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.
For A level students doing AQA Lit B - Tragedy option
PPT includes:
recap of the history of the genre of tragedy
recap of the plot pattern for tragedy
recap of tragic endings/resolutions
an activity for students to choose three tragic methods in Keats’ poems (as attatched in full) and analyse/write about them
exam skills focus: how do we write about Keats? Students are placed in the examiner’s position with an activity where they judge an exemplar essay response
historical context of the poem
the interpretations over time of Lamia
semantic field and exercises relating to that
Lamia as an allegory - students focus on what the characters could represent
shifting perspectives and metamorphoses in the poem, including argument starters about that and critics’ views
for revision: a template on how to analyse poems is included - this is applicable to any poem.
A full PPT and accompanying task to teach students about the verbs of change in Spanish.
These include:
hacerse
volverse
quedarse
ponerse
llegar a ser
convertirse en
The PPT explains what using each one of these verbs demonstrates and gives examples.
The exercise can be used to assess how well students are able to use the correct verb in a given context.
French Grammar PPT covering the following topics in-depth:
Adjective agreement
Regular/Irregular adjective conjugations/rules
Position of Adjectives and exceptions
Adjectives preceding the noun rules
Multiple nouns and adjectives
Adjective-adjective compounds
Invariable adjectives
Comparative forms
Comparative/Superlative plus irregular forms
Adverbs
Translation of the above
Suitable for AS-A level, or Year 11 but can be adapted to teach grammar concepts to younger years.
This resource includes all lessons and accompanying resources for the Claro 1 Unit 2 scheme of work. There are a range of activities, games and in-class assessment points (differentiated). Grammar points are taught also, and homework is provided.
Topics:
2.1 ¡Contamos hasta cien!
2.2 Te presento a mi familia
2.3 Los animales y las mascotas
2.4 Espejito, espejito …
2.5 Las descripciones físicas
2.6 Mi carácter y relaciones
This unit is typically taught to Year 7 students, although is beginner’s Spanish and can be used accordingly.
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 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
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
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘La Inmigración’ topic. Aimed at AQA A2 students.
Subtopics include:
1.1 Los beneficios y los aspectos negativos
1.2 La inmigración en el mundo hispánico
1.3 Los indocumentados – problemas
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘La Convivencia’ topic. Aimed at AQA A level (A2) students.
Subtopics include:
3.1 La convivencia de culturas
3.2 La educacion
3.3 Las religiones
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘Los jovenes de hoy, ciudadanos del manana’ topic. Aimed at AQA A level (A2) students.
Subtopics include:
4.1 Los jovenes y su actitud hacia la politica: activismo o apatia
4.2 El paro entre los jovenes
4.3 Su sociedad ideal
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
An essay-writing handbook created specifically for A level students (of any exam board) to use when practicing and revising for the ‘essay’ section of their exams.
Sections include:
Conventions of essay-writing: a recap of the tone, register, structure, etc. that should be used.
Guidance on quoting
Revision sections on the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay. Includes two ‘exemplar’ introductions and one ‘exemplar’ conclusion where students can clearly see the objectives being met
Vocabulary given for the introduction, conclusion and the development of arguments. This is an extensive list.
A quiz useful for an end-of-year lesson, or for revision purposes. Focuses mainly on the AQA spec for year 10. There are 6 rounds, with 10 questions in each. 5 of these are topic based, and the other 5 are still topic-related, but more focused on grammar.
The topics are:
Me, my family and friends
Life at school
Education post-16
Healthy/unhealthy living
Free-time activities
Travel and tourism
Grammar topics include:
qui, que, dont
en + present participle
devoir/pouvoir/il faut/vouloir to school rules context
quantity words inc. with plurals
ce qui/ce que… c’est… sentence pattern
future tense
si clauses
il vaut mieux/il vaudrait mieux
negative ne…jamais
adverbs
il est possible que + subjunctive
avant de/après avoir etc/pendant que/depuis/venir de
weather expressions with faire
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 complete lesson (or two) on the three past tenses in French (imperfect, preterite, pluperfect) that can be easily adapted to suit all abilities/year groups, although being ideal for A level.
Describes ALL uses of the tenses, examples of when/where, differences between them, and how to form them.
Includes thorough worksheet to enable students to try what they have learnt/use it for reference.
This resource includes lessons and accompanying resources for PARTS OF the Claro 1 Unit 3 scheme of work. There are a range of activities, games and in-class assessment points (differentiated). Grammar points are taught also, and homework is provided.
Topics:
3.4 ¡Brrr¡ Hace frío!
3.5 ¡Somos fanátic@s de la música!
3.6 Su foto tiene muchos ‘me gusta’
A document useful for helping A/AS level students write the main body to essays on various topics. This is suitable for any exam board.
This can be used in conjunction with the ‘essay introduction’ sentence starters resource free on my page.
Revision lesson on The Kite Runner for A level English Literature B including:
key themes and ideas surrounding TKR
how to write about a particular theme
AO1 appropriate terminology
methods - narrative form - in-depth analysis
methods - voices
leitmotifs in TKR - exploration and explanation
quotes on Old Afghanistan, New Afghanistan and America that can be used in evidence for describing settings
key quotes from chapters 8 and 9 on Amir’s guilt and analysis of narration
exploration of narrative sequence
chapter 3, 4, 7 and 22 in-depth analysis, as well as the epilogue
character analysis of Assef
*Some content comes from AskWillOnline Blog - The Kite Runner analysis
A complete PPT lesson la laïcité et Noël en France - secularity and Christmas in France.
Aimed at A level students as it encourages debates/use of spoken French for a large part in the classroom.
Includes grammar points and vocab points created as feedback from a previous essay homework set to students. These are, of course, transferable as they include common mistakes made by students when writing in French.
Encourages students to challenge how democracy and secularity works - the French state is supposed to be separate from the Church however all Bank Holidays are Catholic festivals.
Incorporates group work too.
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 complete PPT aimed at A level students to explain to them how French articles are used, but can be tailored to suit lower years too.
PPT (33 slides) includes explanations and uses of:
Definite le/la/les
Indefinite un/une/des
Partitive du/de la
When do du, de la, de l’ (partitive) and des (indefinite) become de?
Difference between the partitive / plural indefinite and the ‘article contracté’
The ‘zero article’ (= omission of the article)
A resource aimed at A level students doing AQA English Lit. B spec.
Includes a critical overview of the text, as well as four essays, with the purpose of broadening their reading. Students should also pick arguments created by these critics that they feel strongly about, and can feel free to use them in their own writing (as well as methods and context).
This resource can be used in lesson as an activity, or for revision purposes, or as wider-reading homework.
The title of the essays are as follows:
“In this essay, Caballero-Robb interprets Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner as a work that intertwines the private and public realms of experience.”
“In the following review, O’Brien discusses the author’s use of voice, and how the two main characters reflect the character of Afghanistan itself.”
“In the following essay, Noor reviews The Kite Runner as a novel about sin and redemption, but contends that it fails to give a complete picture of the Afghan conflict.”
“In the following excerpt, Hosseini discusses how being a physician gives him a compassionate insight to humanity and makes him a better writer.”