A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A full Presentation on the Individual Research Project. This could be covered all in one lesson, or referred back to in different lessons based on what stage of the IRP you are at.
Includes:
A comprehensive PPT which takes you through all steps of the IRP. Includes tasks, activities for consolidation, revision and preparation. Also introduces the IRP and explains what it is and how much it counts.
An example of an IRP on women in society during the 1930s. This is a full script with questions and responses to show what the discussion should be like.
A quiz useful for an end-of-year lesson, or for revision purposes. Focuses on the AQA spec. for year 1/year 12. There are 6 rounds, with 10 questions in each.
Rounds are:
• La famille en voie de changement
• La cyber-societe
• Le role du benevolat
• Une culture fiere de son patrimoine
• La musique francophone contemporaine
• Le septieme art (le cinema)
Some of the questions require gap-fill, others are more like the exam comprehensions and others are choosing the correct letter. There are also short translations.
A revision lesson aimed at students studying AQA GCSE Spanish who have their Speaking and Writing exam coming up.
All themes covered during the lesson.
By the end of it, students should feel comfortable talking or writing about every theme. Time is also spent on using filler phrases, expanding vocabulary and going through the criteria of how to be successful.
The PowerPoint in this resource is ideal for a department in English - it comes from an AQA conference attended in Spring 2018 so includes exclusive content/insights into the examination board and how they mark exams, the difference between Bands etc.
PowerPoint offers ideas on how teachers can encourage students to be more successful, like in stressing the importance of answering the questions.
PowerPoint thoroughly explains the differences between the different bands and how students can start to write as if they were in Band 5, as well as providing Lead Examiner commentary on student responses.
Activities offered include a structure for students to plan an essay with, plus a framework that allows students to really consolidate their text.
An in-depth revision lesson for Death of a Salesman, aimed primarily at A level students.
Includes:
a starter on discussion questions relating to the main themes in the play
a synopsis of the play, with questions on the most significant aspect featured in terms of tragedy
absolution and classic tragedy
foreseeable destiny
context: the salesman and the American Dream
the end - recognising the truth
key ideas to consider when writing
wider context: Miller’s other tragedies ad the purpose of the ordinary man
an extended writing task on constructing an argument (based on the points given in the PPT which allows students to develop their own ideas on what the purpose of the play is and how meanings are shaped. Also uses the literary techniques sheet included for them to refer to for revision, or to add as evidence in their arguments)
A list of questions in Spanish aimed at practicing tenses. This is an activity to be done in pairs, cut out and then spoken in pairs. Can be used as a starter or a main lesson activity.
Two in-depth PowerPoints on the use of the conditional tenses in Spanish, particulary ‘si’ clauses.
Teaches how to use the conditional tenses, particularly paired with the subjunctive. Particularly:
Presente + Presente
Presente + Imperativo
Imperfecto de subjuntivo + condicional
Pluscuamperfecto subj + condicional simple
Pluscuamperfecto subjuntivo + condicional compuesto
Fully comprehensive PPT that could last 2+ lessons on relative pronouns. This was used for A level but can be adapted accordingly, depending on the level you are teaching at.
Includes exercises in the PPT for students to test what they have learnt.
The pronouns that are covered:
(i) qui, que
(ii) dont
(iii) ce qui, ce que, ce dont
(iv) lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles
auquel, Ã laquelle, auxquels, auxquelles
duquel, de laquelle, desquels, desquelles
(v) quoi
(vi) où
The definitions given:
the main clause
the relative clause
the relative pronoun
the ‘head’ noun
A worksheet that can be used as an in-class assessment aimed at A level students, or Year 11s that can confidently use the subjunctive. The worksheet is as follows:
Spanish Subjunctive/Indicative Revision. A list of sentences all beginning with ‘cuando’ where students must choose which mood fits best and conjugate the verb accordingly.
Complete sentences conjugating verbs - this varies from mood to tense to person.
Select the correct word to fill the gap.
This comes with answers so can be peer-marked, teacher-marked or class-marked.
A two-page help sheet for A level students needing to write essays for their exams.
Focuses on the development of the structure of the essays and contains:
Sentence starters for introductions, plus key words
Sentence starters for main paragraphs, plus key words
Sentence starters for the conclusion, plus key words
Advice on verbal constructions (based on mistakes I have seen in students’ essays)
Key vocab
A worksheet aimed at Years 10 and 11 students (although this can be used at A level to revise tense usage) which tests students’ knowledge of the tenses. It is structured as follows:
Students have to conjugate verbs in the imperfect and then, from a list of uses for the Imperfect, decide which one fits the sentence best.
Students do the same as the above, but with the preterite.
The same as the above, but with the pluperfect.
Students translate a set of sentences and think about the different contexts their tenses imply.
Students finish sentences (si clauses) based on what tense should follow.
Students translate sentences to English from French to test their knowledge of depuis, pendant and pour.
comes with answers included on a separate sheet
A worksheet aimed at Year 10s and 11s to revise the usage of ‘ser’ and ‘estar’ in different contexts. Can also be used for Years 12s and 13s if they are needing to revise the same thing.
All the questions come with answers on a separate page.
A full lesson aimed at A level students studying French that covers discrimination between genders, above all in the work place.
The resource includes:
A PPT with a quiz as a starter where students use what they know to guess answers to some facts about the status of women in France and in the world of work. (15 mins)
A document with the answers on to these questions plus additional information.
A verb test which will take around 15 minutes
Answers to the verb test
A reading task plus answers (30 mins)
Suitable for any exam board
A lesson that can be used for a variety of different subjects, that aims to increase cultural awareness amongst students as well as helping their literacy. Can be tailored for any year group. Includes:
a presentation to give to students on Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Whilst the teacher is presenting, students should complete a mini-fact file based on what’s being said. The information given is based on cuisine, public holidays and education.
an article from The Guardian that has been cropped and edited so students read information on traveling through Scandinavia which raises their cultural awareness, and use it to create a leaflet. This boost students’ understanding of how pieces of prose are constructed.
End-of-term French Christmas quiz, suitable for any year group (inc. A level students)
Includes:
Cultural references - is the answer A,B,C etc.
Translations
New verb and cultural-specific vocabulary for Christmas
True or false
Gap fills
*Answers included in a separate document, in the same folder.
A resource I created to give to A level/Year 11 students as an in-class exam which can be particularly useful for Assessment Points.
It tests the following:
Pronouns: exercises include re-writing sentences and replacing certain words with the correct pronouns
Tenses: give the correct conjugation of the verb with the correct tense
Translating questions and inverting verbs into French
*Comes with answers provided on the last page of the document.
** This test normally lasts around 45 minutes so I have enough time to explain what we’re doing in the lesson and then do a short plenary or starter activity.
This resource is suitable for any year group with whom you have worked on the subjunctive and its uses. The PPT lesson will require some prior knowledge of the tense, however it is possible to adapt it so that this is not the case.
The PPT has 5 different tasks:
To revise, list some instances whereby you would use the subjunctive (includes answers)
Give certain forms of the subjunctive of certain verbs
Impersonal phrases that take the subjunctive
How to use the subjunctive to translate other phrases where it’s not needed in English (although, wherever etc)
Translation activities
