A language mat to stick on the table or hand out to help pupils with the basics. My pupils find the target language section particularly useful.

This attractive, multilingual display helps support literacy in your French/Spanish classroom. When laid out in the right order (5x3, see image), you can see a map of the world in the background. For this reason, I suggest trimming before putting up on display. For the best effect, laminate with a matte effect. Also available in French/German and in French/Italian at my shop. Need another language combination? Get in touch on my website!

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

A language mat to stick on the table or hand out to help pupils with the basics. My pupils find the target language section particularly useful.

This attractive, multilingual display helps support literacy in your French/German classroom. When laid out in the right order (5x3, see image), you can see a map of the world in the background. For this reason, I suggest trimming before putting up on display. For the best effect, laminate with a matte effect. I created this version of my French and Spanish literacy display when another member commented to say they were looking for a French and German version. Also available in French/Italian. Need another language combination? Get in touch on my website!

Lesson objective: Identify and translate the present and past (preterit) tense in a Spanish song. Here is a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdf152L-D3g And a translation of the lyrics: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/hacia-lo-salvaje-wild.html This lesson guides pupils through translating a modern Spanish song by breaking it down into manageable chunks. It would be best used soon after a lesson introducing or revising the preterit tense and is designed for a mixed or high ability Y9 class or a KS4 class. It could be used with any topic. This lesson exposes pupils to authentic Spanish, which helps prepare them to deal with literary texts. It gives them a chance to develop translating skills and gain new vocabulary, while reminding them of the present and preterit tenses. I have tested this lesson with a mixed-ability Y9 class, though we did not do the final task as we did a vocabulary test and reviewed expectations in the same lesson instead. I touch up all the materials I upload to TES to ensure they of a high quality. They use a combination of curated illustrations and images as well as high-quality graphics that I have created myself. The use of icons to represent different structures encourages a Target Language environment. Feel free to use these graphics in any of your own lessons, including any lessons you may wish to upload for free on TES, as these are most powerful when the pupils recognise them across lessons and make a connection with what you are saying in the Target Language.

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

Christmas is coming! I wasn’t quite satisfied with doing just one French Christmas quiz, so I made two! You can use the BIG Xmas Quiz (25 questions) to take up a whole lesson and the Mini Xmas Quiz (12 questions) to round off the second half of a Christmas lesson. I know that sometimes buying resources feels like a gamble, so I’ve put these two together so that you can be sure to get the lesson you need. Both quizzes are highly interactive. The BIG Xmas Quiz allows students to choose the order they do questions (advent calendar style) so they can aim for the questions with more points, but it’s up to you whether those points are just for the choosing team or whether everyone can go in. Personally, I like giving the first team ten seconds to answer then open it up to everyone else. The BIG Xmas Quiz also includes music (links to Youtube, make sure you enable external content when prompted) and some GCSE linked tasks (translation, describing pictures, culture) slyly slipped in. The Mini Xmas Quiz also teaches both language and cultural elements in an engaging, but also branches out beyond just Christmas themed questions. The question types also vary, but all involve minimal writing (multiple choice, order sorting, matching up images to text). Both quizzes come in Target Language and English versions. As well as these Key Stage 3 versions, there are also Key Stage 4 versions available separately or as part of a bundle. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

This is for teaching which verbs use être as the auxiliary verb in the perfect (passé composé) tense. The hill shows all the verbs with an element of ‘transition’. If you downloaded this before, I have updated it with vector graphics, so it is much clearer. I also have a high resolution and colour versions, with a matching powerpoint, available as a paid-for version. If this resource is useful to you, please consider supporting me by purchasing this super-charged version. My pupils are always amused by the idea of someone falling and dying (!) at the end of the story, which makes it memorable. Usually, I only need to draw a quick sketch of a house on a hill on the board to remind them of how some verbs are different.

Numbers in French designed to look like their pronunciation or spelling (e.g. the number 5 is sinking; sank). Use as flashcards (you can easily hide the numbers at the top and bottom with your hands) or display on the wall. Intended for primary school audience, but could work in secondary school as well. A4 size, but you could also print them A5 for using in one-to-one sessions.

