A tricky subject for teenagers to talk about, this translation gives them the chance to “find” some ideas that they can adapt for themselves.

Introduction and exercises on using imperatives.

A translation task / jigsaw for students to put together. Students should then highlight in different colours each of the tenses used within the paragraphs and look up any unknown phrases. After this, they should write their own paragraphs using this structure: those who need extra support don’t need to change much whereas others will want to completely adapt their piece of work.

Students decide who the quote or statement is about and have to justify their response: this would be good as a during or post- reading task but certainly early on in the study of the text.

A quick summary resource for year 13 to really go over the book before their exams. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

A quick guide for MFL students who might not know how to revise languages. With some examples given for each revision strategy and examples on how to implement strategies (these are all Spanish). Also gives an overview on how the memory works.

Quiz made for sixth form on Gabriel García Márquez’s book el coronel no tiene quien le escriba.

Looking at the cockerel as a symbol in el coronel no tiene quien le escriba

A quick revision task for characters and themes of el coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Year 11 advent calendar giving them a challenge per day in the run up to the Christmas holidays and prior to their mock exams afterwards.

In the lead up to the exams, we’re challenging our year 11 students to recall all topics and tenses covered so that they’re feeling confident to tackle their exams this summer!

Under the topic of jobs and future plans, this includes a sentence builder followed by tasks on finding errors in translation, word order and gap fill.

For year 12 to better their understanding of the protagonists within the book and ensure that they understand how to link and justify their points made. el coronel no tiene quien le escriba

el coronel no tiene quien le escriba Dice game making students think about and link characters and themes from within the book. They must talk for a set amount of time, in Spanish, on each connection they make and then make notes for revision.

A set of knockout challenges to get KS5 students thinking about the characters in our text: el coronel no tiene quien le escriba. Can be adapted for other texts, films, themes. Once the four challenges are complete, students must choose one to write an essay about.

Introduction and exercises on the pluperfect subjunctive. Works through formation and different circumstances and then goes on to an exercise for el coronel no tiene quien le escriba.

Listening task using some of Conti’s methods for Chapter 6 of the AQA spec. It’s quite a long task so I would break this up and really get into the transcript (which I’ve typed out). I’ve also included the answers to save you time. It’s a Latin American accent with lots of new vocab so something to really push students.

A writing strip for a quick progress check used with year 10. Vocab column is to prompt them along the right lines of things they could add but in English to make them think for themselves. Students then tick off a variation of Elena Diaz’s 20 keys before submitting. Uploaded by request :)

Introduction and exercises on the present perfect subjunctive.

Working through examples in order to answer a speaking/writing question. Students look at an example I’ve done, then complete one as a class before creating their own. Some will rely heavily on the examples, others will be able to see what’s required and create their own masterpiece.