This is designed for use as cover work when students are studying the environment at GCSE. I can’t remember where the original text is from - I have searched it up but can’t find it anywhere (maybe somewhere in the GCSE textbooks). I believe the exercises are mine and I hope they are useful.

Year 12 students

Editable resource designed to be used as a display - could also be a useful handout for students

Imperfect Subjunctive worksheet - rules and practice exercise

This is a free example of the document I have created here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-to-spanish-translation-practice-for-spanish-gcse-aqa-theme-1-identity-and-culture-12150690. In the full version there are ten exercises like this on different sub-themes, for foundation and higher, with answers provided.

Examples given of sentences built around if clauses in Spanish, three exercises of increasing difficulty, no answers yet I’m afraid.

List of shops and a match up exercise (e.g. aquí se puede comprar un coliflor)

This is designed as a starter to get students writing about this wonderful film.

This is a simple match-up exercise based on a review of Lorca’s Romancero Gitano.

This is a diagram showing how to use the verb gustar in Spanish. Designed for KS3 students, possible of use for KS4 too.

This is designed for KS3 students in their first year of studying Spanish, to help them write better sentences than the most basic ones.

This worksheet takes students through the steps to form the imperfect subjunctive, requiring them to write out the preterite tense of some regular and irregular verbs, explaining the steps with examples. There are two exercises with extensions to practise forming and using this tense, with full answers provided.

Worksheet on forming regular and irregular gerunds in Spanish, with rules and exercises (answers provided). Suitable for key stage 5 students (and possibly advanced KS4 ones).

This editable worksheet includes a map showing how to form the three different IF clauses in Spanish, and challenges students to use the map to translate 15 sentences into Spanish. Best for advanced (i.e. year 13) students. Answers provided.

I made this for my year 13 students as practice engaging with literature in Spanish. Answers and vocabulary support provided. If you click on the link on the document, it should take you to a version of this text. This worksheet is all about the long second paragraph, which begins ‘Ana y Roberto Blaum envejecieron juntos’ and ends ‘que les habían curtido el alma’.

This is an editable document designed to be used at the end of a unit of work on the present tense, and reviews infinitives and present tense endings, as well as giving the present tense forms of ser, estar, hacer, ver and tener, and radical changers/boot verbs. Exercises throughout, and answers provided.

These are four editable documents designed to be printed large and stuck up on the walls of the Spanish classroom.

This worksheet comprises seven exercises with instructions in English. Exercises include: naming genres of films; describing personal preferences and those of friends/family; cloze reading exercises; translation exercises and a wordsearch. I made it for use with my year 7 students who have had one year of Spanish, but it is also suitable for year 8 or 9 students. Answers are included on a separate pdf.

This is an editable ten-page document with translation exercises at both foundation and higher tier. The theme is Identity and Culture, and the ten sub-themes include marriage/partnerships, social media, sport, music, festivals in Spanish-speaking countries. Full answers are included. There is an example of these exercises here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/example-translation-practice-eng-spanish-for-spanish-gcse-aqa-theme-1-identity-and-culture-12150686

This is an editable Word booklet designed to introduce key stage 5 students to García Márquez (in preparation for studying Crónica) focusing on the opening lines of some of his most famous books, an extract of his Nobel acceptance speech, an obituary published in the Observer and a review of Crónica published in the London Review of Books by Salman Rushdie. There are some exercises for students to do to prove they have read these texts, but it is primarily an exercise in reading.