A multi skill set of activities based on the video ‘A quoi ça sert, l’école ?’ from the YouTube channel 1 jour 1 question - vocab activities, gap-fill, reordering, translation and sentence unjumbling. Answers included. Suitable for Year 11 or a good Year 10 group in my opinion.

For a lesson on physical descriptions, either use for LISTENING: pupils have scrap paper and pen or a mini whiteboard. You give a short or long sentence in Spanish describing one of the people 1-6 on the images. You can therefore adapt the language to your group. Pupils then write down the number of the person it could be - you could even do a sentence that could describe 2 or 3 of the people to make it harder. To make this activity a bit easier, you could go through each photo from 1-6, and for each one give 2 short phrases, one that is true, one false, and pupils write the correct one. SPEAKING: assuming pupils have had plenty of practise with the vocab, get them to give a short or long sentence describing each person.

Short activity that can be used as a starter before introducing how to describe someone in the imperfect tense (for teaching these imperfect words as vocab rather than grammar - early stages)

A set of different activities on irregular adjectives to be projected on the board and for pupils to complete orally with partner

A parallel text gap-fill in French to learn the vocab for different members of the family / Décrire la famille / les membres de la famille. Answers included.

Imparfait ou passé composé practice - a worksheet of exercises that can be completed orally or in writing

Worksheet to practise Spanish verbs in preterite and imperfect using the Toy Story song Cambios extraños ‘strange things’ - if pupils have already had plenty of receptive practice with these tenses, you could do this as a conjugation practice exercise - pupils complete the conjugations and then listen to the song and check their answers. Or, you could use this during the receptive processing stage of practice - by this point, they are familiar with the endings and this provides an opportunity to practise them through listening, they listen, and using their knowledge of endings and phonics, write what they hear. You could also ask them a few comprehension questions on the song or get them to find specific vocab or phrases, based on their level. Song available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLInAm_u_k

A good starter or plenary activity to recap learning on physical descriptions.

A short activity where students must read the boxes and put the phrase under the correct column - you can project this onto the board, tell students to read each phrase aloud in pairs and decide which column it goes in.

A lesson with differentiated activities to accompany the French version of the Justin Bieber song ‘sorry’, covered by ‘Sara’h’, a French YouTuber. Activities include multiple-choice listening, gap-fills, rearranging the sentences in the correct order, translation / vocab-finding and matching. If you’re looking for something a bit more challenging, here is a KS4 lesson based on the same song https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/d-sol-e-justin-bieber-french-version-ks4-lesson-12284463

A worksheet with a sequence of activities to introduce and practise talking about pets and colours for beginners’ Spanish. Activities include a matching exercise, a vocab table to fill out, a listening gap-fill and a ‘bad translation’ exercise.

A few interactive activities to introduce some basic phrases for describing pets in Spanish.

A visual handout to demonstrate time phrases used in French - a good scaffold for help in translations.

Worksheet to practise noticing adjective agreement and verb conjugation when describing people.

A sentence builder to learn to describe lo mejor y lo peor about your school in Spanish. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

An easy French listening comprehension exercise for talking about weekend activities and giving basic positive and negative opinions and justifications. Audio included.

Two activities: Worksheet with images of celebrities - you could either project this onto the board and get rid of the boxes, and read short descriptions for pupils to match to the correct photos, or read out short phrases for each celebrity, some true, some false, and pupils note which are true. OR do it as reading comprehension - print the sheet and pupils go through and read, selecting correct options for each person. Sentence unjumble sheet to practise word order and spelling for descriptions topic. Answers included.

A listening and reading comprehension in French to give students a very basic introduction to the French revolution based on a French YouTube video. Aimed at Year 11 roughly (the video is hard but there is plenty of scaffolding in the exercises) Activities include vocab building gap-fill, gapped translation, listening gap-fill, true or false statements, and comprehension with reordering of information. Answers included.

A simple list of some key irregular past participles for KS3 / KS4 French

Worksheet to practise writing the time in Spanish using the 1 pen 1 dice game format Here is a link on how you can play the 1 pen 1 dice game https://frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2017/12/one-dice-one-pencil.html