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!
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 resource includes 4 translation challenges. One includes 2 connectives challenges and the other one includes 2 tenses challenges.
Answers are provided.
Aquí os dejo una “mat” que he hecho para los alumnos de AS que ya pronto tienen su examen. También puede servir para los de A2 (he arreglado un par de erratas que se me colaron).
Incluye:
- citas de los personajes
- if clauses
- por / para
- idioms
- sequencing words
- gustar verbs
Por detrás he incluido las conjugaciones del indicativo y el presente / imperfecto de subjuntivo.
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.
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.
The 5 topics included are:
Immigration
Racism
Living together
The young
Monarchies and dictatorships
These are the vocab lists my students use to learn the topic vocab. They also have these lists on Memrise. Please, leave your email when doing a review and I will email you the memrise links :)
This is a Grammar Booklet for the new A2 curriculum starting in September 2017. Over the last couple of months, I have been adapting the old student & grammar booklet that I use with my old A2 curriculum so that I can carry on using it with the new A2 syllabus.
My students find this booklet useful and I am sure the new A2 students will like it too!
It comes with:
- lots of translation exercises
- AS tenses revision translation exercises
- perfect subjunctive tenses (perfect and pluperfect)
- if clauses
- passives
- verbs that are followed by a preposition (casarse con, empezar a…)
- false friends
- idioms & phrases for the speaking
- I also added the AQA mark schemes for the Speaking and the Writing and information about the different papers.
- there are also some essay titles for La casa de Bernarda Alba and El Laberinto del Fauno (can be adapted to the film and book you do).
- Answers!
This booklet is 87 pages so you can imgine all the stuff I have added :)
To use the word document there are a few fonts you will need so that you can see everything in place:
- coming soon (http://www.1001fonts.com/coming-soon-font.html)
- veggieburgger (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/veggieburger)
- komika display (http://www.dafont.com/es/komika-display.font)
- helsinki (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/helsinki)
Please leave some feedback :) Would like to know what other teachers think of it! So leave some feedback please :)
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 resource is a vocabulary booklet for students of Alevel that do Pan´s Lab.
I have recently updated this booklet and have opted to translate the words into English. This way the students can use it as a revision tool.
It includes a detailed list of vocabulary for the different scenes in the film.
It also includes an information sheet for essay structure and a section for parents/carers to fill in when testing their children.
I have printed it in A5 and my students have absolutely loved it. I made it for our AS last year but gave a copy to the A2 too. The A2 have found it useful to revise the vocab.
Goes really well with my Pan´s Lab MAT, which you can find in my shop :) on TES. You will find the link in my blog :) https://recursossj.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/alfombrilla-de-el-laberinto-del-fauno.html
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.
Here are the higher level mats I have made for my students.
I created a new “more” Spanish mnemonic for them since I really liked the one our French department uses for higher level French language (croissant). I also wanted to encourage them to use other aspects of the language like Direct and Indirect Object pronouns or “verbos de cambio”.
We do La casa and El Laberinto and these 2 mats compliment the other ones they have (you can find them in my shop here).
I have also included the Chipirones Ladders game I made recently. Whilst students practice with a card or general conversation questions, they have to use the game board and move up the ladders. In each step they have to use certain grammar. There are 2 games, one to just practise chipirones and the other one includes opinion phrases. Students will need a counter and they move their counter one box at a time. The aim is to get to the top of the ladder.
Please, note that the stars are only in the first page! The second page has the same but without the stars. :)
Hope your students find them useful!
Sara
Actividad de correción de frases para mejorar la "accuracy" en los ensayos.
He añadido las respuestas.
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