KS3 French perfect for Year 8-9 introducing the topic of holidays and 'le passé composé' (past tense). A range of lessons including PowerPoints, worksheets, homework tasks and a self-recorded audio with a native French speaker. Progression from present tense holidays to past tense holidays. Certain activities could easily be used as revision for a KS4 class.

12 MFL posters to showcase (some of) the type of careers available to those who study modern foreign languages. 2x files included in pack: - 12 MFL career posters in A4 - Same 12 MFL career posters in A5 Ideal for: - Student motivation. - Raising the profile of languages in your school. - Helping impart job roles in Spanish/French. - Displays for parents' evenings and open days.

N.B. This lesson is designed to work in preparation for translation from Spanish into English, centering on Section C Translation in the new Edexcel Spanish GCSE specification. This can be used as well for the AQA exam board as they also have a translation section from Spanish-English. - Lesson includes many translation strategies and tips, but focuses on developing the skill of 'naturalisation' in English (i.e. translating to ensure that the English sounds correct and natural, without adding or removing information from the source text). - Shows students how to practically use the skill of naturalisation through step-by-step tasks. - Includes tips and examples of how to translate more challenging language, such as Spanish place and food names. - Features differentiated tasks for both Foundation and Higher exams. - Lesson includes a new GCSE-style translation task (SP-EN) with an area for peer evaluation comments and with respective mark schemes. - PowerPoint slides provide comments for the teacher with explanations on how each task might be delivered and any vital information to support the students. - Questions for students to consider throughout concerning how they translate to encourage meta-cognition of their steps for translation.

- Ideal for KS4 after unit of work focussing on home. - Recap of bedroom objects. - Recap of colours. - Recap of chores/activities around the house. - Recap of adjectives. - Recap of present vs. conditional. - Recap of 'tener' vs. 'haber', and 'estar'. - Colour-coded activities to make learning more accessible to dyslexic pupils or students with lower literacy. - Extension/'stretch and challenge' activities provided.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish. - Total of 10 files included in package. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - 'Stretch and challenge' extensions for more able students. - Support for weaker students. - Reference sheets to glue in exercise books. - Includes 2x lessons (showing progression), with worksheets, extension worksheets and reference sheets to glue in. Also includes a mini-mastery activity with improvement task and support sheet to check students' understanding of grammar and language when talking about towns/cities in the present tense before moving onto the preterite. - Includes 2x vocabulary learning homeworks: (1) places in the city/town (2) future time indicators. - Particular emphasis on independent tasks and encouraging students to work with the support of scaffolded exercise and reference materials.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish. - Total of 6 files included in package. - Includes two optional vocabulary-learning/spelling homeworks you may want to give your students to help them learn past time indicators and some set phrases in the preterite tense talking about holidays. - Extension sheet provided, same as that of the KS3/4 Spanish - Preterite past tense - ¿Cómo te fue el fin de semana pasado? / How was last weekend?, as it consolidates 'fui a ________' and the names of territories and countries. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - 'Stretch and challenge' extensions for more able students. - Support for weaker students. - Reference sheets to glue in exercise books to be printed (found in PowerPoints). - Follows on from previous lesson available on TES entitled 'KS3/4 Spanish - Preterite past tense - ¿Cómo te fue el fin de semana pasado? / How was last weekend?' - Particular emphasis on independent tasks and encouraging students to work with the support of scaffolded exercise and reference materials.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 Spanish. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - 'Stretch and challenge' extensions for more able students. - Support for weaker students. - Slides to explain grammar step-by-step to make language more accessible to students, especially 'me gusta/me encanta' + second (infinitive) verb.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 Spanish. - In a Scheme of Work, this lesson would come after students have been taught vocabulary for different places in a city, such as 'centro comercial, estación de trenes' etc. See my lesson 'KS3 Spanish - ¿Qué hay en la ciudad? / ¿Qué hay en Madrid?'. - Includes x2 lessons: 1) ¿Qué te gusta hacer en la ciudad? 2) ¿Qué se puede hacer en la ciudad? - Inductive grammar (opinion phrase + infinitive verb). - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - 'Stretch and challenge' extensions for more able students. - Support for weaker students. - Includes one full lesson (PowerPoint) and accompanying worksheet. - Includes a "Mini-mastery quiz" assessment. This is a "quick to do, quick to mark" assessments which can be handed out, collected and completed within 10 mins. This AfL will allow the instructor to determine whether students have grasped opinion phrases which change before plurals ('me gusta[n]'), whether students have learnt basic vocabulary for places around town, and whether students understand that opinion phrase/'se puede' uses the infinitive form of the verb.

