A set of resources to prepare the students to write and talk about their school and their time table.
The first notebook presentation (Mi horario - 17 slides) includes work on school subjects, opinions and a quick tense revision).
The second one (Mi colegio) is 22 slides long, and it includes information about the school premises, rules (practising "se puede" and "hay que" + infinitive), a quick revision of the conditional to talk about your ideal school and a quick revision of the future simple.
The presentations are supported by 6 worksheets.
A set of resources to cover the whole of theme 3 of the new GCSE Spanish course (AQA):
- current and future studies
- employment
- photo cards (speaking exam)
- role plays
A very comprehensive set of resources to help students revise Theme 2 (local, national, global, international areas of interest) of the new Spanish GCSE and prepare for the speaking test.
The pack includes:
- Role plays booklet, with 20 role plays at both foundation and higher level.
- Photo cards booklet, with 24 cards (each of which includes four foundation and four higher questions).
- General conversation questions, with 49 questions altogether at both foundation and higher level.
- Foundation and higher mark schemes / feedback sheets.
Three very comprehensive sets of Spanish to English translations, each covering all aspects of Theme 1 (Identity and Culture), Theme 2 (Local, regional, national, international and global areas of interest) and Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment).
A set of resources to help your students revise Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment) and prepare for the new GCSE exam. It includes:
- speaking exam resources (role plays, photo cards and general conversation)
- writing exam resources (a foundation and a higher practice paper, as well as a feedback sheets for each paper)
- a booklet with eight 90-word questions, following the new AQA spec and covering all topics of theme 3
- reading resources: a booklet with Spanish to English translations.
Two Smartboard Notebook presentations that contain personalised Good and Better WILFs for each of the questions in the new AQA Spanish GCSE writing and speaking exams (at both foundation and higher tiers).
Each slide contains three sets of WILFs, attached to a grade (grades 3, 4 and 5 in foundation, 4/5, 6 and 7+ in higher) and they are named after a Spanish city (Sevilla, Barcelona -currently still part of Spain! -and Madrid). Finally, each WILF contains a description of what good progress and good progress for students attempting that WILF would be.
Three sets of writing papers, following the new French GCSE specification (AQA).
Each individual set includes two papers (foundation and higher) covering one of the three themes (Identity and culture, Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), as well as an overview of the requirements of the exam and a foundation and a higher "check list" to provide the students with quick, personalised feedback for each question.
Also available in Spanish: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-writing-exam-practice-papers-and-feedback-sheets-11729983
Two practice writing papers (one foundation, one higher) following the format of the new GCSE writing exam, and focusing on the topics covered in Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment).
The foundation paper includes four questions (describe the photo, 40 words question, translation and 90 words question) and the higher paper includes three (90 words question, 150 words question and translation).
I have also included two feedback sheets (one foundation, one higher) that include"check-lists" (based on the AQA mark scheme for writing) to provide quick, personalised feedback for each of the questions. The check lists provide the students with feedback on what went well (WWW) and what they need to do to improve further (TIF).
Also available in Spanish
Reading activity based on an article from La Vanguardia (8th of November 2017) about the pay gap between men and women in Spain.
The resource includes 8 activities:
- find key vocabulary
- true, false or not mentioned
- explain what the figures represent
- translation into English
- explain the title of the article
- summarise the text
- explain the information in a photograph
This resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Aspects of Hispanic Society in the new Spanish A Level course (Traditional and Modern Values, Cyberspace and Equal Rights). 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 an overview of the course and of Paper 3.
A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Immigration (part of the theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society of the new Spanish A Level). It provides students with facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam).
The information can also be used for translation practice and it can be very easily adapted into a variety of reading activities.
A series of resources to support GCSE students preparing for their GCSE writing exams. The bundle includes three GCSE writing papers at both foundation and higher level, one for each theme of the new course, and a booklet with 24 90-word questions, eight for each theme (two per topic). This booklet has been picked by TES to be part of their GCSE revision hub. Finally, the resource includes a Complex structures guide, with a variety of tenses and structures to encourage the higher ability students to work independently and use increasingly complex language.
Finally, the bundle includes a “Correct the mistakes” activity, which includes 54 sentences (covering all topics) with mistakes in them for the students to correct, all based on some of the most common mistakes I keep seeing in students’ work.
This four-page file includes a lot factual information about Spanish and Latin American culture and society, focusing on the topic of Monarchies and Dictatorships, 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.
This bundle contains three resources to support students preparing for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Réquiem por un campesino español.
Paper 2 booklet: Ocho apellidos vascos.
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to get the students to start discussing the texts, quotes taking from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
This 13-page file contains a lot of information on how to use the Present Subjunctive. It is aimed at A Level students, but it can be used with high ability GCSE student too.
It starts with an explanation of what the subjunctive mood is, in contrast with the indicative. It then provides an explanation on how to conjugate it (including regular verbs, irregular verbs, radical-changing verbs and verbs with orthographic changes).
The file then gives an very detailed view of when the subjunctive is used, common expressions that require the subjunctive and finally a lot of practice for the students.
This file is part of a much more comprehensive file, the Grammar booklet that can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-grammar-booklet-1171504
This resource contains a series of reading and writing activities to introduce the film “El laberinto del fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth):
Activities before the film: a short introduction to the study of the film, a vocabulary list, and an activity to try to predict what the film will be about based on screenshots and on the opening shots.
Quotations: as the students watch the film, they match a series of quotations taken from it to the character that says them.
Questions: a long list of questions to reflect on important moments of the film.
Review: a guided writing activity to help the students write a review of Pan’s Labyrinth, with help on how to structure the review and useful language.
PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
UPDATE: the resource now includes a presentation to support the activities
A series of activities to help students reflect about the elements of the fairy tale in Pan’s Labyrinth. The resource first explores the structure of the fairy tale and how this is reflected on Pan’s Labyrinth, it is then followed by a reading and writing activity (90-word summary) about the most common elements in fairy tales (characters, setting…). The next section includes a series of questions about how all of the above is shown in the film. Finally there an AS-type essay question.
PLEASE NOTE: This resource is part of a much longer and much more exhaustive resource, my Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide, which can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
There is a free sample of the guide on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
A set of activities that I used with my French year 7 groups to revise the topics of countries, local area, shapes and colours, geography and the weather, food and economy (as well as personal descriptions, clothes and a weather forecast). They completed the activities over several lessons, working in groups as a competition. They produced some outstanding displays.
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