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Twenty years as Spanish and French teacher, specialist in Latin American culture, particularly film and Literature. My resources are very creative and students find themselves developing curiosity about the culture as well as being challenged to take risks with the language. They are engaging for the teacher too and they will inject some fun in to your lessons if like me you like to be creative and encourage your students not to play it safe. They do link to assessment requirements too.

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Twenty years as Spanish and French teacher, specialist in Latin American culture, particularly film and Literature. My resources are very creative and students find themselves developing curiosity about the culture as well as being challenged to take risks with the language. They are engaging for the teacher too and they will inject some fun in to your lessons if like me you like to be creative and encourage your students not to play it safe. They do link to assessment requirements too.
Expressing opinions about food with cultural twist
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Expressing opinions about food with cultural twist

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With the idea of interesting students in the culture behind the language this is expressing opinions about food whilst learning about food from Spain and Latin America. It gives a great opportunity for students to get their tongues round some great words and they will often enjoy giving opinions about foods they have never tried. It brings out and challenges their prejudices. Key focus on speaking and does challenge students on uses of gustar and other verbs for likes/dislikes + adjectival agreement- it does need differentiating.
Les excuse de petit Nicolas-foray in to literature
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Les excuse de petit Nicolas-foray in to literature

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New GCSE and 'literature', we are doing education with Y7 so I have created this reading skills focussed ppt using extracts from les excuses de petit Nicolas Use of white boards and an element of competition stops it from being too teacher led and the great thing about Nicolas is if they like him he can come up again- we are doing les vacances with Y8 so we might add in a petit Nicolas on holiday extract
KS4 French - The world without technology
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KS4 French - The world without technology

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Way to get students to talk about how they use technology. I took the 2 questions about dumping on Facebook and would you ban mobiles in school and got them to do a speed date around the room to practise asking and answering then we did a straw poll to see who would really dump a boy or girlfriend on face book and they loved it. This was follow up to doing Higher listening practise Edexcel 2011/2012 one on use of mobiles in class 2012 and one on using social networking sites 2011. Also nicked and adapted from a freebee from Mary Glasgow magazine about dumping on Facebook
Bienvenidos al español-prep for GCSE
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Bienvenidos al español-prep for GCSE

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I've got a big class for GCSE Spanish in September and this is my attempt to get them to revise the basics before the start of the autumn term so we can hit the ground running. If you were thinking of giving Y9 some Summer work in preparation for GCSE you might find this useful to use and or adapt.
adding challenge to adjectives of personality
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adding challenge to adjectives of personality

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They say they are making it harder to get those top grades so here is a way to make even teaching something reasonably straight forward like adjectives of personality a little more A*- or indeed 1 as it will be in a few years apparently.
Los jovenes pasan demasiado tiempo frente a....
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Los jovenes pasan demasiado tiempo frente a....

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Los jovenes pasan demasiado tiempo frente a una pantalla- taken from several articles on net. Idea that it is not just a conventional reading resource but shows and trains them in how to tackle a higher reading. Used in preparation for CA on weekend activities that is why there are some questions for adapting at the end
Represión y rebelión en America Latina
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Represión y rebelión en America Latina

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This resource is designed to help teachers deliver the unit on dictatorships in Latin America and forms of protest for AQA and as stimulus for the individual oral project in Y13. I found it fascinating to do the research and hope that you will find it equally fascinating to use this resource. It provides original texts, that I have created based on extensive research. Sadly many of the stories are similar, shameful CIA interference, total disregard for indigenous human rights, dictators that were put on trial but not punished. There was also Operación Condor, where dictators across Latin America worked in close collaboration to pursue their victims. The nature of protest in Latin America also tells amazing stories as do some of the films included in this resource. Enjoy
Are they in too  much of a hurry to grow up?
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Are they in too much of a hurry to grow up?

