Translation 101: Prepare for GCSE and A-levels in MFL

Top workbooks, activities and revision tasks to practise translating in French, German and Spanish

Tes Resources Team

28th February 2024

Practising Translation in a Classroom at KS4 and KS5 Secondary MFL

Activities, workbooks, guides and practice tasks to help students tackle translation exercises

Being able to translate sentences from one language to another is a skill students need to have developed to be assessed for KS4 and KS5 level qualifications. This can often be hard, as learners need to understand the meaning of tricky expressions such as collocations and idioms. Here's a collection of new and popular resources to help your students practise translation in French, Spanish and German.

French

Check out the most popular resources to work on translation in French. You can also find a large collection of GCSE and IGCSE revision resources in our French GCSE and IGCSE collection.

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Short translation tasks with mark scheme

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Practice translation activities in the style of the new GCSE. Worksheet includes a short version of the AQA mark scheme. I go through the correct translation on the board then get pupils to make corrections and peer assess before I mark their work. Using these every 2-3 weeks as a 10-15 min...

eliad1907

Customs and Festivals GCSE Translation skills

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A worksheet for GCSE students to enhance their translation skills on the topic of Customs and Festivals. A variety of exercises, from individual sentences with a particular grammar focus, and passages for translation French-English and vice versa. Where appropriate there are hints and reminders. The...

charlinebaude

How to tackle French A Levels translations

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This is a guide I wrote for my students to use in the translation part of the 'A Levels&'. It contains different strategies to tackle the difficulties of such activities.

rachmaz

A-Level French Translation Booklet

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After studying AQA reports of the past 8 years on recurring errors in the translation tasks of the A-Level French examination, I created a booklet that gives both AS and A2 students hints and tips on every single important areas to work on to improve their translation skills. The booklet comes with ...

German

Browse through the most sought-after German translation activities. Have a look at our German GCSE and IGCSE collection for more revision resources.

cgazzal

German GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications Translation Exercises.

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This document is in the format of worksheets/ a booklet that can be given to all GCSE students. It is broken down into themes and then into the topics within each theme. For each topic there are 10 translation exercises, as on the Reading Exam. It is contains in total 120 translations of varying len...

silvia bastow

Ping-Pong translation - Meine Ferien

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Ping - Pong translation suitable for GCSE - Topic Ferien. Present tense, 'wenn' clauses. Adapted from French. If you like

Maryjane Bennett

German perfect tense translation game

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This is a fast paced activity reviewing the perfect tense conjugation of German verbs. There are over 100 slides and five games to play. Slides give the English and pupils have ten seconds to find the German translation. The presentation is easily adaptable and can be used either as a whole lesson o...

nick_munn

Translation Grammar Mat Support for A Level

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Translating into German can be tricky. This resource shows summaries of how to use the: passive in 6 key tenses; modal verb conjugation in 3 tenses (past, present and future); key elements to be careful of when translating; auxiliary verbs in 3 tenses; a summary of irregular verbs; verb patterns an...

Spanish

Choose from these booklets, worksheets and challenges and improve learners' translation skills in Spanish. Our Spanish GCSE and IGCSE collection also has a range of revision lesson ideas.

shara_nuku

Spanish Alevel Translation Challenges

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This resource includes 4 translation challenges. One includes 2 connectives challenges and the other one includes 2 tenses challenges. Answers are provided.

Blanca1

A2 Spanish Translation phrases

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List of phases based on the AQA Spanish syllabus translation English > Spanish. Use for games, quizes, etc. You will find this file in Quizlet, where your students can compete against each other. If you find this resource useful, please consider contribute to the Spanish post 16 TES bank, ...

SecondaryMFLresources

Spanish GCSE writing booster: complex language revision booklet & translation practice

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A four page revision booklet of key complex phrases & structures that pupils should include in their speaking & writing to achieve Grade 9. This is a definitive list of complex and higher structures that I encourage my pupils to use in their work. The phrases are split into 22 sub-groups a...

Giocondo Renna

Spanish A level translation sets

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Spanish A level small translations bits I normally use for starters or plenaries.

SecondaryMFLresources

17 Translation Worksheets - GCSE Spanish

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Save** 91%** with this bundle of 17 translation worksheets on 17 different topics. Each worksheet has six different translation exercises which recycle the same key language and introduce new linguistic items in a scaffolded way. The exercises are then ramped in terms of difficulty and final activi...