Year 7 Spanish – ¿Quién eres? | Introducing Yourself & Personality | 2-Hour LessonQuick View
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Year 7 Spanish – ¿Quién eres? | Introducing Yourself & Personality | 2-Hour Lesson

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A fully resourced 2-hour Year 7 Spanish lesson introducing students to describing themselves and their personality. Designed for beginner learners, this lesson builds confidence gradually through listening and comprehensible input before moving into reading, grammar, retrieval, writing and structured speaking. Students learn to: introduce themselves using Soy… say where they are from using Soy de… describe their personality with adjectives such as divertido/a, simpático/a, tímido/a, activo/a, tranquilo/a, listo/a, serio/a and tonto/a use y, pero, bastante and un poco to extend their answers recognise and apply masculine/feminine adjective endings ask and answer ¿Cómo eres? Activities include retrieval practice, comprehensible input, You vs Me, What’s Missing?, MWB practice, Faulty Echo, Grammar Detective, listening, reading comprehension, delayed translation, structured pair speaking and a final Guess Who / Beat the Teacher game. Skills: Listening • Reading • Speaking • Writing • Grammar • Translation Level: Year 7 / beginner Spanish Length: Approximately 2 hours
GCSE Spanish – Medellín: Antes y Ahora | Town & City, Imperfect & Present Perfect | EdexcelQuick View
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GCSE Spanish – Medellín: Antes y Ahora | Town & City, Imperfect & Present Perfect | Edexcel

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Medellín: antes y ahora is a complete 2-hour GCSE Spanish lesson designed to help students describe a town or city in the present, compare it with the past and explain how it has changed. Students practise: describing a town/city now and in the past era, había, estaba vs es, hay, está using the present perfect to explain changes (han construido, han mejorado, han renovado…) linking changes to logical consequences expressing and justifying opinions building more developed GCSE-style answers Designed with Edexcel GCSE Spanish in mind and suitable for Years 10–11, the lesson combines accessible scaffolding with opportunities for more confident students to develop complex language and independent responses. The resource includes an editable PowerPoint lesson and an A4 scaffolded chat mat, with vocabulary from Foundation and Higher combined into one accessible resource. Activities include retrieval practice, Grammar Detective, mini-whiteboard checks, hinge questions, listening, GCSE-style reading comprehension, speaking, translation, jigsaw translation and an independent exit ticket. Complex language is built into the chat mat to stretch higher-attaining students while keeping the core language accessible for students working towards the lower GCSE grades. Includes: PowerPoint lesson + printable A4 chat mat.
Year 7 Spanish | Countries, Colours & Flags | Phonics & Speaking LessonQuick View
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Year 7 Spanish | Countries, Colours & Flags | Phonics & Speaking Lesson

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A ready-to-teach Year 7 Spanish lesson introducing Spanish-speaking countries, colours and key Spanish vowel sounds. The lesson includes: Spanish-speaking countries and cultural awareness Spanish vowel phonics: a, e, i, o, u Country-name pronunciation practice Short phonics dictation Key colours: rojo, amarillo, azul, verde, blanco, negro Flag and colour matching Structured paired speaking task Independent exit ticket Extension opportunities throughout Ideal for: Year 7 / beginner Spanish / first Spanish lessons / KS3 Spanish. Please note: The lesson includes a video activity that it can only be available in Onda 1 Pearson.
GCSE Spanish – ¡Un día fatal! | Preterite & Direct Object Pronouns | EdexcelQuick View
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GCSE Spanish – ¡Un día fatal! | Preterite & Direct Object Pronouns | Edexcel

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A ready-to-teach GCSE Spanish lesson pack on describing a day that went wrong, with a focus on the preterite tense and direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las). Included: Full PowerPoint for 2 lessons Student workbook ¡Un día fatal! Chat Mat Listening and retrieval activities Jigsaw translation GCSE-style reading Speaking activities Direct object pronoun Grammar Detective + practice Scaffolded writing Foundation support and Higher stretch Designed for Edexcel GCSE Spanish, this resource includes two hours of lessons with a gradual progression from vocabulary recognition and comprehension to grammar, speaking and independent production.
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GCSE Spanish Cinema Role Play | Edexcel Speaking Practice | En el cine

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A complete GCSE Spanish speaking lesson designed to prepare students for an Edexcel-style cinema role play. The lesson includes: Retrieval Do Now linking to previous learning Key cinema vocabulary Listening and vocabulary recognition Explicit practice decoding GCSE role-play prompts Scaffolded response building Question formation practice Supported cinema role play Second role play to encourage transfer to a new situation Student and teacher role cards Exit ticket Students are gradually scaffolded from understanding key cinema vocabulary to decoding role-play prompts, building accurate responses and finally completing the speaking task with a partner. Suitable for Year 10 - 11 GCSE Spanish and designed with the Pearson Edexcel speaking assessment in mind. The lesson can also be adapted for other GCSE specifications or used as general transactional speaking practice. Skills: Speaking • Listening • Vocabulary • Exam skills
GCSE Spanish | El fin de semana pasado | Preterite TenseQuick View
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GCSE Spanish | El fin de semana pasado | Preterite Tense

