GCSE Spanish Writing: How to write an email or article using Usted versus Tú

In the Writing paper of Spanish GCSE, pupils will be required to write in formal register/style using the Usted form. They might need to write to a single person using Usted (Vd.) or to a group of people using Ustedes (Vds.) while writing a simple formal email, an online report or an online magazine article addressed to a teacher before an exchange, to a future employer or to unknown readers. In some cases, they will also need to convince the reader(s).

This pack contains resources to teach the Usted form for the new Spanish GCSE writing exam (also useful for the speaking exam role-plays).

It contains:

1. a double A4 handout (that could be double sided for a mat or simply reduced to one A4 and stuck in books) on sentence starters to write a formal email/report/article using the Usted and Ustedes forms, with English translations. It contains also phrases to end the email/report/article as well as phrases to convince the reader(s). PDF doc.

2. a double A4 handout (that could be double sided for a mat or simply reduced to one A4 and stuck in books) on sentence starters to write an informal email/report/article using the tú and vosotros forms, with English translations. It contains also phrases to end the email/report/article as well as phrases to convince the reader(s). PDF doc.

3. a PPT to teach the Usted form in the context of a higher tier task of the Edexcel writing exam paper. To teach how to understand the instructions of a writing task when written in the Usted form. Normal PPT format for you to amend as you wish.

4. The accompanying worksheet to this PPT. Word format for you to amend as you wish.

Any constructive feedback will be welcomed as I always wish to improve my resources.