The Big Languages Christmas Quiz - A brand-new, high-quality Christmas quiz packed with five festive, curriculum-rich rounds designed to engage every class. All questions and answers are written in English. Includes a round on the meaning of Christmas words, global festive traditions, international Christmas food, seasonal idioms, and unique world-language features. Fully editable, and perfect for end-of-term lessons, cover, or whole-school activities. Fun, challenging and engaging! A great way to build cultural capital. No printing needed. Ideal for Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 5.
SCIENCE AND HUMAN MIGRATION
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson (Year 7 to Year 10) that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what is culture
6 x A3 printout information hunt detailing Pakistani, Bengali, British, Eastern European (with Poland), Nigerian and Indian cultures. This links culture to astronomy, traditional medicine, blood types and Japanese personality types and human migration.
Content & Presentation – Astronomy, human migration, blood types
Independent Practice: Questions include:
Timeline of human migration from East Africa
Keyword table from different cultures
How astronomy links to agriculture
Tickbox exercise for blood types
what traditional medicines are used to treat illness.
Markscheme included
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided in landscape - unblurred when bought
Complete No-Prep lesson with exam style questions, tasks and answers on Culturing Microorganisms / Bacteria and RP2 for AQA GCSE (9-1) Biology.
This lesson is for GCSE Biology only and covers all of AQA GCSE Biology exam spec point 4.1.1.6 and Required Practical 2.
As a Secondary Science teacher, Deputy Headteacher, writer and examiner for many years I make high quality no-prep lessons so busy teachers can teach outstanding lessons without spending hours planning. This high quality lesson includes explanations, different types of in-lesson assessment (all with answers) and unique exam-style questions.
My lessons are designed to take learners on a journey that builds up their understanding step by step, while still going into a lot of depth. The preview video shows a representative sample of slides from the resource so that you get a good idea of what it includes before you buy.
What’s Included:
• Teaching notes
• Starter / Do Now Activity
• Explanation slides in “chunked” sections with animated diagrams.
• Worked examples of calculations / questions.
• Multiple questions in different question styles and difficulties - no need for worksheets. Each “chunked” explanation section typically includes a set of “learning check / quick questions” followed by a set of in-depth questions on the learning from that “chunk” of the lesson. All questions have answers.
• Exam-style questions on the whole lesson at the end of the lesson- these are unique, based on real exam questions but not just copied from exam boards.
• Answers for all questions
• All easily editable to adapt to your teaching or to use in existing lessons.
• Slightly humorous, at points, if you like that sort of thing.
The lesson was written for AQA GCSE Science / Biology but is very likely to be applicable to other exam specifications.
Please leave a rating / review and all other feedback gratefully received!
This GCSE Art Project aims to develop and enhance the range of skills that students have been taught at KS3, enabling them to master and improve in a way that was engaging yet simple to achieve. There are some ‘essential’ art skills taught in this project, including: grid drawing, pencil drawing, pen drawing, acrylic painting, watercolor painting, poly printing and different types of research / art analysis / presentation skills.
The theme is Pop Culture, allowing students a wide range of references to work from.
The presentation includes lesson entry tasks / plenaries and exit tasks, examples of student work, homework tasks throughout.
There are printable resources on slides 1-12 with the Pop Culture images I used in lessons. There is an artist research information slide that can also be printed (slide 43)
There are 124 slides in total.
In this digital product:
You will find everything you need to teach Topic 6: Celebrity Culture (third topic of Theme 2 of the new GCSE course (with AQA): Popular Culture)
The Presentation (approx. 145 slides including answer slides) covers the whole topic and is composed of 4 parts:
A: My favourite celebrities
B: Becoming famous
C: Life as a celebrity
D: Celebrities’ actions and influences
There are 4 folders (A, B, C and D) containing the relevant files for that part.
