A resources aimed at A level students of Spanish (Year 12 and Year 13).
Students learn about Christmas in Spain and different Spanish traditions. Students listen to a description of what happens in Spain during Christmas (teacher led/ read by the teacher) and then complete a quiz.
The resource also includes a board game based on the information shared with students during the lesson. Ideal for the last lesson of the term.
A series of lessons (4) and resources to use with Year 11 students before their writing paper (mixed ability). Great for last minute revision.
Key irregular verbs -drilling
Opinions and reasons
Time expressions / weather
Model answers
6 lessons to teach the festivals / birthday topic.
Cómo celebras tu cumple (present tense focus)
Cuál es tu fiesta favorita (focus on festivals)
cómo celebraste/ qué hiciste (past tense focus)
prefieres festivales en Inglaterra o Espana
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.
An A level taster lesson (60 minutes but can be delivered in less if you skip the speaking) for GCSE students covering the importance of flamenco in Spanish society nowadays and how Rosalia has had an impact on the Flamenco genre in today’s world.
Contents:
Warm up- Spanish stereotypes
Quiz on flamenco - qué sabes del flamenco
Speaking activity (mainly opinions)
Card sorting activity (positive/ negative views on flamenco)
Rosalia- a reading comprehension. The article has been adapted from different newspaper articles
Malamente- speaking task
Speaking card mock activity (plenary)
Q&A
One lesson to teach subjunctive to Year 11 Spanish (top set)
Includes:
a list of subjunctive triggers
how to form present subjunctive
activities to check understanding
a quick game/speaking activity (based on the topic of jobs but adaptable to any other topic)
a translation activity
A cultural lesson to teach about Carnaval in Spanish.
Lesson plan:
Spanish words to describe ‘carnaval’
Understanding the origins of carnival (in English)-comprehension activity
El carnaval -quick speaking ‘qué hay en el video’.
El carnaval de Tenerife -reading comprehension in Spanish.
Creative project
One lesson, as part of unit 6, where students will learn about different reasons that generate controversy in the celebration of different Spanish festivals.
The whole lesson has been scaffolded to complete a speaking card and covers reading, translation and speaking skills.
3 lessons to teach module 4, unit 4 of VIVA 1.
The lessons have been planned following EPI method and using sentence builders to teach the vocabulary from that section of the textbook.
skills covered: translation, speaking, listening, reading and writing
A lesson to teach KS3 students about Spanish celebrations during Easter.
Since it’s a cultural lesson, it has been planned to use a mixed between English and the target language.
Brief summary:
Differences between Spain and UK
Easter celebrations - a dictionary of key terms
The dance of the death- Verges (paralel translation)
Quiz/ competition
Speaking activity - share your opinion
Introductory lesson to Pan’s Labyrinth, focussed on Del Toro’s life, works and style. Includes a booklet for students.
Contents:
-Del Toro’s biography (reading comprehension)
-Del Toro’s most important films and what they have in common (time line of main movies and plots)
-Del Toro’s directing style (listening activity)
-Del Toro’s use of monters (listening activity)
Theme 2, unit 4: la música.
Two lessons to be used to introduce this music unit.
Content:
Context slides (listening/note taking)
Reading comprehension (los artistas españoles con más influencia)
Alejandro Sanz: un ejemplo de su influencia en la historia de la música española
Mini presentaciones (speaking)
La historia de la música; una breve panorámica
Speaking-pair dictation-gap filling
Hitster, music game
A whole module of lessons planned for a bottom set Spanish class (games + sentence builders).
Lesson content:
L1 what do you do in your free time
L2 Free time activities
L3 Where do you go on holidays
L4 holiday activities and weather
L5 future tense, where are you going to go
L6 future tense consolidation
L7 what did you do/ past tense
L8 how was the hotel
L9 problems during your holiday
Bundle to teach unit of work (unit 4, la música).
L1 introduction to pop music in Spain and mini analysis of an artist (Alejandro Sanz)
L2 historia de la música. Music through history.
L3 the importante of flamenco music.
L4 exam skills practice, importance of flamenco music part 2.
L5 positive impact of music (economic impact, festivals and social movement)
L6 negative impact of music, el reggeton
L7 negative impact of music, el reggeton part 2
L8 la importancia del baile
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.