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A complete 2-hour GCSE Spanish lesson on El fin de semana pasado, introducing and practising the preterite tense in the context of weekend activities. Includes: Editable PowerPoint for 2 hours of teaching Printable student workbook Printable El fin de semana pasado chat mat Vocabulary and retrieval activities Grammar Detective and explicit preterite practice Speaking activities including Trapdoor GCSE-style reading questions Delayed copying and dictation Exit ticket The resource is designed for mixed-attainment GCSE classes, with support for pupils who need more structure while providing opportunities for more confident learners to extend their answers and apply the preterite independently. Skills: vocabulary, grammar, speaking, reading, listening and writing.
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GCSE Spanish 40–50 word Free Time | Writing Lesson | Edexcel

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A complete step-by-step GCSE Spanish writing lesson designed to help students understand how to approach the Edexcel 40–50 word writing task. Students move from recognising and organising language → building sentences → upgrading ideas → analysing a model → planning → independent writing → self-assessment. Included: 1-hour teacher PowerPoint printable student workbook clear Describe – Opinion – Future writing formula Sort it! activity Build it! sentence scaffolding Upgrade it! activity model-answer analysis 60-second planning strategy GCSE-style 40–50 word task independent writing scaffold Be the examiner self-assessment Higher/stretch language throughout The lesson uses free time and future plans as its context, making it particularly useful alongside Edexcel GCSE Spanish Module 1, but the writing strategy can be transferred to other topics.
GCSE Spanish – Nos juntamos: Making Plans & Near Future Tense | Edexcel Year 10Quick View
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GCSE Spanish – Nos juntamos: Making Plans & Near Future Tense | Edexcel Year 10

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A complete 2-hour GCSE Spanish lesson sequence on making plans (Nos juntamos) and using the near future tense, designed for Edexcel Year 10. Students build vocabulary for making plans before learning and practising Near Future Tense. The lessons move from supported recognition and comprehension towards independent use of the language through listening, reading and speaking. The resource includes a teacher PowerPoint, student workbook and printable chat mat, with activities including: • Vocabulary introduction and retrieval • Bingo and categorisation • Grammar Detective • Explicit teaching and practice of the near future • Hinge Question • Broken Sentence activity • Listening task • GCSE-style reading comprehension • Scaffolded speaking practice • Exit ticket • Higher/stretch language throughout The resource is designed to support both Foundation students and students working towards Higher, with scaffolding that is gradually removed to encourage independent language production. Topic: Nos juntamos / Making plans Grammar: Near future – ir + a + infinitive Exam board: Pearson Edexcel GCSE Spanish Year group: Year 10
GCSE Spanish: El tiempo libre | Full Lesson + Workbook | Edexcel Module 1Quick View
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GCSE Spanish: El tiempo libre | Full Lesson + Workbook | Edexcel Module 1

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A complete GCSE Spanish lesson on El tiempo libre, designed for Edexcel GCSE Spanish and suitable for both Foundation and Higher students. The resource covers free-time activities, sports and opinions, with a focus on me gusta + infinitive, present-tense verbs and extending answers with reasons and more complex language. The pack includes a teacher PowerPoint, student workbook and chat mat, with a range of activities including listening, reading, speaking, grammar practice, retrieval activities and games. Activities include El eco mentiroso (Faulty Echo), Sentence Stealer, Jigsaw Translation, Grammar Detective, Sentence Auction, GCSE-style reading and listening, and speaking practice. Designed to cover approximately 3 hours of teaching (a two-hour lesson plus a separate one-hour lesson), with built-in scaffolding and challenge for mixed-attainment classes.
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GCSE Spanish – Mi vida digital

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A ready-to-teach GCSE Spanish resource pack for Edexcel Module 1, Lesson 1: Mi vida digital, with approximately 2 hours of classroom material. Students learn to talk about their digital lives while practising the present tense (I/We), preferir + infinitive, frequency expressions and extended answers. The pack includes: Teacher PowerPoint with answers Student workbook Mi vida digital vocabulary chat mat Foundation + Higher/Stretch vocabulary Listening and dictation Translation and GCSE-style reading Structured speaking and writing Grammar Detective and retrieval activities Hinge questions Sentence Stealer Classroom games Independent exit ticket Activities move from supported vocabulary practice to increasingly independent production, with the chat mat providing scaffolding that can gradually be removed. Designed for Edexcel GCSE Spanish, but easily adaptable for other GCSE specifications or confident KS3 classes.