MFL teacher (Spanish, French, German and English as FL), examiner (for GCSE AQA and Edexcel) and author of successful study guides for ZigZag Education, such as the Getting to Know: El laberinto del fauno study guide or the one on Ocho Apellidos Vascos. https://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/7800-getting-to-know-el-laberinto-del-fauno?pod=7800 https://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/7454-getting-to-know-ocho-apellidos-vascos?pod=7454
MFL teacher (Spanish, French, German and English as FL), examiner (for GCSE AQA and Edexcel) and author of successful study guides for ZigZag Education, such as the Getting to Know: El laberinto del fauno study guide or the one on Ocho Apellidos Vascos. https://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/7800-getting-to-know-el-laberinto-del-fauno?pod=7800 https://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/7454-getting-to-know-ocho-apellidos-vascos?pod=7454
¿Qué pasa blog? is a practical study guide for AQA GCSE Spanish Higher Tier lessons. This is a sample, the actual resource with the remaining 20 worksheets can be accessed via this link https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12732625 . This resource contains an entertaining story linked to 22 worksheets with activities, such as “Sentence Builders” and AQA exam-like exercises.
“¿Qué pasa, blog? Soy rapero y YouTubero”, is a comprehensive practical study guide for AQA GCSE Spanish that will help your students to succeed in their exams. It uses humour and a fresh engaging story, written in the first person from the point of view of a 15 year old boy called Alex. Alex lives in England but he is bilingual in English and in Spanish. He spends every summer at his grandparent´s in San Sebastian, Northern Spain. There, he learns about Spanish culture, food and festivals, before coming back to school in England.
This practical study guide has been written to facilitate practice and learning of the AQA Spanish GCSE syllabus. The resource is divided into 22 blogs with follow-up exam practice questions, plus there is a final worksheet on characterisation, which links to the A level syllabus. There are sound recordings on YouTube of all 22 blogs, so that students can listen to the blogs while reading.
Each blog includes at least one GCSE Spanish topic and overall the resource covers all the main GCSE AQA topics. To help students learn vocabulary relevant to the GCSE topics, the blogs include words from the AQA vocabulary list.
In addition, each blog has one or more grammar teaching points. A table with a list of both the GCSE topics and the grammar points used in this booklet can be found on pages 6 and 7. Each blog has around 150 words. The resource can be used in different ways: to complement your teaching, as a revision booklet, for independent study, to set homework or for cover lessons.
This resource can be differentiated. For lower level students, we suggest that you use the texts as reading exercises, whilst higher level students, can listen to the blog first and attempt to answer the questions before reading the text. All students will benefit from listening to the sound recordings which accompany the resource.
This resource is a story written specifically for A level Spanish students that brings to life some of the main topics of the main awarding bodies: such as historic heritage, national identity, cyberspace, immigration, art and architecture, unemployment, literature and characterisation. The resource has 7 chapters and an introduction, and each chapter comes with a glossary and comprehension questions and questions about the evolution of the characters throughout the story. The resource aims to give A level Spanish students plenty of opportunity to gain confidence to succeed on their A level exams by using appropriate vocabulary, language and content.
The resource tells the story of a young person who was born and lives in England. Through his father, he learns to have a strong connection with the Basque Country and its mountains, as well as with his ancestors and with his historic heritage. Although at the beginning of the story, the only connection he might have is with technology, as he was hooked on video games, at the end he will learn to connect to his ancestors.
This an 8 chapter real life story about the experiences of my parents during the Spanish Civil War. Each chapter has a small glossary with some of the most difficult words and there are comprehension, grammar and translation questions at the end of every chapter. The resource deals with some of the main A level Spanish topics, such as the Spanish civil war, the Franco dictatorship or national identity.
This is a pantomime in Spanish for year 8, 9s, GCSE and A level students, in which sense of humour is used for students to practise talking about cultural aspects associated with Christmas in Spain and also the past tense using the preterite. The pantomime makes reference to events that happened in the year 2021 both in the UK and in Spain in a lighthearted way. The pantomime comes with interactive vocabulary exercises in Wordwall and also some comprehension questions and the answers too. Have fun and learn along the way!
Revision quiz about El Laberinto del fauno, based on the study guide from ZigZag Education. Quiz de repaso de la película “El Laberinto del Fauno” con preguntas basadas en la guía de estudio de Zigzag education Getting to Know: El Laberinto del Fauno https://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/7800-getting-to-know-el-laberinto-del-fauno?pod=7800 con preguntas sobre el contexto histórico, personajes, técnicas cinematográficas, citas y el éxito de la película.
This is a Christmas pantomime in Spanish for year 9, GCSE and A level Spanish students summarising what happened in this terrible 2020 using sense of humour. The resource also has comprehension questions, a Christmas Carols and lots of opportunities to have fun and learn new vocabulary and Spanish expressions along the way. ¡¡Feliz Navidad!! ¡¡Feliz Nacimiento en el Confinamiento!!
this is a fun test for GCSE-A level Spanish students that wish to research on a Spanish region, in this case the Basque region in the North of Spain. Students can research what the right answers are to the 10 questions. At the bottom of the resource you can fin the answers to the test, which can be delete before giving the test to the students. Depending on how many answers they get right they will be different Basque characters. For example if they get7 or more they are the "Lehendakari" or Basque prime minister, if they get more than 5 they are a vicelehendakari, if they get more than 3 they are are an "iratxo" or Basque pixi and if they get less than 3 they are Tarttalo, an one eyed monsterlike creature. What are your students? lehendakaris, vicelehendakari, iratxos o Tarttalos? Find it out! This test is part of a textbook for A2 that can be viewed on http://zigzageducation.co.uk/synopses/5713-getting-to-know-pais-vasco.asp , Happy teaching!
drama sobre el sufrimiento de los indigenas despues del llamado "descubrimiento" de america. un tema controvertido pero historicamente cierto. el drama es una especie de "Romeo y Julieta"
This is a pantomime created for A level students using the subjunctive: students have a matching exercise to start with and then the actual panto: they have to choose between two possibilities regarding the subjunctive, which are in bold. At the end students have to answer some basic comprehension questions about the reading 'Nacimiento Moderno del Nino Jesus&'