A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A complete PPT lesson la laïcité et Noël en France - secularity and Christmas in France.
Aimed at A level students as it encourages debates/use of spoken French for a large part in the classroom.
Includes grammar points and vocab points created as feedback from a previous essay homework set to students. These are, of course, transferable as they include common mistakes made by students when writing in French.
Encourages students to challenge how democracy and secularity works - the French state is supposed to be separate from the Church however all Bank Holidays are Catholic festivals.
Incorporates group work too.
End-of-term French Christmas quiz, suitable for any year group (inc. A level students)
Includes:
Cultural references - is the answer A,B,C etc.
Translations
New verb and cultural-specific vocabulary for Christmas
True or false
Gap fills
*Answers included in a separate document, in the same folder.
A quiz useful for an end-of-year lesson, or for revision purposes. Focuses mainly on the AQA spec for year 10. There are 6 rounds, with 10 questions in each. 5 of these are topic based, and the other 5 are still topic-related, but more focused on grammar.
The topics are:
Life at school
Travel and tourism
Social issues - healthy living
Education post-16
Marriage/partnership
Technology in everyday life
Grammar topics include:
modal verbs
quantifiers
preterite and imperfect tense
weather expressions with ‘hacer’
possessive pronouns
recap on deber/tener que/hay
que + infinitive
es mejor/sería mejor/más
vale/más valdría
negative nunca
use of ‘lo’ and ‘lo que’
future tenses
complex two-verb structures (tener ganas de…)
using ‘gracias a’/‘sin’/‘con’
subjunctive in ‘es posible que’
Some of the questions require gap-fill, others are more like the exam comprehensions and others are choosing the correct letter. There are also short translations. Most of the questions are in Spanish but some are in English.
An exam aimed at A level students of Spanish, suitable for any exam board
Includes three separate activities that test grammar and comprehension
The exam takes one hour, so can be used for a full lesson
Includes answers on a separate document, so marking is easy for teachers or for students to peer-mark
A booklet designed to help students practice their translation from Spanish into English.
Primarily designed for AQA where at Foundation and Higher, students translate a short passage from Spanish to English as part of the last question on the Reading exam.
This Booklet is for all three themes, covering:
• Relationships with family and friends
• Marriage
• Social media
• Technology
• Music
• Cinema and TV
• Food and eating out
• Sport
• Customs and festivals
• My home
• Local area
• Shopping
• Charity and voluntary work
• Healthy and unhealthy living
• The environment
• Poverty and homelessness
• Other social and global issues
• Travel
• Holidays and tourism
• My studies
• Life at school
• Education post-16
• Jobs and ambitions
• Work experience
Altogether there are 29 short paragraph translations for students to complete. There is an accompanying answer booklet too that has a breakdown of how students would get the 9 marks per question, following the format of the AQA mark scheme.
Suitable for in-class work, homework and revision, or cover.
Please visit my shop if you would like to purchase the booklets for Themes 1, 2, and 3 separately.
This resource includes all lessons and accompanying resources for the Claro 1 Unit 2 scheme of work. There are a range of activities, games and in-class assessment points (differentiated). Grammar points are taught also, and homework is provided.
Topics:
2.1 ¡Contamos hasta cien!
2.2 Te presento a mi familia
2.3 Los animales y las mascotas
2.4 Espejito, espejito …
2.5 Las descripciones físicas
2.6 Mi carácter y relaciones
This unit is typically taught to Year 7 students, although is beginner’s Spanish and can be used accordingly.
A two-page help sheet for A level students needing to write essays for their exams.
Focuses on the development of the structure of the essays and contains:
Sentence starters for introductions, plus key words
Sentence starters for main paragraphs, plus key words
Sentence starters for the conclusion, plus key words
Advice on verbal constructions (based on mistakes I have seen in students’ essays)
Key vocab
Aimed at A level students doing the AQA spec: subtheme la famille en voie de changement
There is a particular focus on speaking and reading/translation tasks
PPT provides information on:
what PACS is
conditions of it
statistics for class discussion
gap fill and writing exercise on PACS
class discussion questions regarding PACS, alternatives to marriage in other countries, and why marriage trends have changed
translation exercise
Extra exercises available for those needing an extension
A document aimed at A/AS level French students to help them write about the films they have been studying.
Includes French and English versions of how to structure sentences, how to analyse content, and enables them to learn vocabulary necessary for discussing the films.
Suitable for any exam board and any film - easily applicable to any.
A revision lesson aimed at A level students studying Bonjour Tristesse for the paper 2 exam of AQA’s new spec.
