A set of 40 Photo Cards covering all the topics of the Identity and Culture theme: Me, my family and friends (8 cards), Technology in everyday life (8 cards), Free-time activities (8 cards), Food and eating out (8 cards) and Customs and festivals (8 cards). Each card includes five foundation questions (in red) and five higher questions (in blue), the first of which (at both foundation and higher level) is always “¿Qué hay en la foto?” . The booklet also includes a summary of the requirements of the speaking test and a copy of the mark scheme for the photo card. UPDATED: I have modified this resource to better resemble the photo cards on the AQA exam: there are now five foundation and five higher questions on each card (instead of four). At foundation level one of the first three questions (what in the exam would be the printed questions) requires the use of a tense other than the present. At higher level references to three time frames are needed, with one time frame other than the present required in one of the first three questions and the remaining time frame in one of the other two questions.

A whole set of resources to teach the GCSE topic relationships within the family. The presentation consists of 62 slides (please note that the presentation was made using Smartboard Notebook, not Powerpoint; I have included a Powerpoint copy, but a lot of the features do not work or work worse on Powerpoint, so I advice using Notebook to open it) includes the following vocabulary areas: - family members - physical descriptions - character - “me llevo bien” and reasons for getting on (or not) with people. The presentation covers the following grammar points: - ser and tener - the conditional - comparatives - negatives - asking questions It also includes several speaking activities (role plays and photo cards), as well as a variety of games (naughts and crosses, connect 4, walk around the room finding information). The presentation is supported by 7 worksheets, a writing mat and an overview of the new GCSE course

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 2. 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: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-theme-2-writing-exam-and-feedback-sheets-11587008

This booklet contains 18 discussion cards based on Theme 2 of the new AQA Spanish A Level course (Artistic culture 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?”. 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). Each section is followed by around 20 questions for the students to research / discuss the topic further. Finally, the booklet also contains an overview of the A Level course and the Paper 3 exam, as well as a list of useful language for the test. The titles for the cards are: Enrique Iglesias y Ana Kournikova, padres de gemelos. Shakira: “El destino de los niños puede cambiar”. Penélope Cruz: la reina de las polémicas. Belén Esteban: el triunfo de la mediocridad. “Mis medidas son 2.202 casos por feminicidios reportados en los últimos 9 años en mi país.” “Para la industria soy una modelo de talla grande, pero para mí soy una mujer real”. El Colacho: ¿el festival español más original? Masiva protesta contra las corridas de toros antes del comienzo de San Fermín La gastronomía española: los diez platos típicos que debes probar al menos una vez en la vida La cosecha de uva en La Rioja de 2017 es «escasa y de gran calidad» Euskera Araban: El 62,4% de los alaveses no sabe Euskera y el 93% usa sobre todo el Castellano La inmersión lingüística y la escolarización en castellano: el eterno conflicto en Cataluña La Alhambra de Granada, el monumento más visitado de España Teotihuacán, el “lugar donde los hombres se convierten en dioses”. Frida Kahlo, grandeza y tragedia. El Museo del Prado. El aurresku: la danza solemne que da la bienvenida al País Vasco. La música precolombina: un tesoro casi perdido.

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.

Lesson resources based on the trailers of well-known Spanish movies to prepare students to write and speak about films in Spanish (with links to those trailers). It includes a translation about El laberinto del fauno.

A set of 20 role plays covering theme two of the new Spanish GCSE course (based on the AQA specification). It includes 10 foundation and 10 higher role plays, on the topics "Home, town, neighbourhood and region" "Social issues" and "Global issues" "Travel and Tourism". Each role play includes candidate's role and teacher's role, and both the 'tú' and 'usted' forms are used. The file also includes a student-friendly summary of the specification for the new speaking exam and the mark scheme for the role play. I have also included a foundation and higher mark scheme feedback sheet to provide students with instant, personalised feedback as they complete mock speaking exams. Updated with Role Play feedback sheet.