This quiz includes 7 different rounds with a total of 35 questions, plus 5 bonus tie-breaker questions. Designed to be something fun for the end of the year, it nonetheless has educational value, teaching about Spanish-speaking cultures and current affairs, and even sneaks in a bit of vocabulary and grammar (without ever mentioning the g word itself). One of the rounds includes links to YouTube videos, with the videos integrated into the Powerpoint. If you don’t have a version of Powerpoint that supports integrated online videos, the link for each one is given in the slide notes. The quiz is provided in two flavours: English language (questions and most answers in English) and Target Language (all questions and answers in Spanish), so you can pick the version that best fits your class. There is also a KS4 version available separately or as part of a bundle with this one. The rounds are split off into sections, making it is easy to move them around or skip to a particular part if you don’t think you’ll have time to do the whole thing. The answers are given at the end of each round, so you can quickly wrap up if you find yourselves short on time. IMPORTANT: For the videos to work, you must click Enable Content when powerpoint starts. All the images in this Powerpoint have either been created by me or carefully sourced from copyright-free or Creative Commons sources. Some slides are interactive and, as well as including videos and animation, have different images that will appear depending on which answer you select, to provide the pupils a clue. Please check the notes section for each slide as useful information is provided there for you. Sample questions (in English) for each round (all are multiple choice): Round 1: Un imagen vale mil palabras Choose the best description for the image. (See preview images) Round 2: Cultura y Sociedad What is a tortilla de patatas? Round 3: Los Deportes La Copa América is an international football tournament. Where did it take place this year? Round 4: La Palabra Adecuada Who is the hermano de tu padre? Round 5: La Música What’s the name of the song that Blas Cantó sang to represent Spain in Eurovision this year? Round 6: La Traducción Translate: I have curly brown hair. Round 7: ¿Estáis eterados? ¿Quién es el rey de España? (by the way, there are NO questions about coronavirus or the pandemic because I think we’ve all heard enough about that) Plus 5 more questions in the tie-breaker round! For full disclosure, these are the same as the 2019/2020 quiz. I think this will be the last completely new quiz I create. Coming up with new questions in certain sections is quite difficult. However, if I get the time, I will update this one next year (so if you have purchased it, you will be able to download a refreshed one). Not promising anything though! If you bought the old question of the quiz and wrote a review, please get in touch!

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

Frequently used phrases and sentences starts to support pupils with spontaneous speaking. I have these displayed above where I record points for spontaneous language use.

Support sheets for the present, preterit, imperfect, future and conditional tenses. They are two to a page so, when cut in half, they fit neatly into a small exercise book. I’ve found these to be very effective if issues directly after covering all forms of a tense. Pupils quickly get into the habit of checking the table when they need to conjugate a verb. Also, if these are glued into books instead of stuck on the wall, they can easily be hidden for tests. They can also be taken home to support for homework, instead of pupils trying to use Google Translate! If you did want to display these, just print them on coloured paper and stick them around your room! Unlike other tables, duplicate endings are not repeated, which avoids bogging down the support sheet unnecessarily and helps the pupils realise that they aren’t so many endings to learn. Examples are given with translations, to make it clear how these endings actually apply in real communication.

Ever teach the perfect tense and then find they have forgotten the present tense straight after? Find that your pupils are bogged down by all the details of the perfect tense? This is an ideal lesson to introduce or, even better, re-introduce the perfect tense because it focuses on just one part of it and puts it directly in comparison with the present tense, so pupils can notice for themselves the differences between them. It gives the attention to meaning and pronunciation before dealing with form in a combined explicit and implicit approach. This lesson is a more advanced version of my Perfect vs Present tense lesson for KS3. However the activities are completely different, so they can both be used for the same class. Indeed, I used this with a year 9 class who had already done that lesson earlier in the year. Since they were familiar with the listening activity used, it was very quick to do. There is a worksheet included, but this is not at all necessary to do the lesson. The recording for the listening activity is included in the powerpoint and as a separate file, but you can also listen to it on RhinoSpike here The font Trebuchet MS is required to view this powerpoint and the worksheets correctly. This is usually pre-installed on Windows or with Office.