It includes:
a range of Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Translation activities
grammar points including: Revision of relative pronouns, Demonstrative adjectives, Imperative and imperfect tense
elements of phonics: qu, ch, the letter -a, gn
retrieval activities, cultural aspects and homework tasks
QR codes/ links for independent study
vocab lists (full topic list or 4 lists for the 4 parts) + link to online course
comments under the slides for notes and worksheet location
answers
audio files and transcripts
.pdf and editable versions of the worksheets (except the writing support mat, which is only available as a .pdf)
Activities are differentiated and exam style.
The first 15 files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder: Topic6.zip.
After downloading, save the .zip file in your computer (in “documents” for example), then right-click and select “extract all” to access all the resources.
For the full overview, you can check the free SOW available for download here.
If you have any questions or if you are interested in more resources like this one, you can check this Facebook page: @Frenchresources, where links to resources and freebies are posted regularly.
TRADITIONAL FOOD AND SCIENCE
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what are some traditional foods in your culture.
Career link - Food Anthropologist
7 x A3 printout information hunt detailing traditional food, origins and science link of the following:
British - stilton cheese
African - Plantain
Italian - Prosciutto
German - Sauerkraut
Polish - Kielbasa
Chinese - Century Egg
Japanese - Natto
Content & Presentation slides:
What is traditional food
Chemistry - atoms making up molecules inside of food
Molecules in food
Food chemistry - chemical reactions rearranging atoms
pH - acidity and alkaline FOOD LINK
Enzymes as workers of cells FOOD LINK
Osmosis definition and FOOD LINK
Fermentation definition and FOOD LINK
Anaerobic respiration definition and FOOD LINK
Worksheet on slide 2 and 3 - student exploration
Scientific keyword definitions
Tick box table of food in different cultures
When did these traditional foods originate in history
Table completion of the scientific process (e.g. fermentation, osmosis etc) and space to write down what it does.
Answers included - Opportunity for Self/Peer Assessment
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A set of four worksheets to practise the vocabulary linked to the new topic of ‘Celebrity Culture’ for AQA GCSE Spanish.
Exercises include:
Vocab matching / Vocab into Spanish and English
Gap fills
Translation into Spanish and English
Reorder the sentences.
Could be used for lesson content when teaching the topic or could be ideal for revision packs for vocabulary retrieval.
Tenses used are present tense, preterit, present perfect and near future with the idea that the focus remains on vocabulary practice - the exercises could be easily adapted to include further tenses.
Other GCSE topics available on my shop or as a bundle through this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13210366
3 x Sentence Builders for the new AQA GCSE French topic CELEBRITY CULTURE
Recommended for Higher Tier due to the range of language, but could easily be adapted for Foundation Tier (editable word documents included)
What’s included:
Learning outcomes covered:
o Describing a celebrity - present
o Describing a celebrity - past
o Opinions and advice on being famous
Vocabulary based on the official AQA lists + high frequency, useful verb phrases, complex structures as chunks and other universals
Integration of complex structures and idiomatic expressions to help students learn high-level language as chunks
High-frequency vocabulary and complex structures are recycled across several of the sentence builders
How to use them:
Modelling & scaffolding: I use sentence builders as a Knowledge Organiser, a modelling tool when introducing a new topic, and a scaffold for writing and speaking.
Teaching ideas: I have a free document in my TES called “Teaching ideas for sentence builders” that I recommend downloading if you’d like more ideas on how to get started with sentence builders.
EPI methodology: Although I do not work in an EPI school or follow every part of MARS EARS from Gianfranco Conti, these sentence builders could be used for EPI - they are in both PDF and word format so can be edited and adapted.
If you have any questions about this resource, please do not hesitate to contact me via my MFL Instagram @eclaireMFL
A complete poetry unit for KS3 (recommended year 8 but can be adapted for years 7 and 9).
This scheme of work includes 18 fully planned and resourced lessons covering both classic and contemporary poetry spanning the 19th to 21st centuries. The scheme explores cultures from each continent with a focus on British culture.
