A very comprehensive set of resources to help students revise Theme 2 (local, national, global, international areas of interest) of the new Spanish GCSE and prepare for the speaking test. The pack includes: - Role plays booklet, with 20 role plays at both foundation and higher level. - Photo cards booklet, with 24 cards (each of which includes four foundation and four higher questions). - General conversation questions, with 49 questions altogether at both foundation and higher level. - Foundation and higher mark schemes / feedback sheets.

Four ice-breaking activities to get students talking to each other at the beginning of the year: find people in your class who... On four different levels: one basic worksheet, two intermediate (based on the topic of holidays and negative sentences) and advanced.

A three-page file that includes a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Modern Day Idols, part of the theme Artistic Culture in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam).

This three-page file includes a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Today’s youth, tomorrow’s citizens (Jóvenes de hoy, ciudadanos de mañana) part of the theme Aspects of Political Life in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with wide range of facts and statistics about the topic, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). The information in the file can also be easily adapted to reading or translation activities.

A 35 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme 4 (Aspects of political life), and it contains 18 discussion cards covering “Jóvenes de hoy, ciudadanos de mañana” (6 cards), “Los movimientos populares” (6 cards) and “Monarquías y dictaduras” (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of 20 questions to encourage the students to further explore the issues covered in the cards. The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?”). The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4). The booklet also includes a student-friendly overview of the new specification, an explanation of the requirements of Paper 3, the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for both part one (discussion if a sub-theme) and part two (presentation and discussion of the individual research project) of the paper. Finally, the booklet also contain three pages of useful language for the test.

This file consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme “Popular movements” of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of political life. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme: the power of trade unions, the effectiveness of strikes and demonstrations and examples of social protests. Each card contains a lot of factual information and three questions to discuss the sub theme. FInally, the six cards are followed by a list of questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test.

This resource is a quick reminder of how to use the preterite and the imperfect in Spanish, with an explanation of how each tense works, verb tables to conjugate regular and irregular verbs, time phrases that typically require the use of each tense, a lot of examples and activities for the students to practise. This resource is part of a much bigger resource, my GCSE grammar booklet, that can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11984926

This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Spanish regional identity of the New Spanish A Level theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (regional traditions, regional cuisine, regional languages). Each card contains a lot of factual information and three questions to discuss the sub theme. Finally, the six cards are followed by a list of twenty questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test. Cards for each sub-theme can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Additionally, a booklet containing all cards for all the different sub-themes at a very reduced price can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713

A series of activities to help students reflect about the elements of the fairy tale in Pan’s Labyrinth. The resource first explores the structure of the fairy tale and how this is reflected on Pan’s Labyrinth, it is then followed by a reading and writing activity (90-word summary) about the most common elements in fairy tales (characters, setting…). The next section includes a series of questions about how all of the above is shown in the film. Finally there an AS-type essay question. PLEASE NOTE: This resource is part of a much longer and much more exhaustive resource, my Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide, which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448 There is a free sample of the guide on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490

Support booklet to help prepare students for the new Spanish AS speaking exam (Paper 3). It includes a summary of the specification and exam requirements, copies of the mark-scheme, sample stimulus cards and a variety of questions to prepare the six sub-themes of the AS paper 3. A second file includes a feedback sheet based on the paper 3 mark scheme for quick, personalised feedback.

A set of activities that I used with my Spanish year 7 groups to revise the topics of countries, local area, shapes and colours, geography and the weather, food and economy (as well as personal descriptions, clothes and a weather forecast). They completed the activities over several lessons, working in groups as a competition. They produced some outstanding displays.

A series of lessons to talk about food and drink in Spanish. It includes work on opinions, ER verbs in different tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, future and conditional), and exam-like activities (photo cards, translation), as well as reading activities based on authentic materials. Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power Point.

Three activities adapted from online questionnaires / quizzes to discuss whether the students depend too much on their mobile phones, social media and the internet in general. Useful vocabulary for the new A Level topic of Cyberspace.

This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new Spanish GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment), and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students. All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme). When possible, one of the bullet points starts with 'qué hiciste', a question which appears in many of the AQA samples and that some students often fail to understand. A similar booklet including questions for themes 1, 2 and 3 can be found in this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-writing-exam-practice-90-word-questions-11820179

A booklet with eight 90 word questions to revise the theme of Identity and culture of the new French GCSE exam. There are two questions for each of the topics in Theme one (Me, my family and friends, Technology in everyday life, Free-time activities and Customs and festivals in TL countries). Each of the questions contains four bullet points that the students are expected to cover; one of the bullet points refers to the past, another bullet point requires the students to use either the future or the conditional, and another one prompts them to say their opinion. Finally, the booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme for the 90 word question, which is the same at foundation and at higher level. A booklet with 24 questions covering all three themes can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-90-word-questions-11822119

This file contains 5 foundation and 2 higher listening questions from and old listening paper (Edexcel 2010) adapted to fit the new specification. I find that some students are having difficulties with Section B (questions and answers in Spanish) of the new paper, and there aren't many sample questions in the specimens, so I have translated and adapted previous exam questions to help them. The listening files needed are clearly labelled (e.g. the question labelled SP2010F1 is from the Spanish 2010 Foundation paper, question 1.