Super Spanish Resources' main focus is the creation of top-quality resources for use in the classroom. Ranging from KS3 to GCSE, materials are made by a fully-qualified Spanish teacher with 17 years' classroom experience in secondary schools.
I also produce resources which can be used by non-Spanish MFL teachers, such as schemes of work, certificates and early finisher tasks.
Super Spanish Resources' main focus is the creation of top-quality resources for use in the classroom. Ranging from KS3 to GCSE, materials are made by a fully-qualified Spanish teacher with 17 years' classroom experience in secondary schools.
I also produce resources which can be used by non-Spanish MFL teachers, such as schemes of work, certificates and early finisher tasks.
Spanish PowerPoint file featuring a fun and colourful vocabulary sheet and accompanying worksheet for the topic of saying what’s in your school. ¿Qué hay en tu insti?
Includes answers slide. Easy to display on board and to print.
Places in the school
Hay/tiene/no hay/no tiene
Adjectives to describe school building
Picture clues sentence writing task
Fill in the gaps tasks
Word search
Dual coded to aid with memorisation and to support SEN learners.
Colegio
Instituto
Escuela
Spanish school
Places in the school
Spanish school facilities
Instalaciones
Viva GCSE Year 1 Scheme of Work Available here.
Week-by-week planning for the entire second year of the Viva GCSE Higher textbook (AQA) by Pearson.
The template is filled in with dates for 2020-21 (can be easily edited), unit titles, links to GCSE topics, key vocabulary and grammar concepts.
It also includes some suggestions for assessed tasks (can be easily edited) and columns to embed resources and homework. Instructions on how to do this are included.
I’ve also embedded the AQA Specification for GCSE Spanish, a table outlining the topics within each of the three themes and information about the examinations.
Worksheets for Module 1 (Mi vida) of the Mira 2 Express textbook. Ideal for end-of-module revision.
Answer sheets included.
Free time
Opinions
Describing people:
Hair and eyes
Personality
Nationalities
Saying where you are going
Saying what you are going to do
Saying when you are going to do something
Saying when you get up and go to bed
Connectives
Page background is tan so you have the option to print in colour to quickly get copies for students with dyslexia or other learning needs who require a non-white background. Or just print in black and white to save ink for other students.
Pages are numbered for ease of reference.
Ideal to use in class for a revision session before assessments or as a homework task. Also perfect for cover lessons.
This is a Microsoft Word file and so is easily editable.
Section A - translate single words from Spanish to English
Section B - translate short phrases from Spanish to English
Section C - translate passage from Spanish to English
Section D - translate single words from English to Spanish
Section E - translate short phrases from English to Spanish
Section F - translate passage from English to Spanish
Section G - reading comprehension task
Section H - Answer five questions relevant to the topic
Spanish free time
Spanish nationalities
Spanish opinions
Mira 2
Mira Express 2 Module 1
Nacionalidades
Opiniones
¿Adónde vas?
Descripciones
¿Cómo eres?
Mio semana
Colourful, dual-coded knowledge organiser and accompanying worksheet on the topic of free time in Spanish.
PowerPoint file for displaying on the board and for printing. Answers slide included.
Ideal for introducing the topic in Key Stage 3. Fits in well with Viva 1 textbook.
Introduces infinitives and 1st first of present tense in easy to understand format.
Opinion phrases
Voy a
Frequency phrases
Connectives
Porque es…
Translation task
Writing task
Fill in the missing letters task
En mi tiempo libre
Pasatiempos
Spanish hobbies
Spanish free time
¿Cómo eres? - Describing Yourself in Spanish
A colourful knowledge organiser and accompanying worksheet with answers slide.
PowerPoint file.
Hair and eyes
Physical descriptions
Personality
Qualifiers
Activities:
Unjumble the sentences
Fill in the letters in the key words
Translate the sentences
Write about yourself and someone else
Describe the pictures
Dual coded with simple images and colours to aid memorisation and to support SEN learners.
