Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
100 pages of Spanish grammar from the very basics to advanced grammar structures. This was created for the English GCSE exams, however it can be very useful for tutoring, private classes and self-teaching.
It is a PDF but feel free to use a pdf converter to turn it into a PowerPoint or Word document.
It includes:
pronounciation, accents, alphabet
numbers up to 100
numbers after 100
months and days of the week
question words
how to tell the date
gender of nouns
plural of nouns (with an exercise)
definite and indefinite articles
subject pronouns
present tense of regular verbs (with an exercise)
present tense of irregular verbs (TENER, SER, ESTAR, IR, HACER, DAR, SABER, SALIR)
when to use SER and ESTAR (with an exercise)
question form and negative form
conjuctions/link words
possessive adjectives
DE + noun to indicate possession (with an exercise)
adjectives and adjectival agreement
intensifiers and quantifiers
LO + adjective
HAY constructions
relative pronouns
relative adjectives (with an exercise)
direct object pronouns
indirect object pronouns
present continuos tense and gerundio (with an exercise)
when to use POR and PARA
reflexive verbs (with an exercise)
telling the time
how to use GUSTAR (with an exercise)
how to use SOLER
stem changing verbs
double negation
adverbs and how to make adverbs using ‘’-mente’’ or ‘‘con + noun’’
adverbs or adjectives?
disjunctive pronouns
TENER QUE + infinitive
HAY QUE + infinitive
verb DEBER
imperative tense (with an exercise)
negative commands
comparisons and superlatives
impersonal verbs
how to talk about the weather
prepositions
demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
immediate future (IR A + infinitive)
future tense
ordinal numbers
perfect tense (HABER + past participle)
past participles
simple past tense (PRETERITO)
imperfect tense
HACE, DESDE HACE, DESDE HACIA
imperfect continous tense (ESTAR + gerundio)
subjunctive mood (SUBJUNTIVO)
OJALA and ‘‘subjuntivo + que’’ used for wishes (with an exercise)
imperfect subjunctive (SUBJUNTIVO IMPERFECTO)
conditional tense
SI + subjuntivo imperfecto + condicional (with an exercise)
pluperfect tense (SUBJUNTIVO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO)
active and passive voice
First lesson of a series of 4 lessons on passé composé.
This lesson focuses on the grammar explanation of the passé composé with auxiliary avoir.
The grammar explanation is broken down and scaffolded to allow for easy&efficient assimilation and retainment.
Activities include a mini-whiteboard activity (online or with real mini-whiteboards) and a translation task.
The final lesson of passé composé includes a recap of passé composé with auxiliary ‘avoir’ and a full explanation of passé composé with auxiliary ‘etre’, with the SAP construction rule and the Mrs Vandertramp (verbs of movement or state of being) list.
Activities include:
a word snake game to use a starter, to settle the class and get them thinking
a mini whiteboard task with challenges for higher achievers
an unjumble the sentences task
a final quiz to test the pupils’ understanding of passé composé
A full lesson on food vocabulary and partitive articles.
The lesson begins with a slide containing lots of food pictures - students should be asked which words they already know. Then lots of food vocabulary is presented with three mini match-up tasks and one final memory game to allow pupils to work on pronunciation and retainment. The lesson then moves on to a grammar presentation on partitive articles, with a fill the gap exercise. The last task is a fun bingo game to check for vocabulary retainment.
A full lesson on activities and suggestions using the contruction ‘‘on pourrait…’’ . The lesson includes a starter activity (word snakes), presentation of vocabulary and of ‘‘on pourrait’’ construction, a match-up activity to consolidate learning, and finally a writing task with lots of scaffolding.
This resource includes a quick and simple presentation of Thomas George’s life, ideal for SEND and young children to practice independent reading. It also includes a mini quiz to check understanding and retainment, and some examples of his artwork. Children can then have a go at their own Thomas George inspired artwork with carchoals!
A lesson based around Dia de Muertos and other traditional festivals of the Spanish speaking world.
It includes a fun and captivating video on Dia de Muertos, a listening+reading task based on it, and a super engaging running dictation again based on Dia de Muertos!
My class loved this running dictation and even the challenging pupils took part and tried their best. For the running dictation text, open the Word document, print it as many times as needed, and display it around the classroom allowing for enough space so the pupils need to get up and walk towards it to read it - it won’t work well if they can read it from their desks.
Other slides include another listening+reading task about curious Spanish festivals - this task is a good revision for the present tense (focusing on ‘nosotros’ y ‘ellos/as’.
The lesson begins with a recall competitive activity to recap the previous lesson’s content.
It follows with a recap of the negative form and an explanation on how to use the negative form with ‘‘il y a’’.
