A listening, reading and writing activity that can be used while discussing the topic of Franco’s dictatorship in Spain. It is based on Miguel Gila’s famous monologue “¿Es el enemigo?”, which can be easily found online, and on an article from El País about the day when the comedian survived his own execution during the Spanish Civil War. The activities include a listening gap-fill, a true, false or not mentioned reading activity and a short translation.

A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Immigration (part of the theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society of the new Spanish A Level). It provides students with facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). The information can also be used for translation practice and it can be very easily adapted into a variety of reading activities.

This resource contains 18 pages full of information (facts and statistics) covering all aspects of the themes covered in year 1 of the new Spanish A Level course. There are nine pages about Aspects of Hispanic society (three pages about Traditional and moden values, three oabout Cyberspace and three pages about Equal rights) and nine pages about Artistic culture in the Hispanic world (Modern day idols, Spanish regional identity and Cultural heritage). I wrote this resource to help students include enough cultural information to score well in AO4 in paper 3 (the speaking exam), but information included in the resource can be easily adapted to a variety of reading and translation activities.

This three-page file includes a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Today’s youth, tomorrow’s citizens (Jóvenes de hoy, ciudadanos de mañana) part of the theme Aspects of Political Life in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with wide range of facts and statistics about the topic, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). The information in the file can also be easily adapted to reading or translation activities.

This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme* Traditional and modern values* of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of Hispanic society. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (the influence of the catholic church, attitudes towards marriage and divorce and changes in the family). Each card contains a lot of factual information and three questions to discuss the sub theme. Finally, the six cards are followed by a list of twenty questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test. Cards for each sub-theme can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Additionally, a booklet containing all cards for all the different sub-themes at a very reduced price can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713

This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Equal Rights of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of Hispanic society. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (the rights of women in the work place, the rights of the LGBT community, sexism and feminism)). Each card contains a lot of factual information and three questions to discuss the sub theme. Finally, the six cards are followed by a list of twenty questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test. Cards for each sub-theme can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Additionally, a booklet containing all cards for all the different sub-themes at a very reduced price can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713

This resource contains two different versions of my grammar booklet. The content of both booklets is basically the same, but while the full version is 62 pages long, the reduced version is more printing-budget friendly, with 37pages. Both versions of the booklet contain a very comprehensive summary of the grammar required to succeed in the new GCSE course and numerous activities for the students. Each booklet is divided in three sections, one for each theme of the new GCSE, and withing each of those there are two parts, one dedicated to verbs and one dedicated to all the other lexical categories. Each entry of the booklet focuses on one aspect of grammar, with a brief explanation of how to use the structure that is being covered, the rules and exceptions that need to be taken into account, and a variety of examples. This is always followed by an “Ahora practica” section with activities for the students to complete. Whenever possible, the examples and activities match the theme that the specific structure has been included under (e.g., the majority of examples and activities used to study the present tense will be related to the topics from theme 1 - relationships, technology, leisure and festivals). A free sample of this resource (the section on ser and estar) can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-grammar-ser-and-estar-11939670 And the final pages of the booklet, with the verb tables: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-verb-tables-11940354 Finally, each version of the booklet can be found separately in the following links: Reduced version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-spanish-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939892 Full version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939611

This six-page file contains a very detailed explanation of how to use “gustar” in the present tense and a number of other back to front verbs, as well as plenty of activities for the students. It is part of another more comprehensive grammar resource that can be found on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-grammar-booklet-11715049

This resource contains a series of reading and writing activities to introduce the film “El laberinto del fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth): Activities before the film: a short introduction to the study of the film, a vocabulary list, and an activity to try to predict what the film will be about based on screenshots and on the opening shots. Quotations: as the students watch the film, they match a series of quotations taken from it to the character that says them. Questions: a long list of questions to reflect on important moments of the film. Review: a guided writing activity to help the students write a review of Pan’s Labyrinth, with help on how to structure the review and useful language. PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448 The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490 UPDATE: the resource now includes a presentation to support the activities

A series of activities to help students research (and write about) the use of colour in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth). It includes a lot of screen shots to illustrate the main points, a translation, an essay question, and opportunities for independent work (the influence of Dario Argento). PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448 The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490

A series of reading, writing and translation activities to explore the main themes of Pan’s Labyrinth: obedience, the treatment of masculinity and femininity, and the use of violence. The resource is 20 pages long and it includes short written questions, translation activities, gap-fills, true, false and not mentioned activities and several essay questions. PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448 The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490

This resource consists of a series of reading, writing and speaking activities about the vote in the Spanish Congress (in September 2018) that passed a bill to exhume Franco’s remains from El Valle de los Caídos . The main text is about the vote itself, about the construction of El Valle de los Caídos and what it represents, the reasons for moving Franco’s remains and what will happen to them in the future. The activities include exam-like questions, such as finding expressions that mean the same as the words given, changing sentences so that the information in them is correct, a 90-word summary, several questions to answer in Spanish and a paragraph to translate into English. The last three pages of the resource consist of a “fact file” providing information about Franco’s life and dictatorship, and two speaking cards (theme discussion cards) based on the information in the fact file. This reading activity is part of the sub-theme “Monarchies and dictatorships”, of the theme “Aspects of political life” of the AQA A Level course.

A series of reading, writing and translation activities to help Spanish A Level students explore the use of monsters in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth). The resource is divided into two sections (“Monstruos, humanos y religión” and “Los monstruos y el miedo a la diferencia”), and the activities include: Spanish to English translation Read a text and correct the mistakes Explain del Toro’s quote about monsters Answer questions in Spanish on a longer text Two English into Spanish translations A Level Essay The final pages of the resource include useful vocabulary to write an essay and a check list to help the students reflect on what they have written.

A 13 pages booklet to help higher ability GCSE students to work independently and and to include a wider variety of structures in their written work. There are two sections in the booklet: Section 1 focuses on tenses, and it includes a summary of how to conjugate the present tense, the preterite, the imperfect, the future simple and the conditional, as well as verb tables for AR, ER and IR verbs in those tenses, including tables for six irregular verbs (ser, tener, estar, ir, poder and haber). This is followed by a explanation on how to conjugate and use a further four tenses: the present perfect, the present continuous, the pluperfect and the conditional perfect. Section 2 focuses on other structures that will help the students include variety and complexity: - lo + adjectives - comparatives and superlatives - negatives - conditionals ('si' clauses) - the infinitive - the present subjunctive - object pronouns - other useful structures Finally, the booklet includes a "check list" or a guide of the kind of structures that the students would be expected to include in work that is graded 4-5, 6-7 or 8-9.

This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new French GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 2 (Local, national, international and global areas of interest), and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students. All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme). A booklet with 24 questions covering all three themes can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-90-word-questions-11822119

This resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Aspects of Hispanic Society in the new Spanish A Level course (Traditional and Modern Values, Cyberspace and Equal Rights). I wrote this resource to help my students revise for their upcoming speaking exam (Paper 3), specifically to ensure that they include enough information to score well in AO4 of the paper. The file also includes an overview of the course and of Paper 3.

A three-page file that includes a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Modern Day Idols, part of the theme Artistic Culture in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam).

This resource contains a lot of factual information about Hispanic society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society in the new Spanish A Level course (La inmigración, El racismo and La convivencia). I wrote this resource to help my students revise for their upcoming speaking exam (Paper 3), specifically to ensure that they include enough information to score well in AO4 of the paper. The file also includes a detailed overview of the course and of Paper 3.