A bundle of resources covering some of the important aspects of Volver in relation to the essay students will have to write. I have some free resources uploaded as well pertaining to the director himself, they would work well with this.
Printable quote cards with quotes covering all themes.
Grammar tasks including specific grammar items taken from the WJEC spec.
A flick quote PowerPoint with quotes linked to themes (ideal starter or filler)
Retrieval starters which are ideal for homework.
A themes based reading with subsequent locate and retrieve task and essay writing practice.
A three page resource on the use of music during key sequences and its desired effect as well as camera shot selection.
A free character analysis resource to track development over time and character effect in moving the plot forward. Includes a contrasting adjective worksheet for every character to be used in conjunction with the infinitive structures worksheet to begin writing evidence points relating to character traits.
Infinitive structures worksheet to be used in conjunction with the character analysis sheet, students can use the verbs to begin building points that evidence their selection of a certain adjective. e.g Sabemos que Raimunda es fuerte porque + infinitive structure
Event ordering activity to better understand the plot and sub-plot lines.
Basics booklet with all resources apart from the grammar worksheets in one lovely booklet with a very cool custom cover by my lovely year 12 student APD!
Quote index booklet for easy addition of quotes into essays with character tiles for recognition of character and all categorised by theme.
83 quotes from LCDBA with a theme or essay link on a flick PowerPoint.
Each slide has a reveal button to press, before pressing it ask students who said each quotes, to whom, when and any potential links they can make to the main themes.
(To stop PowerPoint slides flicking presss left arrow key)
Updated Volver quote cards x60
Now with more uncommon quotes which exemplify themes by secondary characters and also a picture of who said each quote on each card.
Quotes from the film Volver on a flick PowerPoint. Students can win points if they can answer who said the quote, to whom, in what context and what theme or essay link it relates to.
Flick PowerPoint filled with quotes from the film on every different theme. Simply start the slide show and press left arrow key to stop in position. Students have to guess who said the quote. Exit slide show and remove the box to verify their guesses.
Premium version includes who they said the quote to, in what context and what theme the quote can represent/what essay link they can make with it. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/volver-know-your-quote-premium-version-12170430
Theme index with categorised quotes, I went through the whole book and categorised everything relevant.
Also attached are quote cards which are not sorted by character or theme, these can be used for a multitude of activities.
Update: New look to the cards (2019)
Present, preterite and future tense endings with common irregulars in 1st person. Time phrases as well.
On the flip side some opinion related vocabulary including idiomatic opinions and pre-set subjunctive phrases.
Original idea from the brilliant @wyedeanmfl
Based on this article: https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/12/buenavida/1513075923_947867.html
Comments translation gets more difficult as your progress. For a challenge start at the bottom and for support start at the top.
Students can translate them, discuss who said them in which context and to whom.
The colour coded set are coded by character, the other set are all one colour so no clues are given away. Last page are misc and unsorted.
Learners complete the conjugation tables on the front of their booklet with support from the Powerpoint and teacher input.
Learners then complete the booklet, section by section, changing the verbs in context from the present into the preterite. As a challenge learners may translate these sentences.
A homework task is set at the end which requires students to translate from English to Spanish.