This resource includes activities based on the topic of Artistic Heritage in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level course.
The first page includes a lot of factual information (taken from this resource: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-year-1-fact-file-aspects-of-hispanic-society-artistic-culture-hispanic-world-11883717). The following pages exploit the information on page one with a variety of speaking, reading and wrting activities: first, a Discussion card about Frida Kahlo that uses the information on page one. It is followed by a translation activity about Velázquez (again, based on the information from page one) and a reading activity (write a 90-word summary) about Goya and Velázquez. Finally, activity five is a creative writing task about Las Meninas.
This 12-page resource contains three pages full of facts, statistics and figures about immigration in Spain and other Hispanic countries. Each of those pages is then followed by three activities that exploit the information in them: a discussion card (for paper 3), a translation and summary question (paper 1).
This bundle contains three resources to support students preparing for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Réquiem por un campesino español.
Paper 2 booklet: El laberinto del fauno
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to get the students to start discussing the texts, quotes taking from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
This resource includes six discussion cards based on the sub-theme of Immigration, part of the theme Multiculturalism in the Hispanic world of the New A Level course.
The cards are based on the new speaking exam. Each of them includes information on each the topics that are part of the sub theme (positive and negative aspects of immigration, Immigration in Latin America and Undocumented immigrants) followed by three questions on the topic, the first of which always asks the students about their reaction to the information in the card.
There are two cards per topic.
Finally, the six cards are followed by twenty questions that can be used to explore the sub-theme further, and a list of useful vocabulary for the speaking test.
A very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (suitable mainly to higher students) to translate from Spanish into English.
The full resource is 41 pages long (including title and content pages) and it covers all three themes of the new Spanish GCSE course.
Each theme and each topic is covered in detail with a series of sentences of different level of difficulty. Additionally, at the end of each theme there are six paragraphs, aimed specifically at higher students, that cover the whole theme.
The translations include references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), as well as a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
While I believe that this resource can be used with students of all abilities, it is aimed mainly at higher students. A foundation version of the same resource can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-foundation-11958634
This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Cyberspace of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of Hispanic society.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (social networks, mobile technology, the influence of the internet). 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
This bundle contains three resources to help students prepare for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Como agua para chocolate.
Paper 2 booklet: El laberinto del fauno
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to help the students start discussing the texts, quotes taken from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
A series of activities to help students research (and write about) the use of colour in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth). It includes a lot of screen shots to illustrate the main points, a translation, an essay question, and opportunities for independent work (the influence of Dario Argento).
PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
A series of reading and writing activities to explore the historical background of Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrnth), focused specifically in the causes and course of the Spanish Civil War and the idea of “las dos Españas” and the representation of this concept in the film, a section about “los maquis” and a section about fascism.
PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
A series of reading, writing and translation activities to help Spanish A Level students explore the use of monsters in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth).
The resource is divided into two sections (“Monstruos, humanos y religión” and “Los monstruos y el miedo a la diferencia”), and the activities include:
Spanish to English translation
Read a text and correct the mistakes
Explain del Toro’s quote about monsters
Answer questions in Spanish on a longer text
Two English into Spanish translations
A Level Essay
The final pages of the resource include useful vocabulary to write an essay and a check list to help the students reflect on what they have written.
This is a board game to get English as a Foreign Language to practise their speaking (and mediation) skills.
It is based on games such as Snakes and Ladders, but since I have designed the board, I have explained all the peculiarities in the instructions.
Each time the players roll the dice, they will have to complete a speaking, mediation (explain a graph) or grammar task. The different tasks are:
making a speech on a specific topic.
having a discussion with a partner on a specific topic.
answering a question.
taking part in a role play with a partner.
correcting a common mistake in a sentence.
If the player completes the task correctly they can stay in the box where they’ve landed. If they don’t, they’ll have to go back.
All the resources needed to play the game are included: 24 grammar cards, 24 discussion cards, 24 question cards, 12 role play cards and 12 graph cards.
There are a few special boxed to keep the game more exciting: the lift, that helps the players move forward or backwards a few places; the dice, which allows them to roll the dice again; the field, where they relax for a turn, and the grim reaper, which takes them back to the starting point.
The game is designed for B2 students, but can be easily adapted for other levels.
