Two writing mats to help students master opinions and reasons in Spanish. It includes:
Basic opinions and ways to spice them up + someone else’s opinions + opinions in different tenses.
Basic adjectives to give reasons in Spanish (all topics) + more complex reasons + comparative structures + idioms + reasons in different tenses.
One lesson to teach students to analyse the theme of obedience and disobedience in ‘El laberinto del fauno’. (13 slides)
Structure of the lesson:
Introductory discussion
Gapfill
Pair dictation activity analysing obedient and disobedient characters (speaking)
Model essay and mark scheme
Unidad 3: El impacto turístico en España.
A lesson to teach students about how tourism has evolved through the years in Spain. Good to use as an introduction for unit 3.
Save WEEKS of work with this resource!
A whole unit of work (11 lessons + assessment) to teach Unidad 1: Los cambios en la estructura familiar. I follow Edexcell exam board.
Readings have been adapted from Spanish newspaper articles so it includes plenty of authentic resources and updated (2023) facts.
Overview:
First lesson, expectations and ice breakers (adaptable)
L1 Tipos de familia. Introduction to different family models.
Skills: note taking (listening) and reading. Includes further reading articles.
L2 Tipos de familia 2 (new family models)
How to complete the fact file (la hoja de datos).
Skills: reading and grammar (stem changing verbs
L3 present subjunctive
Skills: Grammar
L4 Traditional family vs modern family
Skills: note taking (listening) and speaking (debate)
L5 Gay marriage
Skills; Note taking, reading and grammar (apocopation)
L6 The role of grandparents
Skills: note taking (listening) reading and grammar (reflexive verbs)
L7 The influence of the church, brief history
Skills: reading
L8 the influence of the church in family models
Skills: listening, reading, translation
L9 domestic violence
Skills: note taking (listening) reading and speaking
L10 Speaking questions preparation
3 lessons to guide students through the essay.
L1: Essay structure and planning
L2: Mark scheme and essay language
L3: Essay writing and peer marking
It includes some quick activities on key quotes and key grammar.
4 lessons on environment aimed at a mixed ability group based on Viva GCSE (actúa localmente, piensa globalmente)
ideal for remote learning (all slides contain a to do list with instructions for each task), listening tasks included (with link and code to the book) and quizzlet and flippity games to practice vocabulary
based on chapter 8 from viva, only focused on environment
grammar covers revision for all tenses + conditional lesson
One lesson based on Studio 3 (priorities) low ability group. French.
Lesson contains:
starter/vocabulary introduction
Beat the teacher game
Speed game
Listening activity
Writing about priorities in life
6 lessons to teach the movie Pan’s labyrinth. You can use each lesson after watching each scene. Plenty of activities based on each scene (reading comprehensions, translations, vocabulary, grammar, speaking). It includes booklets for each lesson.
An introductory lesson based only on act 1 designed to be used before and while students are reading the act, with main quotes, main vocabulary, reading comprehension activities, summaries and mini essay writing questions.
Aimed for students to work independently with the booklet but it can also be used to teach a lesson. All answers are provided on the power point.
Start the year right by using lots of target language in your first lesson! Easily adaptable -rules and expectations, introduction, book sorting + icebreaker plus some ideas to establish a good rapport with your class from day 1, all in Spanish. Aimed at GCSE classes. It includes differenciation for bottom and top sets.
6 lessons based on Viva (foundation and higher) but not necessarily following the book. The lessons contain a lot of cultural knowledge on the topic of food in Spain and GCSE speaking tasks to practise it, as well as authentic resources and two games to practise speaking and tenses. Your students will love it!
Lesson 1 - eating habits in Spain
Very scaffolded reading comprehension (authentic resource)
Lesson 2 - main meals
listening task using a youtube video
speaking -English or Spanish tradition?
photo task
Lesson 4
Foods
Tense revision
Tense wheel -game
Writing using 6 tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, near future, simple future, present perfect)
Lesson 5
Food, vocabulary consolidation from Viva
Listening
REading
Role play GCSE
Lesson 6
Typical Spanish foods and ingredients
Reading comprehension (authentic resource)
Pinball speaking game
Intro lesson to topic 3, El impacto turístico en España.
Context
(listening activity /summary)
Time line: students sort out cards to complete a time line with key dates and events in the history of turism in Spain.
Brief speaking activity
Two revision lessons covering topic 2 (el mundo laboral)
L1 quick revision of the topic
Skills practice (reading, listening and translation)
Vocabulary
L2 vocabulary, revision
Speaking focus, variety of activities and games, leading to a debate on different points based on card task. (edexcell)
Ideally, students will go through the vocabulary ahead of the lesson as part of their revision homework.
For another revision lesson, check out this escape room on topic 2
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12481392