Brief presentation of the concepts of 'noun' and 'gender', then the definite articles: el and la, then los and las (explaining about pluralisation). Practice activities requiring pupils to look nouns up in the dictionary. Plenary game of hangman to finish (provided students have already learnt the Spanish alphabet!), based on the words covered in the lesson. All images public domain from: https://www.pdclipart.org/

Worksheet to practise giving opinions on school subjects. (Images are public domain from https://www.pdclipart.org )

Worksheet practising the verb 'tener' (all persons) in the present tense. Pupils translate sentences. Uses family, pets and personal appearances vocabulary. (Images are public domain from https://www.pdclipart.org/ )

Some basic immigration-related vocabulary for AQA A-Level Spanish. A4 Vocabulary sheet with Spanish and English in a grid.

This is a sheet for use in a pair game of Battleships, practising the basic present tense (with avoir; regular verbs). Instructions on the sheet

Presentation of regular IR verb endings (present tense), with oral practice and practice activity. Plenary class game to finish: Two teams take turn to say a sentence, e.g. 'VivEN en Cuba'; the relevant box is clicked; if there is a cross underneath it, that team gets a point.

Made for a Year 12 to re-cap regular Present Tense verbs. Presentation and a couple of practice games of Morpion. Could be used in other year groups.

Worksheet practising opinions on teachers and school subjects Images public domain from https://www.pdclipart.org

Dialogue/roleplay worksheet for ordering food in a restaurant. KS3 / KS4 French.

Casa y ciudad. GCSE Spanish A trapdoor activity for talking about your house and a couple of sentence builders for giving opinions on your town. Useful for speaking activities / writing. Plus a slide on ‘se puede’ (in which place in town can you do the things described?) thrown in too.

A couple of sentence builders to help pupils give opinions on their homes. A trapdoor activity for talking about where you live. Pupils found these useful for writing and speaking on this topic.

Phrases (English and Spanish) about good/bad habits (e.g. smoking) and what you will do to be more healthy. Knowledge Organiser / Phrase list

Crossword to practise the Present Tense (AR, ER and IR verbs). Pupils enjoy this self-correcting activity which helps them learn the verb endings. The crossword appears twice on the page to save on your photocopying!

Comparing nouns, e.g. la vela es más divertida que el fútbol Includes cut-out task where pupils piece together the sentences (prompted by the corresponding Powerpoint slide)

Double-sided worksheet Parallel texts on “Me, my family and friends” (personal descriptions, relationships, marriage, etc) English text facing the Spanish. Some words in bold in both texts to aid students’ following of the texts I’ve tried to include a number of the trickier words from the AQA specification vocab list on this topic. Pupils use the translation to fill in gaps in both the English and the Spanish. On page 2 there are sentences to translate based on vocab from the texts, plus Spanish comprehension questions & some extension tasks.

Flowchart overview of the Perfect Tense. Good to consolidate this key grammar point. Designed for Yr 12 French but could be used for younger students.

Presentation of the perfect tense with être, with a fun battleships game at the end. This was designed for a Year 12 French class to re-cap the perfect tense, but could also be used at KS4 (or even KS3).

A worksheet (with accompanying teacher PPT) to help pupils understand how to produce a good 90 word / 150 word question answer (AQA spec) Side 1 of sheet has 90-word answer to analyse. Side 2 of sheet has 150-word answer to improve.

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPs. You could base a whole lesson around these resources (or set them for homework/revision). Contains: A slide with a ‘mosaic writing’ activity (credit to Gianfranco Conti for this idea): i.e. Pupils are given a short paragraph in English about family relationships and have to construct a Spanish translation from the words provided in the grid. A worksheet with various tasks designed to build up/practise key vocabulary to do with this topic. The idea is that the gap-fill task can be completed purely by using words drawn from the first text - in other words, pupils are identifying and recycling the relevant language. Likewise the Translation sentences at the bottom can be done using vocabulary from elsewhere on the worksheet. Ideas for further exploiting the worksheet You can exploit the texts on the worksheet in other ways. E.g. spot the adjectives. Re-write one of the texts changing the underlined parts (teacher could project the texts onto board with some phrases underlined) to say something else, verbally or in writing e.g. alternative adjectives, different verbs, different family member words. Plenary with mini-whiteboard sentences to translate based purely on words and phrases from the text (or incorporating prior knowledge too for stronger classes). Reading texts aloud for pronunciation practice. Translate the first text. etc etc.

Slides introducing numbers 1-31. Practice activity (a few sums). Visual prompts to practice saying people's ages (up to age 31). Presentation of months of the year. Exercise where pupils must write the birthday in Spanish. Two speaking activities (incl. class survey). (Images are public domain from https://www.pdclipart.org )