A comprehensive translation booklet with 30 different texts to translate, on 15 different aspects of GCSE topics with answers. These will help pupils to hone their translation skills and boost the quality of their writing. Please preview the quality with a free sample of one of the topics and two of the translations which is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-environment-el-medio-ambiente-translation-practice-revision-11860205 The chunks of text are exam style and include a range of tenses and complex phrases to stretch pupils. The 15 topics include: 1 El medio ambiente (The environment) 2 Internet (Internet) 3 El tiempo libre (Free time) 4 La vida sana (Healthy living) 5 Las tareas domésticas (Household chores) 6 Mis planes para el futuro (Future plans) 7 El insti (School) 8 La tele (TV) 9 Las redes sociales (Social media) 10 Mi casa (My house) 11 Mi familia (My family) 12 Un año sabático (A gap year) 13 Las normas en mi colegio (School rules) 14 Mis estudios (My studies) 15 De niño (As a child)

Three separate worksheets on the topic of ‘talking about my school day’. The resources recycle key language and expressions for describing the school day and telling the time with -ER verbs conjugation practice, vocabulary searches, reading comprehensions and translation practice. Answers included.

A resource to help pupils to practise and master the regular past (preterite) tense in the topic of healthy living. There are translation exercises, a gap-fill task, a review of the regular conjugation patterns with practice and a translation puzzle. (Answers included)

A double-sided standalone worksheet which introduces key holiday activities and opinion phrases to help pupils to say what they like/ do not doing during the holiday. It includes vocabulary match up, translation exercises, gap fill and reading comprehension tasks and a sentence builder. Format: Word and PDF with answers.

A standalone resource to support KS3 pupils to talk about their family relations using ‘me llevo bien/mal con…/’ . The resource requires some familiarity with family members vocabulary and some basic adjectives. It is pitched at KS3 with vocabulary, reading and translation activities and a sentence builder. Format: Word document and PDF with answers.

A standalone lesson on the topic of “primary school” using the imperfect tense. Some knowledge of the imperfect tense is required prior to this lesson. The starter is matching up key imperfect verbs from the board to their English equivalents on the handout. Pupils could then use there verbs to write sentences about their primary school. There is then a selection of different and interesting adjectives that pupils can use to talk about their schools. There is a reading comprehension & a gap-fill. The final activity is translation into Spanish using the imperfect tense and recycling all the vocabulary from this lesson. The resources are a model for pupils to then produce their own written/oral answer to: ¿Cómo era tu escuela primaria?

Two stand alone whole lesson resources on Las reglas en mi colegio to help pupils to write, talk and read about school rules.It includes key vocabulary, expressions of obligation, translation, reading and opinions on rules. Answers included.

This is a standalone resource for whole lesson on holidays for GCSE. The worksheet focuses on honing reading skills and technique, recycling key vocabulary and translation on this topic. Knowledge of holidays in the present and past tense required. Activities: Decode the questions on which the reading comprehension will be based; Read three short texts about holiday preferences & where the speaker went last year; Revisit the questions decoded in (1) and decide ‘who says what?’, highlighting the evidence in the text as pupils decide; A ‘vocabulary search’ of English words/phrases from the texts; Decoding French sentences which recycle the vocabulary above (translation into English); Translation into French - a reformulation task revisiting all the structures and vocabulary which have been seen in this resource. Answers included.

A standalone resource on immigration in Spain and its impact on the population in recent years. It includes an A Level text with reading exercises (vocabulary hunt, synonyms hunt, true/false task & comprehension questions), translation activities and a vocabulary recap. With answers.

A resource to use a lesson on the Express Divorce Law in Spain. There is an A Level difficulty text with comprehension and vocabulary activities, with cultural information and translation tasks into Spanish and English.

Two standalone resources to support pupils to describe their home. The worksheet introduces and recycles key vocabulary with translation practice and a sentence builder. There is also a reading comprehension (multiple choice) on this topic.

A resource on ‘los eventos deportivos y musicales’ with key vocabulary, translation and reading tasks and a writing question with a model answer to translate. This will support pupils to write and talk about attending sports and music events using a range of tenses and complex structures. Format: Word document & PDF with answers.

A 3-page resource to support pupils to read, write and talk about what they will do in their town in the future. The resource introduces the ‘pure’ future (‘iré’) in the context of ‘town’ and ‘city’ activities. There are vocabulary, reading, verbs and translation activities (into Spanish & English). There is a preview of each of the pages. Format: PDF & Word Document with answers.

A resource for pupils to use when undertaking a writing task or for when they are preparing their speaking answers. There a range of complex structures: opinions, connectives, positive and negative viewpoints, constructions which work with infinitives in the present and past tenses and some set phrases and adverbs. There is also a list of 32 key infinitives to use. This will scaffold pupils well and allow them to widen their range of language easily. There are also 40 sentences to translate to practise these constructions, with suggested answers.

Resources to help pupils to describe their school using a range of vocabulary, expressions and opinions. It includes reading tasks, vocabulary tasks, translation exercises and writing tasks. It also introduce opinion phrases including ‘lo que más me gusta / lo que menos me gusta’. There are two handouts and a PowerPoint. Answers included.

Three speaking board games for preparing for GCSE/IGCSE speaking exams. One has 34 speaking questions and is of medium challenge, the second has 40 questions and has more challenging questions (targeting grades 7,8.9). The third has 60 + questions in range of tenses and are more challenging to push grade 8/9 pupils. Pupils roll a dice and move around the board answering as they land on the questions. If they can give two sentences in response to the question to their partner, they can stay on the square they have moved to.

A longer GCSE writing question about school and future plans. There is a clear rubric and also a list of key complex structures to try to include, which are differentiated by level (bronze, silver, gold). Pupils can be given this question and encouraged to include as many as possible in their work to enhance quality of language. There is also a model answer using some of the structures (150 words) with a ‘structures search’ which pupils could look at before writing their own response.

A standalone to study the topic of holidays in the future tense. The resource reviews the future tense formation (regular + aller/ avoir/ être/ faire) and then there are exercise to practise this in the topic of holidays including: verb match up, verb translation, searching for future tense verbs, a reading comprehension, vocabulary hunt and plenary translation - recycling vocabulary from the worksheet. Answers included.