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This was created after a student in my Y11 class asked at what age you can drink in Spain. I am always looking for ways in to topics that give them a flavour of A Level and we were just about to start the health topic when it occured to me to link the idea of health issues and youth problems to legal age of consent and the fact that young people are in too much of a hurry to grow up.
The Nazca lines: KS3 Spanish lesson
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The Nazca lines: KS3 Spanish lesson

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I have a challenging Y9 Spanish group made up of all boys. I took them to the computer room and told them they were investigative reporters who were interested in the supernatural and the unexplained. They were then given this task sheet and I have never seen them so focussed. They all decided it was alien in origin and won't be persuaded otherwise, even when I told them about the severed heads.
Dictionary skills- school objects with a twist
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Dictionary skills- school objects with a twist

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Don't we often underestimate how difficult they find it to use a dictionary and isn&'t it always annoying when they say they can&';t find the word and they are in the wrong half of the dictionary. We use Petit Nicolas in Y7 so this is why he appears in this ppt but also we always do teach classroom objects. So to have fun and teach how to look up nouns the task requires them to look up words like conker and marbles because that is just what Nicolas would have in his bag apart from his ruler and so on. I then thought they could look up what teenage Nicolas would have.
All about verbs
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All about verbs

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We do a lot of work on metalanguage in Y7 and this one is all about verbs so includes what is a verb/ what is an infinitive and then focusses on present tense so they understand regular and irregular. Mine build up a mind map as we go along in books and then create games/verb posters- it is taught in conjunction with saying what do at weekend.this ppt takes at least 3 lessons to go through with lots of repetition, white board work, competitions, making notes etc
El chocolate, collaborative story telling preterite and opinions
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El chocolate, collaborative story telling preterite and opinions

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Can be used at any level. The slides have commentary so you can see what I do with it. Great for Speaking and or writing-great just before Easter- great for getting students to use the preterite accurately, great for expressing interesting opinions. You’ll be surprised at how much speakng they do, how much attention they pay to verb endings if you turn it in to collaborative writing instead. You’ll be surprised how they remember there are alternatives to delicioso after using this activity. When they’ve finished the collaborative writing I ask them to count number of words and they often find they’ve written more than 150 and so you can then say to them that this is the number of words for Higher writing now at GCSE. Obviously it isn’t GCSE task but they do like realising that 150 words isn’t such a big deal. I do it in conjunction with an activity that I have uploaded before about the History of chocolate because it comes from Mexico and the song el chocolate by Jesse y Joy-on Youtube- really easy to hear the lyrics if you have not come across these two before. I also link it to como agua para chocolate for GCSE classes-look at an extract from the novel with an able motivated class perhaps-watch bits of film-not the saucy bits-I sometimes just show the wedding scene.
ID cards for mix and mingle
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ID cards for mix and mingle

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They speak for themselves really. I am having a set printed on card and laminated so I can use them for mix and mingle/ speed dating activities. You could use them for writing, for pair or small group info gap style activities as well. Of course they could also be used at start of a GCSE course and you can always add such things as profession, place live etc.
all the Tenses and relationships/family/free time
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all the Tenses and relationships/family/free time

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Not fabulously original but I have been trying to drum tenses in to Y10 and thought some of these might be useful to share. The Imperfect ppt is based on my childhood so you might want to change the slides. Also I acknowledge that one of the reading tasks is not my own, so thank you to the person who shared it originally. I am building up to a first CA around relationships/family/free time hence the context for all the grammar tasks. I particularly wanted to get them mixing tenses, hence the mixing it up activities.
Foray in to literature
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Foray in to literature

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Food and poetry designed for our Y7 who are doing food this term but could be adapted. Le petit nicholas- again Y7 when doing school- followed by watching the excellent and funny film of le petit Nicholas that they loved because we'd looked at the story first I have added presentation for a teach meet -showing elements of the above but also ideas for using fairy stories- and source of material This is the year that will be doing literature at GCSE