Year 12, transition lesson. Unit 1: Los cambios en la estructura familiar.
Reading about types of family + how has the concept of family changed over the years.
Lesson / half a lesson on the song ‘me quedo’ by Aitana and Lola Indigo.
Worksheet + powerpoint with biography/ reading comprehension, gap fill activity and idioms and expressions from the song.
The classic card game adapted to the Spanish classroom. The same rules apply but if you want to go next you need to be able to answer the question in Spanish.
Template easily adaptable. Just print double sided and laminate your cards.
Three lessons about summer songs in Spain, perfect for the last week of term.
Plenty of authentic resources to engage students and teach about Spanish culture in a fun and interesting way using music. Power point + booklet/worksheets
Lesson 1: reading comprehension, quiz/competition + tie breakers/ speaking activity with opinions about songs.
Lesson 2: Title translation (starter), match up chorus and title of the song, interview with Juan Magán + true or false activity, fill in the gap ‘Bailando por ahí’, speaking activity with opinions about the song.
Lesson 3: Adjectives to describe lyrics and rhythm (starter), study of 6 popular songs in Spain at the moment, election of the best summer song 2019.
A whole lesson on Rosalia’s new song ‘Aute Cuture’. Power point + worksheet.
This lesson contains
-Authentic text with information and a bit of Rosalia’s biography
-Reading comprehension + optional vocabulary support
A video activity for students to find the meaning of certain expressions from the song through an interview with the artist
Lyrics
6 lessons based on Viva (foundation and higher) but not necessarily following the book. The lessons contain a lot of cultural knowledge on the topic of food in Spain and GCSE speaking tasks to practise it, as well as authentic resources and two games to practise speaking and tenses. Your students will love it!
Lesson 1 - eating habits in Spain
Very scaffolded reading comprehension (authentic resource)
Lesson 2 - main meals
listening task using a youtube video
speaking -English or Spanish tradition?
photo task
Lesson 4
Foods
Tense revision
Tense wheel -game
Writing using 6 tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, near future, simple future, present perfect)
Lesson 5
Food, vocabulary consolidation from Viva
Listening
REading
Role play GCSE
Lesson 6
Typical Spanish foods and ingredients
Reading comprehension (authentic resource)
Pinball speaking game
Two booklets for Year 11s to practise/prepare for their writing assessment on their own with plenty of advice, different sentences to introduce and finish off their writing, advice on how to tackle translation and a practise paper to apply all the strategies discussed.
3 booklets for your students to practise for the writing assessment, aimed at higher students. Each booklet contains 3 tasks on one theme (16 marks, 32 marks and a translation) plus an extra task for your most keen students.
Ideal for homework, classwork, extra practise or cover lessons.
This is a great resource to help your students prepare for the writing assessment. It includes a selection of key verbs for each theme, basic verbs in different tenses, time expressions, connectives, idiom, slang and more complex structures they can use and even learn by heart to use and adapt to their writing.
Song by Calle 13 -la vuelta al mundo.
Lesson includes a brief biography as a reading comprehension, the lyrics as a fill in the gap activity and the translation.
Four lessons based on topic 2 from Viva (foundation and higher combination) for mixed ability groups.
Lesson 1
hay/no hay recap
tenerife (videos and cultural information)
reading and introduction of the future tense
writing: plan a weekend in Tenerife, what will you do?
Lesson 2
future recap
reading comprehension
listening
speaking game
Lesson 3
weather in the future tense (more complex expressions)
reading comprehension
listening task
design your own weather forecast
Lesson 4
verb tense revision (time line)
writing task (GCSE style + grading criteria)
Two lessons aimed at teaching festivals in a very simplified way (excellent resource if you have had no time to cover this topic).
Lessons are based on Viva.
Lesson 1:
Knowledge test -match up festival with description + key vocabulary
guess the festival -video activity
reading and introduction of passive voice
grammar- how to avoid passive in Spanish (structures with SE)
avoid the passive practise
Lesson 2
Revision on present tense conjugation
Fill in the gap, GCSE reading type task on Dia de Muertos
Translation
There is an additional reading comprehension question in the style of GCSE section B (questions and answers in Spanish)
Valentine’s lesson to have some fun with your Year 7 group :)
Lesson contains:
Starter with basic vocabulary
Questions/answers for speed dating
Speed dating
Guess your secret admirer
A worksheet to revise independently, use as cover, homework or home learning (based on viva foundation/higher).
It contains quite a lot of self assessment activities (can you …)
Ideal to review/recap/end of topic lesson /end of term lesson or independent work for Year 11 revision.
Lesson contains activities related to school subjects, teachers, facilities, uniform and rules.
Worksheet for students + answers
Authentic resource / Song
Powerpoint + worksheet
Perfect to strech high ability students/motivate difficult groups/Friday afternoons
Lesson contains:
Introduction with a brief biography about artists
lyrics -gap filling activity
idioms and expressions from the song
translation match up