I am a French and Spanish teacher. You will find here some resources I have produced to teach my students. Some are fun and innovative and others are more old fashioned. A variety of topics covered. Also some cultural knowledge resources. Enjoy...!
I am a French and Spanish teacher. You will find here some resources I have produced to teach my students. Some are fun and innovative and others are more old fashioned. A variety of topics covered. Also some cultural knowledge resources. Enjoy...!
A nice translation game idea adapted on topic of Mis vacaciones desastrosas from Viva GCSE. Did with Yr10 Spanish and they really enjoyed it. Don't forget to feedback!
Here is a Powerpoint presentation I have made with all the answers and some writing titles for 120/180 words tasks.
This is to go with the French GCSE Translation booklet (attached) made by Kloereese on TES.
My classes have found it really useful for revision before exams.
Enjoy!
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
Here is the latest trapdoor activity I have designed for Christmas. It is like a letter to Santa that French kids always write at this sort of time to ask Santa for the presents they want for Christmas. I have also slipped in a few French Christmas traditions. I will do this with my Yr7 and Yr8 in the last week before the Christmas break. Joyeux Noël à tous et bonnes fêtes de fin d’année. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Recap of vocab taught, reading comprehension with questions, match up pictures and expression. Suitable for higher ability Y8/Y9. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
A little activity to print on card or paper. Students are matching up the cards (questions/answers). Would suit KS3 or KS4 (lower set revision). Enjoy and don't forget to feeback! :-)
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
I downloaded a resource on here and changed it completely to suit my class. Recap of vocabulary taught, use of "my" in French, translation(both ways), reading comprehension with dialogue, writing task with choosing a scenario. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
A series of questions to go with a video I found on the internet about Christmas. Here is link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwAnG8k1bC4
Good for Yr 7,8,9 for a bit of culture to put them in the Christmas spirit. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Speaking activity with the Sentence Stealer. Adapted resource.
Delayed Translation. Adapted resource (you say the sentence in French, then distract students as you wish for ten seconds, and then ask students to either reproduce the sentence on mini whiteboard or translate from TL into English). Enjoy!
Activity I have designed for Yr 7 after teaching them weather keywords. Students put the weather symbols on the map. Then they can trace their own map of France and do their own weather forecast or for HWK get a map from a country in the world and do weather forecast. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Here is a little starter I got my Yr10 to do the other day to recap town, shops, adjectives. I projected it on the board and got them to translate it. Would suit Yr11 for revision. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Gap filling exercise which I designed for my bottom set Yr9 on town. I gave each student a different strip and they then go around the class asking each other for some words they haven't got. The complete text is on the last strip for the teacher. Then, I got students to translate text in English followed by adapting it to write about their city/town. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
Vocab competition (two teams, students have to write correct sentence on mini whiteboard as a team. Team captain calls when he/she believes all have finished. Other team checks all mini whiteboards for the correct answer. If no mistake, point goes to team that called it. If mistake is found by opponents, point for them).
Speaking activity with the Sentence Stealer. Adapted resource.
Delayed Translation. Adapted resource (you say the sentence in French, then distract students as you wish for ten seconds, and then ask students to either reproduce the sentence on mini whiteboard or translate from TL into English). Enjoy!
After teaching my Yr7 body parts in Spanish, I asked them to design their own Frankenstein using body parts from various pictures (collage) and asked them to label it. This is an example of finished product you could show your class. Laugh out loud guaranteed. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
