A lesson to prepare students for an exam-style speaking assessment on relationships: this tests question comprehension as well as topic vocabulary. At the end, I ask students to pack up and translate/answer one of the questions each to be allowed to leave the room.

A quiz consisting of 3 rounds (grammar and spelling, odd one out, and identify correct description for the image). Made for KS3, but could be used with lower-ability KS4. Good for revising the technology module, or if students are a little tired!

A lesson introducing the French partitive article using food. Includes a visual introduction, a student-led grammar exercise with cutouts, and a fun speaking activity in pairs. Aim: to be able to say what you eat and drink for lunch at school. Designed for KS3, but could also be used for rudimentary KS4 revision.

A ready grid to print out and get your students to design their own word search. My favourite way of doing this is clues in source language, answers in target language - easy-peasy and educational!

A three-stanza song that students can rap to a background beat (included). The lyrics explain how to negate in French (by putting the 'ne', 'pas' around the verb!). Followed by a series of crazy questions that students are likely to answer in the negative, therefore having to put the negation song into practice.

A two-part activity to revise the differences between there, their, and they're. Part One is a mnemonic poem/song (PPT and PDF formats) to help pupils understand and memorize the differences. Part Two is a humorous story in which pupils are required to fill in the gaps with there, their, or they're. Aimed at KS3 and KS4 pupils - good for any group that needs to be reminded of these vital distinctions in the English language!

Classroom poster (in SP, EN, FR) that reads: ‘Google is our friend. Google Translate is our worst enemy.’

A quick exercise for the Spanish perfect tense - pupils look at stills from The Simpsons and make a sentence in the perfect tense to answer the question, ¿Qué has hecho?

A young sportsman is being interviewed about his relationship with his parents, friends, girlfriend. The audio recording is accompanied by a transcript or listening gapfill (for differentiation) and a variety of reading comprehension exercises to follow, with lots of useful vocab chunks that can be used for writing and speaking. Topic: Relationships - getting on well or badly with people, ideal partner, etc. Could take whole lesson for lower-ability, or half a lesson for higher-ability.

A self-guided explanation and exercises dealing with the following often-confused pairs: si – sí mi – mí tu – tú el – él Students figure out the rules based on a body of examples, then complete gapfill and translation exercises. I have found that this tends to clear up a lot of confusion common about accents in Spanish!

A medley of activities to accompany the ballad ¿Qué será? by the Puerto Rican musician José Feliciano. Aim: to consolidate the simple future tense, both regular and irregular. Can be comleted independently, in pairs/small groups, or as a class. Can also be used with A-Level groups to revise the simple future tense and to discuss the problem of people migrating away from small towns and villages to cities.

Since there aren’t many sample materials for the new Edexcel IGCSE Spanish specification (2017), I’ve created this resource modelled exactly on Question 5 of the Reading and Writing exam - the one where students read a literary extract and answer questions about it in Spanish. The only difference is that this also contains a list of translated words to help students, which is NOT provided in an exam. The literary text is an excerpt from a collection of tales ‘Relatos de mi pueblo’ by the Mexican writer Efraín N. Pacheco García. Answers are included at the end of the document. Word document allows you to tailor it to your class or a different exam body.

A series of listening comprehension exercises to accompany the song ‘Johnny’ by Vaya Con Dios (easily found on YouTube). The activities include: gapfill, vocabulary, verb tenses, connectives and time frames, translation. Would suit mid-to-high ability Yr 13 students.

An editable reading worksheet based on an article adapted from El País (August 2020). Topic: the uncertain future of theatre and classical music in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. A vocabulary box is provided to facilitate initial comprehension. Activities consist of a vocabulary search on the topic of uncertainty (very relevant!), and questions that pupils have to answer using their own words - i.e., not chunking answers from the text).

An editable worksheet aimed at Year 13 AQA Spanish, to go with a video produced by El País which features interviews with two very different immigrants. The worksheet consists of a gapfill of the transcript, plus a vocabulary exercise that asks pupils to look for expressions in the text and adapt the verb forms as needed. Complete answers are provided at the end of the document.

A lesson to complement the Racismo module of the topic of Multiculturalism in the AQA Spanish A2 curriculum. Students read a short article about the Law of Historical Memory in Spain, with comprehension discussion to follow. Students then watch a video of a speech from a convention of the right-wing party Vox (October 2018). They make guided bullet-point notes - answers are included. Finally, a partial transcript of the speech is offered, and students are invited to discuss. Great for up-to-date, idiomatic vocabulary on the topic, and for real-world knowledge of Spanish politics and society.

A worksheet to accompany the following video extract from a talk show programme in the Dominican Republic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHnmCUn4pfI Contains a variety of listening comprehension tasks. Full answers are included on the second page. Designed to complement the new AQA A-Level Spanish specification, topic Valores tradicionales y modernos. Nice to follow up with a discussion of students' own views of marrying vs. living together.

A series of exercises to engage with the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LypbOR9Wnc Offers a more critical look at celebrity culture within the 'La influencia de los ídolos' module of the new AS Spanish specification. Exercises include: listening comprehension questions to be answered in English. Searching for Spanish translations of useful expressions in the video. Searching for synonyms in the video. A translation into Spanish using the new vocabulary.

A demonstration essay I wrote to show pupils how to write an A-Level essay in response to Pushkin’s novella ‘The Queen of Spades’. The essay is 323 words long and demonstrates paragraph structure and point-evidence-explanation. The question comes from the 2020 Pearson Edexcel AS Paper 2 (Written Response to Works and Translation): Объясните отношения между Германном и Графиней в этой повести. In Word format so can be edited as required.