N.B. This lesson can easily be used in preparation for a listening assessment as it helps students develop both their exam skills and their capacity to consciously listen to TL. - Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish, as the lesson includes plenty of scaffolding and step-by-step exploitation of audios. - Total of 6 files in the package: three audio files recorded specially for developing listening skills, one PowerPoint presentation, a vocabulary-drilling worksheet, and a general worksheet to accompany the lesson. - Listening skills activities are based on academic research into: (a) What students find most difficult about approaching an audio text (b) How to guide students into finding the correct information in the text (c) Going beyond simply inferring information from audio texts and encouraging students to isolate individual words and phrases (d) Encourages students to pay extra attention to letters and pronunciation (e) Shows students a range of exam tips and how to listen for gist (f) Shows students how to take advantage of all information and clues before they listen to the audio text - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - Notes under slides to explain how teachers might like to deliver the lesson and also details the thinking behind each activity. - Allows student to go through the thought process of approaching a listening activity step-by-step - an emphasis on metacognition.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish. - Covers full unit of work on holidays and formation of the preterite past tense. - Each grammar point includes an explanation and examples. - Full of activities for every grammar point and lesson from unit of work. - Reading comprehension tasks indicate numbers of points available per question in order to help students get accustomed to the format in GSCE examinations.

PowerPoint slides with memory tags (rhymes, visualisations and ways to remember) for 40 common verbs. All slides follow a format and contain images to support students’ word-association. Ideal for: Classroom displays Slides in lessons Slides could also be adapted into a guessing game in which students see the image/memory tag and need to guess the corresponding verb.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish. - Total of 2 files included in package. (Full PowerPoint lesson and worksheet accompany the lesson.) - Mixture of 'settle and stir' activities. - Includes grammar on 'opinion + infinitive verb' and 'opinion phrases + nouns', focusing on the adaptation of 'me gusta/me encanta' etc., i.e. when to add an 'n' at the end. - Extensions provided throughout the lesson, as well as scaffolding to accommodate lower ability learners. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - Particular emphasis on independent tasks and encouraging students to work with the support of scaffolded exercise and reference materials.

- Ideal resources for lower KS4 or upper KS3 learners of Spanish. - Includes two lessons, contrasting both the advantages and disadvantages of social networks online. - SMSC. - Colour-coded texts according to word categories to support learners with dyslexia or lower literacy skills. - Exemplar paragraphs with positives and negatives outlined, reflecting how to get a C grade for foundation students, or a B/A for higher paper students. - Encouraging 'noticing'. - Alternative versions of activities and support/extension activities to encourage differentiation and support all abilities. - Visuals, imagery and animations.

- Presentation and worksheet - Formed part of a Master's level research enquiry at the University of Cambridge - Ideal for KS3 learning colours, descriptions and has links with Salvador Dalí - Includes a range of authentic texts focusing on ChupaChups, including an advert, an authentic reading text (adapted) and some artificial activities - Highly creative and engaging, encourages independent writing. - Can be incorporated into Schemes of Work which deal with colours, descriptions and food/drink.

- Ideal for KS3 learners who have a very basic knowledge of food and drink in Spanish, including 'desayuno/como/ceno/bebo' etc. - Activities are designed to cater towards the new GSCE specification, as tasks encourage learners to use independent language; to recognise cognates and lexical patters; to read for gist and inference, in this case to decipher if a text is positive or negative. - This two-lesson package includes giving opinions on what you like/dislike eating and drinking, allowing students to progress from simply 'I have eggs for breakfast' to 'I like having eggs for breakfast'. - Includes animated slides and colour-coded texts to aid learners with low literacy and dyslexia etc. Linguistic elements covered: - Lexis for food and drink (specifically breakfast, lunch and dinner) - Lexis for descriptions of food ('delicioso/a', 'sabe bien/mal', 'rico/a' etc.) - Present tense verbs - Introduction to the conditional at a very basic level - Giving opinions (me gusta + second vb. etc.) - Justifying opinions using 'porque' and 'ya que'

