Quiz to test students knowledge on the Spanish present tense for both regular and irregular verbs. Answers included.

Great game for practising different numbers 1-100 in the target language.

Learning each of the key sounds of the Spanish alphabet with activities.

A scaffolded worksheet with students being introduced to the present perfect tense and being able to meet new language, manipulate it and make language their own through a wide range of activites. Ejercicio 1: Empareja el español con el inglés. Ejercicio 2: Traduce al inglés. Ejercicio 3: Traduce al español. Ejercicio 4: Haz cinco frases utilizando los verbos en el pretérito perfecto (Make five sentences using the verbs in the present perfect).

Scaffolded worksheet on the sports with a focus on the differences between faire and jouer and the prepositions. jouer + au/à la/aux and faire + du/de la/de l’/des).

Level: B2/C1 A scaffolded worksheet divided into three parts: Part 1 - Common English Phrases and Sentence Patterns -Students are to make meaningful sentences using the sentence starters provided. Part 2 - Vocabulary -Match up the idioms with their definitions Part 3 - Direct and Indirect Speech -Explanations with examples of both direct and indirect speech -Wide range of activities to practise and consolidate.

Introductory Powerpoint to likes + dislikes of different sports. Also, there is a starter exercise on numbers 1-100 to recap and consolidate their knowledge.

A scaffolded reading-comprehension worksheet aimed at higher ability level GCSE students reinforcing the preterite tense in particular. These exercises aim for students to meet some new language in context of going on an exotic holiday to Colombia, manipulating the language through gap-fill exercises and reading comprehension in both languages as well as filling-in the gaps with the correct words. These are typical GCSE-style questions which will aid students to practise and reinforce what they currently know in the context of going on an exotic holiday to Colombia.

A bundle of wordsearches based on the topic vocabulary covered in Dynamo 1 and Dynamo 2 textbooks. Topics include: -Sports and Freetime Activites -Describing your Home Town or Region -Pets -Describing my family -Household Chores -The Weather -Likes and Dislikes

PPT with activities and worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet the new language, manipulate and make language their own. Do Now: Students are to translate 1-5 into English and 6-10 into Spanish to recap the vocabulary that they learned from last lesson (see my Beginners Spanish lesson “Los saludos”). Choral repetition: Students are to listen to the teacher’s pronunciation and repeat. Choral repetition games (ideas!): Splat, Beat the Teacher, pronunciation competition between the two sides, guess the correct image, translation dictation exercise where teacher calls out a word/phrase in English and students are to write the Spanish and vice versa. Fill-in the gaps with the correct letters. Match-up task: Students are to match the Spanish with the English equivalent. Dialogue: Teacher to model the dialogue with a student. Then, students are to create their own dialogue with their partner. Independent work: Part 1: Vocabulary - students are to find the words in the wordsearch, then they are to translate them. Part 2: Translation - (i) students are to reorder the sentences, then translate them into English. - (ii) students are to translate the sentences into Spanish. Plenary: Students are to close their books and have their arms crossed. They will have 10 seconds before the sentence disappears on screen. Once it has disappeared, they are to write each sentence down. Challenge: See if they can translate the words/phrases into English too in the time allocated.

Two-sided scaffolded worksheet on an introduction to finances. Students are given an insight into some of the different vocabulary realted to finances which they will come across and need to know for when they manage their own finances. Exercise 1: Match-up the key words with their definitions. Exercise 2: True or false? Challenge: Correct the false statements. Exercise 3: Define the key words Exercise 4: Read the passage and fill-in the gaps with the correct words. Exercise 5: Using the passage in exercise 4 to help you, answer the following questions in full sentences. Exercise 6: Design a short poster to encourage other people to save money. What can we do to help others to save money? You must use some of the key topic vocabulary from this lesson.

Powerpoint introducing some famous Chinese dishes and beverages. A variety of games can be played such as: 1.Splat 2.Beat the Teacher 3.Pronunciation competition. Then, there is a dialogue that I have created that students can practise and rehearse in pairs. There are two versions: one with the pinyin and the other with the characters for differentiation.

Introductory PPT on the World of Work to get students thinking about the skills employers value and their career aspirations.

PPT that explains and simplifies well what the near future tense is, why we use it and how to form it. A wide variety of well-scaffolded activities have been designed to aid students with using the structure: present tense of verb “ir” + a + infinitive. E.g. Esta tarde, voy a hacer mis deberes

Two-sided scaffolded worksheet testing learners’ knowledge of the present subjunctive.

Scaffolded worksheet that is split into different parts using the present simple: Part 1: Match the two halves (the Spanish with the English). Part 2: Translate the sentences into English using the vocabulary from part 1 to help them. Translate the sentences into Spanish using the previous exercises to help them. Part 3: Write 5 sentences saying what they are doing on their holidays.

PPT with a wide range of well-scaffolded activities for buying at the supermarket giving ample opportunity for students to meet new language, manipulate the language and make it their own. A scaffolded worksheet is also included and the answers are included in the PPT.

Powerpoint to work through on what the preterite tense is, the usage and conjugations with examples for each form clearly indicated and lots of practice embedded for students to conjugate each of the verbs correctly for the different pronouns. It’s broken down into very small stages which gives learners ample opportunity to meet the new language and practise it. A scaffolded worksheet gives students ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language using the summary document to help them to complete the worksheet as well as make language their own. Note: Sample answers are included as a separate document.

A scaffolded worksheet that fully explains the present subjunctive including the uses and how to form it with the conjugations. There are exercises to work through increasing in complexity to consolidate the student’s knowledge with ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language and make language their own. This worksheet is suitable for GCSE and A level students on both regular and irregular verbs. Answer sheet is also included.