Table helper/ sticker to improve reading comprehension. Make it stick! Stick them in your students books. List of question words/ Spanish interrogative pronouns.
I´ve improved this table over the years teaching, My students find it quite useful, they are able to master 7 different tenses with translations included. Tenses are colour coded, so everytime they write a present tense it would be orange, past green, future purple, conditional pink. At a glance they will know how many tenses there are in their text and you as a teacher as well. Time saver!
Great as a scaffolding tool, works as a table helper, poster or annex in their books. Try it!
A set of over 50 cards with those words that your weaker students keep forgetting and asking you.
Print them off in card, cut them and share sets among those students who need reminding of the basic words. They could be used as display material or as a card memory game. Foundation Controlled Assessments Spanish GCSe and New Specification.
A set of vocabulary exercises to familiarize with vocabualry of the day of the dead or El Dia de los muertos celebrated in Mexico. Reading comprenhension in boxes to match up with translation using linguistic and non lingustic skills (Magenta principle). This type of activity is suitable for translation exercises for the New Specification of GCSE Spanish.
Roleplay personal adaptation of the fairytale Rumpelstiltskin.
Successful from KS1 to GCSE. Helps fluency, pronunciation and memory as well as improves confidence in Speaking . Through simple and effective structures students improve speaking skills rapidly and progress is evident as students add their own content through improvisation. Fun activity for all levels!
A practical reading guide for teenagers and teachers to check on reading comprenhension before, while and after reading Abomination by Robert Swindells
Lots of Questions Super Quiz with Several Categories, general Knowledge, Sentence Structure, Vocabulary, Prepositions, Find the Odd one out,... Fantastic to play with the whole class or in groups! Enjoy it! Ideal to enrol kids in speaking!
An effective roleplay script students can use to act out their own news programme. Very fun activity, students get really creative! Students follow script and add their own news, Really effective and fun when adding sounds from intro of Spanish news.
A practical reading guide for teenagers and teachers to check on reading comprenhension before, while and after reading Abomination by Robert Swindells. Part 2 (Chapters 10-20)
Step by step activities on Federico Garcia Lorca´s Verde que te quiero verde poem. By working out vocabulary, structure, Spanish terms students reflect on the poem independently or whole class and work out Spanish Reading skills for both Foundation and Higher.
Set of 200 cards of Higher Structures and connectors to achieve higher grades and add more sophistication to speaking or writing Controlled Assessments or just general GCSE tasks in Spanish and English. Can be easily adapted to any language. Just print them in colour (each colour is a different category), laminate them and get your students using them independently as often as possible. Coloured stars are levelled from Foundation GCSE pink star, Intermediate B blue star and green star for A* to A-level yellow star.
Spanish worksheet to learn how to describe someone.
Scaffolded activity to give confidence to foundation students.
First step towards describing a photo for GCSE Spanish.
Following my 7 tenses chart poster I´ve created some exercises to practise the 7 different tenses and translation exercises, good practice for GCSE Spanish Translation .
Good as an introduction, revision or independent learning.
A set of vocabulary exercises to familiarize with vocabulary of St. Valentine´s Day or El Dia de san Valentin celebrated all over the world. Useful for Spanish beginners, as an introduction to Relationships and Choices Topic from GCSE or also for Spanish speakers improving EAL skills.
A set of 100 sentences for GCSE TRANSLATION English to Spanish Spanish to English.
They can be used as a class activity or to work independently with answers.
A set of flowcharts on Topic Festivals ; Internet to build Spanish for both Speaking or Writing GCSE. Scaffolded for Foundation students to A* students, higher structures included as well as tenses in set colours. Students will get used to use those structures which will help them reach even higher. Present, Past, Conditional & Future tenses for total beginners taking GCSE.
Print them off as booklets and your students will be able to create full paragraphs independently.
Also useful for Speaking or Writing Assessment in New GCSE Specification.
Can be used with Carnival or any other festival.
Based on Simple Flashcards covering topics of freetime, Sports, Technology, Transport, Professions useful for ESL or Spanish Pre GCSE.
See List of Vocab in my free resouces Simple flashcards on basic Spanish & English created by me.
Here´s a list of positive comments in Spanish to praise your students daily.
Some times we tend to use more negative than positive comments, this list will help you to refresh your praising language in Spanish. Try it! Five a day!
Step by step analysis of Federico Garcia Lorca´s Baladilla de los tres rios. By working out vocabulary, structure, geographical terms students reflect on the poem independently and work out general meaning of this great little poem.
A set of flowcharts to build Spanish for both Speaking or Writing GCSE to describe a photo step by step. Scaffolded for Foundation students to A* students, higher structures included as well as tenses. Students will get used to use those structures which will help them reach even higher, scaffolded from beginners to advanced students.
Print them off as booklets and your students will be able to create full paragraphs independently.
Useful for Speaking or Writing Assessment in New Specification.
Ideal first activity to introduce poetry and translation for the new Specification Spanish GCSE.
Step by step activity with answers to help students understanding poems and poetry at a basic level of Spanish as well as translations. Based on Magenta principles.
More examples coming soon.