EDIT: PLEASE IGNORE THE AWFUL PREVIEWS, THE ACTUAL FILES LOOK FINE, AS SHOWN BY THE COVER PICTURE, A SCREEN CAPTURE OF THE BOARD.
This bundle contains a lot of A Level resources that the students can use as part of their home learning:
Fact file, with a lot of factual information for all the topics of the A Level course
A very comprehensive Grammar Booklet, with thorough explanations of the main grammar points and activities to practise them.
Discussion cards, based on the topics of the AQA A Level course and on the Paper 3 exam.
Support booklets for several of the books and films that can be studied for the course.
A very detailed student’s support guide to work on Pan’s Labyrinth (our of all the resources I have produced, this is the one I am most proud of).
A variety of reading and writing activities on several different topics.
Support booklet to prepare students for the new GCSE speaking exam.
The booklet includes a detailed summary of the requirements of the new speaking exam (role play, photo card and general conversation), both at foundation and higher levels, explained in a student-friendly way, as well as the mark schemes for each element of the test, examples of role plays (foundation and higher) and photo cards (with foundation and higher questions), and a very comprehensive list of questions for the general conversation. All the questions have been translated to allow the teachers to use them in the classroom, set them as homework or tell the students to work independently on them .
Additionally, the resource includes a foundation and higher check-list to provide the students with immediate, personalised feedback.
A whole unit of work to teach the topic of school to Year 7 students.
The Notebook presentation (44 slides) covers the following areas:
- school subjects
- opinions
- adjectives and
- timetable and the time
- school facilities
- general information about school
- school uniform
The grammar focus is on agreement of adjectives, opinions in the past and "hay" and "no hay".
All supported with 11 worksheets, including a writing frame summarising the whole topic.
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.
Nine worksheets to help teachers provide their students with an overview of the new Spanish GCSE course, an overview of the speaking and the writing exams (both at foundation and higher level) and four sheets to provide the students with immediate, personalised feedback for their mock or practice speaking and writing papers.
UPDATE: the feedback sheets now include the 2018 grade boundaries, to make it easier for teachers to estimate a grade.
Three sets of writing papers, following the new Spanish GCSE specification (AQA).
Each individual set includes two papers (foundation and higher) covering one of the three themes (Identity and culture, Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), as well as an overview of the requirements of the exam and a foundation and a higher "check list" to provide the students with quick, personalised feedback for each question.
Also available in French: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-practice-papers-and-feedback-sheets-11751002
Two practice writing papers (one foundation, one higher) following the format of the new GCSE writing exam, and focusing on the topics covered in Theme 2.
The foundation paper includes four questions (describe the photo, 40 words question, translation and 90 words question) and the higher paper includes three (90 words question, 150 words question and translation).
I have also included two feedback sheets (one foundation, one higher) that include"check-lists" (based on the AQA mark scheme for writing) to provide quick, personalised feedback for each of the questions. The check lists provide the students with feedback on what went well (WWW) and what they need to do to improve further (TIF).
Also available in Spanish: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-theme-2-writing-exam-and-feedback-sheets-11587008
This resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world in the new Spanish A Level course (La influencia de los ídolos, La identidad regional en España and El patrimonio cultural). I wrote this resource to help my students revise for their upcoming speaking exam (Paper 3), specifically to ensure that they include enough information to score well in AO4 of the paper.
The file also includes a detailed overview of the course and of Paper 3.
This resource contains a lot of factual information about Hispanic society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society in the new Spanish A Level course (La inmigración, El racismo and La convivencia). I wrote this resource to help my students revise for their upcoming speaking exam (Paper 3), specifically to ensure that they include enough information to score well in AO4 of the paper.
The file also includes a detailed overview of the course and of Paper 3.
Two practice writing papers (one foundation, one higher) following the format of the new GCSE writing exam, and focusing on the topics covered in Theme 2.
The foundation paper includes four questions (describe the photo, 40 words question, translation and 90 words question) and the higher paper includes three (90 words question, 150 words question and translation).
I have also included two feedback sheets (one foundation, one higher) that include"check-lists" (based on the AQA mark scheme for writing) to provide quick, personalised feedback for each of the questions. The check lists provide the students with feedback on what went well (WWW) and what they need to do to improve further (TIF).
Also available in French: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-theme-2-writing-exam-and-feedback-sheets-11750965