Day of the Dead Activity Bundle

This a bundle of activities for Day of the Dead suitable for KS3 and lower ability groups at KS4. If you’re looking for activities that will take your students through the 4 core skills of Spanish, this bundle is for you!

It includes the following activities:

• Highlighter race
• Vocab match up
• Categorisation of nouns, adjectices, and verbs relating to Día de los Muertos
• Mindreader/Bingo
• 2x Translation Pyramids (1x in Spanish, 1x in English)
• Writing Task (has a writing strip that students can follow to write a text on their opinion of Day of the Dead)
• Listening Task (no audio provided - teacher must read aloud and students fill in the gaps)
• Reading tasks (Q&A and translation of a text)
• Speaking Task (survey-like exercise)

The activities have teacher instructions where needed, in the notes section of each slide in the PPT. Answers are also provided for all tasks except the speaking task, translation pyramid, writing task, and highlighter race. The reason for some of these is the nature of these activities and the subjectivity of some tasks. To help with these though, students are provided with a sentence builder and an extra vocab sheet. I also encourage the use of dictionaries as well, just in case.

Please note this is not a lesson but a series of activities for you to pick from for each of your classes. You might want to dedicate more or less time to talking about Day of the Dead but whichever task you choose, students will be able to work on them with the support provided in the SB and vocab sheet.

All tasks are in a PPT format so they can be edited to your liking!

In our shop, you will also be able to find a Day of the Dead Quiz. If you´re interested, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/day-of-the-dead-quiz-12747942