School Sentence building blocksScaffolded sentence building blocks designed to provide students with the necessary grammar and range of vocabulary to give detailed and complex answers in their speaking and writing GCSE Spanish exams. The questions match those of our Speaking Booklet (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-spanish-speaking-booklet-edexcel-and-aqa-roleplay-photo-card-general-conversation-practise-12069685) and are organised by modules 1-8, following the structure of the Viva! Edexcel Spanish GCSE book. Each question is answered with a colour coded multiple choice word bank that includes higher structures, different tenses, idioms and a variety of vocabulary. The perfect resource to boost their confidence when developing their productive skills and when preparing them for the General Conversation part of the Speaking GCSE.
Easy to adapt and modify to suit your classes and curriculum.
The questions included in this document are as follow:
¿Cuáles son los problemas globales más serios hoy en día? What are the most serious global problems of today?
¿Cómo se pueden solucionar los problemas? How can you solve the problems?
¿Cómo puedes mejorar el medioambiente? How can you improve the environment?
¿Qué opinas de los grandes eventos deportivos o festivales de música? What do you think about big sporting or musical events?
En tu opinión, ¿son importantes las tradiciones y las fiestas? In your opinion, are traditions and festivals important?
Háblame de un festival o una fiesta a la que te gustaría asistir. Talk to me about a festival which you would like to attend.
Háblame de una fiesta aquí en Inglaterra que celebramos todos los años. Talk to me about a festival here in England that we celebrate every year.
School Sentence building blocksScaffolded sentence building blocks designed to provide students with the necessary grammar and range of vocabulary to give detailed and complex answers in their speaking and writing GCSE Spanish exams. The questions match those of our Speaking Booklet (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-spanish-speaking-booklet-edexcel-and-aqa-roleplay-photo-card-general-conversation-practise-12069685) and are organised by modules 1-8, following the structure of the Viva! Edexcel Spanish GCSE book. Each question is answered with a colour coded multiple choice word bank that includes higher structures, different tenses, idioms and a variety of vocabulary. The perfect resource to boost their confidence when developing their productive skills and when preparing them for the General Conversation part of the Speaking GCSE.
Easy to adapt and modify to suit your classes and curriculum.
The questions included in this document are as follow:
¿Cómo es tu instituto? ¿Qué instalaciones tiene? What is your school like? What facilities does it have?
¿Qué asignaturas te gustan y no te gustan? ¿Por qué? What subjects do you like and not like? Why?
Háblame de tu uniforme escolar. Talk to me about your school uniform.
¿Qué piensas de las otras normas de tu instituto? What do you think about the other rules in your school?
¿Cómo es un día típico en tu insti? What is a typical day like in your school?
¿Qué es lo bueno y lo malo de tu instituto? What’s good and bad about your school?
¿Qué hiciste ayer en tu instituto? What did you do yesterday in school?
¿Qué planes tienes para este trimestre? What plans do you have for this term?
¿Puedes describir un viaje escolar que hiciste en el pasado? Can you describe a school trip that you have done in the past?
Fun translation game to revise vocabulary and grammar. Pupils have to translate the sentences in teams. Behind each sentence there are different icons that can make them earn points, lose them or swap them with the other team. Adaptable PowerPoint to suit any of the topics that you are covering with your students. They will love it!
A selection of 7 festivals (Carnaval, Día de Reyes, La Semana Santa, La Tomatina, Las Fallas, San Fermín and San Juan) with answers. With these worksheets, pupils develop reading, translation and writing skills whilst learning about some of the most famous and interesting hispanic traditions. The perfect bundle to cover the topic of identity and culture. A 38% discount set of resources that can be exploited both as a project based on team work as well as an unit of work throughout a period of time.
Adaptable powerpoint with a compilation of some of the most common verbs in GCSE and A Level (both regular and irregular) for pupils to conjugate in the past (preterite, imperfect and present perfect), present (present and present continuous) and future tenses (near future, simple future and conditional). The perfect starter or plenary to drill key tenses to boost both accuracy and understanting of texts.
The perfect resource to boost your GCSE students’ grades. A learning mat including a range of over 60 complex structures and pieces of creative language to add variety to their writing and speaking. The utterances are organised around grammar. However, the categories are labelled in a student friendly language to motivate them to use them in their exams. The pack includes translation practice (with answers) to consolidate the use of the phrases. Perfect for both Higher and Foundation pupils.
A set of five different rewards cards for Spanish students with different targets: homework, effort, participation, extra work and a general one. A fantastic way to motivate your students. Don’t forget to leave a review if you like them! :)
Template for a weekly revision plan for MFL students. Designed to encourage students to do independent work and revision, helping them with their organisation and time management. It allows students to ‘tick’ each box once they have completed each section. It is visual and easily adaptable to suit other subjects/ your class!