This pack contains an extended Spanish text about a holiday in Florida, an English translation with the paragraphs in the wrong order to be cut up by the student and arranged into the correct order and an English translation in the correct order to put on the board for students to check their work.
Suitable for any KS3 or 4 class studying the topic of holidays.
Extension activities:
Ask students to highlight verbs, adjectives, nouns in different colours in the Spanish text.
Call out a word or phrase in the text and see who can call back the English meaning quickest.
Ask students to rewrite text or part of text changing some key facts to suit their own tastes/opinions.
A Spanish frienship poetry lesson intended to be delivered largely in the target language (although this is optional).
Designed to fit with how poetry is taught in KS3 English lessons, which is excellent to demonstrate cross-curricular planning for the new Ofsted framework.
Suitable for both KS3 and KS 4 students.
Resource pack contains:
* A PowerPoint introducing the concept of poetry and some relevant vocabulary, as well as exploring a poem.
* A gap-fill exercise using a poem by Borges along with a YouTube video.
* A word search based around the poetry vocabulary.
* Two matching activities based around the poetry vocabulary.
* An ActivInspire Flipboard file with an activity focusing on the use of comparisons as a poetic device.
* A document containing worksheets to print to support the PowerPoint presentation.
* A Teachers Notes file to help guide you and allow you to quickly print out the resources you’ll need.
This pack contains materials for teaching the Spanish version of The Tortoise and the Hare.
CONTENTS:
* ActivStudio presentation of key vocabulary from story.
* Parallel text of the story, divided into small chunks of language to help students easily identify the equivalent Spanish words/phrases.
Link to video of the story.
* Gap-fill activity based on the text.
* Storyboard activity based on the text.
I have taught this lesson to three year 7 classes and all have been enthusiastic and felt a sense of achievement at being able to access a complete story in the target language.
A lesson designed for KS3 students exploring the topic of food and drink with a focus on some traditional dishes from Spain, Peru and Mexico.
PACK CONTAINS:
* A PowerPoint file with a starter activity, introduction to the impersonal use of 'se' (se come), texts with associated reading and writing tasks and answers to the listening and reading worksheets. Includes screen shots of short authentic texts, one of which is used for a 'spot the cognates' activity.
* A listening task based on a video of people in Peru being interviewed about why they like their country's iconic Inca Kola. Focus on opinions and reasons for opinions.
* A reading comprehension task also on the topic of Inca Kola.
* Alphabetised vocabulary list to support less able students or those completely new to the topic of food and drink.
An authentic text on the topic of healthy living and how to sleep better with four accompanying activities.
Activity 1: Students match the advice given in the text to pictures.
Activity 2: Students find the Spanish version of five English phrases in the text.
Activity 3: Students translate seven verbs from the text into English.
Activity 4: Students translate five sentences of varying complexity and including a variety of tenses into English. Sentences use verbs from the text and are designed to bring in vocabulary from the topic of healthy living at large.
A higher level authentic text on the topic of how exercise can improve memory and brain function, which includes some English comprehension questions and a vocabulary matching activity.
An instructional infographic (one page) telling students how to use Vocab Express from Harper Collins for homework tasks.
Includes space for them to write their username, password and school code.
An authentic text on the topic of a Toy Story Land opening in 2018 as part of Disney Land. Comes with three activities. Ideal for topics of film, holidays/tourism and free time.
Activity 1: Students search for ten words/phrases that they already know from the text and write them with their English meanings.
Activity 2: Students write three sentences in the future tense about what you will be able to do at the park.
Activity 3: Students translate one of the paragraphs into English.
A set of gold, silver and bronze certificates for French and Spanish. All are editable (Microsoft Word file) and are written in the target language with grading terminology from the respective countries.
A version for a male and female teacher is included.
A template for students to complete a profile of a favourite (or imaginary!) singer in Spanish. Complete with useful vocabulary list down the side and space for a photo/picture. Can be filled in by hand or used for a lesson in the computer room.