Includes a PPT that explores:
recapping of the key themes
the book as an existentialist text
the book as a psychological depiction
the resemblance between the author and the protagonist
the critical reception this book was subjected to
the dilemma and the choice of Cecile
Activities include translation and discussion throughout. The main activity is based around essay writing. The students have 10-15 mins to plan a response to an essay question done as either HW, an assessment or in another lesson. They are then given an exemplar response (included) to that question to get them familiarised with the mark scheme, etc.
A full topic vocabulary list from the following topics:
La inmigracion
El racismo
La convivencia
Jovenes de hoy, ciudadanos del manana
Monarquias y dictaduras
Los movimientos populares
Includes Spanish and English vocab.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
A document aimed at A/AS level Spanish students to help them write about the films they have been studying.
Includes Spanish and English versions of how to structure sentences, how to analyse content, and enables them to learn vocabulary necessary for discussing the films.
Suitable for any exam board and any film - easily applicable to any.
A booklet designed to help students practice their translation from French into English.
Primarily designed for AQA where at Foundation and Higher, students translate a short passage from French to English as part of the last question on the Reading exam.
This Booklet is for all three themes, covering:
• Relationships with family and friends
• Marriage
• Social media
• Technology
• Music
• Cinema and TV
• Food and eating out
• Sport
• Customs and festivals
• My home
• Local area
• Shopping
• Charity and voluntary work
• Healthy and unhealthy living
• The environment
• Poverty and homelessness
• Other social and global issues
• Travel
• Holidays and tourism
• My studies
• Life at school
• Education post-16
• Jobs and ambitions
• Work experience
Altogether there are 29 short paragraph translations for students to complete. There is an accompanying answer booklet too that has a breakdown of how students would get the 9 marks per question, following the format of the AQA mark scheme.
Suitable for in-class work, homework and revision, or cover.
Please visit my shop if you would like to purchase the booklets for Themes 1, 2, and 3 separately.
Questions answered:
• Analiza las técnicas que utiliza Guillermo del Toro para explorar el mundo fantástico de Ofelia.
• Analiza el tema de la guerra en la película. ¿Cuáles son las técnicas que utiliza el director para evocar la época en la que transcurre la historia?
These questions are particularly useful for providing evidence to essay points, for showing what content can be used to tackle specific questions, and to get students to practice being the marker.
Aimed towards AQA A level students
An introduction lesson to Spanish Culture (PPT is fully in English so can be adapted to Spanish), aimed at Year 7,8,9,10 students.
Aims to improve the cultural awareness of Spain, in regards to the country’s society, history, geography and culture.
Students are encouraged to look for similarities and differences across Spain and other European nations, with several discussion points available. The depth of these discussions varies depending on the year group you are teaching.
The lesson also provides students with a wider knowledge of how influential tourism is - its positives and negatives.
There is a quiz on Spain, with answers provided, that can take up between 10-30 minutes depending on how you utilise the resource.
For A level students having studied the AQA A2 spec, this booklet covers all the topics with particular focus given to examples students can use in their speakings. Also covers key information in the textbooks, as well as coming with a revision checklist.
Topics include:
la inmigracion
el racismo
la convivencia
jovenes de hoy, ciudadanos de manana
monarquias y dictaduras
los movimientos populares
A lesson with 5 resources included aimed at students doing the AS/A level AQA Spanish paper 2 - Introduction/Revision
Includes a presentation which can be used to first introduce the text, or to revise it. The PPT includes:
information on the author/context and his intentions when writing the play
main themes
structure of the play
techniques/effects used
importance of language used
historical context (timelines)
comments on idioms used and their historical significance
historical notes
character summaries
an introduction to the text worksheet
further literary reading
The worksheets/activities included are:
read/annotate and highlight the sheet entitled ‘personajes’ and answer questions listed on them
‘una introduccion’ sheet includes translation, timeline and comprehension questions
comprehension on the literary criticism sheet provided
a sheet of questions for students to answer in exam style
AQA A level French resource
An exemplar essay written to answer the following question:
“Analysez comment les rapports entre le narrateur et ses parents changent au cours du roman."
This is marked and includes feedback plus where this would score if it were to be marked by AQA examiners.
There are several reflective questions at the end where students must look at ideas they can take from it, think about what could be improved, and more, meaning it makes a great lesson activity.
Useful revision lesson for AQA A level students for the cinema topic. Lesson includes:
key info. on Les Freres Lumiere
Synonym / vocab-finding task
FR --> EN translation activities
EN --> FR translation activities
Useful sentences for giving information and facts about the history of cinema
Key words and phrases for the topic
Practicing writing reviews of certain films
Reviews of many different French films with useful vocabulary included
A document useful for helping A/AS level students write their introductions to essays on various topics. This is suitable for any exam board.
Sections on how/what to write include:
opening sentence
introducing the context
introducing the problem/question/what you will be discussing
introducing the plan of your essay - how you will tackle the question
It also comes with a ‘useful vocabulary’ section.