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Spanish KS3, GCSE and A Level resources.
New Spanish A Level Paper 2 (Writing) Support booklet : Ocho apellidos vascos.
A twelve page booklet to prepare Spanish A Level students for paper 2 of the new specification (2018 examination), specifically focused on Emilio Gutiérrez-Lázaro's film Ocho apellidos vascos.
The booklet includes:
- a summary of the requirements of the paper
- the assessment objectives and mark scheme
- two initial activities to "get the students thinking" (20 questions about key aspects of the film, and lines from the film for the students to discuss)
- the four essay questions from the AQA sample materials
- a further 15 essay questions (some of them adapted from past exam questions from the outgoing specification).
- four pages of useful language to write an essay
-a self-assessment check-list for the students to use to reflect on their own work.
Please note that both Word and PDF versions of the booklet are included, as sometimes the Word version of files uploaded to TES appear distorted in previews.
Las relaciones de pareja: Mi pareja ideal (Future relationships - My ideal partner) (UPDATED)
A set of lessons to prepare students to write about their ideal partner and their future plans. It revises key vocabulary and adjectives and it includes a long, challenging reading activity. Grammar wise it revises the conditional, the immediate future and adverbs with “-mente”. A short translation and a photo card at the end of the notebook file revise the topic, while two further photo cards are included as a separate file.
Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power
Point.
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Spanish A Level Paper 2 ("Ocho apellidos vascos" and "La casa de Bernarda Alba"), Paper 3 (Speaking) and grammar bundle
Three booklets to prepare students for papers 2 and 3:
Paper 2 (writing) - Volver
Paper 2 (writing) - La casa de Bernarda Alba
Paper 3 (speaking)
Each booklet includes a wide range of questions to provide the students with plenty of practice, as well as detailed explanations of the paper's requirements, assessment objectives and mark schemes.
The fourth booklet contains a very comprehensive (118 pages) overview of the main aspects of Spanish grammar that the students are expected to be able to use on their A Level course.
New Spanish A Level Paper 2 (writing) Support Booklet - Réquiem por un campesino español
A twelve page booklet to prepare students for paper 2 (writing) of the new A Level Spanish specification (2018 onwards), specifically focused on Réquiem por un campesino español.
The booklet includes:
a summary of the requirements of the paper
the assessment objectives and mark scheme
two initial activities to “get the students thinking” (20 questions about key aspects of the short novel, and a variety quotes for the students to discuss)
the four essay questions from the AQA sample materials and the two questions form the 2018 exam
a further 18 essay questions (some of them adapted from past exam questions from the outgoing specification), covering a wide range of aspects, to provide the students with plenty of practice opportunities
four pages of useful language to write an essay
a self-assessment check-list for the students to use to reflect on their own work.
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New Spanish A Level: Paper 3 (Speaking). Discussion cards. Perfect for home learning.
This bundle 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 cards can be found as a single resource (a 100 page booklet which also includes an overview of the A Level course and the assessment criteria for Paper 3) on this link:
El futuro simple (The future simple)
Lesson on how to conjugate and use the future simple in Spanish. Suitable to GCSE students of all abilities.
The lesson includes differentiated good and better WILFs, several writing activities of different levels of difficulty, a game of battleships and an extension with an in-depth explanation on how to use the tense and further activities for higher ability students.
Please note that the presentation was created on Notebook and then converted to PowerPoint, which loses some of the features and changed the layout of some slides.
New Spanish A Level: El racismo. Fact files and speaking, reading and translation activities.
This resource contains two fact files with a lot of statistics and figures about racist attitudes and legislation against racism in Spain. Each file is followed by three activities that exploit the information in them: a discussion card (for paper 3), a translation and summary question (paper 1).
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French GCSE - Writing support bundle
This bundle contains five resources to help support GCSE students prepare for their writing exam:
three writing papers, at foundation and higher level, with feedback sheets to provide the students with quick, effective feedback.
90 word question booklet, with 24 questions that follow the format of the overlap foundation-higher question of the AQA writing exam (each question with four bullet points that require the use of different tenses and elicit opinions).
A student friendly overview of the GCSE course and the requirements of the writing exams.
A Level Spanish speaking game: Trivial Pursuit
This resource is a version of the popular board-game Trivial Pursuit based around the themes and sub-themes of the new Spanish A Level course (AQA specifications).
