El mensaje de Frida Khalo

A lesson of integrated learning (language, culture and exam technique) built around an adaptation of an authentic text of the message of Frida Khalo’s work. Including class discussion and follow-up activities, this could take two lessons.
Activity 0: read aloud to develop fluency and to fine-tune pronunciation.
Activity 1: grammatical awareness and accuracy. From one or two eleements that are given to them, pupils to complete the remaining 2 or 3 columns (word category, definition in Spanish, translation into English and word/expression from the text) from the information from the text.
Activity 2: reading comprehension, mainly questions type 2 and type 3 to drive up performance on these more challenging question types.
Activity 3: pair work. Pupils to discuss a selection of Frida’s works and to agree on what the main theme/event is on that painting, and what other themes can be seen. Groups will present their findings to the class and other groups may want to challenge their view or add to the list of themes. More able groups can start a debate.
Activity 4: translation into English of an adapted text on the topic of the lesson.

Mark schemes, including for the translation, can be found in the “versión del profesor” document.