A pre-exam worksheet to revise everything we’ve covered in class.

I’ll most likely update this in a few months time but for now I’m going with it.

This booklet is the culmination of a few years work collecting resources about Volver and Almodóvar, it has become almost an obsession. This booklet is free because whilst the majority of the work is mine, some is not. There are essay sections from Almodóvar himself and links to news articles and even a PHD. The work which is mine is an updated form of pre-existing worksheets uploaded to TES, some free and some paid for. I’ve decided to include previously paid-for resources for free to share my work more widely. I have lowered the price on all my paid-for Volver resource listings. Sections on melodrama, plot and La Movida are missing from this booklet but may appear in a future update. The Hodder guide is an excellent resources to use in conjunction with this. All the illustrations were done by myself and my wife, as well as the typography and design. Ollie

Choose a verb and change it according to 25 prompts. Edit: The grammar item is named in brackets.

A booklet with thematic pages full of IRP ideas as well as linked similar issues. Structured research pages, a vocabulary section and a 2-minute speech draft section. All editable PDFs.

Present, preterite and future tense endings with common irregulars in 1st person. Time phrases as well. On the flip side some opinion related vocabulary including idiomatic opinions and pre-set subjunctive phrases. Original idea from the brilliant @wyedeanmfl

From a structured match-up to free practice students will be able to use relative pronouns que and quien.

83 quotes from LCDBA with a theme or essay link on a flick PowerPoint. Each slide has a reveal button to press, before pressing it ask students who said each quotes, to whom, when and any potential links they can make to the main themes. (To stop PowerPoint slides flicking presss left arrow key)

Post-writing checklist for students.

Sentence builder based on the photocard for the GCSE speaking exam. There is vocabulary relating to showing conjecture, introductory sentences, present progressive verbs, connectives and locations.

Preview copy of https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pan-s-labyrinth-zero-prep-student-booklet-12294455

Hopefully after making this I will see less aburrido, importante, divertido and interesante. I am working on breadth of vocabulary with my year 11s at the moment and using synonyms and upgrading out adjective use is on the agenda next week. I plan for this 99 adjectives worksheet to form the backbone of the lesson. Update: This is now on version 2, I have now included some really advanced adjectives like fanfarrón, tacaño, hospilatorio, bruto etc

Infinitive structures can be a life saver for those students who find conjugations tricky. If you know an infinitive structure for the present, past and future then you can rest assured you are working in three tenses as a minimum. Check out a resource I uploaded years ago on infinitive structures: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12093780

I’m targetting some misconceptions and common mistakes with this lesson. We’ll be focusing on: 3rd person opinions Infinitive structures Use of connectives Using es bueno que sea Cuando sea mayor Ojala pudiera structures Generally navegating the GCSE writing mat to construct/extend sentences

Three quotes from a small booklet produced by the University of Granada in 1981 all about Lorca’s three tragedies. T = Translate E = Evidence from text to support the claim

A post-writing checklist specific to Volver and WJEC.

A compilation of interesting thoughts from Almodovar which are compiled from two interesting books I have read and will credit below. Pedro Almodovar: Interviews by University Press of Mississippi (Paperback, 2003) La poetica de Pedro Almodovar

This is a resource to check how well students have understood the plot and the characters in the book. I recommend that firstly students match up the infinitive structures which are already conjugated in the 3rd person, afterwards use different coloured highlighters to categorise the infinitive verbs by the character which they correspond with. This is an ideal task as a follow up to the character analysis two-page sheet, if a student for example says that Raimunda is fuerte you may ask them ‘how do we know?’ and they have to write a sentence explaining why they think Raimunda is fuerte giving examples from the text, this infinitive structure and verb sheet could form the basis of one of those exemplary points.

Varied opinions on uniform with a vocabulary bank on page 2 and a table to complete in English.

Hopefully this formats okay although I suspect the font (New Atten Round) is protected. If it looks awful then let me know and I’ll re-upload with print screens of each slide pasted over the slides themselves. I have been teaching es bueno que sea (where bueno can be substituted for any adjective) for a few years now and it has been successful so decided it was time to take it a small step further.