This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new French GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment), and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students.
All questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme).
A booklet with 24 questions covering all three themes can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-90-word-questions-11822119
A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic Traditional and modern values, part of the theme Aspects of Hispanic culture of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with a lot facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). Additionally, the information included here can be easily adapted into a variety of reading and translation activities.
When Pedro Sánchez became Prime Minister of Spain in June 2018 he was the first since Spain’s return to democracy who didn’t swear in in front of a Bible and a cross. This resource, based on an article from El País about the occasion , contains a series of reading activities (translation, find words that mean the same, true, false or nor mentioned and summary) to explore the role of the church in modern Spain.
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: Volver.
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.
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 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* Traditional and modern values* of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of Hispanic society.
The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (the influence of the catholic church, attitudes towards marriage and divorce and changes in the family). 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 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 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: Como agua para chocolate.
Paper 2 booklet: Volver
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.
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 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.
A series of short vocabulary activities to revise a variety of GCSE topics. They can also be used individually as quick starter activities. Easily adaptable.
Two lessons to prepare Key Stage 3 students to write about their favourite sport. Based on Harry Potter's quidditch, it focuses on opinions, comparisons and tenses, with a translation that the students then use as a template to write their own paragraphs. It also includes a link to a video in French of a quidditch match for those students not acquainted with Harry Potter.
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.
Student support booklet for new AS paper 2 (translation and essay). It includes...
- Student-friendly summary of the new specification and the paper 2 requirements
- Sample question and mark schemes
- 6 additional essay questions
- Old specification essay questions to provide further practice
- Student check-list on how to write a good essay (with a content and a language section)
- Four pages of useful expressions to write a good essay
This is a game designed to revise for the Spanish GCSE. It is meant to play as a class and if is based on snakes and ladders. Students will choose a counter and roll the dice, and they will have to do different things depending on where they land:
If they land in a box where there is a phrase in English, they have to translate it into Spanish.
If they land on a question mark, the teacher will ask them a question in Spanish (a set of sample questions is also included).
If they land on an exclamation mark, the teacher will ask them to do an action (e.g. "Tócate la nariz"). Twenty-five sample actions are included.
If they land on the stairs, they go up or down to the other end, and if they land on the lift, do the same.
The winner will be the first counter on the finish line.
The template of the game can be easily adapted to revise specific topics.
Three resources to prepare students fully to talk about the topics of technology, TV and cinema, with activities designed to match the new GCSE requirements.