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...!
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! :-)
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!
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!
A simple grid to play battleships on TV programs using vocab and opinions. Reinforce speaking practice. Would suit Yr7 or Yr8. 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! :-)
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!
A little grid to play battleships about school (subjects and opinions). Would suit Yr7 to help with speaking practice. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
A list of vocabulary for students to help them learn/revise keywords to do with school and education topic. Used with Yr9/Yr10. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
I have made a vocab list for my Yr11 students following the reading practice paper from AQA.
Feel free to use as revision of key vocabulary. You can print it double sided for Foundation and Higher.
Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
Recap vocab taught. Sentence structures (aches). Exercise on prepositions. Translation both ways. Would suit KS3. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
Despacito is a fashionable song at the moment that my Yr10 and Yr9 seem to love and sing in the corridors. As an end of term treat, I have done a little worksheet to go with this song. It has a text in Spanish explaining the background of this song with vocab and comprehension questions. Then a fill the gaps activity before trying to sing it as a class. I have also put the answers to vocab/questions and full lyrics. 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!
A little worksheet I designed for Valentine's Day. Students match up the messages and then design a card choosing which messages to write/adapt. Something a bit different. Would suit KS3 mostly. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
I have designed this worksheet for my KS4 Spanish GCSE class for them to practise preterite and imperfect tense and also vocab related to topic. Looking up meaning of verbs, text with verbs to put in correct tense, matching up sentences.
A presentation I have put together on the French school system to show students the differences with English school system. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Two way translation exercise for GCSE French class to help them with writing and reading skills. To be printed double sided. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-) (Following vocabulary from Studio GCSE books)
Claim the parcel translation game
Activity for revising different verb tenses and topics from new GCSE AQA books.
You have a table with different verbs tenses/sentences and project it on your interactive whiteboard/wall. In groups of 2 (max 3) they write the answer in French to one of the parcels/boxes on their mini white boards, come to you at the front of the class (you check) and if they have the answer correct they can claim the parcel/box. You write their names/team name on a post it notes and stick it over the parcel/box on the interactive whiteboard. Then, no one can do this parcel/box anymore. The winner is the group to have most parcels/boxes claimed at the end.
Works well as end of module revision or translation practice.
Don't forget to feedback!
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!