Quieres ir al… Invitations and Excuses KS3 Spanish 5 Lessons with Sentence Builder. This is a sequence of five (approx 1 hour) lessons using one sentence builder pitched at KS3 Spanish students. The sentence builder teaches students to answer the question: Quieres ir al… + place in town? And to answer with an excuse e.g. ¡Ni hablar! , ¡Ni en sueños! etc. It was particularly effective with Year 8. This resource consists of five complete lessons, fully animated, with answers. The content is designed to flood students with new language from the sentence builder (included with this pack), starting with receptive exposure to the phrases, and finishing with productive writing and speaking skills. Finally, there is an independent quiz, which can be peer marked, so that teachers can collect data on how successful the sequence has been. All of the tasks have been tried and tested over the last few years following the Conti method - a communicative language teaching approach developed by Gianfranco Conti: ‘extensive processing instruction’ (EPI) is based on the idea that language teachers should ‘teach less, not more’ by providing their students with a set of language ‘chunks’, drilling these, and finally pushing students to reproduce them. Given its emphasis on reducing cognitive overload, this method is likely to succeed in allowing students to feel like competent learners. I have spent the last two years adapting and tweaking my use of sentence builders so they are so they work best for our students. For more resources check out my store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/piensomas Always happy to receive feedback about my resources. Feel free to get in contact.

Two lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Unit 1 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers. There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more. All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching. The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly. There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar. I hope this saves you some planning time!

This is a booklet for use with GCSE Year 10 and 11 Spanish containing vocabulary organised into sentence builders. There are more than 40 sentence builders in this pack. Each sentence builder is designed to follow the modules in the Viva AQA textbook. There is a sentence builder for every module in the textbook. This booklet could be printed for students to use as support in class, and for revision. It has a section explaining how to use the sentence builders to revise. Sentence builders are based on the research of Dr Conti, and are particularly effective when combined with his teaching methodology.

This is a higher resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, Unit 3, (M8U3) Cuál es el mayor problema - Global Problems. 3 lessons, using a sentence builder, following the Conti method. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language, to describe the biggest global issues, practising the superlative, and key language about global issues and environmenytal issues. There are printable worksheets and helpsheets within the PowerPoint, and all activities have fully animated answers for quick feedback. The three one hour lesson sequence aims to take students from receptive to active language processing. Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X

AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 3 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M3. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders: Module 3: Mi Gente/My People U3.1 Describing family members p16 U3.2 Describing positive and negative relationships p17 U3.3 Saying what you use social media for p18 U3.4 Talking about reading preferences p19 U3.5 Picture-based: describing a photo p20 Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class. Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.

Over 100 slides of tried and tested differentiated MFL sentence builder activity ideas for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, as well as GCSE information slides, exam technique slides, grammar explanations for things such as Spanish Boot Verbs (Stem-changing verbs). These activities are based on the amazing work of Dr Conti and his sentence builders. For more resources, visit my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/piensomas Take care guys x

¡Está Prohibido! Las Normas en el Insti AQA GCSE Foundation Module 2 Unit 3 with Sentence Builder. This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 2, Unit 3, ¡Está Prohibido! Las Normas en el Insti. This resource consists of three complete lessons, fully animated, with answers, perfect for teaching Foundation GCSE groups. All of the vocabulary, as well as some of the activities, are based on the AQA GCSE Viva textbook, which is tailored to the vocabulary lists for the AQA GCSE exam. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language to describe school rules and by the end of the third, to give and understand opinions of school rules. There are a variety of bespoke activities, as well as some textbook ones. The content is designed to flood students with new language from a sentence builder (included in this pack), starting with receptive exposure to the phrases, and finishing with productive writing and speaking skills. All of the tasks have been tried and tested over the last few years following the Conti method - a communicative language teaching approach developed by Gianfranco Conti: ‘extensive processing instruction’ (EPI) is based on the idea that language teachers should ‘teach less, not more’ by providing their students with a set of language ‘chunks’, drilling these, and finally pushing students to reproduce them. Given its emphasis on reducing cognitive overload, this method is likely to succeed in allowing students to feel like competent learners. I have more KS3 and KS4 resources in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/piensomas Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X

AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 1 Sentence Builders for use in class covering lessons from Module 1. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each module in the unit. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders: Module 1: Las Vacaciones/Holidays M1.1 Saying what you normally do in the summer p5 M1.2 Saying how you prefer to spend the holidays p6 M1.3 Saying where you went and what you did p7 M1.4 Describing future holiday plans p8 M1.5 Making hotel reservations p9 Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class. Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.

