A Level Spanish Essay Writing Workbook

This A Level Spanish Essay Writing Workbook provides structured practice to help students develop the academic written style required for A Level Spanish essays (film and literature).

This resource is intended to be used alongside A Level Spanish Essay Writing Sentence Builders (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13355734), which provides the sentence starters and analytical structures needed to complete the tasks confidently.

Students often learn sophisticated vocabulary and sentence starters but struggle to apply them accurately and consistently in their own writing.
This workbook offers graduated tasks that take students from recognition to confident production.

What’s included (exercise by exercise):

1. Match the function - Students match analytical sentence starters to their purpose (e.g. introducing an idea, contrasting, concluding, supporting with evidence).

2. Replace the weak analysis - Students are given basic analytical sentences where a weak phrase is highlighted. They replace it using a stronger academic structure from the list provided. (Examples from Volver and La Casa de Bernarda Alba).

3. Translation practice (Spanish to English) - Students translate essay-style sentences into English, ensuring they fully understand how high-level structures work before using them independently. (Examples from Volver, La Casa de Bernarda Alba and Bodas de Sangre).

4. Upgrade the sentence - Students rewrite simple sentences using stronger academic frames from the sentence builders, improving clarity, precision and sophistication. (Examples from Volver and La Casa de Bernarda Alba).

5. Transform the paragraph - A short, basic paragraph is rewritten using at least three advanced structures (e.g. connectors, subjunctive, inversion, analytical phrasing). (Volver)

6. Justify with evidence - Students are given thematic statements and must support them using sentence starters for introducing evidence and analytical interpretation. (Volver)

FULL answer key included.

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