Most students will find revision boring - this is mainly because they think staring at the page will do!!! Unfortunately, as much as I stare at the kettle, the cup of tea does not just magically materialise in my hands!! I find this strategy is useful for an active and creative approach to homework. Please model with students by challenging them to memorise a sentence, make it longer and longer each lesson... they get seriously involved!!!! Examples in French and Spanish but concept is applicable to any language.

These flashcards can be useful as a bookmark for students (cut in half, fold, paste) or as a set 4 flashcards (perhaps joined by a tag) that can be handed out at the beginning of each lesson and collected at the end. They will enable students to use TL when communicating with teacher and also with each other when doing pair work or games. Enjoy!

Controlled conditions assessment workbook, Edexcel-based but can be adapted to other boards. Useful to prepare the students to structure their written response, choose their cue words and check their content/quality against the checklist on page 1. Each page is designed to allow students to structure their paragraphs creatively, giving them pointers as to what tenses they should use.

A translation task designed for end of unit/topic exam, A2, marks have been distributed into 30 categories, suitable for any board. Want more?Go to http://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/Spanish-Edexcel-Translation.asp for the A2 grammar and translation resource (endorsed) with 171 pages of grammar activities and translations with full answers. Available on: http://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/Spanish-Edexcel-Translation.asp

These labels are useful as a quick and effective way for teachers to offer detailed feedback to students after writing assessments. These 'To improve' labels guide the students in the areas they need to work on; simply stick at the bottom of writing pieces and cross out the items that do not apply to the student (allowing for a more personalised touch). Best used following a positive comment hand written by staff (i.e. excellent use of opinion, etc). 21 labels per sheet (3x7) Happy marking!

BEST UNIT EVER according to my yr11!!! IT WILL SAVE YOU HOURS OF PREPARATION TIME. The following set of resources is aimed at supporting students’ preparation of either a Speaking (preferably) or Writing GCSE Assessment. Engaging starters with links to songs of famous Hispanic artists and 2 model essays (one of them includes an MP3). A wide range of tasks to cater for all styles with answers ready for you. Ideal with topics 6,8,9 of Mira/Edexcel textbook and 2,6,9 of Listos 3 red. PLEASE DO LEAVE A COMMENT AND RATE THIS PACK!!! The pack includes: • 10 lessons including homework • Power Points with descriptions per slide • Lesson objectives per PPT • 8 Worksheets • 2 model essays ~ with activities to focus on writing skills • MP3 for listening activity • Student Assessment preparation booklet (6 pages) with guidance It covers the following topics and grammatical areas: • Health lifestyle (diet) • Sports (exercising and extreme sports) • Global Issues (responsibility of rock stars to society) • Revision of routine • Introduction to present subjunctive • Revision of past tenses ( imperfect and perfect, mainly) • Comparative and superlative structures • Idiomatic expressions • Double verbs • Subordinating connectives • Third person description • “If” clauses with subjunctive There is a wide range of activities, including: • Teacher notes with potential questions • Songs and videos of famous Hispanic artists (Shakira, Juanes, Alejandro Sanz) • Links to authentic materials (interviews) • Pronunciation exercises ~ from syllables to full words • Dialogues for pair work • Independent work (dictionaries needed) • Pair work • Group work • Differentiated tasks • Extension task (increased difficulty) • Reading comprehension activities • Translation Activities • Dictation

