I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
Includes:
*breakdown of exam format
*Rough idea of what to include for each grade (I've developed this success criteria in line with the AQA mark scheme from the specification matierial)
* 2 options (just like the exam) for the 16 marker and 32 marker, room for corrections and then a response task
* Breakdown of the translation section, top tips for success in that section, difficult translation which includes prepositions of place (after mocks, this is what the cohort most lost marks on),
reflection sheet at the end, too :)
Full set of lessons made to support the textbook
includes lots of new activities and extra challenge/ scaffolding
fly in answers throughout
highly challenging - range of grammar/ tenses/ higher level language
range of exam skills covered - including a peer speaking photocard activity
includes self reflection points
This double sided grammar sheet has everything your student needs to do well at GCSE Spanish
I’ve divided the sections into the 3 time zones (past, present, future) for each you have the verb endings, common irregulars, time phrases, and some also include specific hl phrases for that tense.
On the reverse you have lots of opinions/ justifications and higher level and idiomatic expression formulas.
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE ACTIVITIES - 50 slides
Extensive revision booklet covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Theme 1 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
Me my family and friends - Technology in every day life - Free time activities - Customs and festivals
Grammar points included:
Comparisons
General literacy (spelling/ accents)
Gap fills with verbs in different tenses (Using context to choose the correct option)
Reflexive verbs - Illiciting the rule, seeing an explanation, practice
Present subjunctive formation and practice - Inc. irregulars
Present perfect tense
Por / para
“Verb of the day” with conjugation into all key GCSE tenses
Exam skills included:
Describing a photo
Reading and categorisation skills
Question words/ forming questions.
Ideal to set for revision or challenge and extension work.
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE Random images supplied are to give you an idea of the range of tasks. There are lots more included. (Around 150 slides)
Extensive revision booklets covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Themes 1/2/3 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
THEME 1 Booklet - family + relationships - technology -customs -
THEME 2 Booklet - Home, home town, neighbourhood and region - social issues - global issues - travel and tourism
THEME 3 Booklet - Life at school/college, post 16 education, jobs
Grammar points include (BUT ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO):
Quantifiers
Prepositions
articles
The preterite tense explanation and practice
verb gap fills in a range of tenses
Conditional tense inc. irregulars
Conjugation into all GCSE tenses
categorising 2 or more tenses tasks
Higher level idiomatic expressions
Present tense
future tense
sequencing connectives
higher level infinitive structures
reflexive verbs
Exam skills
Lots and lots of exposure to key vocab from this theme
Translation
Giving directions
Reading and categorisation
Question words practice and forming questions
Q+A practice
Writing skills with bullet points
manipulating adjectives (for gender and sing/plural)
Reading gap fill
Really proud of this
visual prompts/ fly in answers throughout
very visually stimulating and well designed
lesson focuses on language/ grammar patterns
increases in cognitive demand throughout
reflection points and production tasks
Good to consolidate grammar or use for intervention.
Double sided a4 sheet
Side 1 - the 3 time frames (Past, Present, Future) with regular verb endings for each tense within that category plus common irregulars, Time expressions which trigger that category, HL phrases and idioms)
Side 2 - Opinion phrases, connectives, sequencing connectives, higher level structures for the grade 7+, Idiomatic expressions for the grade 7+
I’ve used this sheet year after year and it always enables students to access the 5+ and the top levels as it’s clear which tenses are in each time frame. The time expression triggers provide a good visual for students, too.
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE ACTIVITIES - 92 slides - Random images supplied are to give you an idea of the range of tasks. There are lots more included.
Extensive revision booklet covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Theme 2 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
Home, home town, neighbourhood and region - social issues - global issues - travel and tourism
Grammar points included:
Quantifiers
Prepositions
articles
The preterite tense explanation and practice
verb gap fills in a range of tenses
Conditional tense inc. irregulars
Conjugation into all GCSE tenses
categorising 2 or more tenses tasks
Higher level idiomatic expressions
Present tense
future tense
sequencing connectives
higher level infinitive structures
reflexive verbs
Exam skills
Lots and lots of exposure to key vocab from this theme
Translation
Giving directions
Reading and categorisation
Question words practice and forming questions
Q+A practice
Writing skills with bullet points
manipulating adjectives (for gender and sing/plural)
Reading gap fill
These workshops have been made to support Dynamo 2 vert Module 1 - vive les vacances!
Topics included:
Reviewing and talking about school holidays
The perfect tense (regular and irregular)
Places in town
Past tense activities, opinions
Range of verb endings + negative verbs practice
Talking about a special holiday in the past
Differentiated writing tasks on past holidays
Resources could be used to support class powerpoints, remote learning, homeworks, or additional support.
**All resources compliment / consolidate content from Module 1. There are no duplicated tasks from the textbook or workbook. **
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated. Tasks take 20-30 minutes (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for higher end vert students.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
Dynamo 2 Module 1 rouge resources coming soon.
Inductive worksheet covering the present and perfect tense with avoir.
What’s included?
common infinitives
common regular verbs
common irregular verbs
how to form the regular present/ perfect tense with avoir
practice with the above
common irregular forms of the present/ perfect tenses
practice with the above
a writing task
a reflection task
Would be suitable for KS3 as it is differentiated/ has lots of support but also low ability GCSE French groups.
developed for my PM - Loads of activities and games/ competitions
activities to develop a range of skills:
*problem solving
* collaboration/ team work
* recalling vocab
* applying knowledge
* producing higher level language
* synthesising understanding of topics/ grammar
having FUN!! and engaging with the curriculum
some are one activity , some last a whole lesson. I have trialled all and adapted to improve further. These are activities that boys in particular ask me to build into future lessons.
Hope you find them useful :)
Independent work lesson - minimal teacher input
students choose a task: a poster of Xmas items, a letter to Santa, a christmas card or a new years resolution list
Print outs for French and Spanish to support student with topical vocab