A post-writing checklist specific to Volver and WJEC.

Enjoying experimenting with a more olicav design style. This is a pre-watching Volver film so students can build up their knowledge of the director and his status as an acclaimed international director. The resource is a compilation interview including small details about Hable con ella, Volver, Todo sobre mi madre and Dolor y gloria. I have included some exam based questions to familiarize students with specific question types likely to come up in their AS exam.

Just a one page introduction to a few of Lorca’s works.

Infinitive structures can be a life saver for those students who find conjugations tricky. If you know an infinitive structure for the present, past and future then you can rest assured you are working in three tenses as a minimum. Check out a resource I uploaded years ago on infinitive structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12093780

Three quotes from a small booklet produced by the University of Granada in 1981 all about Lorca’s three tragedies. T = Translate E = Evidence from text to support the claim

Designed for KS4 is this worksheet based on things to do on your birthday. All icons are from freepik.com

A resource to work in with the Hodder unit on smart phones. A starter to explore the vocabulary of what our smartphones allow us to do.

I’m targetting some misconceptions and common mistakes with this lesson. We’ll be focusing on: 3rd person opinions Infinitive structures Use of connectives Using es bueno que sea Cuando sea mayor Ojala pudiera structures Generally navegating the GCSE writing mat to construct/extend sentences

A grid to revise some thematic content. In column one students clarify what they know about the theme in English. In column two they write down any key vocabulary using vocabulary lists from Hodder/Kerboodle and in column three we write down a fact gleaned from a Boletín using the index to cherry pick editions.

Varied opinions on uniform with a vocabulary bank on page 2 and a table to complete in English.

20 ways to be more eco-friendly, each with a present perfect sentence explaining what somebody has done to do their bit.

A back from half-term resource to remind students of Lorca’s personal context and get them searching for truth in fiction.

Whole lesson based upon writing and reading in three tenses finishing off with speed-dating.

I've print screened the slides and pasted them above the original content.

Just the lyrics of the song Volver to accompany a lesson on the relevance of the film title.

Task is for students to skim and scan the text looking for the grammatical items numbered above. Will then work on meaning with a MWB activity.

A worksheet to use when teaching adjectives with personal descriptions.

Gist translate the quote from Zafon Translate vocabulary from exercise 1 Create a mind-map of Almodóvar’s likes/dislikes/influences etc based on Volver

Reading resource with varied opinion about immigration. Not included on page 2 but something I will be doing is rolling a 20-sided die and asking students to formulate a response/question to each person on MWBs. Each person has a number in the bottom corner. Use in conjunction with my resource on showing agreement or disagreement: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12578846

A text on el machismo with a pre-reading task. A follow-up task with agree/disagree statements about Pepe which students should respond succinctly to with evidence to justify their selections.