I am a KS5 Spanish Teacher and I have lived and worked in England teaching Spanish since 2010.
I am from Cerdanyola del Vallès, just outside Barcelona.
Currently working in a Sixth Form College in Northwich.
Visit my blog to see the free stuff I have!
I am a KS5 Spanish Teacher and I have lived and worked in England teaching Spanish since 2010.
I am from Cerdanyola del Vallès, just outside Barcelona.
Currently working in a Sixth Form College in Northwich.
Visit my blog to see the free stuff I have!
These are 2 series of resources, one for Y12 and one for Year 13 to train students to deal with summaries.
The Year 12 includes a Reading Assessment (version A and B) with 5 questions in each one:
Reading comprehension with answers in Spanish
Synonyms
Summary
T, F, NM
Translations into Spanish
After this assessment, we did a Summaries training session to get better at it.
The Year 13 one includes a power point + students notes in which students practice changing from the I/we persons to the he/she/they persons. The aim of this lesson is to get better at manipulating the language.
This is a VOCABULARY booklet with HIGH FREQUENCY vocabulary that I have noticided is used in the Listening and Reading exam (AQA).
What I have done is to go through past papers and annotate the words and categories of words that tend to repeat. For example, connectives, nationalities, crime, poverty, infinitives, numerals, jobs, etc. I have then added extra words so that there is a full list. For example, in the section of “jobs” I have added words like científico, periodista, astronauta, hombre de negocios which have appeared in previous papers but you will find a total of 2 slides full of vocab for jobs.
This booklet is a revision tool for students. Teachers can use it to set regular vocab learning and test students as well (it has a scores section at the back).
This booklet prints really well in A5.
This is a booklet for Alevel for the topic of La casa de Bernarda Alba.
It is designed to help students learn the key vocab in preparation for the writing paper.
There are some notes on “figuras retóricas” used by Lorca (metáforas, etc.)
This mat is ideal for those students of Alevel doing Like water for chocolate.
Contains lots of grammar and higher level essay phrases to maximise the language marks in Paper 3 (writing).
This resource includes 4 translation challenges. One includes 2 connectives challenges and the other one includes 2 tenses challenges.
Answers are provided.
This is one of the workshops I do before the exam. We focus on some little things that may make students lose marks. like negatives, verbos de cambio, if clauses, perfect tenses and tener expressions.
There are also three literature gapfils for them to practice with.
Resource includes a ppt and the student worksheet.
This is a display ideal for the languages area corridor or for a classroom that includes 22 A3 slides with lots of ideas for Alevel students to study and revise independently for their language courses. It includes tips on how to revise more effectively using practice testing, flashcards, a study schedule, memrise, a study group, active recall and many more.
Here is a bundle with the 4 resources I have made for my students for the topic of El Laberinto. They are the resources I have added to TES over the last couple of months. You save 52% by getting them using this bundle.
This mat is for those studying La Casa de BA. in the new Spanish Alevel.
It includes quotes, connectives, opinion phrases, intensifiers, idioms, subjunctive phrases and if clauses. Also, verbs that are followed by a preposition. I have tried to select verbs and idioms that apply to the play so that students can improve their essays.
It would be useful for the old curriculum A2 students too.
At the back, there are verb tables with all the regular conjugations to help students conjugate the verbs.
Varied worksheets on the topic of Pan's Lab that include activities about the director, Devil's Backbone, themes, symbols, references to other stories, characters, a gameboard and some questions for the oral. I have also included the cover of the booklet that my students have. I added the pdf documents and also the word documents for other teachers to adapt if wanted.
This booklet is a 25 pages booklet that includes the regular and irregulars that students could have to face using the mnemonics WEIRDO and DISHES. It also includes the subjunctive stem changing verbs, verbs that have a spelling change and IR verbs. Preview does not show much of it but there is plenty of practice.
You will also be able to find the Juanes song, A Dios le pido and conjunctions that need the subjunctive.
The practice that students have in this booklet includes verb drills for regular and irregular verbs, gapfills (AS style) and translations.
