Worksheets and a few Powerpoint presentations for Modern Languages.
Mainly Spanish at the moment and mainly Key Stages 3-4, but one or two Key Stage 5 too.
I hope my resources are useful to you. I spend quite a lot of time making them and would like to save other busy teachers time preparing resources - so you can get on with teaching.
Worksheets and a few Powerpoint presentations for Modern Languages.
Mainly Spanish at the moment and mainly Key Stages 3-4, but one or two Key Stage 5 too.
I hope my resources are useful to you. I spend quite a lot of time making them and would like to save other busy teachers time preparing resources - so you can get on with teaching.
Worksheet containing an account of somebody's holiday in France (perfect tense). The text contains a number of connectives. Pupils have to find them and write them next to the English at the bottom of the sheet. The text also contains a number of time phrases like 'Après', ' le lendemain', which pupils can highlight.
The text could also be used for reading comprehension.
Good for developing writing skills, practising understanding of the perfect tense and for reinforcing the Holidays topic.
(There are two copies of the exercise per A4 page; the sheet must be cut in half. Good for saving on photocopying, and makes it easy for students to stick into exercise books.)
This 6-page document assembles key quotations from Part I of L'étranger (Camus), most introduced by a brief English comment for easy reference.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
Double-sided worksheet providing vocabulary to help students describe different part time jobs.
Pupils simply write the number of the corresponding English sentence (from side 2 of the sheet) next to the sentences on side 1.
Could do this against the clock to add challenge/fun?
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Ma ville et ma maison - French GCSE
A Knowledge Organiser (KO) in the form of a parallel text about someone’s city and home.
Designed to expose students’ to many of the key vocabulary items from the AQA GCSE Specification (Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region section - e.g. verbs like déménager) and to provide useful recyclable structures and phrases.
Google ‘Michaela French Knowledge Organisers’ for some ideas about what to do with this kind of parallel text.
Had a productive couple of lessons with my GCSE class exploiting this text, all with minimum teacher preparation (apart from writing the text!)
e.g. You can use it for pronunciation practice/awareness:
I got pupils focussing on the recurring [ɛ] and [ɑ̃] in the first few paragraphs. They had to listen and highlight the text, then I re-read the text with pupils putting hands up when they heard the sound. Then they had a go in pairs.
Then we did some work on the vocabulary. Listening activities too where I changed parts of the text and pupils had to identify what had changed. Then they had a go at adapting parts of the text and combining words and phrases from it to make their own paragraphs.
Includes editable PPT version and a PDF version.
Double-sided worksheet to help pupils to talk about what they will do in future to lead a more healthy lifestyle.
Pupils fill in gaps in sentences with appropriate future tense verbs from the box.
Other side of the sheet contains a re-cap of how to form the future tense (first person) and some sentences to translate, based on the vocabulary on the other side of the sheet.
Could be suitable for KS3 too.
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Crossword to practise the Present Tense (AR, ER and IR verbs).
Pupils enjoy this self-correcting activity which helps them learn the verb endings.
The crossword appears twice on the page to save on your photocopying!
Comparing nouns, e.g. la vela es más divertida que el fútbol
Includes cut-out task where pupils piece together the sentences (prompted by the corresponding Powerpoint slide)
Explanation of direct object pronouns in a food context. E.g. Tu aime les frites? Oui, je les aime. With some class/individual practice activities.
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Casa y ciudad.
GCSE Spanish
A trapdoor activity for talking about your house and a couple of sentence builders for giving opinions on your town.
Useful for speaking activities / writing.
Plus a slide on ‘se puede’ (in which place in town can you do the things described?) thrown in too.
The worksheet contains a text recounting a past holiday to Barcelona.
There are gaps in the text where appropriate connectives are required. Pupils must choose the right one from the box below the text. Then, next to the list of English connectives, they write the Spanish.
The text could also be used for reading comprehension purposes.
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Worksheet to help pupils to talk about whether their diet is healthy enough.
Contains a text where someone gives their opinion on their own diet. Pupils then find and highlight/write down certain useful vocabulary from the text.
Text could also be used for reading comprehension. Vocabulary list could be removed to make more difficult.
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Help your students get to grips with using several different tenses to talk about holidays. Good for consolidation when pupils have been talking about past holidays, future holidays etc and may be starting to get mixed up.
Side 1 contains three tables (one for AR, one for ER, one for IR verbs) of common holidays-related verbs (e.g. nadar, etc). The tables have four more columns in which to write in the (first person singular only) preterite, present, future and conditional forms of each verb. Some are already filled in, which gives the students a guide to how to fill in the rest.
(There is another version of this containing all the answers which you could project on to the board for pupils to check their answers.)
Side 2 is for reference. It contains all the regular verb endings for AR, ER and IR verbs in the present, preterite and future tenses. There are also notes about irregular verbs and stem-changing verbs.
A 41 slide Powerpoint with clear and concise explanations about how the Perfect Tense works and practice activities.
Not complete lessons (these slides are extracted from various lesson Powerpoints) but the Powerpoint does cover er, ir and re verbs taking avoir (plus how to make them negative) as well as être verbs and the irregular past participles.
There are explanations with examples, and a few match-up / gap-fill / translation / speaking tasks (oxo and dice game).
Could save you some time!
Double-sided worksheet preparing pupils to write/talk about what they like to do on holiday.
Side 1: They unjumble some simple model sentences. Then fill in Me encanta/Se puede/Me gusta opinions with appropriate infinitives.
Side 2: They read 3 short texts about three people like to do on holiday, then answer 4 comprehension questions in English about them. Then they Find the Spanish for six useful phrases.
Not highly advanced - appropriate for some Key Stage 3 classes too.
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Presentation of the perfect tense with être, with a fun battleships game at the end.
This was designed for a Year 12 French class to re-cap the perfect tense, but could also be used at KS4 (or even KS3).
Sentences for pupils to translate about the main characters of L'étranger (Camus). Some key vocabulary is provided.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
For the KS5 'Racismo' sub-topic.
The double-sided worksheet contains two tasks:
1) An introductory gap-fill activity (text summarising what SOS Racismo is and does)
2) An audio-visual activity where students watch a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1Xm0sqYr0 ) then answer the 11 accompanying questions.
To complete task 2, pupils must watch a Youtube video of an interview with the president of SOS Racismo, who gives examples of racism, including his own experience, and some measures for combatting it. The video gives various other facts about racism in Spain.
I would recommend that you reduce the speed of the video to 75% by selecting the Settings icon at the bottom of the video (not available on some tablet apps but visible on PCs), then clicking Speed > 0.75
PLEASE CHECK that the video is still available before downloading the worksheet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1Xm0sqYr0
This sheet will probably take up most of the lesson by the time you have watched the video twice (pausing it to give students a chance to write), gone through the answers and discussed the issues raised. Alternatively, it could be set as a homework.
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Worksheet practising the verb 'tener' (all persons) in the present tense. Pupils translate sentences. Uses family, pets and personal appearances vocabulary.
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