Speaking support mat to help students with enhancing their language further split into: conjunctions, opinion phrases, positive opinions, negative opinions, sequencers, intensifiers and quantifiers.
Attached are self-evaluation templates that I’ve created aimed to help students fully prepare for their listening, reading and writing mock exams in Modern Foreign Languages.
Wordsearch on the weather to get students settled and introduced to some key vocabulary on the topic of the weather.
As an extension, students can have a go at translating the words into English.
A comprehensive list of some useful sentence structures and phrases with different ways of expressing the same thing and avoiding repetition. This resource will help students to develop their vocabulary and further enhance the quality and authenticity of their speaking and writing.
Some speaking questions to get students to ask and answer questions using some of the key grammatical structures. E.g. 是。。。的。。。 A 还是 B
Questions increase in complexity.
Powerpoint introducing some famous Chinese dishes and beverages.
A variety of games can be played such as:
1.Splat
2.Beat the Teacher
3.Pronunciation competition.
Then, there is a dialogue that I have created that students can practise and rehearse in pairs. There are two versions: one with the pinyin and the other with the characters for differentiation.
Scaffolded worksheet that focuses on meeting the verb “poder”, manipulating it through a wide range of exercises such as translation and making language their own by creating some sentences using “poder”.
Exercise 1: Complete the table “poder”.
**Exercise 2: **Fill-in the gaps with the correct form of “poder”.
**Exercise 3: **Translate the sentences in exercise 2 into English.
**Exercise 4: **Create four sentences using the verb “poder”.
A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of “weather” in the cultural context of towns and cities in France. There is ample opportunity for students to meet new Language, manipulate the language and make it their own.
Exercises include:
1.Mets les noms de ces villes (Can you put the names of these French cities and towns in the correct place on the map?
2.Vrai ou faux? (true or false?)
Corrige les phrases fausses (correct the false sentences).
3.Traduis les phrases en anglais (translate the sentences into English).
4.Ecris quatre phrases. (Write four sentences about the weather in Tibshelf describing what the weather is like in different seasons).
Tip: Use the vocabulary from today’s lesson to help you!
A scaffolded worksheet on the grammar of “reflexive” verbs with ample opportunity for students to manipulate the language and apply their understanding of reflexive pronouns and verbs in French.
Exercises include:
1: Remplis le tableau pour le verbe réfléchi “se laver” (Fill-in the grid for the reflexive verb “se laver”).
2: Corrige les erreurs (correct the errors).
3: Traduis les phrases en anglais (translate the sentences into English).
4: Traduis les phrases en fran?ais (translate the sentences into French).
Extension: Ecris cinq phrases en utilisant les verbes réfléchis les plus courants. (Write 5 sentences using the most common reflexive verbs).
A scaffolded worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet, manipulate and make language their own.
Exercises include:
A) Complete the table with the correct conjugation of the verb ‘faire’.
B) Irregular verb: faire (‘to do’)
(i) Fill-in the gaps.
(ii) Translate the sentences into English.
C) du/de la/ de l’ / des
(i) Fill-in the gaps with the correct partitive article.
(ii) Translate the sentences into English.
D) Write 5 sentences using the verb ‘faire’.
Worksheet meeting the verb, manipulating the language through a wide-range of exercises such as a gap-fill and translating the sentences into English; and making it own by writing some sentences using the verb “pouvoir”.
Scaffolded worksheet that is split into different parts using the present simple:
Part 1: Match the two halves (the Spanish with the English).
Part 2: Translate the sentences into English using the vocabulary from part 1 to help them.
Translate the sentences into Spanish using the previous exercises to help them.
Part 3: Write 5 sentences saying what they are doing on their holidays.
A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of likes and dislikes of different activities.
Includes:
Part 1: Vocabulary - matching up the French with the English equivalent
Part 2: Grammar: (i) filling in the grid with the correct conjugation of the verb “aimer”.
(ii) Filling in the gaps with the correct infinitve.
Part 3: Translation: translate the sentences into English.
A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of transport with the main focus on the key grammar: avant de plus an infinitive.
Exercises include:
Part 1: Vocabulary - matching-up the French with the English
Part 2: Matching-up the two halves to form completed sentences.
Part 3: Translating the matched-up sentences into English.
Part 4: Writing four sentences using the vocabulary and grammar avant de plus an infinitive. Then, translating them into English.
A scaffolded worksheet on demonstrative adjectives based on the topic of buying souvenirs with opportunities to meet, manipulate and make language their own.
A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of likes and dislikes of different activities.
Key grammar: “gustar” + infinitive.
Includes:
Part 1: Vocabulary - matching up the Spanish with the English equivalent
Part 2: Grammar: (i) filling in the grid with the correct conjugation of the verb “gustar”.
(ii) Filling in the gaps with the correct infinitive.
Part 3: Translation: translate the sentences into English.
A scaffolded worksheet giving students the opportunity to meet the new language, manipulate it and make language their own.
The key grammar in this lesson is definite articles and students need to be able to know the gender of family members in Spanish.
This worksheet also focuses on developing student’s reading and writing skills.
Exercise 1: Sort the members of the family into masculine, feminine and plural.
Exercise 2: Translate the family members above into English.
Exercise 3: Read the text and answer the questions in English.
Exercise 4: Write a paragraph about your familia. Include some of the vocabulary and connectives from today’s lesson. You can use the text as a model from exercise 3 to help you.