Spanish A Level Grammar Booklet. This booklet (120 pages) provides a very comprehensive study of the main grammar points needed at A level (sections of the booklet can also be used at GCSE level). Each section includes an explanation of a grammar point and a variety of activities to consolidate knowledge and understanding. The booklet is divided into the following sections: 1. Nouns 1a. gender 1b. number 2. Articles 3. Adjectives 4. Comparatives and superlatives 5. “Por” and “para” 6. Contractions 7. Negatives 8. Questions 9. Personal a 10. Relative pronouns 11. Possessive adjectives and pronouns 12. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns 13. Direct object pronouns 14. Indirect object pronouns 15. Direct and indirect object pronouns used together 16. Apocopation 17. “Ser” and “estar” 18. Conjugating verbs 19. Present tense 19 a. regular verbs 19 b. irregular verbs 19 c. stem-changing (or radical-changing) verbs 19 d. reflexive verbs 19 e. “gustar” 19 f. back to front verbs 20. Preterite tense 21. Imperfect tense 22. Preterite vs imperfect 23. Present perfect 24. Past perfect (or “pluperfect”) 25. Future simple 26. Conditional 27. Commands (the imperative) 28. Present progressive (or “present continuous”) 29. Present subjunctive 30. Passive voice (and how to avoid it) 31. Conditional clauses Verb tables

A 37-page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet covers the four themes and twelve sub-themes studied in the two-year course, as well as guidelines on how to approach the Individual research project. It also includes a student-friendly overview of the new specification, an explanation of the requirements of Paper 3, the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for both part one (discussion if a sub-theme) and part two (presentation and discussion of the individual research project) of the paper. Each sub-theme in part one is illustrated with one of the sample photo cards from AQA, followed by a list of 20 to 30 questions that the students could be expected to be able to answer when discussing the sub-theme. There are 285 questions altogether, providing the students with opportunities to study each sub-theme in quite a lot of detail (and the teachers with plenty of homework opportunities!) The booklet also explains what the individual research project consists of, what the teacher’s role is and suggested titles. Finally, the booklet also contain three pages of useful language for the test. UPDATE (13/06/19) - I have updated the booklet to get rid of the more “general” questions and focus it more on Spanish speaking countries.

Perfect for home learning. This very exhaustive and detailed guide contains a lot of information and activities to help Spanish A Level students research reflect about Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno. There are a variety of reading, writing and speaking (role plays) activities, as well as multitude of quotes and shots from the film to support each topic. The booklet consists of 84 pages, and it is divided into the following sections: Introduction - a brief reading activity and a vocabulary section, and a series of warm-up activities to complete before, while and after watching the film, including an analysis of the film’s introduction, a “who said it” activity, short written questions to reflect on key scenes and a guided writing activity to help the students write a review of the film. Characters: reading, speaking and writing activities to explore the different characters and characterisation techniques used in the film. The director’s techniques: the use of allegory, the elements of the fairy tale, the use of colour and the use of different shots and camera angles (camera work). Historical background: four sections to study the historical background against which the film is set: the Civil War, a section about “las dos Españas” and how this concept is reflected in the film, a section about “los del monte” and a section about fascism. The main themes in El laberinto: obedience, masculinity and femininity and the treatment of violence. The monsters in El laberinto del fauno and in Guillermo del Toro’s career The success of El laberinto del fauno: a section that looks at how Spanish language films can struggle in the Anglophone market and the factors that made it possible for El laberinto to overcome these difficulties. A final section with further aspects of the film for the students to research, including influence of other directors, the influence of Goya’s Black Paintings, the importance of insects in del Toro’s film and the similarities and differences between Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone. The resource also includes a number of essays on the topics covered and a checklist to help the students self-asses what they write, as well as many independent learning opportunities, with suggestions for the students on topics they could research to further their knowledge and understanding of the film. A second booklet focuses on how to write an essay, the requirement of the new Spanish A Level Paper 2 exam and provides further essay questions. A free sample of this resource can be found in this link: **https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-angles-1200249 ​ UPDATE (13/06/19) - The guide now includes an extra section with an overview of the A Level Paper 2 exam, mark schemes and a variety of essay questions.

A set of 13 time-saving worksheets to set quick, simple cover work. Suitable for younger students. Each worksheet includes bilingual vocabulary lists and simple activities (with instructions in English) for the students to complete at their own pace.