A very fun lesson to boost grammatical understanding in Spanish following the popular Escape Room format. Barely any preparation time is required from the teacher. It includes a series of tasks covering a range of GCSE topics (school, local area, holidays and world of work) where students need to apply their knowledge of the present, preterite, present perfect, imperfect, conditional and future tenses of both regular and irregular verbs whilst developing their reading and translation skills covering different CGSE themes.
This Escape Room has the perfect level of challenge to prepare them well for their exam and develop their grammatical skills. The lesson includes a vocabulary bank and a grammar knowledge organiser, to support students, making it accessible to all KS4 and AS students. A very enjoyable lesson to develop team work, which includes regular progress checks so that teachers can consistently check understanding and progress. Instructions in English and Spanish for both teachers and students as well as answers included.
A bundle which includes reading and listening + writing preparation lessons. Save 15% when preparing your students for their Spanish GCSE writing, reading and listening exams. Both lessons include tips and activities/ model answers for both Foundation and Higher. Suitable for all exam boards.
The perfect pack to explain Christmas time in Spanish lessons including a *Escape Room *to talk about the main dates and traditions, a lesson and worksheet to teach them about the Three Wise Men and develop writing skills, and a lesson to learn how to form the near future and talk about New Year’s resolutions. It also includes Spanish Christmas cards to praise your students for their hard work and wish them a great festivities using the target language. A great selection of resources to promote intercultural awareness and boost accuracy.
The perfect powerpoint to prepare your students for their reading and listening Spanish papers, both Foundation and Higher. 19 slides that include guidance on how to complete the test successfully by focusing on linguistic cues and by avoiding common traps in the exam. The strategies are followed by exam styles questions for pupils to develop their skills. The powerpoint can be used for selfrevision or as a teacher led lesson. Suitable for all examination boards.
¡Buena suerte! :)
Acción de gracias themed Spanish bookmarks. The perfect opportunity for both teachers and pupils to show appreciation to each other. Also, great to promote reading whilst discussing the topic of Identity and culture at GCSE or festivals at a wider scale.
A Powerpoint containing 32 idioms in Spanish with their translation into English and a sentence where they are used in context. Slides with headings for the 8 different categories they can be classified into (shopping and money transactions, globlal issues, weather, media, school work and future aspirations, food, free time, holidays and local area and relationships and descriptions). Perfect for GCSE and A Level students. Also suitable for primary students to boost their interest and curiosity in the language.
Great and visual poster for students to understand teacher commands in Spanish. It also includes a set of common questions and phrases to communicate in the target language. Dowload it now for free!
A lovely Power Point presentation to use during the first lessons with your classes. It includes slides with teacher presentation, vocabulary for introductions, seating plan, rules and expectations, book information, classroom language and commands, speaking activities and games, a quiz and objectives for the year ahead. Ready for you to adapt it to your group!
UPDATED version added to adapt to the new Covid-19 guidlines
Una presentación para usar en la primera clase que tengáis con vuestros grupos. Hay plantillas que podéis adaptar y completar a vuestro gusto (reglas, actividades, cuadernos, presentaciones, juegos de cultura general, objetivos para el nuevo curso y todas esas cositas de las que se habla el primer día con los grupos nuevos)
Ahora también la versión ACTUALIZADA para seguir las nuevas pautas por el Covid-19.
An updated version of our PALMS learning mat. It now includes two knowledge organisers: one for Foundation and one for Higher. Two support sheets for your students to have with them when practising the description of their photocard. It contains references to the People on the photo, their Actions, Location and Mood as well as structures to describe the Season/Weather in the picture. It also includes some complex structures as well as lots of ideas and vocabulary support to ensure that they give an extended description and don’t miss anything! The perfect resource to prepare them well for the picture based task, a very important section of their speaking exam (and written exam for Edexcel Foundation students). It can be laminated, used as a display or glued in books.
An updated version of our PALMS display, the perfect visual aid to help your students succeed in the description of the photocard in their GCSE Spanish exam. It includes some complex structures as well as lots of ideas and vocabulary support to ensure they give an extended description and don’t miss anything! Its visual presentation will help your pupils memorise key phrases to get high marks for both communication and content as well as for their linguistic accuracy and it will look lovely in your classroom!
Measurements:
5 A4 pages
148cm wide and 105 cm high
58.5 inches wide and 41.3 inches high
A worsheet to introduce or review the execution of the Thirteen Roses (Las Trece Rosas). This episode was a turning point in Spanish history as it arose public demonstrations internationally. A Level students will develop their reading skills whilst securing their knowledge of Franco’s dictatorship and its key events. The reading is based on a newspaper’s article and consists of A Level reading tasks such as finding key words. It includes answers, which makes it also perfect for homework/ independent learning.
A series of posters to be used as display or put into a mini revision guide for 8 tenses (present, present continuous, present perfect, preterite, imperfect, near future, simple future and conditional). Each poster includes the endings for each tense, the most common time phrases/ adverbs it is used with, irregular verbs and examples. The colourful format makes it visual and eye-catching.