‘Find Someone Who’ speaking activity sheet (survey: find someone who… wants to go to university, etc) Small worksheet (two copies per page, to save on photocopying!) to introduce/practise phrases like: Tengo la intención de ser profesor. Quiero tener una familia. Espero encontrar trabajo. Me gustaría vivir en el extranjero. Pienso tomarme un año sabático. Quiero trabajar como voluntario. Espero ir a la universidad. Tengo la intención de seguir estudiand

Two pages of quotations grouped under the following headings: La mort et la futilité de la vie La justice dans un monde irrationnel Le désir de l’homme de trouver un sens à la vie Être « étranger » L’importance d’accepter la vie et d’en profiter You can cut up (or digitally re-arrange) the quotations for students to sort under the headings themselves, perhaps after you have first asked them to find some relevant quotations related to those themes themselves. This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources

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

Worksheet to prepare pupils to talk about their ideal school uniform (using the Conditional Tense). They read 6 speech boxes about six people's ideas about what their ideal school uniform would be like, underlining all the uses of the Conditional. Then they Find the Spanish for various useful phrases

Fumar, beber, tomar drogas Lesson Powerpoint and double worksheet about drinking, taking drugs and drinking alcohol. Talking about your good and bad health habits.

Useful for practising the Conditional Tense in the context of the Racism topic. Gets students practising relevant vocabulary while practising their grammar at the same time. (If you use the new Oxford 'AQA Spanish' text book you'll find that p.35 in Section 2.2A (Las medidas contra el racismo) covers the Conditional Tense in just this context.) Contains: 1) Worksheet with 20 sentences about combatting racism for students to translate into Spanish. Each requires a verb in the Conditional Tense, including some of the main verbs with irregular stems (and a couple of derivatives, e.g. intervenir). 2) Simple Powerpoint presentation where the sentences appear one by one, followed by the answer. You could do a few on mini-whiteboards/iPads as a class and then pupils fill in the rest on their sheet.

Presentation of question words and accompanying worksheet. Uses vocabulary from early chapters of Mira 1.

This is an audiovisual activity for the Immigration sub-topic (AQA A-Level Spanish). It contains a series of questions or gap-fill sentences related to a 2017 Youtube video about immigration from Mexico to the U.S. (I slowed the video down to 0.75 speed for the first listen, then played it at normal speed. This seemed to work well.) Please check the accompanying video (not produced by me) is still available before downloading the worksheet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNHOEm_kHg

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. (Images are public domain from Wikimedia Commons)

Designed for revisiting the Present Tense at Key Stage 4, but could be used in KS3 and KS5. Presentation of the Present Tense regular verb endings, with mini-whiteboard practice activity for -ar verbs and a class Battleships game for practising the er/ir/ar endings (the students love this!) the verbs with irregular ‘yo’ forms (conozco) stem-changing (radical-changing) verbs, with an accompanying worksheet for students to fill in the ‘I’ and ‘we’ forms of common stem-changing verbs You may also be interested in my Present Tense crossword comprehensive ‘Spanish Verb Tenses Overview Sheet’ … See my Shop!

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.)

Double-sided sheet preparing pupils to talk/write about a future holiday. Side 1: A writing (or speaking) frame modelling various ways of combining sentences to say what your future holiday is going to be like. Side 2: List of additional vocabulary which could be used Could be used with some KS3 pupils too.

KS3/4 Spanish: Daily Routine - reflexive & stem-changing verbs (worksheet & presentation) PRESENTATION about the reflexive and stem-changing verbs used to talk about Daily Routine. Plus accompanying WORKSHEET, giving information on reflexive verbs (me levanto, etc), including some stem-changing verbs (acostarse, despertarse, vestirse). There are some sentences to translate to practise. (Images are from public domain https://www.pdclipart.org )

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.

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. (Images are public domain from openclipart.org unless otherwise credited)

A couple of sentence builders to help pupils give opinions on their homes. A trapdoor activity for talking about where you live. Pupils found these useful for writing and speaking on this topic.

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. (Images public domain from https://openclipart.org/ )

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)

A lesson on saying what you have to/must do to stay healthy, e.g. Tienes que comer fruta y verdura Hay que hacer ejercicio Full lesson including put-pieces-of-paper-together-to-create sentences activity, dice speaking game, mini-whiteboard activity. Also accompanying worksheet (page 2 of the worksheet is the sentence-building activity template for pupils to cut out).

Double-sided worksheet preparing pupils to use the present tense to talk about what they do on holiday normally. Side 1: They fill in the AR/ER/IR verb endings into the table. Plus the present of ser/tener/estar. And the first person singular only of various verbs with irregular first persons,like hacer, dar, poner, etc. Side 2: They translate 10 sentences into Spanish. Then they read a model text about what someone does on holiday, changing the infinitives in the text into the appropriate form of the present tense.