This booklet contains 72 speaking cards based on Theme 1, Theme 2, Theme 3 and Theme 4 of the new Spanish A Level course (Aspects of Hispanic society, Artistic culture in the Hispanic world, Multiculturalism in the Hispanic World and Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world). The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?” or similar). The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4). There are eighteen cards for each theme (six cards for each sub theme), and each section is followed by a minimum of 20 questions to encourage the students to explore and discuss the topic further. The booklet ends with a list of vocabulary useful for the speaking test, and it also includes an overview of the A Level course, of Paper 3 and of the assessment criteria. A free sample of this resource can be found on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-discussion-cards-paper-3-speaking-11960474?theme=0 UPDATE (13/06/19) - The booklet has been adapted to replace some of the more general questions and with other questions focused on Spanish speaking countries.

A very comprehensive set of resources to study the topic of festivals in Spain. The presentation (25 slides) includes reading and writing activities, two role plays, six photo cards and two translations (Spanish into English and English into Spanish). The set also includes 6 worksheets that complement the presentation. Finally, there is a grammar activity that focuses on the use of impersonal verbs (“se” + he/she form of the verb) and the conditional. UPDATE: This resource now includes a worksheet with 8 activities based on the Mexican festival Dia de los muertos.

This is a reading activity about Medina Azahara, the fortified Moor medieval palace-city built by Abd-ar-Rahman III outside Córdoba. The site has been recently (July 2018) declared a UNESCTO World Heritage site, which makes it very relevant. The resource includes 4 activities based on those on Paper 1 of the new exam: true, false or not-mentioned, summary, translation and gap-fill.

This document includes a lot of factual information about Spain and other Spanish speaking countries, covering all the themes and sub themes of the new Spanish A level course (AQA specification). The 48-page file (I’ve uploaded a PDF and a Word version) includes three or more pages per sub theme with a lot of figures, statistics, data and examples relevant to that sub theme. Most of the information refers to Spain, as it is the country I know best, but other Spanish speaking countries are also referred to. I first started writing this resource in the weeks leading to the year 13 speaking exam with the objective of providing the students with a single document where they could find a lot of relevant information that they could refer to when discussing the topics in the first part of their exam. I believe that they found it very useful. The information here can also be easily adapted and used in other activities, such as reading activities or translations.

This four-page file includes a lot factual information about Spanish and Latin American culture and society, focusing on the sub theme of Popular movements, part of the theme Aspects of Political Life in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with wide range of facts and statistics about the topic, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). The information in the file can also be easily adapted to reading or translation activities.

Seven worksheets to help teachers provide their students with an overview of the new French GCSE course (AQA specification), the requirements of the new speaking and writing exams (both at foundation and higher level) and mark schemes, and four sheets to provide the students with immediate, personalised feedback for their mock or practice speaking and writing papers. UPDATE: the feedback sheets now include the 2018 grade boundaries, to make it easier for the teachers to estimate a grade.

This is a very comprehensive resource (245 pages altogether) which provides the students with a lot of opportunities to practice the different parts of the new Spanish GCSE exam. The booklet is divided into three sections: Part 1: role plays. This section contains 59 role plays (at both foundation and higher level) and cover all three themes of the AQA specification ( Theme 1 Identity and culture, Theme 2 Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Theme 3 Current and future education and work). Part 2: photo cards, with 90 photo cards, again on Higher and Foundation level and covering all three themes. Part 3: general conversation booklet, with a very extensive list of questions covering every aspect of the three themes. This resource provides plenty of activities to complete in the lessons, but it is also ideal to use as homework, independent work or even cover work for students of all abilities. Each of the sections of the booklet can be found as a separate unit in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Free samples of the role plays can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-role-plays-free-sample-11960043 And free samples of the photo cards can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-role-plays-free-sample-11960043

This 30-page booklet contains an overview of the new Spanish GCSE speaking exam, a copy of the mark schemes and examples of role plays and photo cards at both higher and foundation level. The bulk of the booklet, however, focuses on the general discussion, and it contains a large number of questions for each of the three new themes (Identity and culture, Local, national and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment). There are altogether 122 questions, covering each aspect of the themes, and prompting the students to refer to present, past and future events, and to include opinions. Each of the questions includes a model answer, typically offering the student the key language (verbs, time phrases, connectives) that they need to answer the question and providing them with options to choose from in order to write a full answer (e.g. “El año pasado fui de vacaciones a España / a Francia / a Florida con mis padres / mis amigos”). The model answers are meant to help the weaker students ensure that they can cover all topics, whereas stronger candidates can use them as a starting point to elaborate and develop their own.

