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
Lots of people from varying nationalities with varying levels of education and experience. They all have a reason for emigrating, some due to war and some due to retirement. Extra information is provided for each person to get students thinking (hopefully)
I asked my class to deny entry to four of them and explain why.
A nice way to start the lesson and get the class focused.
First activity is a simple 'spot the odd one out' followed by the same slides copied but with the answers, including pictures.
Second activity is a 'what's behind the box' activity.
Trying to develop subject knowledge on an unfamiliar topic I have combined information gleaned from a research paper titled Las aportaciones positivas de la inmigración : miradas desde Andalucía and the widely referenced 1955 study* by UNESCO. The result is this resource containing 35 verbs with a matching up task of important verbs and the pirate game.
The Andalusian report containts many accounts from immigrants in Spain which I will use as readings.
We did a diamond 9 rank activity which I’ll follow up with a speaking and maybe some kind of classification of the benefits into categories (economic, societal, local etc)
Will possibly follow up with a reading on public opinion and response writing: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/opini-n-p-blica-sobre-la-inmigraci-n-12582405
This took a while, I’ve compiled lots of interviews into one big interview. I have edited only one or two things so they flow better. This is a pre-La Casa activity so students can get to know the man who went on to be murdered by the Nationalist regime.
There’s a focus on La Barraca, russian cinema and propaganda and it’s probably worth discussing after why the nationalist regime would have found Lorca’s love for russian cinema for the masses an issue.
This took surprisingly long to make. A combination of Illustrator and Indesign. I really hope it works.
I’m planning to teach compass points on the whiteboard and follow up with this resource. Students will have to read the statements and write the correct cities under the correct dots. Some cities have already been given to act as reference points and these are marked with a pin symbol.
The idea for the personality test came about after I saw a similar resource on Twitter. I want my GCSE students to go beyond the obvious when describing themselves.
I’ve uploaded a reading as well which came first in this mini-series. We then became very bad recruitment consultants and matched 20 candidates to the jobs from the reading. I haven’t exploited the 24 candidates to the fullest yet, there’ s a lot to unpack there.