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.
Introduces present tense of regular AR verbs (main model verb: estudiar). Short practice exercise. Plenary game (pupils gain points for their team by creating a phrase, e.g. if they say 'bailan', the teacher clicks "they" and "dance", revealing a number of points under each square which are added together and given to that team)
This worksheet has two sides:
one with a 150-word environment question, with a model answer to highlight, dissect and analyse (to give students ideas for their own writing)
second side gives a 90-word environment question, with an inadequate sample answer for them to analyse, annotate and improve in pairs
Students found this useful to prepare to write their own answer to an GCSE question on the environment.
Took up a good chunk of the lesson.
10 page (+cover) Grammar Booklet. Perfect for end of year revision or consolidation work during the year.
This was designed as a Grammar Revision booklet for first year Spanish students, covering:
Gender: masculine and feminine nouns
Singular and plural nouns
'The' (the definite article)
'A (an)' (the indefinite article)
'Some'
Adjective agreements
Me gusta(n)
‘My, your, his, her, its’ (Possessive pronouns)
Regular verbs in the Present Tense
Two irregular verbs: ‘tener’ and ‘ser’
There are step-by-step explanations and exercises for each grammar point.
The vocabulary used presupposes familiarity with the first four chapters of Mira 1 (or a similar text book: it is typical'beginners'' vocabulary on family, pets, colours, etc)
Lesson Powerpoint and accompanying worksheets (and vocabulary sheet) on talking about what your IDEAL SCHOOL would be like.
Key verbs introduced, model texts with ideas. Everything you need for teaching this sub-topic.
BONUS
As a little extra, I’ve included some slides about talking about EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES and WHAT MY PRIMARY SCHOOL WAS LIKE
Four resources to aid pupils' study of L'étranger by Albert Camus. Focussing on characters, themes and key quotations. Hopefully this will save you some time.
See individual resources in the bundle for more information about each.
This is a triple worksheet (three pages) about future plans (not future jobs as such but more general: I'm going to take a gap year, go to university, learn to drive, etc).
Sheet 1 is a vocabulary sheet for this topic.
Sheet 2 has some simply match-up and gap-fill tasks to introduce key vocabulary.
Sheet 3 has four sample paragraphs about people's future plans. There are questions testing comprehension but also getting pupils to highlight useful language such as time phrases, connectives, etc. The idea is to get them to think about how they can write sophisticated paragraphs about this topic.
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
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
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
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPs. You could base a whole lesson around these resources (or set them for homework/revision).
Contains:
A slide with a ‘mosaic writing’ activity (credit to Gianfranco Conti for this idea):
i.e. Pupils are given a short paragraph in English about family relationships and have to construct a Spanish translation from the words provided in the grid.
A worksheet with various tasks designed to build up/practise key vocabulary to do with this topic.
The idea is that the gap-fill task can be completed purely by using words drawn from the first text - in other words, pupils are identifying and recycling the relevant language. Likewise the Translation sentences at the bottom can be done using vocabulary from elsewhere on the worksheet.
Ideas for further exploiting the worksheet
You can exploit the texts on the worksheet in other ways. E.g. spot the adjectives. Re-write one of the texts changing the underlined parts (teacher could project the texts onto board with some phrases underlined) to say something else, verbally or in writing e.g. alternative adjectives, different verbs, different family member words. Plenary with mini-whiteboard sentences to translate based purely on words and phrases from the text (or incorporating prior knowledge too for stronger classes). Reading texts aloud for pronunciation practice. Translate the first text. etc etc.
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.
(Images public domain from https://openclipart.org )
Double-sided sheet with an overview of all the main Spanish verb tenses.
Ideal ‘quick reference’ sheet for Key Stage 4 and 5.
Pupils can stick it in front of their books/files.
Sections are numbered so you can quickly refer them to the right section.
Includes stem-changing and key irregular/semi-irregular verbs.
PDF and editable Powerpoint* version included.
*Note that if you don’t have the latest (2016) version of Office, the formatting of the PPT version will appear wrongly. But the PDF will be fine.
FRENCH VERSION ALSO AVAILABLE IN MY SHOP :)
Aim: to help GCSE (or KS3) pupils prepare to write their own paragraph about ‘last weekend’ (after previously learning the Preterite Tense and relevant activity vocabulary).
Worksheet with 2 model texts about “el fin de semana pasado” (last weekend). Contains opinions and time phrases for pupils to find.
Accompanying Powerpoint with a “One Pen, One Die” activity to do after the worksheet. Then a speaking pair game (roll the die, say the sentence, gain the points). Also a gap-fill activity to reinforce the language from the worksheet - could be used as a Starter the following lesson.
Introducing the Present Subjunctive in an environment context for GCSE students, once pupils have already learnt some environment vocabulary.
Doesn’t include the endings in the Presentation (you’ll need to write them on the board or add a slide) but focusses on how to USE the subjunctive after certain phrases, mainly: “es necesario que”, “es importante que”, “es esencial que” (so it’s not a comprehensive guide to the use of the subjunctive - just a way in.)
Lots of examples given (from Global Issues/Environment context) contrasting the subjunctive with the indicative.
Includes irregulars haber, ser and ir.
Example sentences where students put the verb into the subjunctive on their mini-whiteboards.
Plus some sentences for them to translate.
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 regular IR verb endings (present tense), with oral practice and practice activity. Plenary class game to finish: Two teams take turn to say a sentence, e.g. 'VivEN en Cuba'; the relevant box is clicked; if there is a cross underneath it, that team gets a point.