The following set of resources is aimed at supporting students’ writing skills by offering a range of phrases, some available in three tenses, that they can incorporate in their writing to enhance both content and quality. Very useful for the 90 worder or 150 worder as it will help students focus on content, range and quality of structures and variety of vocabulary. This is applicable to ANY TOPIC and ANY STAGE (KS3 or 4). It is a great tool for differentiation. TORTILLA stands for:  Time phrases  Opinions  Reasons  Tenses  Intensifiers  Linking words (connectives)  Lots of wow phrases (idioms, etc)  Adjectives The pack includes: • Introductory PowerPoint (can be printed and used as classroom displays) • 1 student friendly table (1 page) • 8 flashcards that can be laminated and turned into a booklet with a ring • 1 colourful bookmark (print, fold, glue) • 1 model text with the topic of holidays • 3 page activity (pairs, or group) based around model text • 1 Group AfL Chefs PowerPoint Instructions: • Print & distribute the 1 page doc to students • Laminated copies can be used in the classroom • You can print, laminate and bind the 8 flashcards back to back as in the pictures • Use the introductory PowerPoint to brief students • Students can use TORTILLA when writing as support • Teachers can point at a specific item at a time, for example, you can give students instructions to include 3 time phrases and 2 wow phrases. • It is a great tool to improve texts, ie. you can give the class a text and ask them to pimp it up in groups or pairs, maybe each group focusing on a specific item then reporting to the rest of the class. • It can be used as an assessment tool – make it fun by buying chef hats and asking students to be food critic in peer assessment, focusing on and giving advice in specific areas. • Students can apply TORTILLA by having to identify the different items in a given model text – often text book model texts are very useful for this. • TORTILLA can be used as a springboard for discussions to illustrate how students’ responses can be improved DIFFERENTIATION TOOL Some students can use it under exam conditions whilst others may not need it HOMEWORK OPPORTUNITY As homework, students can be guided to learn one card at a time, then tested as vocabulary lists. PEER ASSESSMENT Students can use TORTILLA to evaluate how well they have done AFL/ TARGET SETTING Students can identify how and what they need to improve on (self- and peer- assessment) GROUP TASKS Students can become food critics and constructively give advice to peers or make improvements in given texts (by the teacher or from the text book). This will generate creative and engaging conversations amongst students.

The following resource is aimed at supporting students’ revision of verbs in the infinitive form organised alphabetically. The PPTs’ animations follow the Look, Cover, Write, Check approach. It is a fantastic resource to use as a starter, plenary, for group revision, independent study, etc. It is differentiated into HIGHER (392 verbs) and FOUNDATION (237 verbs). All verbs have been taken from the OCR vocabulary list. IMPORTANT NOTE TO THE TEACHER: 1. Dice can be used for students to test each other. 2. Teachers can extend the revision by using a dice and asking students to conjugate in a particular tense (perfect, simple future, preterite, etc). 3. The PPTs can be uploaded to VLEs, etc for student revision.

A nice way to finish the health topic (pharmacy/hospital). The link leads to a video with a live concern (Ana Torroja, from Mecano), and it has subtitles in Spanish and English.

This incredibly comprehensive aid will guide and support students' essay writing skills (discursive and research based) in Spanish. The following resource includes two documents: 1. AS/2 Essay writing toolkit, (2 page writing matt for students) which includes: • 19 phrases to introduce a point/open a paragraph • 20 phrases to analyse/evaluate an argument • 12 phrases to conclude a point/close a paragraph • 14 interesting phrases • 72 connectives and sentence starters • 52 sentence starters to trigger the present subjunctive • Grammar guidance on present and imperfect subjunctive formation, including irregular verbs. • 8 infinitive to describe the authorities actions • Help in English to organise your writing according to your needs: add, sequence, describe, illustrate, insist, compare, contrast, etc. 2. AS-A2 Accuracy top tips (1 page ~ very useful for the translation component): • 6 Top tips to deal with issues like tenses, word order, grammatical accuracy, etc. • Top 4 most useful acronyms in Spanish to improve accuracy in writing. All images are copyright free (source: wikimedia commons)

A powerpoint showing the main aspects of Christmas (see Levirgiene for the original French Version)- vocabulary learning as well. I have used it for group vocab learning where students in groups of 4 split the learning using slide 18 and groups are tested on slide 20. Includes phrases to write a Christmas card and lyrics to the famous Spanish Christmas song ' los peces en el río'. Happy Christmas teaching!!!