Next are some knowledge consolidating exercises: reorder the words, make the sentences negative, slap the board with a twist (explanation in slide’s notes).
A few slides that can be added to a lesson on music instruments with an explanation of how to use ‘‘prefiero a’’. Activities include a fill the gap task, a text translation task, a well scaffolded speaking task, and a quiz.
A full lesson on films, mejor/peor, and discussing whether it’s better to watch films at home (peli y manta) or go to the cinema.
The lesson begins with an odd-one-out settling task, where pupils have to identify words that they might already know, or use a dictionary, and choose the one that doesn’t belong in the group.
Once the pupils are settled and concentrated, the lesson moves on to a vocabulary presentation on film genres, with breaking-up tasks to help the pupils memorise these new words.
Following is a match-up task on adjectives that are commonly used to talk about films. Again, the pupils can use a dictionary if needed or try to work out the translations independently or in pairs.
The pupils can then complete a reading and matching-up task, where they will encounter even more adjectives and have to find the correct translation.
Following this, there is a brief grammar presentation of mejor/peor, lo mejor/lo peor, and an unjumble the sentences (with a challenge) exercise so the pupils can apply their new knowledge.
Finally, there is a cultural tip slide on the concept of peli y manta, and a slide to allow for a class discussion of peli y manta VS cinema.
A full lesson based around holidays, with a clear and complete recap of how to form the pretérito of regular verbs + a list of irregular verbs.
The activities include:
-a starter settling task where pupils sort out which activities can be done in different holiday destinations
-conjugations of regular and irregular verbs
-a translation match-up task
-a fill the gap task that also serves as a model for the speaking activity
-a well scaffolded speaking activity with a printable model/scaffold sheet
A full lesson that includes a revision of food vocabulary (including a slide on Hispanic/Latino traditional food) and an intro to quantities.
Activities include a slap the board/beat the teacher slide, a match-up task to get the pupils thinking of which quantities they recognise in Spanish, a reading task, and two well scaffolded speaking and writing tasks.
A full lesson based around foods introducing the passive form.
The lesson includes a recap slide to get the pupils thinking about food vocabulary and quantities while the class settles.
It continues with a fun video on traditional Spanish food; the students have to answer 3 questions based on the video.
Following is a slide on tips for tackling reading tasks, and a reading tasks that the pupils will work on independently on in pairs. This text includes the passive form which is then clearly explained in the next slides, including a recap of the present tense of ser and how to form past participles.
Now that the pupils should be able to recognise the passive form, they are asked to do so with the previous reading task’s text. Following this, they will tackle some Spanish to English translations (and an English to Spanish one for higher achievers) to put their skills to the test.
The finally activity is a speaking/writing task to get the pupils talking about their favourite food without mentioning the name; the classmates will have to guess which food it is.
This lesson is made for primary and SEN pupils.
It includes aspect of literacy, geography and general knowledge.
The lesson is composed of discussion slides (what do you know about Asia? have you been to any countries in Asia? if not, where would you like to visit? etc.); of presentation slides with basic facts and fun facts about the continent of Asia and the countries of Russia, China, and India; a quiz to test pupil retainment and knowledge (with support that includes a small literacy challenge); and finally a slide with a Bollywood dancing video.
A full lesson on the topic of ‘‘medio ambiente’’.
The lesson begins with a match-up that includes expressions and vocabulary related to the environment.
It continues with a grammar explanation of ‘‘mucho, un poco, poco’’ with practice for the pupils. It then also explains ‘‘lo que menos’’ and ‘‘lo que mas’’.
The final activities are a reading task and a fun battleship game to prepare students for the final English to Spanish translation task.
The plenary is a short quiz to check student understanding and retainment.
This is a short lesson to present French and try and engage pupils. It contains a few slides on words that pupils already know because the English language has borrowed them from French. It ends with a drawing/poster activity. This lesson is ideal for primary/elementary students and for Y7. Also ideal for SEND.
A lesson focussed on using connectives when talking about your town.
The lesson begins with a fill the gap task and an unjumble the sentences task to recap vocabulary related to shops and talking about your town.
Following is an activity that gets pupils thinking about words they don’t know in pairs and getting them to find the general context of different texts.
After this, the pupils can take notes of a few link words that they can use in the next activities. These activities include a match-up (which is a good model for the next task), a reading task (which is again a good model for the next task) and a writing task.
A fun and engaging lesson presenting Spanish Easter vocabulary and traditions. It includes two links to Youtube videos which are going to draw the pupils’ attention in and show them Spanish culture.
The lesson also includes a quiz and a plenary/game (hangman) to test the pupils’ memory and knowledge.