- Ideal for KS4 learners of Spanish. - Introduction of conditional tense (basic) using inductive grammar teaching which encourages 'noticing' and independent learning. - Whole class game included. - Modelling and writing activity included. - Colour-coded texts throughout according to category of word in order to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - 'Stretch and challenge' extension activities provided. - Carefully scaffolded instructions to support students but also encourage development of skills necessary for the new GSCE spec. - Visuals and animation throughout.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish. - Total of 5 files included in package. (Full PowerPoint lesson, worksheet, a homework sheet for learning vocabulary, as well as an alternative, and starter activity to print.) - Extensions provided throughout the lesson, as well as scaffolding to accommodate lower ability learners. - Multiple opportunities to broaden vocabulary on the topic of food. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - Link to audio-visual activity in the lesson. - Particular emphasis on independent tasks and encouraging students to work with the support of scaffolded exercise and reference materials. - Focus on collaborative learning so that students can take responsibility for their learning and share their learning with the rest of the class to foster independence. - Students learn vocabulary for fruit and vegetables, how to measure different quantities, and colloquial vocabulary for visiting a market/shop and buying food. - Includes cultural exposure to the historic 'La Boquería' market in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).

N.B. This lesson can easily be used in preparation for a spoken or written examination in regards to the 'describe the picture' task. - Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish, especially lower sets who require significant scaffolding. - Total of 2 files included in package. (Full PowerPoint lesson and a worksheet. Worksheet includes an extension worksheet within the same Word document.) - Extensions provided throughout the lesson, as well as scaffolding to accommodate lower ability learners. - Students encouraged to investigate vocabulary independently, with the support of scaffolded exercise and reference materials. Opportunity for dictionary work. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - Answer slides included in PowerPoint. - Uses the PALMO mnemonic (Place, Action, Location, Mood & Opinion) to help students structure a clear and cohesive response to a GCSE-style speaking/writing question which involves describing a picture. This type of question will be part of the new GCSE specification. - Focus on collaborative learning which allows students to contribute new vocabulary and ideas in order to further the learning of all students in the class. - Activities are carefully structured and scaffolded, complete with 'Helpful Hints!' box to allow for carefully-tailored progression. - Opportunity for peer assessment with WWW (What Went Well) and EBI (Even Better If). - Both receptive and productive use of the written/spoken language.

- Ideal resources for lower KS4 or upper KS3 learners of Spanish. - Colour-coded texts according to word categories to support learners with dyslexia or lower literacy skills. - Exemplar paragraphs with positives and negatives outlined, reflecting how to get a C grade for foundation students, or a B/A for higher paper students. - Encouraging 'noticing'. - Alternative versions of activities and support/extension activities to encourage differentiation and support all abilities. - Visuals, imagery and animations.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 Spanish. - In a Scheme of Work, this lesson would come after students have been taught vocabulary for different places in a city, such as 'centro comercial, estación de trenes' etc. See my lesson 'KS3 Spanish - ¿Qué te gusta hacer en la ciudad?'. - Inductive grammar (opinion phrase + infinitive verb). - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - 'Stretch and challenge' extensions for more able students. - Support for weaker students. - Includes one full lesson (PowerPoint) and accompanying worksheet. - Includes a "Mini-mastery quiz" assessment. This is a "quick to do, quick to mark" assessments which can be handed out, collected and completed within 10 mins. This AfL will allow the instructor to determine whether students have grasped opinion phrases which change before plurals ('me gusta[n]'), whether students have learnt basic vocabulary for places around town, and whether students understand that opinion phrase/'se puede' uses the infinitive form of the verb.

- Ideal for learners of KS3 and lower KS4 Spanish. - Total of 2 files included in package (PowerPoint lesson and worksheet). - Follows on from the lesson on TES entitled "KS3/4 Spanish - ¿Qué recomienda? / What do you recommend?" (At the GP's surgery) by the same author. - Extension activities provided throughout the accommodate for stretch and challenge. - Focus on 'opinion phrase + noun' agreement and 'opinion phrase + infinitive verb', and provides rules for students to copy into their books. - CfU (checking for understanding) activities. - Recap of healthy and unhealthy foods. - Introduction of time frequency adverbs. - Colour-coded texts according to word category to support students with dyslexia or lower literacy. - Animated and visually engaging slides. - Support for weaker students. - Use of 'think, pair, share' to encourage student voice, deep thinking and learners taking greater responsibility for their learning. - Includes speaking and reading activities. - Activities are designed to support the skills needed for the new GCSE specification, including 'reading between the lines', looking for gist and interpreting texts beyond basic-level comprehension. - Mixture of settle and stir activities, along with whole class discussion, short activities to check for understanding (AfL) and sustained independent tasks. - Clear progression from receptive to productive skills. - Peer evaluation/assessment as part of the plenary, using WWW and EBI.