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Bundle on Spanish Civil War & The Franco Years
This fantastic, comprehensive bundle includes 11 resources on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship in Spain.
What does this bundle include?
Summary (in English) on the Spanish Civil War
Summary (in Spanish) on the Spanish Civil War
Summary (in English) on the Franco Dictatorship
Summary (in Spanish) on the Franco Dictatorship
PowerPoint Presentation (in English) on the Spanish Civil War
PowerPoint Presentation (in Spanish) on the Spanish Civil War
PowerPoint Presentation (in English) on the Franco Dictatorship
PowerPoint Presentation (in Spanish) on the Franco Dictatorship
Advanced Reading Practice on the Spanish Civil War
Advanced Reading Practice on the Franco Dictatorship
Spanish-English Glossary on the Spanish Civil War
The bundle covers the main events, the political ideologies of the Republicans and the Nationalists, the types of atrocities that took place and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. It also covers life in Spain from 1939 to the 1970s, looking at the role of women in Spain under Franco, the role of the Catholic church, the political and economic developments, Spain in the international context, and the transition to democracy.
This bundle will give advanced learners of Spanish a solid understanding of the themes and events of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco era, and is a fantastic platform for further research or reading on this topic.
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Spanish Reading Comprehension: Spanish Festivals
This Spanish Reading Comprehension resource focuses on Spanish Festivals (fiestas españolas). It includes four Spanish reading texts, each covering a different Spanish festival, along with reading comprehension activities.
The titles of the Spanish reading texts are:
Los Sanfermines, una fiesta vasca
La Tomatina
Las Fallas
Moros y Cristianos
The reading texts are written for upper-intermediate / advanced level Spanish students. Each Spanish text is designed to include high-quality vocabulary so that students are then able to speak and write about this topic with relevant, advanced vocabulary.
What does the resource include?
Four Spanish reading texts
Comprehension exercises for each reading text
Translation exercises
A writing question
Speaking exercise (Photo stimulus card)
Answers for the comprehension, vocabulary and translation exercises
The resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size.
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Réquiem por un campesino español: Escape Room (in Spanish)
Looking for a fun activity for students studying Réquiem por un campesino español by Ramón J. Sender? This Escape Room is engaging while at the same time provides useful information about this Spanish novel.
The Escape Room on Requiem por un campesino espanol can be done either individually or in teams of however many students you like. There is no preparation needed for this activity, other than printing it out for students to complete. Simply give them the first activity and once they crack the code, they can move onto the next activity, and so on until they crack all five codes. The first person or team to do so wins.
This Escape Room Activity does require students to have read the novel beforehand.
If are looking for a resource that delves deeper into the themes and background of Réquiem por un campesino español, click here to access my PowerPoint Presentation (in Spanish).
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Franco Dictatorship Resources Bundle
This bundle includes:
A summary of the Franco Dictatorship (in English)
A summary of the Franco Dictatorship (in Spanish)
A PowerPoint Presentation of the Franco Dictatorship (in English)
A PowerPoint Presentation of the Franco Dictatorship (in Spanish)
An Advanced Reading Comprehension Practice Resource
Each resources covers life in Spain from 1939 to the 1970s, the role of women in Spain under Franco, the role of the Catholic church, the political and economic developments, Spain in the international context and the transition to democracy. These in-depth resources include the political and economic background as well as social effects, giving a comprehensive understanding of the Franco Dictatorship.
The Summary is a four-page resource written in bullet-point formatting with highlights, making it easy to read and engage with. Available in both English and Spanish.
The PowerPoint Presentation consists of 34 slides, beautifully designed, with in-depth content and relevant images. Available in both English and Spanish.
The Advanced Reading resource includes 5 texts written in advanced Spanish on different topics related to the Franco Dictatorship. There are comprehension activities, a writing activity and a speaking activity. Answers are included.
This bundle will give advanced learners of Spanish a solid understanding of the themes and historical developments of the Franco era, and is a fantastic platform for further research or reading on this topic.
If you prefer a combined bundle that includes resources on both the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship, click here to access the bundle.
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Spanish Reading Comprehension Bundle
These 14 engaging Spanish Reading Comprehension resources each deal with a different topic.
Topics
El medio ambiente (The environment)
La tecnología moderna (Modern technology)
Casa, pueblo y ciudad (Home, town and city)
El colegio (School)
Navidad, Año Nuevo y los Reyes (Christmas and New Year)
Una vida sana (Healthy living)
El tiempo libre (Free-time activities)
La familia, el amor y las amistades (Family, love and frienships)
La educación universitaria y la formación profesional (University education and vocational training)
La pobreza y las personas sin hogar (Poverty and homelessness)
La feria de abril
Profesiones y ambiciones (Professions and ambitions)
La desigualdad y el género (Gender inequality)
Los influencers en las redes sociales (Social media influencers)
The reading texts are written for intermediate / upper-intermediate level Spanish students. Each text is designed to include high-quality vocabulary so that students are then able to speak and write about this topic with relevant, advanced vocabulary.
What does each resource include?
