¿Qué es lo más importante para tí cuando vas de vacaciones? First lesson of the holidays topic. Pupils prioritise the factors that are important for them in a holiday (el tiempo, la gente, el alojamiento). Then, in groups, they are in competition. They work their way through a set of tasks to help them understand and respond to a sheet of complex statements about holidays with lots of new vocab in. They have a group passport they have to get the teacher to sign off when they have completed the task before they can run to the front to grab the next task. The first group to complete the tasks together get a higher number of points, but they are also judged on teamwork and TL use. Encourages group work, is great for differentiated groups, and gets pupils using reading skills to work out new vocabulary as well as providing them with some great model sentences on holiday preferences.

A 45 page, differentiated powerpoint to support the teaching of the Gcse AQA textbook. The exercises and answers support the teaching of the 2 topics within the topic of Holidays and Travel where the material is the same at both Foundation and Higher (Holiday preferences+Visiting Different places in France). Students have exercises to practise the correct prepositions needed when talking about destinations as well as their knowledge of the Imperfect Tense. The slides end with 2 reading comprehensions taken from Camus’s L’Etranger and La Gloire de mon pere by Marcel Pagnol. The resource can be used for the class for 2-3 lessons or printed for students to work independently.

first lesson on holidays using the AQA foundation and higher text book. To be used with year 10 or 11.

French KS2/KS3 lesson on holidays, ideal for a Y5/Y6 taster or transition day or as something fun to do with Y7 at the end of the year. EPI style activities with a Sentence Builder and modelling and LAM activities. Uses the near future tense to talk about students’ holiday plans, includes cognates and high frequency vocab on the topic. starter task to activate prior cultural knowledge and facilitate discussion faulty echo sentence chaos identify which sentences are nonsense sentence bingo all English translations included on sentence builder No printing of activities required unless preferred, I recommend printing the sentence builder and using mini whiteboards. Editable version of PPT included.

Como prefieres pasar las vacaciones - lesson about holiday preferences. Audio tracks can be found on active learn edexcel higher text book. Students will be able to understand how to use pronouns and irregular verbs, and talk about their holiday preferences. Grammar points explained, listening,speaking, reading, translation and writing tasks included with differentiation.

German present tense holiday preferences with characters. Translation tasks.

Fully comprehensive, fun, creative, adaptable lesson on TOURISM - Holiday preferences. It aims to ensure that learners can respond to the question “Où préfères-tu aller en vacances ?” There are lots of interactive activities for listening, speaking, reading and writing including video clip links and lots of useful tips and strategies for each skill and a focus on prepositions and time markers/sequencers. The lesson has been designed, and can be adapted, so that it can be used for both Foundation and Higher tiers. For more lessons on this topic and further resources from the same author in French, Spanish and German, search: mwilde94210

A concise set of French modeling sentences for KS3, covering holiday activities, opinions on holidays, and past holiday experiences based on Dynamo books Help students describing where they go on holiday, what they do, and give opinions using various phrases. The second slide focuses on past holiday visits and activities, providing examples and vocabulary for describing what they did and saw. It also provides them with key questions for practicing their writing and speaking skills. Includes QR codes for easy access to digital content from Languagenut for extra practice These ready-to-use materials will save you planning time and engage your students to be confident writer, and speaker whilst supporting your teaching.

A double-sided standalone resource to support pupils to talk and write about their ideal holidays using ‘je rêve de’, j’espère’ and some conditional sentences. It includes a review of how to say ‘to’ with countries/cities, expressions match up, translation practice, a sentence builder and a plenary reading comprehension. Format: Word document and PDF with answers.

Three double-sided worksheets on the topic of holidays for KS3, with infinitive phrases in the present tense and the immediate future. These will enable pupils to give opinions about where they like / don’t like to go on holiday and to say where they will go next year. They will also be able to say what activities they do in different types of weather. Resource 1: Where I like to go on holiday - present tense & opinions Resource 2: Where I am going to go on holiday - immediate future Resource 3: What I do if the weather is… (Si + weather + holiday activities) The resources include vocabulary tasks and scaffolded reading and translation exercises. Each resource contains a sentence builder. Format: Word documents and PDF with answers.

