A reading-to-write sequence I have designed for my year 7s top set, starting off with a narrow reading tasks set and ending up with a writing tasks. Tasks include: gap-fills, match up. translation. The sequence is carefully scaffolded and graded to enable the students to carry out the task without external help. Lots of recycling of the same syntactic patterns and chunks.

(1) A sentence builder to practice the pattern: I am from ___________but I have been living in _______________ since /for __________________ (2) A find someone who with cards with four grids so you can play four rounds of the game (3) A set of narrow reading tasks (4) A set of gap-fills based on the narrow reading tasks (5) An oral translation board game (6) A verb and adjectivel endings manipulation writing task (7) Gap-fill madness - 'Gap-fill madness' is a very easy-to-prepare game I stage to automatise verb production and decoding skills at the same time. Students, working in groups of three, are given a list of twelve simple sentences (see below) in which the target verb is gapped. They then compete with each other at filling the gap in the shortest time possible. The person who does it faster and with 'decent' pronunciation wins. I usually stage three rounds per player, the shortest time overall winning. Whilst one player speaks the others time them and monitor their accuracy and pronunciation. Pairing students by ability a must!

A sentence builder for use with beginners modelling the use of the partitive article with food and drinks. Two chunk-based vocabulary builders consolidating the material in the sentence builder

A set of 5 translations covering a very comprehensive range of vocabulary

Two sides of old school drills

3 Vocab consolidation sheets designed for homework, cover or independent study with solution sheets (on separate file)

A range of consolidation worksheets packed with activities drilling in key grammar points

A vocab builder to drill in some useful phrases for essay writing at A-level. Quite challenging.

7 narrow reading texts recycling to death talking about oneself . Used it with year 5s and worked very well

Sentence builder + vocab building + Pyramid Translation + No Snakes no ladders on talking about holidays and travel

Three worksheets packed with written and oral activities to drill in modal verbs across two contexts: house chores and health

A unit from my forthcoming GCSE revision

A collection of resources on connectives and other discourse markers and useful phrases suitable for A-level writing revision.Challenging, meant for able A-level students

12 pages of wordbuilders focusing on the description of physical appearance, personality, irregular adjectives, emotional and physical states, the present of ETRE and AVOIR as well as idioms with AVOIR.

A sentence builder, narrow reading texts on talking about movies, oral drills and a translation task that refers to the material in the sentence builder

A typical Conti oral scaffold to use at the beginning of practising the topic and a vocab builder to use as prep or follow-up

- A sentence builder with translation task covering all present verb forms of jugar, ir and hacer - An oral translation board game (no snakes no ladders)

A unit from my forthcoming GCSE SPANISH revision book based on AQA and EDEXCEL exams. It includes the answer key too.