Reading texts
Comprehension and vocabulary exercises for each reading text
Translation exercises
Two writing questions
Crossword puzzle
Speaking exercise (Photo card)
Vocabulary sheet for memorization
Answers for the comprehension, vocabulary and translation exercises
The resources are available to download in both A4 size and Letter size.
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La guerra civil española: PowerPoint Presentation (in Spanish)
This PowerPoint Presentation covers the main events of the Spanish Civil War, the political ideologies of the Republicans and the Nationalists, the types of atrocities that took place and the aftermath of the war.
This PowerPoint Presentation consists of 30 slides, beautifully designed, with in-depth content and relevant images. The slides are non-editable and all of the text is in Spanish.
A Teacher’s Booklet is also included, with expanded notes to accompany the presentation.
This PowerPoint presentation is also available in English.
More resources on the Spanish Civil War:
Spanish Reading Comprehension: La guerra civil española
Bundle on Spanish Civil War & The Franco Years
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Social Media: a Spanish-English Glossary
A fantastic resource on the topic of Social Media designed for Spanish advanced learners. This Spanish-English glossary is a compilation of key vocabulary that is topic-specific. It covers vocabulary relating to the benefits and disadvantages of social media as well as some background vocabulary.
The vocabulary is both essential and advanced and is an excellent platform for enabling students to understand what they read on the subject and to speak and write about it with vocabulary that impresses. It is ideal for pre-reading, revision and used in conjunction with regular study.
This glossary is designed as a compact **two-page resource **in black and white, easily downloaded and printed, and beautifully formatted.
Other glossaries available:
There are also Spanish-English glossaries available on the topics of Immigration, Family and Relationships, and the Spanish Civil War.
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Family & Friends Translation & Vocab: GCSE Spanish Theme 1 :Topic 1
A fun resource designed to consolidate vocabulary to describe family and friends. It covers some family members, physical descriptions, and character and personality. It includes a vocab sheet, a long translation, plus extra vocab activities. This resource could be used for homework, revision or independent study.
Navidad: Snakes & Ladders Game
Christmas and New-Year themed Snakes and Ladders game. This game practices translation, the past tense and expressing opinions, all on the topic of Christmas, New Year and Reyes.
This resource is formatted to be printed out on A3 paper. Instructions are included, but you will need dice and counters to play the game.
Juego de serpientes y escaleras sobre el tema Navidad, Año Nuevo y los Reyes Magos. Este juego practica la traducción, el pretérito y expresar opiniones, todo sobre el tema de Navidades.
Este recurso es para imprimir en papel A3. Las instrucciones son incluidas, pero necesitarás un dado y fichas para jugar.
La salud: Dominoes and Bingo
This Spanish games resources focuses on health. It is aimed at helping students to learn vocabulary about healthy and unhealthy living in a fun and interactive way.
What does the resource include?
Teacher instructions
Dominoes cards (16)
Bingo text
Bingo cards (4)
Dominoes can be played individually, in pairs or in groups. This resource could be laminated if you would like to use it multiple times.
Bingo is played with a text that the teacher reads aloud in Spanish. The students mark off the words on their cards until someone wins.
The resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size.
For more resources about health, click here.
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Como agua para chocolate: A Study Guide
This Study Guide for Laura Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate helps students to understand the book for themselves, observing important themes and forming opinions about characters and events.
What is the aim of the resource?
For each of the twelve chapters in the book, there is a Spanish-English vocabulary grid, a research task, comprehension questions and analysis questions.
The research tasks are designed to help students understand the context of the story (Mexican history, Mexican cuisine, and Mexican culture).
The comprehension questions are designed to be answered in English. The purpose of these is to make sure students understand what is happening all the way through each chapter and, most importantly, to ensure they don’t miss anything important.
The analysis questions are designed to be answered in Spain, in a group discussion. The purpose of these is to help students express their reactions to the development of the characters and the events. They also draw students’ attention to emerging themes and literary techniques.
What does the resource include?
Vocabulary grid for each chapter
Research task for each chapter
Comprehension questions for each chapter
Analysis questions for each chapter
Overview of themes
Answers for comprehension questions (Please note that there are no answers for the research tasks or the analysis questions as these would vary.)
The resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size.
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Family and Relationships: a Spanish-English Glossary
A fantastic resource on the topic of the Relationships designed for Spanish advanced learners. This Spanish-English glossary is a compilation of key vocabulary that is topic-specific. It covers** vocabulary relating to marriage and divorce, families, feminism, women in the workplace and young people at home**.
The vocabulary is both **essential and advanced **and is an excellent platform for enabling students to understand what they read on the subject and to speak and write about it with vocabulary that impresses. It is ideal for pre-reading, revision and used in conjunction with regular study.
This glossary is designed as a compact two-page resource in black and white, easily downloaded and printed, and beautifully formatted.
Other glossaries available:
There are also Spanish-English glossaries available on the topics of Social Media, Immigration, and the Spanish Civil War.
More resources on family and relationships:
La familia, el amor y las amistades: Reading & Vocab Practice
La desigualdad y el género: Reading & Vocab Practice
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Technology Translation & Vocab: GCSE Spanish Theme 1: Topic 2
A fun resource designed to consolidate vocabulary on mobile technology. It uses the imperfect and present tenses to compare life before mobile technology to nowadays. There is also an optional brief grammar exercise on direct object pronouns. It includes a vocab sheet, a long translation, plus extra vocab and grammar activities. This resource could be used for homework, revision or independent study.