¿Qué te gusta hacer durante las vacaciones? A standalone resource on types of holidays and holiday preferences with scaffolded exercise that recycle key core vocabulary, including opinion expression and ‘lo que más me gusta’ . Answers included.

I use these lessons to teach adult beginners in Spanish but also for Secondary School Students in Mainstream Education. These lessons strip Modern Foreign Languages completely back to the basics. I love teaching my students using this method as there is absolutely no scope for ambiguity and students ‘CAN’T’ get it wrong! It fosters lots of success with learning languages. These Spanish lessons are based on conversation practice and I have only included words and phrases that I would hear and use when actually living in Spain. The methodology and pedagogy in these lessons have been constructed based upon findings by both NCELP and DR Conti. These lessons are designed to be taught ‘from the front’. You will start by saying showing your students the slides and saying sentences like “this ‘word’ means this (show them the word on the slide) and this ‘word’ means this (show them the word on the next slide) so how do you say this (show them the sentence on the next slide)”. You can either ask them to write the sentences on mini-whiteboards or test them on their short-term memory and get them to produce the sentences verbally. The sentences get longer and longer as you add more and more vocabulary to their working memory therefore the sentences get more and more difficult. Each time new vocabulary is given to students, ensure you practice ‘listening and repeating’ with them and conversations can be had on pronunciation and word orders when producing the sentences. It is very important when asking students to use the new words for the translations that they are giving enough ‘thinking time’ (I usually give a good 20-40 seconds). This lesson style has recently been OFSTED inspected in England and have been classed as OUTSTANDING lessons. It was noted by the inspector that these lessons are particularly good amongst students with different SEN and lower attaining students and add a ‘good’ amount of challenge to all students. This style is valuable for a subject specialist as it allows the teacher to go into depths of grammar with each new word or phrase that is taught but can also be used by cover teachers ( or non-specialists) as the lessons here provide all the correct answers.

Double-sided worksheet to prepare GCSE students to build up vocabulary to write about the kind of holiday they usually go on and why (=giving and justifying opinions). Side 1: They complete some model sentences, then fill in some opinions with Me gusta/Me interesa (to practise gusta/gustan) Side 2: They read three model paragraphs about preferred holidays and then Find the Spanish for a number of useful phrases in the texts. They then use all of the worksheet to help them translate 6 sentences into Spanish, e.g. I love beach holidays because I think that they are relaxing and I like watersports. This worksheet would also be suitable for some KS3 classes. (All images public domain from https://openclipart.org or Wikimedia Commons)

Here are some resources I used with my KS4 class in preparation for their writing controlled assessment.

A bundle including 2 detailed lessons based on the topic of travel and tourism, in particular present tense formation, adverbs, superlative and adverbs. Included: GCSE exam task types key vocabulary games and activities HW sheet & answer sheets Listening task, audio file and answers grammatical explanations aand practice

A translation worksheet on the topic of holidays in the conditional tense and conditional structures. Six different translation exercises which recycle the same key language and introduce new linguistic items in a scaffolded way. The exercises are ramped in terms of difficulty and final activity is a plenary translation task into Spanish. Answers included.

1 ppt. to introduce key vocabulary, practise translation and develop reading comprehension skills. Students complete ppt. exercises on an accompanying worksheet. This provides structure and allows room for self assessment as the lesson progresses. 1 ‘shared’ ppt. can be uploaded to your school’s student shared area for extra practice. Goes with Holiday Preferences (Part 2 and Part 3) - AQA; Theme 2 - 8.1 - Holidays and Travel Written by the author of Heinemann’s Mira express 1 and 2 Resources and Assessment Grammar Sheets.

Booklet that covers different holiday-related texts in preparation for the writing controlled assessments. It focuses on the use of verb tenses, expressing opinions and format of letters in Spanish.

A brief powerpoint to help pupils talk/write about how they like/don't like to travel and why, using "weil".