A concise and complete guide giving clear instructions for all ability students on how to perform well in the new style oral examination.
This includes examples of conversation question and instructions on how to score full marks on the role play.
Questions are split into present, past, future and opinion style questions.
-Adaptable resource based on 22-24 Syllabus
-Vocabulary by topic (student can fill in the English!)
-Speaking prompt questions at the end by topic
-All content listed by topic for easy revision.
I have made some sample materials for my students sitting their GCSE’s this summer with the new speaking assessment for 2021.
These cards belong to topic 1: mi casa and I will be creating different cards for all the topics and uploading them here.
Speaking booklet adapted to the new 7160 International Cambrigde assessment IGCSE in Spanish. The questions can be used for UK Edexcel, AQA or Cambridge as well. Includes questions with present subjunctive and imperfect subjunctive to reach the highest marks.
Cambridge Igcse excercise 3 and exercise 5 exam style. Also work for EDEXCEL AND AQA
Exam level exercises to practice topics of personal and family life- appearance, characters, mood, chores, and personality.
(2 exercise- you can adapt, extend, do vocabulary or tenses from them but initially created as an exam practice )
This resource consist of 4 GCSE sample essays based on popular topics:
Holidays, School, Hobbies, Health& Fitness and Visits.
It follows the NEW GCSE format for the essay writing Higher Question 2: 4 bullet points in target language, around 140 words and use of 3 tenses
Each essay includes a range of A star structures highlighted and has the translation in English below. Some essays have also got some useful tips on the side about the structures.
My students found this resource very useful to expand their complex structures and build a range of set phrases before their exam.
This resource is also suitable both for Edexcel and Cambridge IGCSE students. Enjoy!
Document describing the main points and offering advice on the Cambridge International AS/AL exams for Spanish, which I created originally for an internal PD session (Please ignore references to Moodle/O365 etc). Will be useful for new teachers delivering this spec or for departments considering a switch between boards. I have added approximate percentages and thresholds for points to grades at the end.
The resource is ideal for teachers who want to teach the present tense in Spanish for the -ar, -er, and -ir verbs.
There is a clear document with all the endings highlighted and pleasant to look at.
I have also added exercises that will make the students understand how to form the verbs.
This is ideal for KS3 as an introduction
This is ideal for a quick revision for KS4.
The lesson should take one hour with KS3 and maybe 20 minutes with KS4.
This is a good lesson for K12 students as well.
This worksheet can also be given as a homework.
Curricula :
Cambridge International Examination
All other curricula
(1) Descriptions (eyes/hair colour) Authentic text Shakira & Piqué
- Ideal for KS3 or beginners' Spanish.
- Authentic text about Shakira and Piqué to be used as a model for writing a description about somebody else (or their family).
- Also includes an artificial text about the Beckhams to allow students to pick up essential vocab and phrases which they may use to form their writing about Shakira and Piqué.
- Covers vocab for descriptions, hair and eye colour and family members.
(2) ChupaChups (KS3) Authentic text
- Presentation and worksheet
- Formed part of a Master's level research enquiry at the University of Cambridge
- Ideal for KS3 learning colours, descriptions and has links with Salvador Dalí
- Includes a range of authentic texts focusing on ChupaChups, including an advert, an authentic reading text (adapted) and some artificial activities
- Highly creative and engaging, encourages independent writing.
- Can be incorporated into Schemes of Work which deal with colours, descriptions and food/drink.
(3) La familia / Family (KS3) Authentic text:
- Presentation and worksheet.
- Ideal for Yr7 or lower set KS3 learning about families.
- Includes an authentic text about Shakira and Piqué.
- Includes an artificial reading about the Beckhams.
- Students can extract useful language from the text on the Beckhams and apply this to an independent writing task about Shakira and Piqué, based on the information from the authentic text (snapshots of the couple and online profiles)
- Incorporates the use of 'es/son' and 'tiene(n)'.
- Can be incorporated into Schemes of Work which deal with 'tengo los ojos...', 'tengo el pelo', 'soy/es...' etc.
(4) Las familias españolas / Spanish families (KS3) Authentic Text
- Presentation and worksheet.
- Formed part of a Master's level research enquiry at the University of Cambridge
- Ideal for KS3 learning about families / households in Spain.
- Includes an authentic text (infograph) about Spanish households, outlining statistics through graphs and images.
- Includes an artificial starter activities matching up the descriptions of some famous families in pop culture.
- Assesses students' capacity to extract information from authentic Spanish texts
- Can be incorporated into Schemes of Work which deal with introducing family members.
(5) Salvador Dalí (Colours/Descriptions) (KS3) Authentic text
- 2x Presentations and 2x worksheets.
- Formed part of a Master's level research enquiry at the University of Cambridge
- Ideal for KS3 learning colours and descriptions.
- Includes a range of authentic texts focusing on Salvador Dalí, including artwork, quotes, (adapted) authentic readings, links to videos.
- Includes a range of activities throughout including starters and plenaries, supported by the handouts.
- Highly creative and engaging, encourages independent writing.
- Can be incorporated into Schemes of Work which deal with colours and descriptions.
DISCLAIMER: These two lessons represent an adapted version of my previous lessons on Salvador Dalí and therefore use almost completely the same activities and resources, so if you have purchased those in the past, I advise that you do not purchase this item.
Includes 2 lessons (1 lesson and 1 worksheet per lesson). Could be used as part of a wider project on Spanish-speaking countries or Hispanic art, as culture is part of the new GCSE curriculum. Could also be used as end-of-term lessons.
Lesson 1: Salvador Dalí 1
Salvador Dalí 2 (Mi autorretrato); Lesson 2: Salvador Dalí 1
Salvador Dalí 2 (Mi autorretrato)
Formed part of a Master’s level research enquiry at the University of Cambridge
Ideal for KS3 learning colours and descriptions, but could also apply to lower KS4.
Includes a range of authentic texts focusing on Salvador Dalí, including artwork, quotes, (adapted) authentic reading and a link to a video.
Includes a range of activities throughout including starters and plenaries, supported by the handouts.
Differentiated activities and student handouts to accompany.
Highly creative and engaging, encourages independent writing.
Can be incorporated into Schemes of Work which deal with colours and descriptions.
Heavy SMSC/cultural input.
Cross-curricular lesson with Art and Design.
Excellent resource to teach just before the Christmas, Easter or Summer holidays in order to promote the diversity of artwork and foreign cultures.
Opportunity to teach the lesson mostly in TL or in L1 (alternative slides for either option supplied within)
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning).
Lesson is completely prepared and thus no teacher preparation is necessary other than printing off student worksheets, and possibly supplying colouring pencils for the second lesson.
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this Spanish language article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 geography, citizenship and Spanish.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Elsa Lee, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is investigating how participation in local waterway regeneration projects in England and South Africa influences a sense of global citizenship in young people.
• This resource also contains information about the organisations Elsa is working with and offers an insight into careers in environmental sustainability education. If your students have questions for Elsa, they can send them to her online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Elsa will reply!
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Elsa’s research and challenges them to take part in activity in their own neighbourhood to investigate whether this influences their own sense of global citizenship.
• The article and activity sheet are also available in Zulu and English through the weblink below.
This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!
Not fabulously original but I have been trying to drum tenses in to Y10 and thought some of these might be useful to share. The Imperfect ppt is based on my childhood so you might want to change the slides. Also I acknowledge that one of the reading tasks is not my own, so thank you to the person who shared it originally.
I am building up to a first CA around relationships/family/free time hence the context for all the grammar tasks.
I particularly wanted to get them mixing tenses, hence the mixing it up activities.
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