I have assigned a category to each colour:
Aspects of Hispanic society (red)
Artistic culture in the Hispanic world (yellow)
Multiculturalism in Hispanic society (purple)
Aspects of political life (blue)
Grammar (orange)
Translation (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.
New Spanish A Level: Multiculturalism in the Hispanic world: Fact file
This resource contains a lot of factual information about Hispanic society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society in the new Spanish A Level course (La inmigración, El racismo and La convivencia). I wrote this resource to help my students revise for their upcoming speaking exam (Paper 3), specifically to ensure that they include enough information to score well in AO4 of the paper.
The file also includes a detailed overview of the course and of Paper 3.
New Spanish GCSE - Speaking test: Photo Cards. Perfect for home learning.
This 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.
Spanish GCSE: Customs and festivals - El Día de los Muertos. The day of the dead.
This file contains 8 reading, speaking and writing activities aimed at Spanish GCSE students based on the Mexican Day of the Dead festival (El Día de los Muertos).
The activities are:
vocabulary match-up
gap-fill (using the vocabulary from the first activity)
foundation and higher photo card
90-word question
Spanish to English translation
English to Spanish translation
Write questions for the answers
New Spanish GCSE - Theme 1 (Identity and culture): Translations - UPDATED
A very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (mainly higher) to translate from Spanish into English. The resource includes 95 sentences and six long paragraphs and they cover the following aspects of Theme 1 (Identity and Culture):
1.a. Me, my family and friends (35 sentences)
1.b. Technology in everyday life (20 sentences)
1.c. Free time activities (20 sentences)
1d. Customs and Festivals in Spain (10 sentences)
Finally, the six longer paragraphs include language related to all four categories.
The sentences include references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), as well as a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
New Spanish GCSE - Speaking test booklet (Edexcel specification)
Speaking test booklet to prepare students for the Conversation of the new GCSE spanish speaking test (Edexcel).
The booklet includes a detailed summary of the requirements of the new speaking exam (role play, picture based task and conversation), both at foundation and higher levels, explained in a student-friendly way, as well as the mark schemes for each element of the test, examples of role plays (foundation and higher) and stimulus cards (with foundation and higher questions), and a very comprehensive list of questions for the general conversation. All the questions have been translated to allow the teachers to use them in the classroom, set them as homework or tell the students to work independently on them .
Technology in everyday life: La tecnología (UPDATED WITH POWERPOINT)
Two lessons on the topic of technology, focusing on being able to express opinions about technology in different tenses and talking about what the students use technology for in different tenses.
The second lesson includes a series of GCSE exam-like activities, including photo cards, translation and 90 word question.
Finally, a writing mat has been added to this resource to support students of all abilities with their written work.
Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power Point.
Los programas de televisión (TV programmes)
A couple of lessons to prepare students to express an justify their opinions about TV programmes, using a variety of expressions (beyond the basic "me gusta"), adjectives and tenses. Supported by a template worksheet to express opinions in the present and in te past and a variety of activities.
New Spanish GCSE. Writing exam practice: 90-word questions. Perfect for home learning.
This booklet contains twenty four questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new Spanish GCSE writing exam. They cover all three themes of the AQA specification, but can be easily adapted to other exam boards. There are eight questions for each theme, and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students.
All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme). When possible, one of the bullet points starts with ‘qué hiciste’, a question which appears in many of the AQA samples and that some students often fail to understand.
UPDATE: A similar resource, focusing on the 150 word questions (higher paper) can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-higher-writing-practice-150-word-questions-12082077
New French GCSE - Writing exam: 90-word questions. Perfect for home learning.
This booklet contains twenty four questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new French GCSE writing exam. They cover all three themes of the AQA specification, but can be easily adapted to other exam boards. There are eight questions for each theme, and they can be used in lessons, as well as as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students.
All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme).
New French GCSE - Writing Exam: 90 word questions: Theme 2 (Local, national... areas of interest)
This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new French GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 2 (Local, national, international and global areas of interest), and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students.
All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme).
A booklet with 24 questions covering all three themes can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-90-word-questions-11822119
New Spanish A Level: Immigration (La inmigración). Fact file, reading activities and translations.
This 12-page resource contains three pages full of facts, statistics and figures about immigration in Spain and other Hispanic countries. Each of those pages is then followed by three activities that exploit the information in them: a discussion card (for paper 3), a translation and summary question (paper 1).