This Scheme of Work/Learning links in with the old Mira 2 book and the new Viva 2 (module 3) and Viva 3 (module 3) text books. It is ideal as a transitional unit from KS3 into GCSE. The following set of resource is aimed at supporting students’ understanding and knowledge of tenses and key sentence structures in the context of food and drink. The homeworks include a range of research tasks and writing tasks to enable students to consolidate their learning with support and vocabulary lists. PLEASE READ THE SCHEME OF LEARNING FIRST The pack includes: • A detailed week by week scheme of work/learning • 9-10 lessons including homework suggestions • PowerPoints with descriptions per slide • Lesson objectives per PPT • Worksheets per lesson + hwrk • Differentiated worksheets and activities • Translation tasks • Vocab test • Assessment preparation booklet • Writing assessment task including help sheet and student-friendly criteria descriptors • Suggestions for listening assessment based on listos 2 and 3 verde • Student Assessment preparation booklet (3 pages) with guidance It covers the following topics and grammatical areas: • Breakfast (present and introduction to perfect tense) • Opinions and International food (gender agreement and complex sentences) • Suelo + infinitive • Opinion phrases + infinitive • Dinner (future tense) • Introduction to imperfect subjunctive • “If” clauses with subjunctive (expressiong hypothesis) • Subordinating connectives • Past participle revision • Third person form of impersonal verbs (gustar, etc) There is a wide range of activities, including: • Comprehension tasks • Translation tasks • Gap-fill dialogues • Drilling vocabulary • Dictation

The following 29 tests can be easily used as a starter, plenary or revision material for group revision, independent study, etc. All items are verbs organised in Spanish alphabetical order. It comes in 2 formats: Spanish to English (testing recognition) and English to Spanish (testing knowledge). Ideal for GCSE Higher students and AS students in need of consolidation. It contains 392 verbs extracted from the OCR vocabulary list.

Ideal for exam preparation Specific strategies to support students to tackle the reading and listening components. Break down of types of tasks. List of OCR topics and subtopics Advice on how to revise Key vocabulary revision slides + grammar pointers to the higher candidates Includes student handout for each paper.

The following podcasts (recorded by a native speaker) contain 63 typical AS oral questions on the topics of YOUTH and HEALTH, and are aimed at supporting students’ preparation and revision for the oral exam. They can be used in lessons or at home. The PPT is designed to support students’ structuring of their answers and to allow them to gain an understanding of development by suggesting triggers to use PAST, FUTURE, ANALYSIS, SUGGESTIONS and SUBJUNCTIVE. Please note that this resource does NOT contain answers to the questions. The podcasts contain over 25 questions per podcast (37 for Youth and 26 for Health), covering the following topics: Youth culture and concerns • Music and fashion • Technology (e.g. MP3/blogs/mobile phones/internet/games) • Relationships (family/friendships and peer pressure) • Drink, drugs, sex Lifestyle, health and fi tness • Sport and exercise • Food and diet • Health issues (e.g. smoking, skin cancer, health services) SUGGESTIONS: 1. Students to play it once to check whether they fully understand the question and make notes where appropriate 2. Students to come up with 6-8 extra questions on the topic that are not part of the podcast to pre-empty any other possible questions. 3. Students to pause after each question and talk up to 1min or 1:30 minute to ensure they are developing their answers fully. 4. Students to use the visual aid PPT with suggestions to start, structure and develop their answers. 5. Students can use the rest of the PPT to practise random questions ~ this can be done as a fun speed date activity where students move 1, 2, 3 seats to the right every time the teacher blows a whistle, claps, etc. Happy speaking!

12 cards to start sentences 16 cards to develop ideas Students work in pairs or groups of 4. Give each pair/group a full set of cards. Students have to ask each other a series of questions (displayed on the board) and they need to use at least 1 blue card (starter phrase) and 1 red card (developing phrase) for each answer. They can, of course, pick more than 2 cards per answers. The student with the highest number of cards wins. In the case of draw, cards marks ** are worth double points. The differentiated version contains no English translations.