This booklet contains 36 speaking cards based on Theme 1 ans Theme 2 of the new AQA Spanish A Level course (Aspects of Hispanic society and Artistic culture in the Hispanic world). In other words, the themes covered in the AS course (Year one of the A Level course). 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). Each section is followed by around 20 questions for the students to research / discuss the topic further. Finally, there are two alternative versions of the booklet, one with the overview and mark schemes for paper 3 in the AS course and another one with the overview and mark schemes for the whole A Level course.

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 very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (mainly higher) to translate from Spanish into English. The resource includes 91 sentences and six long paragraphs and they cover the following aspects of Theme 2 (Local, regional, international and global areas of interest), organised as follows: Part 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region Part 2: Social issues (charity/voluntary work; healthy, unhealthy living) and Global issues (the environment; poverty/homelessness) Part 3: Travel and tourism Finally, the six longer paragraphs include language related to all three 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…)

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.

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 contains twenty-four 150-word questions to revise the three themes of the new GCSE course (AQA specification). The 150-word question is part of the higher writing exam. There are eight questions for each of the three themes of the course (Identity and culture, Local, national, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), and two questions for each of the topics in each theme. Each of the questions contains two bullet points that the students are expected to cover; the bullet points are written to resemble the ones found in the 2018 paper and those in the sample questions provided by AQA. At least one of the bullet points in each question prompts the students to refer to either the past or the future, and several questions ask the students to write their “recommendations”. Finally, the booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme for the 150 word question and an overview of the themes and topics. This resource can be used as part of everyday teaching, as end of unit assessment, for revision purposes and it is an easy way of setting useful homework. This resource is a follow-up to my 90-Word questions booklet, which has proved to be very popular since I uploaded it about a year ago an which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/dashboard/resource-management/uploads

This resource contains two booklets, one of them including twenty-four 150-word questions to revise the three themes of the new GCSE course (AQA specification), and a similar one consisting of twenty-four 90-word questions. In each booklet there are eight questions for each of the three themes of the course (Identity and culture, Local, national, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), and two questions for each of the topics in each theme. The 150-word question is part of the higher writing exam, and each question contains two bullet points that the students are expected to cover; the bullet points are written to resemble the ones found in the 2018 paper and those in the sample questions provided by AQA. At least one of the bullet points in each question prompts the students to refer to either the past or the future, and several questions ask the students to write their “recommendations”. The booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme for the 150 word question and an overview of the themes and topics. The 90-word 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. The booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme. This resource can be used as part of everyday teaching, as end of unit assessment, for revision purposes and as an easy way of setting useful homework.

This resource contains two separate booklets. The first one contains eight 90-word questions covering all topics of Theme 2 (Local, national, international and global areas of interest) of the AQA Spanish GCSE specification (two questions for each of the four topics of Theme 2). Based on the sample papers and the 2018 paper, all the questions include four bullet points; one bullet point refers to the future and one to the past. The second booklet contains the same eight questions, followed by a table with 20 sentences. Sixteen of the sentences are direct answers to one of the bullet points (four sentences per bullet point); the remaining sentences, while useful, do not answer directly any of the bullet points and wouldn’t give the students much credit for content if used on their own. The idea behind this activity is to encourage the students to read the bullet points carefully, taking into account the different time frames that they refer to and what they actually ask, thus stopping them from simply writing anything they can think of on each of the different topics without taking into account the requirements of the task. The sentences can also be used as translation activities. Themes 1 and 3 also available, and a booklet with all three themes can be found in this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-answering-90-word-questions-themes-1-2-and-3-writing-exam-1209181

Booklet with key vocabulary for students to revise for their foundation listening and reading French exams. It contains 15 pages of vocabulary in French. Students write the English next to them and colour-code the words: green for the words they knew, yellow or amber for the ones they were not 100% sure, and red for the words they didn't know at all.