This is the right version to look at. I shared the wrong ppt last time so it would not have made sense. It was used to prepare students for a Controlled assessment on giving advice and health issues Worked really well and generated some lively discussion

I shared a lesson plan on giving advice with accompanying documents and then received a comment which made me have another look. This is in fact the full lesson plan ppt that goes with those resources, sorry about the mistake.

I have a challenging Y9 Spanish group made up of all boys. I took them to the computer room and told them they were investigative reporters who were interested in the supernatural and the unexplained. They were then given this task sheet and I have never seen them so focussed. They all decided it was alien in origin and won't be persuaded otherwise, even when I told them about the severed heads.

Los personajes is based on the idea of creating a soap opera like LOST but a spanish version,first developed in conjunction with Edexcel for GCSE Spanish Unit 4, I will add my GCSE version soon

Don't we often underestimate how difficult they find it to use a dictionary and isn&'t it always annoying when they say they can&';t find the word and they are in the wrong half of the dictionary. We use Petit Nicolas in Y7 so this is why he appears in this ppt but also we always do teach classroom objects. So to have fun and teach how to look up nouns the task requires them to look up words like conker and marbles because that is just what Nicolas would have in his bag apart from his ruler and so on. I then thought they could look up what teenage Nicolas would have.

I created this to help my Y11 prepare for a CA on what they do at weekend. Attempt to help them create more extended answers

Higher reading resource taken from French newspaper and then edited with questions in English

We do a lot of work on metalanguage in Y7 and this one is all about verbs so includes what is a verb/ what is an infinitive and then focusses on present tense so they understand regular and irregular. Mine build up a mind map as we go along in books and then create games/verb posters- it is taught in conjunction with saying what do at weekend.this ppt takes at least 3 lessons to go through with lots of repetition, white board work, competitions, making notes etc

Vocabulary support sheet for describing appearance for KS3 or KS4

Taken from an article published by Reuters and edited. Higher reading task but with vocabulary for support and questions in English

Alternative to Semana Santa History of chocolate-reading comp-I do it as a team competition-so they all get first question and then dont get 2nd one until show me answer to first. Expressing opinions about chocolate with blind chocolate tasting if you are feeling generous Jessie Y joy sing in Spanish-really easy to understand-all about love and chocolate-good you tube clip

PPT is really to provoke/stimulate discussion- Articles are aimed at beginner Y12s. I have a group at the moment who are not very confident and so I tried to find relatively easy web-based articles- that would boost their confidence and also show them that talking fashion is quite fun because you can get away with Spanglish

PPt and accompanying resources to help embed rules for mon,ma, mes in context of family with Y7 I have used Thierry Henry's family and then some actors just to add cultural relevance. Not particularly original but you might like to use some of the practice activities So quite a few of the slides on the ppt are actually printable activities- quite a lot of differentiation which you might find useful. Alain le lait- on you tube, quite fun and could be improved and turned in to a rap. I have included lesson plan as done for an interview.

KS3 or KS4- vocabulary for personality- use anyway you like Divided in to cognates and non cognates

Not particularly original but emphasis on developing listening skills so you might want to take a look. I have added the assessment that we do at the end of the unit so you can see what the listenings are leading up to. Not a brilliant test but you might find it useful and or infinitely adaptable. The peer listening activity where students adapt dialogue and then read it out to another pair for speaking and listening practice works well if set up right.

F/H or higher reading tasks on smoking and alcohol Non verbal response

I've got a big class for GCSE Spanish in September and this is my attempt to get them to revise the basics before the start of the autumn term so we can hit the ground running. If you were thinking of giving Y9 some Summer work in preparation for GCSE you might find this useful to use and or adapt.

Instead of approaching Daily routine as a lexical task which is what we often do with Year 7, this approach focuses more on verbs and daily routine is simply the context, so in the end what matters is that they can apply the rules not that they know 10+ phrases for describing routine. My Year 7 can now define a regular/irregular and reflexive verb. They know what an infinitive is and what to conjugate means. We then went on to look at the gap fill more closely so that they can add connectives and time phrases to a description of their daily routine as I am sure you all do. The difference now is that when they prepare for their speaking assessment at the end of this term they will hopefully, some at least add activities they do in the evenings that I haven't taught them.

Not particularly original but I have quite a lot of fun reading out the story for the listening activity and being a Spanish 'Vicky Pollard'- also I find the card sort really gets them thinking about metalanguage and how verbs work- I find mind mapping a really good way to get them to figure out the rules instead of giving it to them- pre-populate a mind map with sub headings so they only have to fill in details and that works well. I also like getting them to work with infinitives and verb tables because they don't use them effectively if you don't actively show them how.

Los jovenes pasan demasiado tiempo frente a una pantalla- taken from several articles on net. Idea that it is not just a conventional reading resource but shows and trains them in how to tackle a higher reading. Used in preparation for CA on weekend activities that is why there are some questions for adapting at the end