This resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Aspects of Hispanic Society in the new Spanish A Level course (Traditional and Modern Values, Cyberspace and Equal Rights). 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 an overview of the course and of Paper 3.
A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Immigration (part of the theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society 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).
The information can also be used for translation practice and it can be very easily adapted into a variety of reading activities.
This four-page file includes a lot factual information about Spanish and Latin American culture and society, focusing on the topic of Monarchies and Dictatorships, 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.
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: Ocho apellidos vascos.
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 double-sided mat provides the students of all abilities with a lot of useful language to support them when writing about themselves, their family and friends and their relationships.
Page one contains a lot of vocabulary (nouns, adjectives, conjunctions, time phrases and intensifiers) as well as a series of scaffolding structures (“sentence starters”). The second page contains twelve key verbs conjugated in the first person singular (yo) in six different tenses (the preterite, the imperfect, the present, the future, the conditional and the present subjunctive). Finally, there is also a section on complex structures on the second page, with plenty of examples of comparatives and superlatives, conditional sentences (“si fuera…”) and negative sentences.
(Note - please ignore the preview of the Word file, there is an ongoing issue with Word previews in TES; the file looks like the PDF shows)
This 13-page file contains a lot of information on how to use the Present Subjunctive. It is aimed at A Level students, but it can be used with high ability GCSE student too.
It starts with an explanation of what the subjunctive mood is, in contrast with the indicative. It then provides an explanation on how to conjugate it (including regular verbs, irregular verbs, radical-changing verbs and verbs with orthographic changes).
The file then gives an very detailed view of when the subjunctive is used, common expressions that require the subjunctive and finally a lot of practice for the students.
This file is part of a much more comprehensive file, the Grammar booklet that can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-grammar-booklet-1171504
This resource contains a series of reading and writing activities to introduce the film “El laberinto del fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth):
Activities before the film: a short introduction to the study of the film, a vocabulary list, and an activity to try to predict what the film will be about based on screenshots and on the opening shots.
Quotations: as the students watch the film, they match a series of quotations taken from it to the character that says them.
Questions: a long list of questions to reflect on important moments of the film.
Review: a guided writing activity to help the students write a review of Pan’s Labyrinth, with help on how to structure the review and useful language.
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
UPDATE: the resource now includes a presentation to support the activities
A series of reading, writing and translation activities to explore the main themes of Pan’s Labyrinth: obedience, the treatment of masculinity and femininity, and the use of violence.
The resource is 20 pages long and it includes short written questions, translation activities, gap-fills, true, false and not mentioned activities and several essay questions.
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 set of activities that I used with my French 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.
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A whole unit of work, covering all aspects of the holidays theme: transport, accommodation, weather, activities, different tenses (with emphasis on the preterite and the imperfect), comparisons, complex opinions.
Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file (The big holidays 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.
A set of four resources to prepare students for the speaking test of the new GCSE speaking exam:
- Speaking test booklet, that contains a full explanation of the new speaking exam requirements, sample photo cards and role plays, mark schemes and (a lot!) of questions to prepare each of the three themes
- Theme 1 (Identity and culture) Photo cards (40 cards altogether)
- Theme 2 (Local, national, international and global areas of interests) Photo Cards (24 cards)
- Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment) Photo Cards (26 cards)
This bundle includes some resources I have prepared to prepare my students for the new Spanish GCSE exams (based on the AQA specification):
- Practice writing paper (end of year 9). At both foundation and higher tiers, it covers Theme 1 (and it includes feedback sheets and mark schemes.
- Practice writing paper (end of year 10). At both foundation and higher tiers, it covers Theme 2 and it includes feedback sheets based on the writing mark schemes.
- Theme 3 writing paper (NEW). Covering the topics in Theme 3, at both foundation and higher level.
- Speaking test booklet, with a summary of the specification, copies of the mark schemes, sample photo cards and role plays, and questions for the general conversation, covering fully all three themes.
- Three booklets (one for each theme) with photo cards, covering fully all themes and sub themes.
- Three booklets with at least 15 role plays each covering the Theme 1 and Theme 2 and Theme 3.
A set of resources to help your students revise Theme 2 (Local, regional, international and global areas of interest) and prepare for the new GCSE exam. It includes:
- speaking exam resources (role plays, photo cards and general conversation)
- writing exam resources (a foundation and a higher practice paper, as well as a feedback sheets for each paper)
- a booklet with eight 90-word questions, following the AQA spec and covering all topics in theme 2.
- reading resources: a booklet with Spanish to English translations.
A bundle containing three resources to support students as they prepare for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
- Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
- Paper 2 booklet: El laberinto del fauno.
- Paper 2 booklet: La casa de Bernarda Alba.
This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new French 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).
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
A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic Traditional and modern values, part of the theme Aspects of Hispanic culture of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with a lot facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). Additionally, the information included here can be easily adapted into a variety of reading and translation activities.
When Pedro Sánchez became Prime Minister of Spain in June 2018 he was the first since Spain’s return to democracy who didn’t swear in in front of a Bible and a cross. This resource, based on an article from El País about the occasion , contains a series of reading activities (translation, find words that mean the same, true, false or nor mentioned and summary) to explore the role of the church in modern Spain.
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: Volver.
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 is a reduced, simplified and printing-budget friendly of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939611
The content of the booklets is very similar and they both provide a very detailed overview of the grammar needed for the new GCSE course, divided into three parts (Theme 1, Theme 2 and Theme 3). Each part has two sections, one devoted to verbs and the other one to other lexical categories. Both books contain a lot of examples and activities for the students.
This version of the booklet takes into account that printing budget can be tight, so I have re formated the original, 62-page booklet, and taken out a few examples, so it is now 37 pages (the last three being verb tables that can be printed separately), but it still contains detailed explanations of a variety of grammatical structures, a lot of examples and a lot of activities.
Content:
THEME 1
Part 1 – Articles, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs and pronouns
Nouns
Articles
Contractions
Adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Por and para
Negatives
Questions
Possessive adjectives
Direct object pronouns
Part 2 – Verbs
Ser and estar
Conjugating verbs
The present tense
13a. Regular verbs
13b. Irregular verbs
13c. Reflexive verbs
13d. Gustar
The Preterite
The Imperfect
Opinions in different tenses
THEME 2
Part 1 – Adjectives and pronouns
Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Part 2 – Verbs
The Future Simple
The Conditional
The Preterite v. The Imperfect
The Present Subjunctive
Uses of the Subjunctive
The Imperative (Commands)
The Infinitive
THEME 3
Part 1 – Adverbs and prepositions
26. Personal a
27. Quantifiers
Part 2 – Verbs
28. Present continuous
29. Present Perfect
30. If clauses
31. The Subjunctive – Further practice
32. Verb tables
N.B. - Please ignore the Word preview of the resource - it does not look like that! To get a good idea of what the resource actually looks like, have a look at the PDF version or the screen captures (for some reason previews of word files alter the format of the resource, but this is only the preview).
A very comprehensive set of sentences to translate from Spanish into English.
The full resource is 29 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, and they provide a good coverage of all aspects of GCSE grammar, with references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), and a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
While I believe that the resource can be used with students of all abilities, it is aimed mainly at foundation students. A higher version of the same booklet can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-11958629