This editable 2 page resource supports students independent skills and guides towards including a range of grammatical structures within their writing, following the building block methodology, including: 1. Opinion verbs 2. Intensifiers 3. Adjectives 4. Time phrases with present 5. Time phrases with past tenses 6. Time phrases with future tenses 7. Other time phrases 8. Connectives 9. Details 10. Double verbs 11. Making comparisons 12. Grammar key rules 13. Extra detail A. Endings for verbs in present + irregulars B. Endings for verbs in imperfect+ irregulars C. Endings for verbs in preterite+ irregulars D.Endings for verbs in perfect tense E. immediate future F. Endings for verbs in simple future+ irregulars G. Endings for verbs in conditional+ irregulars Justified opinions in 3 tenses This resource can be laminated to be used in lessons.

The following set of resources supports students revision of the PRETERITE tense with a special focus on irregular forms and written exam preparation. The resource pack contains: • a worksheet to revisit preterite irregular forms, from the conjugated form into the infinitive • a worksheet to check students can conjugate irregular verbs into any of the 6 preterite forms • a PPT with key conjugation boxes and examples of preterite V imperfect • a PPT with the answers (can be used as an assessment task) • a domino game (as a starter or a plenary) • a worksheet to encourage descriptive writing using 12 different situations, ideal as a pair or group task • An example of a piece of writing with examples to encourage students to avoid simple tenses and sentences and develop their ideas into complex tenses and complex sentences in line with the new 2016 Specification. Happy revising!

These resources have been designed as aid to support students’ revision of vocabulary based on the lists of the Mira GCSE text book, p. 142 This pack includes: 1. A PPT showing how students can differentiate and learn words that are very similar, and use songs t remember key prepositions (kinaesthetic style) 2. A total of 7 slides with a random selection of words on the topic of MY HOUSE to be used as starters/plenaries in lessons. 3. 7 mini tests for students to use as homework preparation or for the teacher to use in lessons. 4. 18 multiple choice questions where students need to decide in which part of the house they would find a particular object. This can be done in the lesson using mini-white boards or as homework. There is a PPT provided with no answers. 5. 1 vocab test to assess students’ knowledge on the topics (out of 20 questions)

The following writing paper mirrors the new GCSE style and incorporates an element of translation (both into and from TL). All instructions are in the TL except for the differentiated paper, where instructions are in English. Mark scheme available. Q1 - open vocabulary test to support weaker student and allow planning for the following questions. Q2 - descriptive paragraph needing present + opinion Q3 -descriptive paragraph needing past tense + questions Q4 - descriptive paragraph needing future + double verbs + connectives Q5 - translation task where some items are TL-EN and some EN- TL, and complex sentences are worth 3 marks instead of 2 (mark scheme is similar to A2 Edexcel criteria) Students with a target grade of old 5A and below have a differentiated paper where the same items are required but in smaller doses and all instructions are in EN instead of in TL.

IF CLAUSES TRANSLATION SKILLS JIGSAW ~ SPANISH GCSE HIGHER A LEVEL THINKING SKILLS Written by an experienced native Spanish teacher. IF CLAUSES TRANSLATION SKILLS JIGSAW Ideal as a thinking skills starter/plenary/game or for extension activities, quizzes, inter-house competition, as well as homework. Designed for able GCSE or A-level students. This activity is designed to help students secure conditional ‘if’ clauses with imperfect subjunctive and to support translation skills (into English), paying attention to accurate word order. Some descriptions have an image (all of them, copy-right free). Each page includes 4 items (2 pages in total) that need to be cut out. Each mini-jigsaw includes 3 pieces, the longest piece being placed at the top. Cards can be distributed as one big pack of 8 pairs or teachers can choose to give only 1 page at a time, with 4 items each. It can also work by issuing a different page to each group of students, and as a class, students can rotate from table to table to see the final answers. ANSWERS TO ALL 8 ITEMS INCLUDED