A reading comprehension in Spanish on some bullet points providing general background information about Almodóvar's 2016 feature Julieta. Intended for students studying the film at A Level or Pre-U. This is a good activity for homework or classwork to be completed either before watching the film or just after.

After learning about el día de los muertos / day of the dead, beginners can learn how to describe someone in the past so they can write a simple ‘tribute’ to someone that has passed, this can be turned into a seasonal display and pupils can decorate their tribute with marigolds or other flowers, photos or drawings. Worksheets include: 2 sheets of vocab activities to do (after you’ve introduced pupils to some of the basic descriptions vocab) Sentence builder for writing a tribute - modelled answers in grid to help. This can be used to do dictations, aural translations etc. using mini-whiteboards and having pupils use the sentence builder. Blank writing sheet for once pupils have practised enough - can be used as assessment.

Interactive activities to introduce the colours in Spanish - for the flashcards, you could do a number of listen & repeat, call & response style activities eg. choral repetition, individual repetition, whispering repetition, shouting repetition, team repetition etc. then there are some recall activities to practise / consolidate.

Worksheet with table to fill in in Spanish, and completed table - teacher uses completed table to read out sentences describing each person. Teacher can make the sentences very short phrases, or include linking words and other details depending on ability level of group. Pupils note details in Spanish, then correct. You could do this activity before asking pupils to write their own description of someone. Speaking worksheet to be cut in half so opponent cannot see answers to the questions they will be asked - pupils take turns to ask each other the translations. You can make this into a game or quiz by seeing how quickly pupils can complete all translations orally correctly. Pupils can tick each line when their opponent gives an answer correctly, or you can create a rule that they have to go back to any previous answers they got wrong in order to move on etc.

Repetitive oral drills to practise sentence structures for talking about family members - you can use the sentences to do oral translation - there are some in Spanish followed by some in English, in which pupils must use the vocab in previous sentences to help them. Then, there are questions pupils should answer orally using the vocab they have just practised. You could also use the first slide for listening tasks: say one of the green sentences in Spanish and pupils must point out which sentence you said. Or, don’t show the powerpoint, and read some of the sentences aloud for pupils to translate into English on scrap paper or miniboards. You could even do them as dictations if pupils aren’t yet able to translate - all good consolidation of the language.

Quick activity or starter - flashcards with verb phrases to practise verbs comer and beber with food items - first, you can do a number of listen & repeat / call & response activities (choral repetition, individual repetition, whispering, shouting, one team vs another) then do the memory activity.

A useful bullet point summary of the plot of Julieta (Almodovar) - each bullet point is designed to get students to recall what happens in each scene and put the story back together. You could use project a scene onto the board as a lesson starter and pupils have to discuss in pairs what each point refers to, or you could get students to study the sheet as homework and make notes on each point.

Some brief teacher notes about the style and genres of Almodovar’s Julieta - you could use these to generate questions for discussion for your pupils, or you could create some translations into Spanish / give them a short lecture in Spanish on these points.

A selection of interactive vocab activities to completed orally in pairs, answers included. For talking about the transport in your town.

A gap-fill exercise with other teaching ideas to teach the topic of school rules.

A worksheet to teach chunks of language relating to special occasions / birthdays / celebrations with perfect tense verbs. Includes a short listening exercise, a jumble / unscramble exercise, missing letters exercise and speaking / oral exercise. Instructions for teacher included.

A small sentence builder, vocab activity and translations for describing the pros and cons of where your house is located in French. Enough activities for a whole lesson. Answers for translations included.

A worksheet with a selection of activities for practising talking about a past work experience or part time job. Activities include reading comprehension questions, gap-fill, broken sentences and jumble sentences. Answers included.

For students studying Julieta by Almodovar - 8 questions. You could get each student to choose 1 question to discuss in pairs and develop during a lesson after watching the film, or set it as a homework task to complete whilst watching the film. Students can develop some bullet point notes in Spanish in response. The idea is to get them to explore the questions in as much detail and depth as possible and to consider some of the main themes of the film that these questions elicit.

A good introductory task to the characters of Julieta, getting students to match description to name and add their own observations. Can then be followed by a more in-depth analysis eg. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/los-personajes-principales-de-julieta-almod-var-worksheet-12168483

Qué personaje es quiz on the characters of Julieta by Almodovar - can be done as a listening comprehension activity where you say the sentences, students listen and write the answer, or as reading / oral discussion in pairs. Follows on well from an activity that has introduced the main characters, or after watching the film eg. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/los-personajes-principales-de-julieta-almod-var-worksheet-12168483

A variety of different activities to practise vocab on the topic of pollution and other environmental problems. Activities include a mixture of quick vocab tasks, reading and listening. Enough for 1 lesson or possibly 2.

A variety of activities to introduce the perfect tense of regular -er verbs - a powerpoint for an inductive grammar discussion with students, an aural sentence puzzle, a text search.

A few activities for practising the perfect tense of verbs that take être. Includes: An introductory sheet for some inductive grammar. A quiz quiz trade activity for oral translation. A short activity that can be used as a plenary or a retrieval starter.

2 activities to practise the perfect tense within the context of school life - a gap-fill and a missing letters task.