A side quest of our Madrid trip was photographing street signs with accessible language ranging from easy to hard. The result is this resource! This was inspired by a similar resource by @MrFrancisMFL who created a Bilbao version a few years ago! Ideal for a pre or post-Madrid trip lesson for those trip attendees and those who didn’t make it.

Text adapted from: https:// deetrillo com/2016/03/05/transition/

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

I’ll most likely update this in a few months time but for now I’m going with it.

8 texts containing if clauses.

Some series I had to translate literally and some to their actual translation. There’s a starter to get them thinking about film titles and generally capture their imagination and then an introduction to film styles and a recap of opinions like ‘me gusta’. Final task is a ‘busca alguien que’ style task but you could number them and play ladrones a la Conti.

Reading and listening for AS based on gypsy culture in Spain and the issues they faced and still face today. Listening from WJEC from their free resources page.

An introduction to DOPs, their placement, common nouns and some structured practice. This is a sample page from my GCSE grammar workbook. An improved edition 2 is coming in Summer.

Sentence and vocab builders

Quick worksheet put together to help with the difference between the future simple and near future.

Match up and talk about the social issues, use the diamond 9 rank to get a discussion going. Talk through any which students are unaware of. Categrosie them. Are they local, national or global issues. Match up the solutions on page 2. Explain hace falta plus infinitive as to suggest something needs to be done. Move onto the present subjunctive, model and practise on MWBs. Complete the pages from the GCSE grammar workbook on the opinions section of the present subjunctive.

Designed for two players and one referee. Referee to have the question bank on page 2 and ask the players who cannot see the questions themselves.

PRINT IN A3 Questions taken from WJEC 2018 higher and foundation cards. After matching them up we will look to improve any answers we judge to score 1/3 and then answer the questions randomly on MWBs when I call out a number from the left column below. Answers: 1-12 10-26 14-4 29-36 17-24 34-11 16-22 28-38 21-15 7-32 13-20 30-6 19-37 23-8 18-5 9-25 33-3 35-27 39-2 31-40

Pre-reading and vocab tasks based on an article on how to be a chica Almodóvar

25 global issues and 21 infinitive verb phrases to introduce potential solutions. This will fit into a series of lessons in which we look at obligation structures such as deberíamos/hay que/tenemos que. Potentially even the present subjunctive

Pre-reading vocabulary builder and grid writing followed by a compiled interview in which I’ve tried to include a lot of relevant information about prevalent themes or sub-themes in the film. This is an activity to do before watching the film and there is a reading comp and exam based true/false/correction exercise to follow.

Pre-reading vocab builder Mini-sentence builder 1st to 3rd person sentence manipulation Listen and follow along, pause and say next word Paragraph headings discussion in pairs/groups Practice questions

Flick PowerPoint filled with quotes from the film on every different theme. Simply start the slide show and press left arrow key to stop in position. Students have to guess who said the quote. Exit slide show and remove the box to verify their guesses. Premium version includes who they said the quote to, in what context and what theme the quote can represent/what essay link they can make with it. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/volver-know-your-quote-premium-version-12170430

A small sequence of lessons introducing infinitive verbs related to free time and subjunctive opinion phrases. Lesson one: PPT + PDF focusing on opinion phrases + infinitive verb structures with speaking and writing tasks. Lesson two: Introduction of me gusta que sea + adjective structures with rule introduction and differentiated translations with a sentence builder. Ideal for MWBs.

This follows a lesson on an introduction to social issues and an explicit lesson on the present subjunctive with opinion triggers. The latter taken from my GCSE grammar workbook.