Spanish Verb Mat for Higher GCSE and A Level. Students can see at a glance how to form all tenses required for GSCE and A Level on one page. Preterite, imperfect, imperfect subjunctive, imperfect continuous, pluperfect, perfect, past participles, present, gerund, present continuous, imperative, simple future, conditional, near future, subjunctive. Also includes lists of irregulars for each tense. Assumes pupils have basic knowledge of infinitives, stems etc. Great Revision resource, especially now that translation and grammar feature more prominently in the GCSE exams.
Powerpoint presentation to teach beach vocabulary and activities. Pupils Learn beach nouns: La plage, le sable, le ballon de plage, le chateau de sable, la mer and la coquille, and look for how many of these items they can see in a picture. Also, opinions and verbs are covered to allow pupils to express what they do at the beach and what they think of it. Finally, a template for a battleships game allows pupils to express a range of different opinions about a variety of activities.
A presentation offering visual support for primary French students, leading into a simple conversation including: greetings, saying how you are, age and birthday in French. Can be used as an early lesson, or to revise basic greetings and conversations.
Using near future to say what you are going to do tomorrow / at the weekend / in the holidays, extending sentences by saying where, with whom and expressing opinions.
Aller + infinitive - Je vais , tu vas, il/elle/on va, nous allons, vous allez, ils/elles vont
Future time expressions - mañana, la semana que viene, este fin de semana, en las vacaciones
aller aux magasins / au stade / au cinéma / au centre sportif / au centre commercial / au parc
jouer au foot / tennis / rugby / volley / avec l'ordenateur
faire de la natation / du vélo / du patin à glace / du ski / de la de la randonnée
à la maison / au centre sportif/ à la plage/ à la campagne / à la montagne
avec ma mère / mon père / mon frère / ma soeur / mon ami / mon amie / ma famille
à mon avis / je crois que / je pense que / ça va être
assez / très / un peu / trop / vachement
ennuyeux / amusant / intéressant / génial / magnifique / affreux / facile / difficile
Powerpoint with some ideas for pupils to beging to talk and write about how we can protect the environment (¿Qué se debe hacer para proteger el medio ambiente?) Se debe, no se debe....
-reciclar periódicos y papel, apagar las luces, desenchufar la televisión, tirar basura al suelo, ensuciar las calles, encender hogueras, gastar menos agua, usar el transporte público o andar, plantar árboles, proteger la naturaleza, comprar productos locales, llevar bolsas propias a la compra
I had used an exam question from Edexcel June 2011 Higher Listening in this lesson, but took it out due to copyright. It is available on their website if you'd like to put it back in.
Perfect for revising KS3 holidays topic when beginning topic at KS4. Allows pupils to talk about where, who with, how they get there and what they do - focussing on extended sentences in present and past tense, but also some support for future and putting all 3 together at the end. Includes dice game, translation, adverbs of frequency.
KS3 - KS4 Film review. Play trapdoor for speaking or use as a scaffold to write a review of a film you have watched in class. The example uses Kirikou and La Famille Belier, but you could quite easily change those details to write about any film you have watched. One slide includes all of the words in English.
LO: Can I say where my house is in relation to other things? Powerpoint to teach vocabulary to give a more precise location, following on from house and area.
La banque
La poste
La gare
L’église
L’arrêt de bus
Le supermarché
Le collège
Les magasins
près de / loin de /à côté de / en face de
du / de la / de l' /des
Matching activity, Splat, O&X games, translation activity.
Lesson to bring together learning on film topic and write about films using 3 tenses. Activities include Odd-one-out, Quiz-quiz-trade, translation, Multiple choice reading quiz, guess the sentence from the first letter and a couple of truly terrible jokes (sorry!). Also includes writing frame and word mat.
Key Stage 2 French Resource for a couple of lessons on creating French adverts for toys. Includes names of toys, prices, opinions and justifications. Includes games and AfL whiteboard sentence creating activities. If you collate the slides into a booklet it could also be used to support pupils with the language while they prepare their adverts. Be prepared to model an example yourself before you ask pupils to stand in front of the class - If you won't do it, they won't! It is part of the Y4 Scheme of Work I use, but could equally be used with other year groups for a fun or reward lesson.
A lesson to support the telling of the story of 'les quatre amis'. I have not included the story itself as there are plenty of versions available by other authors. This resource is to support pupils in learning the animals and the colurs featured in the story - le lapin (rabbit), le cheval (horse), le mouton (sheep), la souris (mouse), gris (grey), marron (brown), noir (black), blanc (white), orange (orange), jaune (yellow), rouge (red), bleu (blue), vert (green). Also included are some verbs - galope, court, sautille and trottine. Includes lots of suggestions for ways to employ this resource - games, AfL and sentence building.
Vocab recap - students fill in table and knowledge gaps filled with help of teacher
Present the reflexive verbs and give students some verbs from their list to conjugate on mini whiteboards
Extended reading task with multiple choice answers for whole class response using decision discs. Could also be used as a translation task.
Writing frame to allow pupils to create their own written work from the model provided.
A word mat with LOTS of French time phrases, connectives (grouped by function), intensifiers and adjectives. Also, useful questions for tackling ANY reading task, and some questions to help pupils to prepare to complete a writing task in French. Best to print and laminate for pupils to use regularly, or alternatively put in the front of pupils' books folders for regular use.
This one page could save you HOURS of marking time!
Instead of repeatedly writing the same things in lots of books, just write a number. Display the slide in your next lesson and ask them to correct their work. They will have responded to your feedback and shown progress, when all you have done is write a few numbers next to their work. If you really want to be sure they have read the feedback, ask them to copy it and tick off the ones they have corrected. Easy peasy! Enjoy!
Powerpoint slideshow for teaching how to order from a market - revision of foods and quantities, role play activity, slap the board game and translation activity.
Infinitive, present, preterite, imperfect, future and conditional tenses for key Spanish verbs - ir, ser, estar, hacer, tener, querer and poder. Also includes acronyms DOCTOR and PLACE to help pupils with ser vs. estar. Get these verbs into your pupils' heads by having them permanently on display in your classroom!
GCSE Spanish Resource to introduce formation and use of preterite and imperfect tenses within the topic of holidays. Includes word matching, trapdoor game, translation and extended writing.
Powerpoint for KS2 French, incorporating parts of the body and colours. Includes Gender and number agreements. This useful after body parts and before going on to Descriptions of monsters. Could Equally be used for lower KS3 to revise and consolidate body parts, colours and gender / number agreement. Assessment for Learning activities included as well as suggested games to practise the language.