Updated Volver quote cards x60 Now with more uncommon quotes which exemplify themes by secondary characters and also a picture of who said each quote on each card.

A starter activity to check how well students have understood the plot. It does make make you realise as well how many small plot lines are running at the same time. Answers given as well in teacher copy.

Including some high-frequence connectives, time phrases amongst others

20 ish slides containing some target structures for year 13 students to be aware of.

A reading resource with varied positive opinions about Lorca followed by a comprehension question grid and a grammar search.

A menu of traditional platos típicos with phonetic translations (albeit these are my own). A model for saying what you would like to try at the bottom of page 1.

A lesson on some of the controversies surrounding the World Cup in Qatar. Students will learn the vocabulary for some of the issues, compare them with a comparative grid and then write whether they are for or against.

Hopefully this PDF is editable. Each box has a text field input which should be printable. If it doesn’t work then get in touch. The idea is that circle questions are easy, diamonds are moderatly challenging and star questions are challenging. I’ve made this with questions such as “what can you use to find new vocabulary”, very simple and reinforces some basic classroom routines. Next time I do this I will change the star questions to diamonds and move everything else up a row so a circle row disappears off the top. I will then write new star questions at the bottom. The quote at the top is from Kate Jones’s brilliant Retrieval Practice book.

A rather tricky task putting together a family tree based off of people’s explanations of how they are related to Nuria. A vocab bank on page 2 will help. Write the name of each family member in the box on the tree (or beside). Colour code the box according to male/female. Some boxes will not be filled. A perfect task before moving onto creating your own family trees. Note: Some family vocabuary has been left out of the box on page 2. Going over step-parents and siblings will be essential.

Made with ChatGPT just for fun, completely subjective. Tally up the values of your answers and read your personalised description on the last page. Follow up task is to translate your paragraph.

99 high-frequency words taken from the spec and past exams with a few extras thrown in

Infinitive structures to exploit in a variety of ways

Something for my year 13s who will be analysing lots of simbolism and messages in SCW posters from the 30s.

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.

35 verbs/things to do online Practice page for present tense conjugations Narrow reading comp PPT drilling sophisticated opinions + infinitive verbs

A summary of things relating to Lorca/LCDBA

To be used in conjunction with page 20 from the Jóvenes en Iberoamérica survey. Back up link here.

Hopefully this formats okay although I suspect the font (New Atten Round) is protected. If it looks awful then let me know and I’ll re-upload with print screens of each slide pasted over the slides themselves. I have been teaching es bueno que sea (where bueno can be substituted for any adjective) for a few years now and it has been successful so decided it was time to take it a small step further.

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

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