Worksheet meeting the verb, manipulating the language through a wide-range of exercises such as a gap-fill and translating the sentences into English; and making it own by writing some sentences using the verb “pouvoir”.
A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of “weather” in the cultural context of towns and cities in France. There is ample opportunity for students to meet new Language, manipulate the language and make it their own.
Exercises include:
1.Mets les noms de ces villes (Can you put the names of these French cities and towns in the correct place on the map?
2.Vrai ou faux? (true or false?)
Corrige les phrases fausses (correct the false sentences).
3.Traduis les phrases en anglais (translate the sentences into English).
4.Ecris quatre phrases. (Write four sentences about the weather in Tibshelf describing what the weather is like in different seasons).
Tip: Use the vocabulary from today’s lesson to help you!
A scaffolded worksheet on the grammar of “reflexive” verbs with ample opportunity for students to manipulate the language and apply their understanding of reflexive pronouns and verbs in French.
Exercises include:
1: Remplis le tableau pour le verbe réfléchi “se laver” (Fill-in the grid for the reflexive verb “se laver”).
2: Corrige les erreurs (correct the errors).
3: Traduis les phrases en anglais (translate the sentences into English).
4: Traduis les phrases en français (translate the sentences into French).
Extension: Ecris cinq phrases en utilisant les verbes réfléchis les plus courants. (Write 5 sentences using the most common reflexive verbs).
Students are given a grid with three tenses: present simple, perfect and near future tenses. They are given some short cut-out phrases and in pairs, they are to sort them into the right categories.
This activity is to revise their tenses and ensure they are able to recognize the differences between the present simple, perfect and the near future.
Learners are given some short phrases that can be printed off and cut-out into strips. They are to work in pairs to sort the short phrases and place them under the right categories. Then, once they are done, they could have a go at translating them from French into English. The aim is to see whether they can recognize and understand how to use the simple present and near future tenses.
Powerpoint to work through on what the preterite tense is, the usage and conjugations with examples for each form clearly indicated and lots of practice embedded for students to conjugate each of the verbs correctly for the different pronouns. It’s broken down into very small stages which gives learners ample opportunity to meet the new language and practise it.
A scaffolded worksheet gives students ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language using the summary document to help them to complete the worksheet as well as make language their own.
Note: Sample answers are included as a separate document.
A double-sided scaffolded worksheet on the topic of directions and reinforcing the **grammar topic of imperatives **with ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language and make language their own.
Exercise 1 - Vocabulary (matching-up the French with the English)
Exercise 2 - Les impératifs completing the table.
Exercise 3 - Translating into English.
Exercise 4 - Translating into French
Challenge: Creating their own sentences using the vocabulary from the worksheet.
A scaffolded worksheet that fully explains the present subjunctive including the uses and how to form it with the conjugations. There are exercises to work through increasing in complexity to consolidate the student’s knowledge with ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language and make language their own.
This worksheet is suitable for GCSE and A level students on both regular and irregular verbs.
Answer sheet is also included.
A scaffolded worksheet on demonstrative adjectives based on the topic of buying souvenirs with opportunities to meet, manipulate and make language their own.
A scaffolded worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet, manipulate and make language their own.
Exercises include:
A) Complete the table with the correct conjugation of the verb ‘faire’.
B) Irregular verb: faire (‘to do’)
(i) Fill-in the gaps.
(ii) Translate the sentences into English.
C) du/de la/ de l’ / des
(i) Fill-in the gaps with the correct partitive article.
(ii) Translate the sentences into English.
D) Write 5 sentences using the verb ‘faire’.
A scaffolded reading-comprehension worksheet aimed at higher ability level GCSE students reinforcing the preterite tense in particular. These exercises aim for students to meet some new language in context of going on an exotic holiday to Colombia, manipulating the language through gap-fill exercises and reading comprehension in both languages as well as filling-in the gaps with the correct words.
These are typical GCSE-style questions which will aid students to practise and reinforce what they currently know in the context of going on an exotic holiday to Colombia.
Both versions are available in Simplified and **Traditional **Chinese. Two separate PPTs are attached.
PPT on the topic of food and drink with activities/games for students to learn some different food and drink items (four of each) in Mandarin Chinese.
By the end of the session, will be able to express what they would like to eat and drink in Chinese.
Lots of choral repetition with the Chinese characters and pinyin.
Games include:
-What’s missing? - The students will see one of the images disappear and need to identify the missing one.
-The Flyswatter: Two students will come up to the front, the teacher or other students will shout out one of the words (e.g. 咖啡)and students need to the identify the image. The student who taps the board the quickest, will win the point.
Learning different colours in Spanish. Students are to know how to spell the colours and recall them correctly.
As a challenge, they can create their own sentences using the colours paying attention to the word order (e.g. un gato negro).
Introduction to French PPT with worksheet included (see attached)
-Learning the alphabet
-Knowing some French greetings
-Introducing themselves
-Learning the days of the week
-Learning the months of the year
Revising the GCSE topic of towns with the intercultural context of the city of Valencia.
PPT with a wide range of activities and a worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet the new language, manipulate and make language their own.
Do Now:
True or false activity. Students are to decide if each of the facts are true or false. As a challenge, can some correct the false sentences?
Choral repetition:
Students are to listen to the teacher’s pronunciation and repeat.
Choral repetition games (ideas): Splat; Beat the Teacher; Guess the correct image; have a pronunciation competition on both sides.
Students are to fill-in the gaps with the correct letters.
Video task: Students are to watch the video about the Top 10 attractions in Valencia and they are to answer the questions in English.
Match-up task: Students are to match the two halves.
Independent work:
Part 1 Vocabulary: Students are to match the photos with the words. Then, they are to write the English equivalent in the second box.
Part 2 Reading Comprehension: Students are to read the text and answer the questions in English.
Part 3 Writing: Students are to write a paragraph about their holiday in Valencia using the text from part 2 to help them. They must include adjectives, connectives, opinions and vocabulary from this lesson.
Self Assessment: Students are to write one WWW and one NS to self-assess their writing.
Plenary: Quiz!
PPT with activities and worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet the new language, manipulate and make language their own.
Do Now:
Students are to translate 1-5 into English and 6-10 into Spanish to recap the vocabulary that they learned from last lesson (see my Beginners Spanish lesson “Los saludos”).
Choral repetition:
Students are to listen to the teacher’s pronunciation and repeat.
Choral repetition games (ideas!): Splat, Beat the Teacher, pronunciation competition between the two sides, guess the correct image, translation dictation exercise where teacher calls out a word/phrase in English and students are to write the Spanish and vice versa.
Fill-in the gaps with the correct letters.
Match-up task: Students are to match the Spanish with the English equivalent.
Dialogue:
Teacher to model the dialogue with a student. Then, students are to create their own dialogue with their partner.
Independent work:
Part 1: Vocabulary - students are to find the words in the wordsearch, then they are to translate them.
Part 2: Translation - (i) students are to reorder the sentences, then translate them into English.
- (ii) students are to translate the sentences into Spanish.
Plenary: Students are to close their books and have their arms crossed. They will have 10 seconds before the sentence disappears on screen. Once it has disappeared, they are to write each sentence down.
Challenge: See if they can translate the words/phrases into English too in the time allocated.