This is the second resource in a series. Find my first resource entitled Relationships with Family and Friends Translation: GCSE Spanish Theme 1: Topic 1.
Sport Translation & Vocab: GCSE Spanish Theme 1: Topic 3
A fun resource designed to consolidate vocabulary on sport and practise the preterite tense. It includes a vocab sheet, a long translation, plus extra vocab and preterite tense activities. This resource could be used for homework, revision or independent study.
This is the fourth resource in a series.
Find my first resource entitled [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/relationships-with-family-and-friends-translation-gcse-spanish-theme-1-topic-1-12340886]
The second resource in the series is entitled https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/technology-in-everyday-lives-translation-gcse-spanish-theme-1-topic-2-12343610
The third resource in the series is entitled https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/music-cinema-and-tv-translation-gcse-spanish-theme-1-topic-3-12345483
Food Translation & Vocab: GCSE Spanish Theme 1: Topic 3
A fun resource designed to consolidate vocabulary on food, eating out and cooking. It uses the future tense (going to) to describe various people’s dinner plans. There is also an optional brief grammar exercise on “ponerse a”. It includes a vocab sheet, a long translation, plus extra vocab and grammar activities. This resource could be used for homework, revision or independent study.
Relato de un náufrago: A Study Guide
This resource accompanies students through the journalistic classic Relato de un náufrago (Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The resource has a separate section for each of the fourteen chapters of the book, as well as a section for the introduction.
For each chapter, there is a Preparation part, which includes a grid of useful vocabulary and a research task, which encourages students to use the internet to find out something that will help them understand the context of the story.
Following this, there is an Understanding part, which consists of simple comprehension questions in English, to be answered in English. These follow the course of the text, so students can answer the questions as they read. This will help them to take in the story and understand the main points. There are also some translation exercises in this part, encouraging students to translate key elements of the text that are essential for them to understand.
Next, there is an Analysis part, which includes a few analytical questions in Spanish, to be answered in Spanish, to help students reflect on what is going on.
Finally, there are vocabulary exercises throughout the resource, helping students to memorize helpful words.
The answers are included for the comprehension questions, translation exercises and vocabulary exercises.
Kindness Spanish Classroom Wall Poster
Encourage kindness, politeness and courtesy in your Spanish classroom with this colorful and inspiring wall poster. It could be used alongside classroom rules or expectations.
This poster is available with both a white and color background, so you can choose whichever one suits your classroom decor needs.
Can be printed onto A3, A4 or can be adapted to other sizes.
Other Spanish wall posters available:
Spanish Artists Classroom Wall Poster
Como Agua Para Chocolate Poster
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Spanish Artists Classroom Wall Poster
Give your students some cultural knowledge of Spain with this colorful and informative wall poster on Spanish artists and painters. The perfect way to decorate your classroom to deepen your students’ cultural awareness.
This poster is** available with both a white and color background**, so you can choose whichever one suits your classroom decor needs.
The Spanish artists included in this poster are El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Francisco Goya, Joaquín Sorolla, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí.
Can be printed onto A3, A4 or can be adapted to other sizes.
Other Spanish wall posters available:
5 ways to show kindness to your Spanish teacher
Como agua para chocolate: personajes principales
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Réquiem por un campesino español: A Glossary
This** Spanish-English Glossary** of Réquiem por un campesino español helps students to understand the text as they read it.
The Glossary first lists the words in the order that they appear in the text (without repeating them). This means it can be used with any edition. It then lists the words** in alphabetical order** for when students are dipping in and out of the book.
This Glossary is 19 pages in all. It provides a translation that is relevant to the text. Intermediate-level words are omitted as they are likely to be known already to students. Some words that do not have a straightforward translation are omitted from the glossary, but every attempt has been made to provide a translation where possible.
This resource will bring relief to students who find it very frustrating to look up unknown words in a dictionary. The Glossary will massively reduce the amount of time it takes to look up words and will help students stay motivated.
For more resources on this Spanish novel, have a look at my in-depth PowerPoint Presentation and my fun Escape Room Activity.
For an understanding of the context of the Spanish Civil War and the events leading up to it, my Summary of the Spanish Civil War will help students enormously.
Spanish Monarchy and Royal Family: A Summary
This is a very thorough summary of the development of the Spanish Monarchy and Royal Family. It covers the Catholic Kings, the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties, the transition to democracy and a constitutional monarchy, and the present-day royal family.
This in-depth summary includes themes relating to the monarchy and the Catholic Church, the **popularity of the royal family and the scandals surrounding it. It is written in bullet-point formatting with highlights, making it easy to read and engage with.
This summary will give Spanish A Level, Advanced Higher and other advanced learners a solid understanding of the themes and history of the Spanish Monarchy, and is a fantastic platform for further research or reading on this topic.
This four-page resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size. The resource is also included in a bundle with a PowerPoint Presentation on the Spanish Monarchy and Royal Family.
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