Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
A sentence builder and short translation task to learn to describe your ideal house using the conditional & imperfect subjunctive. 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 set of 3 x sentence builders to help pupils structure their answers and vary their vocab for the card discussion in the speaking exam for AQA. Quizlet links for studying the vocab are included in the document. Pupils can use this document as a scaffold when preparing answers to speaking cards.
A sentence builder and translation activity on the topic of physical descriptions / describing family members in French to answer the question ‘comment sont-ils physiquement?’ 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
Various exercises to introduce and practise three reflexive verbs on the topic of family relationships - s’entendre avec, se disputer avec, se fâcher contre. Also practices vocab for members of the family and negative sentences with ne pas and ne jamais. Exercises include matching / match-up, listening / jumble / unscramble sentences and gap-fill. Answers included. Les verbes pronominaux / la famille / tu t’entends bien avec ta famille? les relations familiales
A sentence builder on the topic of health to answer the question ‘¿Qué haces para mantenerte en forma?’ along with a short listening ‘faulty transcript’ exercise and some translations / jumbled sentences. 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
I just made these 6 sentence builders to give to my students to revise from for a writing test. They cover the following points:
Introducing yourself, giving age, birthday, where you’re from and where you live
Describing physique, hair and eyes - of yourself or of someone else
Describing personality - of yourself or of someone else
Describing your family and giving their names, ages and birthdays
Saying what pets you have (and colours) and any pets you used to have / would like to have
However, you can also use them for teaching the content in the first place - click this link to see ideas on how you can use sentence builders https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
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 sentence builder with a worksheet and list of teaching ideas and activities (listening, speaking, translation) to teach the future tense. Answers for worksheet included. It is within the topic of les loisirs / le temps libre / free time / hobbies. There is enough material for several lessons on this.
A reading comprehension with various exercises to consolidate the vocabulary on the topic. For KS4 topic of health / healthy lifestyles. Activities include find the vocab in the text, gap-fill, French questions, vocab-list and translation.
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
Sentence builder for learning how to give opinions on your hobbies hobbies / free time activities with a range of activity ideas
Resources on mi tiempo libre / mis pasatiempos including regular verbs, sports and activities vocab, time phrases and connectives. Resources are mostly worksheets with different activities, often listening, matching, writing and translation.
5 pages of activities for pupils to complete to acquire key language on the topic of daily routine in French / ma routine, including:
Large vocab bank of key verbs and time phrases at the start
Reading, listening, translation tasks and quiz quiz trade game
Independent writing task
Complex structures notes and translations to incorporate them
Could be used over 1-2 lessons depending on how much is used.
A sentence builder to learn to answer the question ‘Si tu pudieras cambiar algo de tu colegio, ¿qué cambiarías?’ 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 basic, minimalist sentence builder for introducing the perfect tense in French / passé composé roughly on the topic of free time / leisure activities / hobbies. 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
For a lesson on physical descriptions, either use for
LISTENING: pupils have scrap paper and pen or a mini whiteboard. You give a short or long sentence in Spanish describing one of the people 1-6 on the images. You can therefore adapt the language to your group. Pupils then write down the number of the person it could be - you could even do a sentence that could describe 2 or 3 of the people to make it harder. To make this activity a bit easier, you could go through each photo from 1-6, and for each one give 2 short phrases, one that is true, one false, and pupils write the correct one.
SPEAKING: assuming pupils have had plenty of practise with the vocab, get them to give a short or long sentence describing each person.
Worksheet to practise Spanish verbs in preterite and imperfect using the Toy Story song Cambios extraños ‘strange things’ - if pupils have already had plenty of receptive practice with these tenses, you could do this as a conjugation practice exercise - pupils complete the conjugations and then listen to the song and check their answers. Or, you could use this during the receptive processing stage of practice - by this point, they are familiar with the endings and this provides an opportunity to practise them through listening, they listen, and using their knowledge of endings and phonics, write what they hear. You could also ask them a few comprehension questions on the song or get them to find specific vocab or phrases, based on their level. Song available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLInAm_u_k
A selection of resources on the topic of les loisirs, le temps libre etc. roughly KS3-KS4 level. Resources include sentence builders, vocab activities, listening comprehension, model writing exercises, speaking exercises.
A worksheet for a lesson on the different vowel sounds in French (including the nasal vowels) - exercises practising pronunciation, then a minimal pairs listening task (transcript and answers included), followed by a gap-fill for the song dernière danse by Indila focusing on the vowel sounds only.
Basic text on topic of mi colegio with vocab activities and translation. Once you have completed the vocab-finding activity, you can do true or false statements tailored to your group, OR comprehension questions. A more interesting and challenging activity is to get students to come up with a list of their own true or false statements to ask others - a great way to get them to study the text in detail. Finish with the translations. Answers included, of course.
Sentence builder on family relationships, saying if you get on well or not with family members an why. 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