A sentence builder to answer the question Qu’est-ce que tu as fait aujourd’hui ? / say what you have done today, within the context of high frequency verbs for being at school. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

A selection of oral activities and a worksheet for teaching possessive adjectives in French.

A set of short listening exercises (and one writing exercise) on the topic of descriptions in Spanish, including physical description, personality and also describing pets. The exercises include dictation, ‘bad translation’, sentence matching and a guided writing task.

Two sentence builders on the following topis: giving opinions on one’s job / work experience, and describing a past work experience + a jumble activity to go with the past work experience SB. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

A 3-page worksheet / activity sequence explaining how to use the pronouns en and y in set phrases for the topic of free time / hobbies / les loisirs / le temps libre. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’. The principles for how en and y work are briefly explained, but the pronouns are mostly practised in the context of useful phrases on the topic, including with negatives and time phrases. There is also a stage combining them with the present tense with depuis to enhance the complexity of students’ sentences. Activities include a brief grammar explanation to read, a matching task, a teacher-led listening, multiple-choice, translations and a writing task. All answers included. Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work. See below a similar resource for using ‘en’ in the topic of school, but this time the practice is purely translations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12967353

A selection of 3 detailed sentence builders for KS4 or KS3 French for talking about le temps / la météo. Includes how to talk about the weather in three tenses, past present and future, and how to combine weather with your favourite saison - quelle est ta saison préférée, and examples of how to link it to free time activities. See ideas for how to exploit sentence builders at this link below https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12281180 or at my blog.

4 pages of activities on worksheets (1-2 lessons’ worth) introducing the rooms in the house and key verbs and structures for describing them and giving opinions. Activities include: Vocab matching task to introduce rooms short reading with vocab-finding task to identify core verbs and structures listening gap-fill bad translation exercise based on listening transcript reading exercises - reordering a text and filling gaps writing - translation sentences and then a free writing task Answers all included. Suitable for KS3 or KS4.

A short activity where students must read the boxes and put the phrase under the correct column - you can project this onto the board, tell students to read each phrase aloud in pairs and decide which column it goes in.

A sentence builder to learn to describe lo mejor y lo peor about your school in Spanish. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

A good starter or plenary activity to recap learning on physical descriptions.

A variety of different classroom activities and worksheets for teaching the irregular verb estar in the present tense to beginners in a few lessons. Includes: dictation missing letters task to introduce verb and emotions and practise phonics inductive grammar worksheet to fill in with translations Interactive oral/memory tasks on ppt. to consolidate the conjugations

2 worksheets with activities to introduce and practise using different time expressions, connectives and basic negatives in Spanish to talk about when you do different pastimes. Pupils should already be familiar with the hobbies vocab before completing these activities.

Set of worksheets and activities to introduce and practise describing people and comparing them using más… que, menos… que and tan… como Short activity to complete orally projected onto the board (or printed out if you prefer) Parallel text with sentences in Spanish and English - you can use it to ask pupils to ‘find the Spanish’ for certain phrases in the English eg. ‘taller than’, ‘I think that’ etc. - can be done as a quiz Long worksheet practising it extensively Starter recap translations for a following lesson

Narrow reading worksheet to practise expressions for talking about the future, as well as vocab on hobbies and time phrases. This reading could be done once pupils are familiar with some hobbies vocab and time phrases, and are ready to be introduced to some future phrases. Suggestions for further activities included in document as well as answers.

Worksheets of activities to introduce and practise using possessive adjectives in Spanish, in relation to topic of family. Brief activity on definite article. Notes for teacher on how to use the activities included. One task also involves teaching dictionary skills.

Intended for the study of films in Spanish, this handout provides introductory steps to analysing film, and a comprehensive glossary of vocabulary in English and Spanish with detailed explanations and examples. The examples relate to the Almodovar film, Volver, but the principles can be applied to any film. It is roughly aimed at students studying for A-Level, Pre-U or IB (aged 16+). Whilst this resource is designed to provide information, you can also create activities from it, for example, by mixing up the Spanish and English words to match up, or match words to definitions. Or, you could assign different students certain terms and ask them to produce a short analysis of these aspects in one key scene to present to the class.

Sentence unjumbling task can be done orally as per instructions on slide 1, or printed and done in writing. Or pupils can write answers on mini whiteboards and do it live. Vocab is on topic of describing people. Can be done as a quiz or competition.

Listening gap-fill activity to practise vocab on describing people - read out the transcript included and pupils fill in gaps. Afterwards you can ask them true or false questions about each of the descriptions, or they can write their own true or false statements for each person. Following this, you could give them the same blank copy and repeat the activity but substitute the gaps for other vocab to practise!

Scaffold / writing frame for basic descriptions of family members in Spanish - vocab included to help. This activity would need to take place after pupils are familiar with the vocab in the boxes at the top - they are just there as prompts.