This is a resource issued every 2 weeks. It contains extracts from the press with some recent news. A quick way to keep AS and A level students engaged in the current events in Spain and Latin America.
I usually include a simple vocabulary question and some questions open for discussion and debate. A good way to use it as a starter in lessons or as revision material to discuss different topics.
Memoria histórica/ Corrupción política
Roll the dice twice to find a question.
Questions are divided in different categories: translation, spot the mistake, vocabulary ( name at least x animals…), and answer the questions.
They can play in pairs or small groups.
This resource can also be used in conversation sessions.
Topics: family, classroom, school,house, family, descriptions, pets, basic vocabulary, present tense
A resource to speak about free time.
Different colours to create sentences using frequency expressions, present and near future in Spanish.
Ideal to revise free time activities and sports
You roll the dice twice, to find the question you need to answer
pdf with cards to cut and match them up.
Students will match up the meaning the French phrase with the English meaning.
Revision of key verbs to talk about hobbies using near future and past tense.
Worksheet with adjectives that can be used to describe different foods. Sentences to reinforce opinion verbs and justifications. The last activity could be use as speaking prompts to work in pairs or as a writing activity.
Power point to facilate simple speaking activities.
Noughts & Crosses game. It can be printed and laminated or play on the laptop
Topics
Animals+colours
School subjects
Free time activities
*Weather and activities
Presentation to do some revision on picture-based task discussions
Different topics (free time/ environment/ volunteering/ family)
It also includes photo descriptions with some errors to spot the mistakes. This can be used as a competition between teams to see who can spot the mistakes faster.
Worksheets to learn vocabulary about school subjects and school facilities
Includes vocab, a reading, a writing and a speaking activity to do in pairs.
School subjects, school facilities, days of the week, timetable
4 adapted articles from the press to act as stimulus for speaking activities.
The cards covered some recent news about immigration and celebrities in Spain and Latin America.
Immigration, idols, football
La Bestia o el tren de la muerte in Mexico
Maradona
Ilegal immigration crisis in the Canary islands
Mind map to revise key ideas about multiculturalism in Spain.
Convivencia de culturas.
Gitanos/ Religiones/ Sefardíes/ Convivencia en las escuelas/ Comunidades Autonómas
A support material to help your Spanish students remember some key phrases to use when describing a picture. ( It containts information about who is in the picture, where are those people , what are they doing, what are their feelings, what is the weather like , make some hypothesis…)
The pdf has been created to be printed on both sides and then laminate it.
Activities to use with Module 6 of Mira 1.
Cómo es tu ciudad (saying what your town is like ) Using masculine and feminine adjectives to describe a city or a town/ village
Battleship game “hundir la flota” to use the verb haber (hay) and say what there is or there isn´t in a city.
Places in town
Set of cards to speak about family, religion, gay marriage, franquismo…
All cards contain a list of questions, useful words, an image and a link to an article related to the topic and questions.
This resource can be used with Mira 2.
Ideal to revise food vocabulary.
Content:
page with all the vocab to be used as a poster
page with vocab to be complete it in Spanish. The first letter of each word is given and students have to complete the rest
page with a speaking activity to do in pairs. One student ask: ¿Qué desayunas? ¿Qué cenas?.. And the other one replies according to the information in his section
page with a writing activity.
Page with a translation activity focussed on times, and frequency advebs
Key facts about Spanish festivals
Useful resource for A-level students
Information about San Fermín, Carnaval, Day of the Dead, Semana Santa , Christmas, Las Fallas…
Ideal to use it as a mind map for teachers and students to go through some important points, statistics, etc
Speaking cards covering different topics to prepare your students before they take their A /AS level exams.
Ideal for year 12 and year 13 students.
Topics: immigration, racism, unemployment, culture, 15M,
Inmigración, racismo, desempleo, patrimonio cultural, movimientos sociales, lenguas en España…
All cards contain several questions and two quotes with opinions to introduce the debate and discussion