Resources included:
226 slide PPT with teacher notes, guidance and options for adaptive teaching (more challenging/accessible slide options)
Poetry booklet with full text of 15 poems
Poems included:
‘The British’ by Benjamin Zephaniah
‘God Save the King’ (English National Anthem)
‘Black’ by Dave (song - excerpt used)
‘Checking Out Me History’ by John Agard
‘The New Colossus’ by Emma Lazarus
‘The Hill We Climb’ by Amanda Gorman
‘Night of the Scorpion’ by Nissim Ezekiel
‘Haiku’ by Matsuo Basho (titles vary from translation)
‘Ballad of the Totems’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal/Kath Walker
‘Africa My Africa’ by David Diop
‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ by William Wordsworth
‘Welcome to Tottenham’ by Giovanni Rose
‘Island Man’ by Grace Nichols
‘Refugees’ by Brian Bilston
‘Game Changer’ by Solli Raphael
Medium term plan:
Week 1: Introduction and critical analysis of British culture
Week 2: Close analysis of ‘Checking Out Me History’ and introduction to American culture
Week 3: Exploration of American, Indian, and Japanese poetry
Week 4: Exploration of Australian and African poetry, then back to British poetry (19th century poem)
Week 5: Assessment Preparation: Comparison of 19th century and modern British poem (plus alternate assessment task for struggling students)
Week 6: Reading Assessment and creative writing/spoken language tasks
SB4f lesson from the new Edexcel Biology GCSE (9-1) all about tissue culture.
The lesson includes a selective breeding recap, what tissue culture is, uses of tissue culture in plant breeding, the stages involved in tissue culture and the uses of tissue culture in medicine.
Also included is a structure strip to help students stucture the write up to the cauliflower tissue culture practical in their books (the idea is that they stick it down the left side of their page and write the correct information in each section).
Lesson aimed mainly at KS3 for a school “culture day”. Looks a links between traditional and modern medicines.
Includes links to 2 short videos with matching questions, and reading comprehension activity.
Particular focus on Asia and Africa.
Included in purchase: powerpoint presentation and word document (worksheet).
A KS3 graphics DT project that introduces students to packaging, materials associated with packaging and graphic communication techniques.
Full term project with slides and workbook.
The project will first introduce students to packaging and its history. They will learn how packaging has evolved over time. They will speciifcially focus on packaging of food items and learn about the important factors that need to be considered when packaging food. Students will then be given a design context to explore using subject specific methods of context exploration. They will be introduced to design briefs and specifications and then follow the design process of generation design ideas and developing them through modelling, they will be introduced to NETS and the aesthetic elements that need to be considered with graphic communication.
A great project to introduce students to graphic design. 49 slides that have been structured into outstanding lessons with clear objectives and success criteria. I have delivered this project for years and students enjoy the process.
Slides and booklet are completely editable for your own SOW and teaching style.
Its time to deep dive into the ‘free-lovin’ Weimar Golden age. Use this lesson to explore the liberal culture of the Weimar Golden age. From Art to literature, film to architecture, women’s rights to music… this has it all.
Fully resourced lesson, remember to use this to contrast Nazi culture using the Timeline booklet.
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Here’s a free quiz about France with 33 colourful slides. It can be used at the beginning of the year or at the end. I usually have students to work in teams on it. The first 17 slides contain the questions and possible answers to choose from. The other slides contain the answers! This quiz was based on the bigger quiz with 107 slides which can be found here
Enjoy. It’s a great tool to recap about music, monuments, food, brands, culture, geography, history, sports etc.
A 24-slide PPT designed to be used for Culture Day in Spanish. This resource focuses on the festival Los San Fermines and Castells. Perfect for end of term too when you’ve finished the content!
This is designed to be used for Y8 students and above (minimum vocabulary required is from Viva 2).
Activities include:
Cultural insight into Los San Fermines
Pairwork activity about Los San Fermines
Reading comprehension about Los San Fermines
Vocabulary activities
Cultural insight into different languages spoken in Spain
Cultural insight into Castells
Debate task about Castells
Written plenary task about Castells
Plenary game to consolidate vocabulary
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