A beautiful double-sided worksheet to get your students using language creatively. This is the perfect follow up to my Rooms of a house lesson (available for free here) and practices writing descriptions of pictures, vocabulary to do with a house, adjectives and prepositions. The worksheet folds up like a doll house, providing pupils with lots of rooms to label as they want and plenty of room to write the description of their house. It’s even possible to cut out the windows to see “inside”, because the front and back match up perfectly. Instructions for students: Fold the edges into the middle to build your house. Decide which room will be where and label them. Write a description of each floor. Add drawings and colour to show what each room is. This comes with a Powerpoint slide that gives the students all the instructions they need, so you can display this, check that they understand and then let them get on with it. I’ve found that this activity can easily take up a whole lesson and it’s entirely pupil-led, so you are free to go around the classroom, observe and help out. Kids love the creative side of it, but those who prefer not to do a lot of drawing are free to concentrate on the writing if they want. Make sure you print the sheet double-sided and with short-edge binding, otherwise the house won’t match up. See the gif included for a demonstration.

This is the perfect companion lesson with the Hill of Être poster and follow up to Present vs Perfect (Y9/KS4) lesson. This lesson is also available with these as a bundle. Objective: To work independently to find out when we use j’ai or je suis in the perfect tense. This lesson normally requires some printing. Though everything is also on the Powerpoint, not using the worksheet rather defeats the purpose of having an independent lesson. On the other hand, this would be well-suited to a cover lesson (even without the powerpoint) for a class that has been doing the perfect tense. The worksheet should be printed either double-sided, or just the first page. To put in their books, pupils should folder it in half and glue where indicated, so they can see the Être Hill on top. I also have a less advanced Perfect Tense lesson with Être lesson, which is more teacher led and may be suited better to a first introduction. The font Trebuchet MS is required to view this powerpoint and the worksheets correctly. This is usually pre-installed on Windows or with Office.

Ever teach the perfect tense and then find they have forgotten the present tense straight after? Find that your pupils are bogged down by all the details of the perfect tense? This is an ideal lesson to introduce or, even better, re-introduce the future tense with ‘ir’ because it focuses on just part of it and puts it directly in comparison with the present tense, so pupils can notice for themselves the differences between them. It gives the attention to meaning and pronunciation before dealing with form in a combined explicit and implicit approach. Lesson objective: Analyse spoken sentences to compare the present and the future in Spanish and form the future tense. I used this lesson with both a year 8 class and a year 9 class who had already seen the future tense before, but needed to be reintroduced. I’ve since tidied up the layout, added new images and added extra optional activities. The lesson also comes with an optional extended worksheet, which you could give to a whole class, just those pupils who won’t easily be able to get down or to any students who miss the lesson. Like all my lessons, it uses easily-recognisable icons to help support a Target Language environment. Instructions are given in TL, often with the English translation – I recommend deleting the translation for classes who don’t need it! The lesson also includes detailed slide-by-slide comments, with explanations and tips for delivery. There is a crossword to print for the starter activity, but if you prefer, you can sub this out for the alternative starter, which requires no printing. The recording for the listening activity is included in the powerpoint and as a separate file, but you can also listen to it here: https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/jaimepapier/50541/ NOTE: In the version for download, I have slowed down the recording slightly and added extra pauses. The font Trebuchet MS is required to view this powerpoint and the worksheets correctly. This is usually pre-installed on Windows or with Office.

Christmas is coming! I wasn’t quite satisfied with doing just one Spanish Christmas quiz, so I made two! You can use the BIG Xmas Quiz (25 questions) to take up a whole lesson and the Mini Xmas Quiz (12 questions) to round off the second half of a Christmas lesson. I know that sometimes buying resources feels like a gamble, so I’ve put these two together so that you can be sure to get the lesson you need. Both quizzes are highly interactive. The BIG Xmas Quiz allows students to choose the order they do questions (advent calendar style) so they can aim for the questions with more points, but it’s up to you whether those points are just for the choosing team or whether everyone can go in. Personally, I like giving the first team ten seconds to answer then open it up to everyone else. The BIG Xmas Quiz also includes music (links to Youtube, make sure you enable external content when prompted) and some GCSE linked tasks (translation, describing pictures, culture) slyly slipped in. The Mini Xmas Quiz also teaches both language and cultural elements in an engaging, but also branches out beyond just Christmas themed questions. The question types also vary, but all involve minimal writing (multiple choice, order sorting, matching up images to text). Both quizzes come in Target Language and English versions. As well as these Key Stage 3 versions, there are also KS4 versions available as a bundle. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!