A set of 20 writing mats/templates covering a series of different topics in Spanish. The topics include leisure activities, the weather, festivals, films, basic personal information, holidays, school subjects, healthy diet and charity work. All mats are bilingual (all the content is in English as well as Spanish), and there is an emphasis on opinions and tenses. The mats are designed for KS3 students mainly, but they can also be used for a variety of revision or starter activities at KS4. These mats are perfect to set cover work (students can use them to write sentences and paragraphs on each topic, use them to produce posters and classroom displays, or to create revision mind maps). I have also used them in lessons. Some of the activities I have used these templates for include: dictation: read a text that uses the language in the mats and ask the students to write it down. dicta-translation: read a text based on the mat in Spanish and ask the students to write it down in English, or the other way round. paired dictation and translation: same as above but the students read to each other. “great minds think alike”: ask the students to write a number of sentences and then ask them to find out, by reading their sentences to each other, if someone else wrote the exact same sentences, thus proving that they are great minds. “stand up if”: ask the students to highlight sentences in the mats. Then read a text based on it and ask the students to stand up (and then immediately sit down) every time that you read a word or phrase that they’ve highlighted. speed reading: time the students while they read from the template, see how many sentences they can read out/who is the first to read a full text etc. And of course the students can use the writing mat to write their own texts. More mats will be added shortly on topics such as health, school and relationships.

This resource is a version of the popular board-game Trivial Pursuit based around the topics and themes of the new GCSE course. The different topics have been divided into the following six categories: Familia y relaciones (red) Tiempo libre y tecnología (yellow) Mi ciudad y mi región (purple) Problemas sociales y globales (blue) Vacaciones, turismo y festivales (orange) Educación y trabajo (green) The resource includes a printable board (better printed in colour and enlarged to A3) and 24 question cards (with one question for each category, so a total of 192 questions). Additionally, there is a file with six counters and six “score cards”, with a “pie” for the students to colour the different sections as they achieve them. This resource can be used as a whole class activity if displayed on the board, but it can also be printed (in colour!) for students to work in groups of up to six.

A 38 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme Aspects of Hispanic society, and it contains 18 discussion cards covering Modern and traditional values (6 cards), Cyberspace (6 cards) and Equal rights (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of between 27 and 30 questions to encourage the students to further explore the issues covered in the cards. The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being "How do you react to the information on this card). The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4). The booklet also includes a student-friendly overview of the new specification, an explanation of the requirements of Paper 3, the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for both part one (discussion if a sub-theme) and part two (presentation and discussion of the individual research project) of the paper. Finally, the booklet also contain three pages of useful language for the test. The titles for the cards are as follows: - La familia en la España de hoy - Los hogares monoparentales, los que más crecen en España. - Aumentan un 4,8% las separaciones y divorcios en España en el primer trimestre de 2017 - El número de matrimonios religiosos en España alcanzó mínimos históricos en 2016. - Los españoles: católicos, no practicantes. - Sólo el 5% de las páginas web están escritas en español. - La piratería descendió en España en 2016 por primera vez en diez años. - El 94% de los niños españoles de 14 años tienen su propio teléfono móvil - El 51% de los hombres españoles y el 49% de las mujeres usan apps de forma regular. - El 10% de los mensajes escritos por los adolescentes es las redes es considerado ‘ciberacoso’ - Facebook continúa siendo la red social más usada en España - Las mujeres trabajan ‘gratis’ es España desde el ocho de noviembre por la brecha salarial. - Ana Patricia Botín, la décima mujer más poderosa del mundo en 2016 - Los colegios concertados permiten que la Iglesia Católica mantenga su influencia en la educación. - Los adolescentes españoles repiten actitudes machistas del pasado. - Cuarenta y cuatro mujeres asesinadas a manos de sus parejas o exparejas entre el uno enero y el diez de noviembre de 2017. - España, Holanda, Dinamarca y Finlandia, los países del mundo más tolerantes con la homosexualidad. - Se dispara el número de denuncias por agresiones homofóbicas en Madrid.

This is a free sample of this resource: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-speaking-test-photo-cards-11959939 The full resource consists of a booklet with ninety photo cards covering in a lot of detail all three themes of the new Spanish GCSE course: Identity and culture (40 cards), Local, national, international and global areas of interest (24 cards) and Current and future study and employment ( 26 cards). Each of the cards contains five foundation and five higher questions (colour-coded, using red for foundation and blue for higher), the firsts of which is always “¿Qué hay en la foto?”. One of the first three questions in the foundation set always requires the use of a tense other than the present (past, future or conditional), whereas the others elicit opinions and additional information from the students. In the higher set, all three time frames are covered, with one of the first three questions requiring the use of a tense other than the present and one of the final two questions requiring references to the other time frame. The booklet also includes a student-friendly explanation of the requirements of the new speaking exam and a copy of the mark scheme for the photo card. The photo cards can also be found split into the different themes in my shop. They can also be found as part of a more comprehensive resource (a book with a multitude of role plays and questions for the general conversation) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-speaking-test-booklet-role-plays-photo-cards-and-general-conversation-11959963