Fits with Viva 2, module 2.2
Your students will never forget how to say “I am” in French or Spanish again with this simple, impactful poster featuring the popular character of Baby Groot from The Guardians of the
PABLO Y LA NAVE ESPACIAL
A Spanish short story about a boy who has a secret space ship which he uses to explore Spain, the world and… the moon!
Each paragraph is proceeded by a key vocab box and followed by a question for the teacher to ask the class.
There are three drawing tasks, a geography task, a sentence completion task and a story continuation task.
Ideal for any Key Stage 3 class.
Touches of vocabulary from the following topics and grammar points:
Countries and nationalities
Cultural awareness
Personality descriptions
Physical descriptions
Comparisons
Quantifiers
Time phrases
Infinitives
Includes a 6 page PDF document and a separate PDF document containing the entire unbroken story presented on a single page.
These Spanish Halloween worksheets include three activities:
Label the pictures (vocabulary provided in box)
Complete the sentences (using adjectives provided) – includes adjective agreement, plurals, opinions, connectives.
Crossword task
These worksheets are also available as part of my Spanish Halloween Bundle, which includes a PowerPoint presentation and links to five interactive board games.
You may also be interested in my Spanish Halloween short stroy (La figura oscura), complete with vocab notes and activities.
This PowerPoint presentation contains two versions of 15 pictures. One version is marked with a red square and is more suitable for higher level year 9 and GCSE students. The second version is marked with a green square and is more suitable for year 7 and 8 students.
Each photo has five question prompts to get students talking about the picture.
Ideal for the Spanish GCSE 9-1
You may also be interested in my AQA GCSE Spanish Top 500 Words resource.
Introducción al español (segunda parte)
The second workbook in the series.
NOW WITH ANSWERS POWERPOINT!
Using a methodical building block approach, this ten-chapter accelerated learning workbook teaches students how to quickly convert many English words into Spanish and how to use high-frequency verbs to actively begin forming complete sentences from the get go.
Suitable for any year group. Can run alongside and complement existing SoL. Can be set as homework.
Each chapter is the ideal length for a 50-60 minute lesson.
Course contents:
Mind map review of rules from Book 1
The preterite tense of AR verbs (singular forms)
Era
Food and drink vocabulary
Transport vocabulary
CE = CIA
CY = CIA
The personal ‘a’
Family members
Places in the town
EM = EMA
AM = AMA
Question words
Forming questions
Es/está
Clothes vocabulary
Colours
Infinitives
The immediate future tense
Time phrases
Summary of rules covered in Book 2
Glossary - English to Spanish
Glossary Spanish to English
Chapter Segments:
*RECAP: A short starter activity recapping the previous lesson.
*WHAT I’VE LEARNT THIS LESSON: a short plenary activity summing up what was learnt in the current lesson.
*HOW WELL I DID THIS LESSON: students note down their score for the exercises and quickly answer a couple of questions regarding their participation.
*NEXT LESSON I WILL…: students set a target for the following lesson.
*SPANISH SOUNDS: an introduction to some of the sounds which differ most from English.
*LANGUAGE DETECTIVE: dotted throughout the lessons, these sections ask students to spot patterns/clues in the language in order to gain promotion.
*NOTAS: each lesson has a space for students to make their own notes.
*INFO: a post-it note symbol indicates an explanation of a point of Spanish grammar or some other information needed at that point in the lesson.
*REWIND: a reminder of a key piece of information to aid students in completing an exercise.
*END MATERIAL: at the end of the booklet you will find a list of the key rules introduced during the lessons as well as a comprehensive English-Spanish glossary. There is also a MY TEACHER SAYS box at the end of the final chapter in which the teacher can grade effort, writing, reading and speaking and leave a comment. There is a space for the student to reply.
Keep an eye out for part 3, which will include the simple future tense, the preterite of ER and IR verbs in the singular and lots more!