I’m targetting some misconceptions and common mistakes with this lesson. We’ll be focusing on:
3rd person opinions
Infinitive structures
Use of connectives
Using es bueno que sea
Cuando sea mayor
Ojala pudiera structures
Generally navegating the GCSE writing mat to construct/extend sentences
A nice way to start the lesson and get the class focused.
First activity is a simple 'spot the odd one out' followed by the same slides copied but with the answers, including pictures.
Second activity is a 'what's behind the box' activity.
Lots of people from varying nationalities with varying levels of education and experience. They all have a reason for emigrating, some due to war and some due to retirement. Extra information is provided for each person to get students thinking (hopefully)
I asked my class to deny entry to four of them and explain why.
For the original rules please read: https://tinyurl.com/yc3ks8tu
You will need the adapt the PowerPoint template depending on the language you want to drill/practice.
In consultation with year 9 and 11 today we have created some new rules as explained at the bottom of the worksheet.
You can now pick two icons from the blue box.
Bank robber - Rob somebody’s bank and transfer directly to your bank. This can be blocked with a shield.
Lottery ticket - Anybody with a ticket is in the draw for an amount of your choosing whenever you decided to do a mini-raffle with a random number generator.
Bank interest - Announced at the end of the game anybody with this icon can multiply their final score by somewhere between 1.1 - 2.0 to be decided by the teacher.
Prison - Send a classmate to prison for three rounds. They cannot unlock their boxes during these rounds.
Sell items - With this icon you can sell your mirror/shield to the highest bidder.
Trying to develop subject knowledge on an unfamiliar topic I have combined information gleaned from a research paper titled Las aportaciones positivas de la inmigración : miradas desde Andalucía and the widely referenced 1955 study* by UNESCO. The result is this resource containing 35 verbs with a matching up task of important verbs and the pirate game.
The Andalusian report containts many accounts from immigrants in Spain which I will use as readings.
We did a diamond 9 rank activity which I’ll follow up with a speaking and maybe some kind of classification of the benefits into categories (economic, societal, local etc)
Will possibly follow up with a reading on public opinion and response writing: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/opini-n-p-blica-sobre-la-inmigraci-n-12582405
The idea for the personality test came about after I saw a similar resource on Twitter. I want my GCSE students to go beyond the obvious when describing themselves.
I’ve uploaded a reading as well which came first in this mini-series. We then became very bad recruitment consultants and matched 20 candidates to the jobs from the reading. I haven’t exploited the 24 candidates to the fullest yet, there’ s a lot to unpack there.
A listening task and translation based on a news report from 2018 when a mass grave was found in Porreres. QR code should link to the video which is on Twitter.