A set of resources to support students through the first year of the new A Level Spanish course (AS). Based on the AQA specification, and following the Hodder text-book, it includes
- AS (A Level year 1) overview and lesson-by-lesson Scheme of learning
- A Level overview
- Paper 2 support booklet (based on the film El laberinto del fauno)
- Paper 3 support booklet
The fourth booklet contains a very comprehensive (118 pages) overview of the main aspects of Spanish grammar that the students are expected to be able to use on their A Level course.
A set of resources to prepare students for the new GCSE speaking exam (AQA specification), including:
- Three booklets with role plays (at both foundation and higher level) to prepare Theme 1 (Identity and culture), Theme 2 (Local, regional, international and global areas of interest) and Theme 3 (Current and future education and work).
- Three booklets with Photo Cards, again on Higher and Foundation level and covering all three themes.
- A General Conversation booklet, with a very extensive list of questions covering every aspect of the three themes.
UPDATE: a game of Trivial Pursuit to practise the general conversation. (ADDED JULY 2019)
A very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (mainly higher) to translate from Spanish into English. The resource includes 120 sentences and 6 long paragraphs and they cover the following aspects of Theme 3 (Current and future stydy and employment), organised as follows:
Part 1: My studies
Part 2: School life
Part 3: Education post-16
Part 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions
Finally, the six longer paragraphs include language related to all four categories.
The sentences include references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), as well as a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
UPDATE: I have added to the resource a translation into Spanish of the two translation activities (at foundation and higher tier) of the 2018 French GCSE AQA exam.
Two practice writing papers (one foundation, one higher) following the format of the new GCSE writing exam, and focusing on the topics covered in Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment).
The foundation paper includes four questions (describe the photo, 40 words question, translation and 90 words question) and the higher paper includes three (90 words question, 150 words question and translation).
I have also included two feedback sheets (one foundation, one higher) that include"check-lists" (based on the AQA mark scheme for writing) to provide quick, personalised feedback for each of the questions. The check lists provide the students with feedback on what went well (WWW) and what they need to do to improve further (TIF).
Also available in French: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-theme-3-current-and-future-study-and-employment-writing-exam-and-feedback-sheets-11750989
A 13 pages booklet to help higher ability GCSE students to work independently and and to include a wider variety of structures in their written work.
There are two sections in the booklet:
Section 1 focuses on tenses, and it includes a summary of how to conjugate the present tense, the preterite, the imperfect, the future simple and the conditional, as well as verb tables for AR, ER and IR verbs in those tenses, including tables for six irregular verbs (ser, tener, estar, ir, poder and haber). This is followed by a explanation on how to conjugate and use a further four tenses: the present perfect, the present continuous, the pluperfect and the conditional perfect.
Section 2 focuses on other structures that will help the students include variety and complexity:
- lo + adjectives
- comparatives and superlatives
- negatives
- conditionals ('si' clauses)
- the infinitive
- the present subjunctive
- object pronouns
- other useful structures
Finally, the booklet includes a "check list" or a guide of the kind of structures that the students would be expected to include in work that is graded 4-5, 6-7 or 8-9.
This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new Spanish GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 2 (Local, national, international and global areas of interest), and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students.
All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme). When possible, one of the bullet points starts with 'qué hiciste', a question which appears in many of the AQA samples and that some students often fail to understand.
A similar booklet including questions for themes 1, 2 and 3 can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-writing-exam-practice-90-word-questions-11820179
A listening, reading and writing activity that can be used while discussing the topic of Franco’s dictatorship in Spain. It is based on Miguel Gila’s famous monologue “¿Es el enemigo?”, which can be easily found online, and on an article from El País about the day when the comedian survived his own execution during the Spanish Civil War.
The activities include a listening gap-fill, a true, false or not mentioned reading activity and a short translation.
A series of lessons to talk about the city or town where you live. It includes some exam like questions (translation and photo card). It also provides the students with opportunities to practise "se puede + infinitive".
Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power Point.
A (very large) set of resources to cover all aspects of the topic of jobs and careers, guiding the students towards beign able to write and speak about the topic using a variety of tenses (preterite, imperfect, the expression "tenía que" + infinitive and future simple), as well as the relative and other complex structures.
The set also includes an introduction to the subjunctive (with expressions such as "No creo que" + subjuntive).
All supported by 15 corresponding worksheets that also include reading activities.
Two practice writing papers (one foundation, one higher) following the format of the new GCSE writing exam. The foundation paper includes four questions (describe the photo, 40 words question, translation and 90 words question) and the higher paper includes three (90 words question, 150 words question and translation). The papers focus on Theme 1 of the new spec (Identity and culture) and they cover family and relationships, technology and leisure.
