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.
Learners are given some short phrases that can be printed off and cut-out into strips. They are to work in pairs to sort the short phrases and place them under the right categories. Then, once they are done, they could have a go at translating them from French into English. The aim is to see whether they can recognize and understand how to use the simple present and near future tenses.
PowerPoint introduces some simple Chinese words and greetings with visuals to show some different aspects of Chinese history and culture. Teacher can do a competition to split the class into two teams and the team that pronounces each word/phrase the best will get a point. The team with the most points, wins and gets a special prize.
To practise, there is a role play with the pinyin for learners to do with their partner and take it in turns to be A and B. If learners are feeling confident, they can do it without the pinyin too.
Materials available: Vocabulary sheet, role play (with Pinyin), role play (without pinyin).
Introductory Powerpoint to likes + dislikes of different sports. Also, there is a starter exercise on numbers 1-100 to recap and consolidate their knowledge.
Students are given a grid with three tenses: present simple, perfect and near future tenses. They are given some short cut-out phrases and in pairs, they are to sort them into the right categories.
This activity is to revise their tenses and ensure they are able to recognize the differences between the present simple, perfect and the near future.
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 “pouvoirâ€.
Students are to complete the wordsearch based on the topic of towns and what there is and isn’t in their region. Then, they are to translate the French words into English.
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 “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 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’.