A couple of puzzles to explore directions vocabulary in Spanish. One wordsearch, one crossword. Language covered: ¿para ir a…? How do you get to …? pase go past hasta up to cruce cross siga carry on tome take suba go up baje go down tuerza turn todo recto straight on al final de la calle to the end of the street está lejos/¿está lejos? it’s far/is it far? la primera calle the first street la segunda calle the second street la tercera calle the third street a la derecha to the right a la izquierda to the left los semáforos at the traffic lights la rotonda the roundabout la plaza the square

**Time saving codes for marking ** French, Spanish, Italian… Stick the A4 sheet into learners’ exercise books at the front or back. As you are marking, any common corrections and so on that they should complete have codes. You just need to write the code on the work. Learners then write out the relevant target(s) on their marked work - and complete them, of course… The language is described as the “Target Language” so that the sheet is appropriate for many languages.

Year 7 Spanish First Spanish Lesson Get to know your KS3 pupils. Do your pupils come from a variety of feeder primaries? This resource can help you to clarify level of MFL depending on which primary your intake is from. This is also a helpful resource if the timetable hasn’t started yet or your sets/groups are not sorted in the third week of term which happened to me one year and I had to cobble to something together for two weeks not knowing if the children would be in the group or not… There is room to put in the name of your school. For differentiation ideas, try putting anagrams of Spanish vocab’ on the board (or on certain tables if you know the ability…) or anagrams of famous Spanish speakers. Also see my free French version.

La routine quotidienne French daily routine worksheet This worksheet is great for cover or just to consolidate reflexive verbs in French. The language used assumes prior knowledge of daily routine verbs and activities. Question 1 Fill the gaps with the reflexive pronouns Question 2 Fill in the daily routine verbs Question 3 Translate ex1 and ex2 Question 4 Write out the daily routine from the image and time cues Question 5 Open-ended writing task to write own routine paragraph with times. Suggested extension: write out the routine of a family member so that learners can use third person verbs

Word search in Spanish with Christmas vocabulary. Translate the vocabulary into English.

L’alphabet en français Learn the pronuncation of the alphabet in French A sheet to hand our and/project. The sheet explains how to pronounce the alphabet in French. It is useful as an introduction to the sounds as it has them underneath the letter. If you print this as a worksheet you can then exploit it with teacher-led speaking/listening tasks. The learners could learn to spell out their own names or even celebrities’ names.

French Y7 Term 1.1 Speaking/Writing Assessment A simple assessment with the flexibility to be used for speaking and/or writing. It begins with a model answer by Harry Potter with key words to change underlined. Learners can then use the model to write about themselves, so it suits low ability.

A bi-lingual sheet to encourage students to speak French in class.

French End of Year Review This is a two page resource to help you and your learners summarise the learning year and look ahead to the next. The learners can also demonstrate what they have retained!

End of year review: Spanish. A simple pro forma with a summary of what has been studied this academic year with spaces to note improvements from teacher and student. A “looking to the future” section to fill in also. Print on double-sided, landscape A4.

Spanish En la tienda de ropa - repaso Good for cover; worksheet with a few activities about clothes shopping. Vocab’ match. Vocab’ copying. Translate a shop dialogue into Spanish. Pattern matching (e.g. de flores + picture). Extension ideas: learners could make up their own shop dialogues, look up more vocabulary. Create dialogues for each other to translate. Update Following a three star review, I’ve added an extra sheet for extension work where more guidance is needed than what I’ve suggested above.

Helpful for Viva AQA GCSE. A sheet to print to help with the vocabulary for global problems (pollution/obesity/famine etc). The resource helps the Piensa Globalmente topic by providing a matching tick or cross grid of vocabulary in English and Spanish and an extension activity to choose whether we should or should not do something. Print two slides to get two copies per A4 sheet.

Originally a simple booklet made for Year 7 trip to Paris. Could also be used for Paris projects where, perhaps, Parisian landmarks are researched or creative writing is done. Booklet is A4 but designed to be reduced to A5 by your clever repro' bod.

Year 7 Spanish - Viva 1 Module 2 If you use Viva 1, this is to give you some extra class exercises. This is a one page worksheet. Uses: cover sheet to leave as once the class has covered most of Module 2, they should be able to access this. support exercises homework -revision What’s included? Reading gap fill, translation, word classification and finally a writing. Answers included.

FRENCH Routine quotidienne DAILY ROUTINE Learners have images and daily routine scaffolding where they must fill the gaps in the routine sentences. The language used is basic phrases and vocabulary in order to give extra support in daily routine assessment. The A4 strip is a structured vocabulary test with scores and leading to extension writing on daily routine phrases. Two strips the same, side by side for easy of printing. You should be able to get an idea of it in the preview image.

El pelo y los ojos ***updated to include answer sheet Spanish hair and eyes simple worksheet to show understanding of hair and eye colour plus hairstyles. I suggest you ask learners to draw each face so that you can keep the worksheet to use again. Another option is to project onto the IWB or make available to learners on their tablets if if they have them. Activity 1: colour the eyes correctly. Activity 2 draw and colour the hairstyles correctly. Activity 3 Translate sentences into English. Activity 4 Translate sentences into Spanish. Suggested extension activities describe a celebrity’s hair and eyes describe yourself and your family create a character and describe them in Spanish draw and describe your friend

Wordsearch with translation activity on French-speaking countries.

Blank jigsaw pieces to complete with written personal information. If cut out, the pieces should tessellate if turned around. Could make an effective activity for lower ability groups...

Straightforward word search in Spanish. Could upward differentiate by asking class to translate words. Other ideas on second page.

Survey grid to complete about hobbies in French. Extension included. Visually appealing. Learners circulate the classroom and ask as many people as possible about sports. Could extend with graphs/writing up results/third person writing and so on.