A revision resource that is specifically useful for A-Level/AS-Level Spanish students who are studying Pedro Almodóvar’s film Volver. This is specifically for Paper 2 revision. This resource breaks down every major character: Raimunda, Sole, Paula, Irene, Agustina, Paco y la tía Paula. Each character is given clear bullet‑point summaries of personality, role and development (personalidad, papel y desarrollo). Perfect for revision, essay preparation and classroom teaching, the slides help students understand character motivations, relationships, and narrative significance in a concise, accessible format. Ideal for teachers looking to support high‑level analysis by building a solid foundation of character understanding/inter-personal relationships and for students aiming for top‑band essays.

This PowerPoint (.pptx) resource offers in-depth redactions and thematic essays on El Laberinto del Fauno, ideal for A-Level or advanced Spanish learners. It covers major topics such as the use of violence, representations of good and evil, gender roles, symbolism, and the fantasy vs. reality dichotomy. Each slide includes analytical points, examples, and explanations aligned with exam specifications (e.g AQA). Perfect for classroom use, revision, or independent study, this resource helps students develop critical thinking and essay-writing skills in Spanish. Keywords: Pan’s Labyrinth, El Laberinto del Fauno, Spanish A-Level, film analysis, Guillermo del Toro, symbolism, fantasy, fascism, gender roles, PowerPoint, redacciones. Exact list of topics: The use of violence in the film and whether it is necessary. Whether the Pale Man scene reflects the main themes of the film. Women not being portrayed as the weaker sex and the danger of ignoring them. The representation of good and bad in the real and fantasy worlds. Symbolism used to reflect Vidal’s personality. Techniques used by the director to explore Ofelia’s fantasy world. Carmen’s behaviour towards Vidal and Ofelia. The relationship between Ofelia and Mercedes. Whether the film can be considered a fairy tale.

This resource contains written exemplar responses to the three written questions on 35 different AQA stimulus cards for AS and A-Level pupils. There is at least one card for all of the following themes: Los valores tradicionales y modernos. El ciberespacio. La igualdad de los sexos. La inmigración. El racismo. La convivencia. La influencia de los ídolos. La identidad regional en España. El patrimonio cultural. Jóvenes de hoy, ciudadanos de mañana. Monarquías y dictaduras. Movimientos populares As a Spanish Language Assistant, I focused heavily on the speaking card section of the exam for this year’s A2 students, as well as the entire speaking exam for the AS students. This meant that every week we would do a “debate club” in which the students would prepare the card beforehand and come to the club to share their own opinion. Afterwards, I would then show them my exemplar answers, which are all found on the presentation that I have uploaded. This is one way the resource can be used, but in reality it could be the basis of so many other classes as well and of course, be useful to a lot of language assistants. There are more cards that are found in both the AS and A2 exams, as I wanted the Year 12 and 13 students to benefit from the debate classes equally, but I still did make sure to include many cards on solely A2 topics as well. The exemplar answers contain lots of high-level grammatical structures, opinion phrases, interesting reasonings and more up-to-date statistics/examples that the students can use to justify their opinions. The cards are not organised by topic.