Studying a language opens windows into other cultures and different ways of viewing the world. It also enhances intercultural understanding. Through many years of teaching MFL (French and Spanish), I have carefully designed and structured each sequence of lessons, to have maximum impact on our students in the classroom. Each lesson builds on the last, moving from receptive to productive language. All resources are complete lessons, fully animated, with answers.
Studying a language opens windows into other cultures and different ways of viewing the world. It also enhances intercultural understanding. Through many years of teaching MFL (French and Spanish), I have carefully designed and structured each sequence of lessons, to have maximum impact on our students in the classroom. Each lesson builds on the last, moving from receptive to productive language. All resources are complete lessons, fully animated, with answers.
A lesson pitched at Key Stage 3 teaching the basics of Hindu wedding rituals and traditions, as well as a workbook complete with reading comprehensions. Thanks to other contributors for the pictures and the texts that were used to create the comprehension activities. I found that it worked well with an able Year 8 group.
Enjoy guys!
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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.
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How can I be a good citizen in school? Key Stage 3 Citizenship lesson with workbook.
This lesson encourages students to think about why we have rules, the values we are trying to outwardly show through them, and finishes with a discussion about the Sustainable Development Goals (2017) and the rules that might be needed to help them to happen.
This lesson also includes a video task and comprehension activity, as well as plenty of pair and whole-class discussion tasks.
It worked well with Year 7, but would be great for Year 8 or 9.
Hope this helps.
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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
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
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!
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 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
This is a Higher GCSE Spanish resource consisting of 3, 1 hour, lessons, using a sentence builder. It aims to enable students to talk about films they have watched, using relevant vocabulary to talk about films, such as special effects and soundtrack. It teaches students how to use the perfect tense in contrast to the imperfect tense to describe films, helping students to use a combination of tenses correctly, in order to access the top bands at GCSE for range of language.
It includes a grammar explanation of the perfect tense, as well as how to form and answer questions in the perfect tense.
My students found it rewarding. Hope it helps guys.
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A full lesson on the topic of the Sikh virtues, including a detailed reading text with comprehension questions and lesson slides with discussion tasks, explanations and explanations.
Sikh Virtues Sat (Truth), Santokh (Contentment), Daya (Compassion), Nimrata (Humility) and Pyare (Love).:
truth and truthful living.
compassion and patience.
contentment.
humility and self-control.
love.
wisdom and courage.
This lesson worked well with Year 9, and would also be great for Key Stage 3 (Year 7 and Year 8 too).
This lesson is about a sect and temple in Thailand called Wat Phra Dhammakaya which has been in the media due to its modern take on Buddhism.
Wat Phra Dhammakaya has attracted a lot of attention for its modern methods of spreading Buddhist teachings, which go against traditional teachings of Buddhism. They raise money through marketing campaigns, subscriptions to their Sangha, and use it to give to good causes, even though financial gain is considered to be unethical for Buddhist communities or Sanghas which should exist only to teach about the message of the Buddha. It is also considered unethical for monks to handle money. It caused particular controversy when money they received once was found to be from the proceeds of a money laundering scheme. They have also created a searchable CD of the Pali cannon, the Buddhist scripture, which goes against the Buddhist view that using modern technology for holy means is wrong. They also offer distance learning, and a more secular approach to teaching about Buddhism. You can only access the community if you pay a subscription fee, which, although very small, goes against the teachings of the Buddha. With a huge number of followers, Wat Phra has at times caused the military government to feel threatened, resulting in the attempted arrest of the Abbott, and to Buddhist monks preventing the police from entering the temple, in a non-violent stand off. The aim of this lesson is to give students the opportunity to reflect on how the teachings of the Buddha are being interpreted in modern society, and to learn about the changing attitudes towards spiritual life in cultures beyond our own western ones.
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 foundation 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
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!
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 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 foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, Unit 4, (M8U4) Solutions to 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
