers
Photo description tasks
A reflections slide
Answers in the notes section
This resource can also be used as part of an end of unit AOL, or as homework (just remove the answers from the Notes section)
Get your students to write about Easter and their holidays with the following tasks:
A match up task designed to expose students to an account of a future Easter break
A photo description task
A 90 word paragraph task
This lesson contains:
An introduction to Easter with 4 translation tasks
A grammar task to revise the present tense in the context of Easter
A speaking task to revise the near future tense in the context of Easter
A word search with key Easter vocabulary and a matching the French definition to the right word activity
A Reading Comprehension task looking at Easter celebrations around France and the French speaking world.
Suitable for high ability Year 9 or middle ability year 10, Foundation Year 11 students.
In this presentation you will find:
A recap of what students need to bear in mind when translating into French
Practice tasks such as:
A multiple choice task
A spot and correct the error task
Translations into French tasks
All with answers
This can be done in class, completed as homework or shared with students as additional revision.
