This is a reduced, simplified and printing-budget friendly of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939611
The content of the booklets is very similar and they both provide a very detailed overview of the grammar needed for the new GCSE course, divided into three parts (Theme 1, Theme 2 and Theme 3). Each part has two sections, one devoted to verbs and the other one to other lexical categories. Both books contain a lot of examples and activities for the students.
This version of the booklet takes into account that printing budget can be tight, so I have re formated the original, 62-page booklet, and taken out a few examples, so it is now 37 pages (the last three being verb tables that can be printed separately), but it still contains detailed explanations of a variety of grammatical structures, a lot of examples and a lot of activities.
Content:
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
N.B. - Please ignore the Word preview of the resource - it does not look like that! To get a good idea of what the resource actually looks like, have a look at the PDF version or the screen captures (for some reason previews of word files alter the format of the resource, but this is only the preview).
A very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (suitable mainly to higher students) to translate from Spanish into English.
The full resource is 41 pages long (including title and content pages) and it covers all three themes of the new Spanish GCSE course.
Each theme and each topic is covered in detail with a series of sentences of different level of difficulty. Additionally, at the end of each theme there are six paragraphs, aimed specifically at higher students, that cover the whole theme.
The translations include references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), as well as a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
While I believe that this resource can be used with students of all abilities, it is aimed mainly at higher students. A foundation version of the same resource can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-foundation-11958634
A very comprehensive set of sentences to translate from Spanish into English.
The full resource is 29 pages long (including title and content pages) and it covers all three themes of the new Spanish GCSE course.
Each theme and each topic is covered in detail with a series of sentences of different level of difficulty, and they provide a good coverage of all aspects of GCSE grammar, with references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), and a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
While I believe that the resource can be used with students of all abilities, it is aimed mainly at foundation students. A higher version of the same booklet can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-11958629
This is a resource to practise the use of the preterite tense to talk about holidays activities. It is ideal for the first lesson after the summer break for GCSE students.
There are eight activities:
verbs revision: find how to say in Spanish twelve verbs in the first person singular of the preterite tense.
during the holidays: students read a series of sentences (all in the preterite and using the verbs from activity one) and decide how often they did them during the holidays.
opinions: decide whether the opinions are positive, negative or neutral.
write five sentences using the language from activities 1, 2 and 3.
verb practice: change the verbs in activity one into the second person singular.
questions: using the vebs in activity 5, write five questions for a partner about their holiday activities.
speaking: interview a partner to find how often the partner did those activities during the holidays.
extension: write five sentences about the partner’s holidays activities.
Finally, the last page of the resource includes a reminder of how to conjugate the preterite tense.
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 consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Cyberspace of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of Hispanic society.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (social networks, mobile technology, the influence of the internet). 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 Cultural heritage of the New Spanish A Level theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (Historical sites and pre-Hispanic cultures, art and architecture, musical heritage). 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 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 double-sided mat provides the students of all abilities with a lot of useful language to support them when writing about Free time activities.
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 examples of comparatives and superlatives, idiomatic expressions, conditional sentences (“si fuera…”), the present perfect and negative sentences.
This double-sided mat provides the students of all abilities with a lot of useful language to support them when writing about Customs and festivals.
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 examples of comparatives and superlatives, idiomatic expressions, conditional sentences (“si fuera…”), the present perfect and negative sentences.
This bundle contains five resources to help support GCSE students prepare for their writing exam:
three writing papers, at foundation and higher level, with feedback sheets to provide the students with quick, effective feedback.
90 word question booklet, with 24 questions that follow the format of the overlap foundation-higher question of the AQA writing exam (each question with four bullet points that require the use of different tenses and elicit opinions).
A student friendly overview of the GCSE course and the requirements of the writing exams.
This bundle contains three resources to help students prepare for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Como agua para chocolate.
Paper 2 booklet: El laberinto del fauno
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to help the students start discussing the texts, quotes taken from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
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 and writing activities to support students to explore the theme of obedience in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film El laberinto del fauno.
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 and writing activities to explore the historical background of Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrnth), focused specifically in the causes and course of the Spanish Civil War and the idea of “las dos Españas” and the representation of this concept in the film, a section about “los maquis” and a section about fascism.
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
These four mats provide the students of all abilities with a lot of useful language to support them when writing about Identity and culture. Each mat is double sided, and 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 in each mat 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) and a section on complex structures on the second page, with examples of comparatives and superlatives, idiomatic expressions, conditional sentences (“si fuera…”), the present perfect and negative sentences.
This bundle contains three resources to help students prepare for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Como agua para chocolate.
Paper 2 booklet: La casa de Bernarda Alba.
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to help the students start discussing the texts, quotes taken from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
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.
This resource contains four reading and speaking activities to introduce key vocabulary and concepts about the topic sexism and feminism (El machismo y el feminismo) within the Equal rights sub theme of the AQA A Level specification.
The first activity has 16 statements and the students are expected to decide to what extend they agree with them.
The second activity contains 20 examples of sexist behaviour for the students to decide whether they have witnessed or engaged in that kind of behaviour themselves, followed by a speaking activity to defend/criticise those behaviours.
The third activity is a discussion card based on a cartoon, and the final activity is a quiz/questionnaire for students to reflect on how sexist (or not) they are.
This bundle contains 6 booklets to support Spanish A Level students prepare for their writing exam.
Each booklet focuses on one of the books or films on AQA’s list (El laberinto del fauno, Volver, Ocho apellidos vascos, La casa de Bernarda Alba, Réquiem por un campesino español and Como agua para chocolate), and they all follow the same format:
Introduction, with an overview of the specification, and the exam requirements and mark schemes.
A list of introductory questions to get the students to start thinking of the film/book
A list of quotes from the film/book to discuss
A very long list of essay questions that can be used as classwork, homework or independent work.
A list of helpful expressions to write an essay.
A checklist to encourage the students to reflect on what they have written.
Finally, this bundle includes a 108-page long grammar booklet, with a very comprehensive look at the key aspects of Spanish grammar, with a lot of examples and activities.