This bundle contains three resources to support students preparing for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Réquiem por un campesino español.
Paper 2 booklet: Ocho apellidos vascos.
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to get the students to start discussing the texts, quotes taking from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
A 35 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme 4 (Aspects of political life), and it contains 18 discussion cards covering “Jóvenes de hoy, ciudadanos de mañana” (6 cards), “Los movimientos populares” (6 cards) and “Monarquías y dictaduras” (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of 20 questions to encourage the students to further explore the issues covered in the cards.
The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?”).
The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4).
The booklet also includes a student-friendly overview of the new specification, an explanation of the requirements of Paper 3, the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for both part one (discussion if a sub-theme) and part two (presentation and discussion of the individual research project) of the paper.
Finally, the booklet also contain three pages of useful language for the test.
This booklet contains 59 role plays to provide Spanish GCSE students with plenty of practice to prepare for their speaking exam.
They are on foundation and higher tier and they cover all three themes of the new course (AQA specification). Each role play includes the candidate’s role and the teacher’s role, and both the ‘tú’ and ‘usted’ forms are used.
The file also includes a student-friendly summary of the specification for the new speaking exam and the mark scheme for the role play.
I have also included files with the mark schemes (foundation and higher) for the speaking test to provide the students with instant, personalised feedback as they complete practice speaking papers.
A set of resources to prepare students for the new GCSE speaking exam (AQA specification), including:
Role play practice booklet, with 59 role plays (at both foundation and higher level) to prepare all three themes of the AQA specification ( Theme 1 Identity and culture, Theme 2 Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Theme 3 Current and future education and work).
Photo Cards booklet, with 90 photo cards, again on Higher and Foundation level and covering all three themes.
A General Conversation booklet, with a very extensive list of questions covering every aspect of the three themes.
An overview of the GCSE course mark schemes and feedback sheets for the speaking and writing exams.
This file consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme “Popular movements” of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of political life.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme: the power of trade unions, the effectiveness of strikes and demonstrations and examples of social protests. 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 questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test.
This 62-page long booklet contains a very comprehensive overview of the grammar required to succeed in the new GCSE course.
It is divided in three sections, one for each theme of the new GCSE, and within 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
THEME 1
Part 1 – Articles, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs and pronouns
Nouns
Articles
Contractions
Adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Por and para
Negatives
Questions
Possessive adjectives
Direct object pronouns
Part 2 – Verbs
Ser and estar
Conjugating verbs
The present tense
13a. Regular verbs
13b. Irregular verbs
13c. Reflexive verbs
13d. Gustar
The Preterite
The Imperfect
Opinions in different tenses
THEME 2
Part 1 – Adjectives and pronouns
Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Part 2 – Verbs
The Future Simple
The Conditional
The Preterite v. The Imperfect
The Present Subjunctive
Uses of the Subjunctive
The Imperative (Commands)
The Infinitive
THEME 3
Part 1 – Adverbs and prepositions
26. Personal a
27. Quantifiers
Part 2 – Verbs
28. Present continuous
29. Present Perfect
30. If clauses
31. The Subjunctive – Further practice
32. Verb tables
This double-sided mat provides the students of all abilities with a lot of useful language to support them when writing about themselves, their family and friends and their relationships.
Page one contains a lot of vocabulary (nouns, adjectives, conjunctions, time phrases and intensifiers) as well as a series of scaffolding structures (“sentence starters”). The second page contains twelve key verbs conjugated in the first person singular (yo) in six different tenses (the preterite, the imperfect, the present, the future, the conditional and the present subjunctive). Finally, there is also a section on complex structures on the second page, with plenty of examples of comparatives and superlatives, conditional sentences (“si fuera…”) and negative sentences.
(Note - please ignore the preview of the Word file, there is an ongoing issue with Word previews in TES; the file looks like the PDF shows)
This resource is a quick reminder of how to use the preterite and the imperfect in Spanish, with an explanation of how each tense works, verb tables to conjugate regular and irregular verbs, time phrases that typically require the use of each tense, a lot of examples and activities for the students to practise.
This resource is part of a much bigger resource, my GCSE grammar booklet, that can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11984926
This bundle contains 72 speaking cards based on Theme 1, Theme 2, Theme 3 and Theme 4 of the new Spanish A Level course (Aspects of Hispanic society, Artistic culture in the Hispanic world, Multiculturalism in the Hispanic World and Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world).
The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?” or similar).
The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4).
There are eighteen cards for each theme (six cards for each sub theme), and each section is followed by a minimum of 20 questions to encourage the students to explore and discuss the topic further.
The cards can be found as a single resource (a 100 page booklet which also includes an overview of the A Level course and the assessment criteria for Paper 3) on this link:
This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Spanish regional identity of the New Spanish A Level theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (regional traditions, regional cuisine, regional languages). 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 13-page file contains a lot of information on how to use the Present Subjunctive. It is aimed at A Level students, but it can be used with high ability GCSE student too.
It starts with an explanation of what the subjunctive mood is, in contrast with the indicative. It then provides an explanation on how to conjugate it (including regular verbs, irregular verbs, radical-changing verbs and verbs with orthographic changes).
The file then gives an very detailed view of when the subjunctive is used, common expressions that require the subjunctive and finally a lot of practice for the students.
This file is part of a much more comprehensive file, the Grammar booklet that can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-grammar-booklet-1171504
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 reflect about the elements of the fairy tale in Pan’s Labyrinth. The resource first explores the structure of the fairy tale and how this is reflected on Pan’s Labyrinth, it is then followed by a reading and writing activity (90-word summary) about the most common elements in fairy tales (characters, setting…). The next section includes a series of questions about how all of the above is shown in the film. Finally there an AS-type essay question.
PLEASE NOTE: This resource is part of a much longer and much more exhaustive resource, my Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide, which can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
There is a free sample of the guide on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
Support booklet to help prepare students for the new Spanish AS speaking exam (Paper 3). It includes a summary of the specification and exam requirements, copies of the mark-scheme, sample stimulus cards and a variety of questions to prepare the six sub-themes of the AS paper 3. A second file includes a feedback sheet based on the paper 3 mark scheme for quick, personalised feedback.
A set of activities that I used with my Spanish year 7 groups to revise the topics of countries, local area, shapes and colours, geography and the weather, food and economy (as well as personal descriptions, clothes and a weather forecast). They completed the activities over several lessons, working in groups as a competition. They produced some outstanding displays.
Two lessons on the topic of technology, focusing on being able to express opinions about technology in different tenses and talking about what the students use technology for in different tenses.
The second lesson includes a series of GCSE exam-like activities, including photo cards, translation and 90 word question.
Finally, a writing mat has been added to this resource to support students of all abilities with their written work.
Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power Point.
A set of activities that I used with my French year 7 groups to revise the topics of countries, local area, shapes and colours, geography and the weather, food and economy (as well as personal descriptions, clothes and a weather forecast). They completed the activities over several lessons, working in groups as a competition. They produced some outstanding displays.
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A series of lessons to talk about food and drink in Spanish. It includes work on opinions, ER verbs in different tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, future and conditional), and exam-like activities (photo cards, translation), as well as reading activities based on authentic materials.
Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power Point.
A couple of lessons to prepare students to express an justify their opinions about TV programmes, using a variety of expressions (beyond the basic "me gusta"), adjectives and tenses. Supported by a template worksheet to express opinions in the present and in te past and a variety of activities.