Also attached the power point with the Subjunctive Phrases you can find in the booklet and the answer to those match ups.
Power point comes with two plenaries: a heads and tails and a Twitter one.
NEW: Subjunctive Assessment. I have added an assessment to test students at the end of the unit.
NEW: I have updated this booklet in January 2021 and have added the answers. Have also updated the power point.
Here you can find the imperfect subjunctive booklet I put together for my students plus 2 revision mats that help them to squeeze this tense in their oral and written work.
The booklet includes all the irregulars plus gapfill and translation exercises.
You can also find a ppt that includes a dice game. Have you got 20 sided dice? You will need some!
Students have to roll the dice to find out what verb they have to conjugate in the imperfect.
This resource is a market place activity in which students have to work in groups in a carrousel style.
Every group has the vocab sheet to gather vocab and create their own glossary plus a reading comprehension sheet to fill in whilst they have the menu. It is important that students divide the work up: some can look up the vocabulary whilst the others can answer the questions. Or, they could all spend some minutes looking up the words first and then answering the questions. You can use the stopwatch website and its timers so that students can see how much time they have left.
The aim is that they read the menus and that they get to learn about other countries and their famous dishes whilst consolidating some of the Food vocab they learnt in previous lessons.
There are menus for a Basque restaurant, a Catalan restaurant, a Mexican restaurant and the last one is a menu from Costa Rica.
This activity takes up the whole hour (if you get every group to look at 2 menus) and I used it at the end of the Food Unit.
You can also use the menus for Role Plays the next lesson.
If your groups do 2 menus then you can get your students to talk to the rest about the food they learnt that people eat in those countries.
I used this activity with a Y7 class and it worked very well. Students were engaged and they loved the role plays we did the following lesson.
As a follow up activity you could ask them to design their own menus of other Spanish speaking countries. They could use the computers to do some research and then do their designs.
This is a mat that contains all key grammar aspects studied in Alevel.
Indicative tenses
Subjunctive tenses
Ser / Estar
Por / Para
Gerunds
Passives
If Clauses
V + prepositions
And lots more!
My students absolutely love it and have it with them all the time. It has become their most valuable reference guide for grammar.
Please, note that the STARS only appear in page 1 and 4. Don’t print those pages. Print pages 2 and 3 and you won’t have the stars.
Also, this is an A3 mat so I would recommend to print with A3 printing settings.
This is a 21 pages booklet with all the preterite irregulars (dirty 11, six pack, spelling change, ucir, uir, IR stem changing verbs, double vowel ones.
It includes lots of practice and translations for students.
Please download Candara and Helsinki fonts if you want to use the word document.
This booklet is ideal for Y12 but could also be used as retrieval for Y13.
Translations include vocab from Family and Idols.
This booklet includes the AQA mark scheme, a quotes exercise, 11 essay exercises that come with bullet points and 8 essay titles without a bullet point.
I added as well for my students essay phrases so that they can have it all in one place.
The A3 planner is basically a sheet that we use when writing an essay in class or that students can use at home to structure their essays a bit more.
I added some teacher feedback points that I normally highlight so that students see what they have to amend, change or add. I had the feeling that I was always writing the same things regarding the stucture and this teacher feedback box makes the marking a bit quicklier.
Regarding the accuracy and errors I tend to use a blue highlighter for the errors that I think that they can correct themselves. Then, next lesson, they have to show me their corrections. If the structure is not quite what they need, I tend to ask them to staple a cue card and write down one of the paragraphs again following the feedback I give them.
This is a practice booklet with lots of exercises for alevel students.
In includes a list of verbs that are conjugated like gustar and the exercises vary from correct the errors, gapfills and translations.
Some exercises include sentences about El laberinto del Fauno so if that is the film you are doing, your students will be able to manipulate these verbs and hopefully they will be encouraged to use them more in their essays.
I have also included the answers in the same document.
Mat that students can use to revise ser and estar and when doing exercises as a reference or when studying the rules . It includes time phrases and both ser and estar conjugated in different Indicative tenses.
Actividad de correción de frases para mejorar la "accuracy" en los ensayos.
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