An introduction to DOPs, their placement, common nouns and some structured practice.
This is a sample page from my GCSE grammar workbook. An improved edition 2 is coming in Summer.
A side quest of our Madrid trip was photographing street signs with accessible language ranging from easy to hard. The result is this resource!
This was inspired by a similar resource by @MrFrancisMFL who created a Bilbao version a few years ago!
Ideal for a pre or post-Madrid trip lesson for those trip attendees and those who didn’t make it.
After a big success last year I am sharing my GCSE Speaking Toolkit.
This Powerpoint contains an introduction to the WJEC Unit 1 speaking exam, working memory and six functional chunks along with usability conditions, worked examples, translations, valid alternatives and what the chunk seeks to achieve (references to the past, present, future, subjunctive, easy idioms etc).
I made this due to post-mock analysis revealing a lack of complex structures and now introduce it early in the GCSE.
This year I have added some AI suggestions which students may add to the original six.
This follows a lesson on an introduction to social issues and an explicit lesson on the present subjunctive with opinion triggers. The latter taken from my GCSE grammar workbook.
Match up and talk about the social issues, use the diamond 9 rank to get a discussion going. Talk through any which students are unaware of.
Categrosie them. Are they local, national or global issues.
Match up the solutions on page 2.
Explain hace falta plus infinitive as to suggest something needs to be done.
Move onto the present subjunctive, model and practise on MWBs.
Complete the pages from the GCSE grammar workbook on the opinions section of the present subjunctive.
A 101 for KS3 on the gender and number of nouns followed by basic adjectival agreement with adjectives ending with -o in the masculine singular. A quiz follows each introductory section.
This Spanish Grammar Workbook covers every grammar point from main exam board specifications and goes beyond as well! It is my attempt at distilling everything into one workbook which will last the entire GCSE course (potentially starting in as early as year 7/8 and lasting into year 12). The workbook is designed to be used both in the classroom and at home and assumes zero/little prior knowledge, I often use it for feedback and providing interventions. A print version is available on Amazon!
All answers included, please leave a review!
Nouns
Gender and number +45 most high-frequency nouns
Definite and indefinite articles
Abstract nouns with lo plus adjective
Adjectives
Agreement and position + top 42 adjectives
Comparative and superlative (regular and mayor, menor, mejor, peor)
Demonstrative (this, that, these, those and those over there)
Indefinite (cada, otro, todo, mismo, alguno)
Short form possessives
Long form possessives
Interrogative
Quantifiers (muy, bastante, demasiado, poco, mucho).
Verbs
Top 15 verbs
Active and passive voice ®
Regular and irregular forms of verbs
Present simple tense
Present continuous
Preterite tense
Imperfect
Imperfect continuous
Imperfect tense weather phrases with estar and hacer
Imperfect and preterite together
Future simple
Immediate future
Present perfect
Conditional
The “me gustaría” structure
Complex “if structures” with the imperfect subjunctive
Pluperfect
Gerunds
Imperative (affirmative & negative tú commands)
Present subjunctive with wishes, opinions, obligations and possibilities
Present subjunctive with cuando
Impersonal verbs: most common only
Negation
Tú and usted
Reflexive verbs
Imperfect subjunctive ®
Quisiera
Prepositions
A, en, con, de, sobre, sin, desde/hasta, entre, the personal a
Conjunctions
Most common including: y, pero, o, porque, como, cuando
Number, quantity and dates
Days of the week
Months of the year
Numbers 1-100
Basic ordinal numbers (primero, segundo, tercero, cuarto, quinto, sexto)
Most common quantities
Time
Giving the time with “es la/son las” + hour
Stating what time something is done with “a la/las” + hour
Asking for the time/what time it is
Use of desde hace with present tense
Use of* llevar* + duration + gerund
Hacía + length of time + que + imperfect tense
Adverbs
Formation of -mente adverbs
Bueno and bien
Regular comparative and superlative adverbs
Adverbs of time and place
Common adverbial phrases (of manner, time and place)
Pronouns
Subject pronouns
Direct and indirect object pronouns + placement
DOPS/IDOPS used together
Reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns (que, quien, lo que, cuyo, el que)
Disjunctive (conmigo, para mí)
Extras
Idiomatic expressions
Exclamations
Obligation structures
Infinitive structures
The speaking tool kit
Introducing and justifying opinions
Verbs w/prepositions
Irregular conditional tense
Sequencers
Made with ChatGPT just for fun, completely subjective.
Tally up the values of your answers and read your personalised description on the last page. Follow up task is to translate your paragraph.
A rather tricky task putting together a family tree based off of people’s explanations of how they are related to Nuria.
A vocab bank on page 2 will help.
Write the name of each family member in the box on the tree (or beside).
Colour code the box according to male/female.
Some boxes will not be filled.
A perfect task before moving onto creating your own family trees.
Note: Some family vocabuary has been left out of the box on page 2. Going over step-parents and siblings will be essential.
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.
A grid to revise some thematic content.
In column one students clarify what they know about the theme in English. In column two they write down any key vocabulary using vocabulary lists from Hodder/Kerboodle and in column three we write down a fact gleaned from a Boletín using the index to cherry pick editions.
A mini-series of regional identity themed scripts for a cast of four students who will along the way meet an array of helpful locals. The scripts are written at CEFR level B1.
Casa Botín (Gastronomy)
El Día de Ganso (Basque country/curious festivals)
Semana Santa en Sevilla (Religious festivals)
A small sequence of lessons introducing infinitive verbs related to free time and subjunctive opinion phrases.
Lesson one: PPT + PDF focusing on opinion phrases + infinitive verb structures with speaking and writing tasks.
Lesson two: Introduction of me gusta que sea + adjective structures with rule introduction and differentiated translations with a sentence builder. Ideal for MWBs.