I have also included two feedback sheets (one foundation, now higher) that include"check-lists" (based on the AQA mark scheme for writing) to provide quick, personalised feedback for each of the questions. The check lists provide the students with feedback on what went well (WWW) and what they need to do to improve further (TIF).
The resource also includes an explanation of the requirements of the Foundation and the Higher writing papers and a copy of the mark scheme for each question.
Also available in Spanish: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-practice-writing-paper-and-feedback-sheets-theme-1-identity-and-culture-11668337
A very comprehensive set of resources to help students revise Theme 1 (Identity and culture) of the new Spanish GCSE and prepare for the speaking test.
The pack i ncludes:
- Role plays booklet, with 14 role plays at both foundation and higher level.
- Photo cards booklet, with 40 cards (each of which includes four foundation and four higher questions).
- General conversation questions, with 45 questions altogether at both foundation and higher level.
- Foundation and higher mark schemes / feedback sheets.
A very comprehensive set of resources to support your students in preparation for the new GCSE exam. The bundle includes:
- Speaking exam resources (three booklets -one covering each theme of the new course- with a minimum of 15 foundation and higher Role Plays, three booklets with Photo Cards and a further booklet with a lot of questions to prepare the General Conversation thoroughly).
- Writing exam resources (three sets -one covering each theme of the new course- of writing papers, both at foundation and higher level; additionally, each set includes an overview of the requirements of the exam and a feedback sheet).
- Reading exam resources (three booklets with Spanish to English translations).
- a booklet with twenty-four 90-word questions, covering all three themes of the new GCSE course (NEW)
a Trivial Pursuit game to practise questions for the general conversation (ADDED JULY 2019)
This document includes a lot factual information about Spanish and Latin American culture and society, focusing on the theme Aspects of Political Life in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level course.
It provides students with wide range of facts and statistics about the topic, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). The information in the file can also be easily adapted to reading or translation activities.
This bundle contains three resources to support students preparing for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Réquiem por un campesino español.
Paper 2 booklet: La casa de Bernarda Alba.
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to get the students to start discussing the texts, quotes taking from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
A 38 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme Multiculturalism in the Hispanic world, and it contains 18 discussion cards covering Immigration (6 cards), Racism (6 cards) and Integration (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of 20 questions to encourage the students to further explore the issues covered in the cards.
The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?”).
The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4).
The booklet also includes a student-friendly overview of the new specification, an explanation of the requirements of Paper 3, the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for both part one (discussion if a sub-theme) and part two (presentation and discussion of the individual research project) of the paper.
Finally, the booklet also contain three pages of useful language for the test.
This file consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme “Youths todays, citizens tomorrow” of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of political life.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme: political values, unemployment and their ideal society. Each card contains a lot of factual information and three questions to discuss the sub theme. FInally, the six cards are followed by a list of twenty questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test.
This booklet contains a detailed overview of the key vocabulary for the new Spanish GCSE. While it is not an exhaustive list, it contains a lot of vocabulary items organised according to each of the themes and topics of the new course and their lexical category.
The booklet starts with an overview of the course and the different themes and topics. This is followed with a section of exam rubrics in Spanish, taken from the AQA specification and from the 2018 exams (all four skills, at foundation and higher level).
The next section includes general vocabulary: asking questions, comparisons, quantifiers, conjunctions, connectives, negatives and prepositions.
The final section includes a page of key vocabulary for each of the topics (therefore four pages per theme) of the course. Each page contains on average ten key nouns, ten key verbs and ten key adjectives on the topic, followed by a blank page for students to add their own vocabulary.
I have uploaded two versions of the booklet: the first version only contains the Spanish words, without the English translation, and it can be used for starter or plenary activities in the lesson. The other one is the full version of the booklet, with the English translation.
This resource contains two different versions of my grammar booklet. The content of both booklets is basically the same, but while the full version is 62 pages long, the reduced version is more printing-budget friendly, with 37pages.
Both versions of the booklet contain a very comprehensive summary of the grammar required to succeed in the new GCSE course and numerous activities for the students.
Each booklet is divided in three sections, one for each theme of the new GCSE, and withing each of those there are two parts, one dedicated to verbs and one dedicated to all the other lexical categories.
Each entry of the booklet focuses on one aspect of grammar, with a brief explanation of how to use the structure that is being covered, the rules and exceptions that need to be taken into account, and a variety of examples. This is always followed by an “Ahora practica” section with activities for the students to complete. Whenever possible, the examples and activities match the theme that the specific structure has been included under (e.g., the majority of examples and activities used to study the present tense will be related to the topics from theme 1 - relationships, technology, leisure and festivals).
A free sample of this resource (the section on ser and estar) can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-grammar-ser-and-estar-11939670
And the final pages of the booklet, with the verb tables:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-verb-tables-11940354
Finally, each version of the booklet can be found separately in the following links:
Reduced version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-spanish-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939892
Full version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939611