This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 1, Unit 3, Destino Barcelona. 3 lessons, using a sentence builder, following the Conti method. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language, using the preterite to describe a plast holiday, and imperfect tense to describe the accommodation e.g. hotel. The last activity is a printable vocabulary builder worksheet. The imperfect tense is only needed as a vocabulary item for foundation, so the imperfect tense is not taught explicitly here. The three one hour lesson sequence aims to take students from receptive to active language processing. Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X

Edexcel GCSE French 2026 New Textbook Module 1 Tu as du temps à perdre? Sentence Builders formatted so that they fit on one page of A4 for easier reference and printing as a booklet for use in class.

AQA Viva GCSE Module 8 Revision. 3 lessons with Speaking and Reading Focus.

A lesson on organised sport from the AQA GCSE Viva textbook. It includes a vocabulary list, and plenty of activities to get to grips with the vocabulary to tackle the topic. My students found it engaging. Hope this helps x

AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 8 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M8. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module. Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class. Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.

This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, Unit 3, (M8U3) Cuál es el mayor problema - Global Problems. 3 lessons, using a sentence builder, following the Conti method. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language, to describe the biggest global issues, practising the superlative, and key language about global issues and environmenytal issues. There are printable worksheets and helpsheets within the PowerPoint, and all activities have fully animated answers for quick feedback. The three one hour lesson sequence aims to take students from receptive to active language processing. Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X

Lots of explanation on how the GCSE speaking exam works for AQA GCSE, as well as plenty of supportive practice activities. Hope it helps guys.

This resource consists of three complete lessons, fully animated, with answers, perfect for teaching Foundation GCSE groups. All of the vocabulary, as well as some of the activities, are based on the AQA GCSE Viva textbook, which is tailored to the vocabulary lists for the AQA GCSE exam. The content is designed to flood students with new language from a sentence builder (included in this pack), starting with receptive exposure to the phrases, and finishing with productive writing and speaking skills. All of the tasks have been tried and tested over the last few years following the Conti method - a communicative language teaching approach developed by Gianfranco Conti: ‘extensive processing instruction’ (EPI) is based on the idea that language teachers should ‘teach less, not more’ by providing their students with a set of language ‘chunks’, drilling these, and finally pushing students to reproduce them. Given its emphasis on reducing cognitive overload, this method is likely to succeed in allowing students to feel like competent learners.

This is a higher resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, PDP 1, (M8 PDP1) ¿Cómo es tu casa? Describing your house, floors, prepositions of position. 3 lessons, using a sentence builder, following the Conti method. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language, to describe the biggest global issues, practising the superlative, and key language about global issues and environmenytal issues. There are printable worksheets and helpsheets within the PowerPoint, and all activities have fully animated answers for quick feedback. The three one hour lesson sequence aims to take students from receptive to active language processing. Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X

This is a sequence of five (approx 1 hour) lessons using one sentence builder pitched at KS3 Spanish students. The sentence builder teaches students to answer the question: where do you go in your free time? It was particularly effective with Year 8. The sequence uses the Conti method, and the activities have been designed following a training day run by Mr Conti himself. Activities include Faulty Echo, Delayed Dictation, Vocabulary Builders and more. This sequence of lessons finishes with an independent quiz testing all of the vocabulary covered in the sentence builder. This resource consists of five complete lessons, fully animated, with answers. The content is designed to flood students with new language from the sentence builder (included with this pack), starting with receptive exposure to the phrases, and finishing with productive writing and speaking skills. Finally, there is an independent quiz, which can be peer marked, so that teachers can collect data on how successful the sequence has been. All of the tasks have been tried and tested over the last few years following the Conti method - a communicative language teaching approach developed by Gianfranco Conti: ‘extensive processing instruction’ (EPI) is based on the idea that language teachers should ‘teach less, not more’ by providing their students with a set of language ‘chunks’, drilling these, and finally pushing students to reproduce them. Given its emphasis on reducing cognitive overload, this method is likely to succeed in allowing students to feel like competent learners. I have spent the last two years adapting and tweaking my use of sentence builders so they are so they work best for our students. For more resources check out my store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/piensomas

Twelve lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers. There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more. All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching. The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly. There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar. I hope this saves you some planning time!