This sample Advanced Spanish Reading Practice resource focuses on immigration. The text describes the dangerous journeys made by Central American migrants on La Bestia, el tren de la muerte.
The reading text is written for upper-intermediate / advanced level Spanish students. It is designed to include high-quality vocabulary so that students are then able to speak and write about this topic with relevant, advanced vocabulary. It includes multiple-choice comprehension questions and a vocabulary pairing exercise.
For more reading texts on this topic, you can purchase the full La inmigración: Advanced Spanish Reading Practice resource on my store. It has five reading texts covering different aspects of immigration in the Spanish-speaking world, and many more useful exercises for classroom use or homework.
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This Spanish games resources focuses on describing friends. It is aimed at helping students to learn vocabulary to describe friends 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.
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This Sample Spanish Reading Exercise focuses on football and sportspeople. The text features various Spanish young people answering the question, ¿Los futbolistas ganan demasiado dinero? There are comprehension and vocabulary exercises on the text. You could then also use this as a platform for discussing/writing on this topic in class.
It is written for** intermediate / upper-intermediate level Spanish students**, and is designed to include high-quality vocabulary so that students are then able to speak and write about this topic with relevant, advanced vocabulary.
For more reading texts on this topic, you can purchase the full El tiempo libre: Reading & Vocab Practice resource on my store. It has five reading texts and many more useful exercises for classroom use or homework.
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This Sample Spanish Reading Exercise focuses on love and relationships. The text features various Spanish young people answering the question, ¿Crees en el amor a primera vista? There are comprehension and vocabulary exercises on the text. You could then also use this as a platform for discussing/writing on this topic in class.
It is written for intermediate / upper-intermediate level Spanish students, and is designed to include high-quality vocabulary so that students are then able to speak and write about this topic with relevant, advanced vocabulary.
For more reading texts on this topic, you can purchase the full La familia, el amor y las amistades: Reading & Vocab Practice resource on my store. It has five reading texts and many more useful exercises for classroom use or homework.
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A fun resource designed to consolidate vocabulary on music, cinema and television. It also practises the present tense and there is an optional brief exercise on “lo bueno/lo malo”. It includes a vocab sheet, a long translation, plus extra vocab activities. This resource could be used for homework, revision or independent study.
This is the third resource in a series.
Find my first resource entitled Relationships with Family and Friends Translation: GCSE Spanish Theme 1: Topic 1.
The second resource in the series is entitled Technology in Everyday Lives Translation: GCSE Spanish Theme 1: Topic 2
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.
This Spanish games resources focuses on technology. It is aimed at helping students to learn vocabulary about technology 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 the environment, click here.
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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.
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.
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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This Spanish games resources focuses on the environment. It is aimed at helping students to learn vocabulary about the environment 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 the environment, click here.
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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
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.
This resource helps students to create a complex response to the question Describe your teacher.
It contains 6 different “levels” starting at the simplest and taking students to a more complex level each time. By the end, students will be able to describe their teachers using:
Adjectives
Direct Object Pronouns
Conjunctions
Comparatives
Present Subjunctive
All of the above
This resource is not aimed at teaching these vocabulary and grammatical concepts (although guidance is provided), but at practicing them.
Answers are provided for questions which have one correct answer. No answers are provided for the creative writing questions.
How to use the resource
The resource can be used either with or without teacher intervention. Students should be able to use dictionaries (either paper or online) to look up any vocabulary they need.
The resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size.
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This is a very thorough summary of life under Franco’s Dictatorship in Spain. It covers life from 1939 to the 1970s, the role of women, the role of the Catholic church, the political and economic developments, Spain in the international context and the transition to democracy.
This in-depth resource on the Franco Dictatorship is written in bullet-point formatting under headings, making it easy to read and engage with. It is written in English, but is also available in Spanish (see link below).
This four-page summary 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.
How can I use this resource?
An overview of Life Under Franco in Spain
Revision of the main events and themes of the Franco Dictatorship
Alongside the study of books or films that are set during the Franco era
This resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size. It is also available in Spanish, should you prefer.
The resource is also included in a bundle with other resources on the Franco Dictatorship or in conjunction with resources on the Spanish Civil War.
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This is a very thorough summary of the Spanish Civil War in English. It 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 war.
This in-depth summary on the Spanish Civil War is written in bullet-point formatting under headings, making it manageable to understand.
This summary will give advanced learners of Spanish a solid understanding of the themes and events of the Spanish Civil War, and is a fantastic platform for further research or reading on this topic.
How can I use this resource?
An overview of the Spanish Civil War
Revision of the main events and themes of the Spanish Civil War
Alongside the study of books or films that are set during the Spanish Civil War
This resource is also available in Spanish, should you prefer.
The resource is also included in a bundle with other resources on the Spanish Civil War or in conjunction with resources on the Franco Dictatorship.
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This is a very thorough summary of life under Franco’s Dictatorship in Spain. It covers life 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**.
This in-depth summary on the Franco years is written in bullet-point formatting under headings, making it manageable to understand. It is written in advanced Spanish, making it ideal for language development, reading comprehension and vocabulary-building.
This summary 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.
How can I use this resource?
An overview of the Franco era
Revision of the main events and themes of the Franco dictatorship
Alongside the study of books or films that are set during the Franco years
This resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size. It is also available in English, should you prefer. The resource is also included in a [bundle with other resources on the Franco dictatorship]https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/franco-dictatorship-resources-bundle-12418530) or in conjunction with resources on the Spanish Civil War.
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This is a very thorough summary of the Spanish Civil War in Spanish. It 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 war.
This in-depth summary on the Spanish Civil War is written in bullet-point formatting under headings, making it manageable to understand. It is written in advanced Spanish, making it ideal for language development, reading comprehension and vocabulary-building.
This summary will give advanced learners of Spanish a solid understanding of the themes and events of the Spanish Civil War, and is a fantastic platform for further research or reading on this topic.
How can I use this resource?
An overview of the Spanish Civil War
Revision of the main events and themes of the Spanish Civil War
Alongside the study of books or films that are set during the Spanish Civil War
This resource is available to download in both A4 size and Letter size. It is also available in English, should you prefer. The resource is also included in a bundle with other resources on the Spanish Civil War or in conjunction with resources on the Franco Dictatorship.
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A fantastic resource on the topic of the Spanish Civil War 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 causes, events and atrocities, the participants and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
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.
For more background, there is also a Summary of the Spanish Civil War that would accompany this resource perfectly. It is written in bullet-point form to help students easily grasp the main points.
Additionally, there is a teaching PowerPoint on the Spanish Civil War, which is available in both Spanish and English.
For resources relating to the post-Civil War era, there is a PowerPoint Presentation, available in both Spanish and English, and accompanying Summary on the Franco Dictatorship.
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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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