Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
A set of 3 x sentence builders to help pupils structure their answers and vary their vocab for the card discussion in the speaking exam for AQA. Quizlet links for studying the vocab are included in the document. Pupils can use this document as a scaffold when preparing answers to speaking cards.
3 x Sentence Builders for the new AQA GCSE French topic CELEBRITY CULTURE
Recommended for Higher Tier due to the range of language, but could easily be adapted for Foundation Tier (editable word documents included)
What’s included:
Learning outcomes covered:
o Describing a celebrity - present
o Describing a celebrity - past
o Opinions and advice on being famous
Vocabulary based on the official AQA lists + high frequency, useful verb phrases, complex structures as chunks and other universals
Integration of complex structures and idiomatic expressions to help students learn high-level language as chunks
High-frequency vocabulary and complex structures are recycled across several of the sentence builders
How to use them:
Modelling & scaffolding: I use sentence builders as a Knowledge Organiser, a modelling tool when introducing a new topic, and a scaffold for writing and speaking.
Teaching ideas: I have a free document in my TES called “Teaching ideas for sentence builders†that I recommend downloading if you’d like more ideas on how to get started with sentence builders.
EPI methodology: Although I do not work in an EPI school or follow every part of MARS EARS from Gianfranco Conti, these sentence builders could be used for EPI - they are in both PDF and word format so can be edited and adapted.
If you have any questions about this resource, please do not hesitate to contact me via my MFL Instagram @eclaireMFL
A sentence builder and translation activity on the topic of physical descriptions / describing family members in French to answer the question ‘comment sont-ils physiquement?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: /teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Various exercises to introduce and practise three reflexive verbs on the topic of family relationships - s’entendre avec, se disputer avec, se fâcher contre. Also practices vocab for members of the family and negative sentences with ne pas and ne jamais. Exercises include matching / match-up, listening / jumble / unscramble sentences and gap-fill. Answers included. Les verbes pronominaux / la famille / tu t’entends bien avec ta famille? les relations familiales
A selection of activities for teaching the perfect tense. Includes:
Oral drills on a powerpoint
A ‘revision of the perfect tense’ sheet with matching activities, missing letters and sentence jumble translations
A summary sheet for retrieval practice with tables for pupils to fill in
A blank conjugation table to fill out
A handout with 3 lists for reference for revision, including just a few of the most important verbs from each group
A sentence builder modelling plenty of examples of how to explain cause and consequences in in the past in French across different topics.
Ideal for encouraging pupils to incorporate more complex grammar and structures into their work by scaffolding extended sentences with causal markers, as well as containing lots of verb + infinitive structures and complex opinion phases.
In addition to the sentence builder, there is a list of 24 example sentences that can be exploited as a quiz quiz trade activity, or you could use them in other ways eg. oral translation into English, or as a teacher-led listening - read some of the sentences and pupils translate on mini whiteboards using the sentence builder.
See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: /teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Sentence builder for learning how to give opinions on your hobbies hobbies / free time activities with a range of activity ideas
See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: /teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A sentence builder frame to help students learn to answer the question how did you celebrate your birthday in French - perfect tense and key vocab
4 pages of activities on worksheets (1-2 lessons’ worth) introducing the rooms in the house and key verbs and structures for describing them and giving opinions. Activities include:
Vocab matching task to introduce rooms
short reading with vocab-finding task to identify core verbs and structures
listening gap-fill
bad translation exercise based on listening transcript
reading exercises - reordering a text and filling gaps
writing - translation sentences and then a free writing task
Answers all included.
Suitable for KS3 or KS4.
Basic text on topic of mi colegio with vocab activities and translation. Once you have completed the vocab-finding activity, you can do true or false statements tailored to your group, OR comprehension questions. A more interesting and challenging activity is to get students to come up with a list of their own true or false statements to ask others - a great way to get them to study the text in detail. Finish with the translations. Answers included, of course.
3 x Sentence Builders for the new AQA GCSE French topic CUSTOMS AND CELEBRATIONS
Recommended for Higher Tier due to the range of language, but could easily be adapted for Foundation Tier (editable word documents included)
What’s included:
Learning outcomes covered:
o Describing birthdays - 3 tenses
o Describing a traditional celebrations and festivals
o How you celebrate - 3 tenses
Vocabulary based on the official AQA lists + high frequency, useful verb phrases, complex structures as chunks and other universals
Integration of complex structures and idiomatic expressions to help students learn high-level language as chunks
High-frequency vocabulary and complex structures are recycled across several of the sentence builders
How to use them:
Modelling & scaffolding: I use sentence builders as a Knowledge Organiser, a modelling tool when introducing a new topic, and a scaffold for writing and speaking.
Teaching ideas: I have a free document in my TES called “Teaching ideas for sentence builders†that I recommend downloading if you’d like more ideas on how to get started with sentence builders.
EPI methodology: Although I do not work in an EPI school or follow every part of MARS EARS from Gianfranco Conti, these sentence builders could be used for EPI - they are in both PDF and word format so can be edited and adapted.
If you have any questions about this resource, please do not hesitate to contact me via my MFL Instagram @eclaireMFL
Intended for the study of films in Spanish, this handout provides introductory steps to analysing film, and a comprehensive glossary of vocabulary in English and Spanish with detailed explanations and examples. The examples relate to the Almodovar film, Volver, but the principles can be applied to any film. It is roughly aimed at students studying for A-Level, Pre-U or IB (aged 16+). Whilst this resource is designed to provide information, you can also create activities from it, for example, by mixing up the Spanish and English words to match up, or match words to definitions. Or, you could assign different students certain terms and ask them to produce a short analysis of these aspects in one key scene to present to the class.
A short activity where students must read the boxes and put the phrase under the correct column - you can project this onto the board, tell students to read each phrase aloud in pairs and decide which column it goes in.
This is a template for a multiple-choice lesson activity (could be used as a starter or plenary, or a short recap exercise). I have included examples of how I have used it in the past with Spanish, in a gap-fill style to consolidate vocab previously learned. You could keep the gap-fill aspect or get rid of it and just put questions.
