SOS salud is short agony aunt letters related to diet with giving advice. \nEl tabaquismo- you might think this is more AS but sometimes able GCSE students are surprised by how much they understand particularly as this is a topic they know about and the language is taken and adapted from a newspaper article on the net so is full of cognates. The questions also clear up some of what they might not understand.

Not particularly original but I have quite a lot of fun reading out the story for the listening activity and being a Spanish 'Vicky Pollard'- also I find the card sort really gets them thinking about metalanguage and how verbs work- I find mind mapping a really good way to get them to figure out the rules instead of giving it to them- pre-populate a mind map with sub headings so they only have to fill in details and that works well. I also like getting them to work with infinitives and verb tables because they don't use them effectively if you don't actively show them how.

Los jovenes pasan demasiado tiempo frente a una pantalla- taken from several articles on net. Idea that it is not just a conventional reading resource but shows and trains them in how to tackle a higher reading.\nUsed in preparation for CA on weekend activities that is why there are some questions for adapting at the end

Los personajes is based on the idea of creating a soap opera like LOST but a spanish version,first developed in conjunction with Edexcel for GCSE Spanish Unit 4, I will add my GCSE version soon

F/H or higher reading tasks on smoking and alcohol\n\nNon verbal response

Taken from an article published by Reuters and edited. Higher reading task but with vocabulary for support and questions in English

Alternative to Semana Santa\n\nHistory of chocolate-reading comp-I do it as a team competition-so they all get first question and then dont get 2nd one until show me answer to first.\nExpressing opinions about chocolate with blind chocolate tasting if you are feeling generous\nJessie Y joy sing in Spanish-really easy to understand-all about love and chocolate-good you tube clip

As the topic of where you live can be a bit boring we get our students to do presentations on a Latin American capital city-great practice for orals and good cultural input. In fact it could become a CA if you wanted it to. In the build up we use some or all of these resources. When they are doing the presentations the rest of the class have to fill in a listening grid, can be devised by students.

Instead of approaching Daily routine as a lexical task which is what we often do with Year 7, this approach focuses more on verbs and daily routine is simply the context, so in the end what matters is that they can apply the rules not that they know 10+ phrases for describing routine. My Year 7 can now define a regular/irregular and reflexive verb. They know what an infinitive is and what to conjugate means. We then went on to look at the gap fill more closely so that they can add connectives and time phrases to a description of their daily routine as I am sure you all do. The difference now is that when they prepare for their speaking assessment at the end of this term they will hopefully, some at least add activities they do in the evenings that I haven't taught them.

This is the right version to look at. I shared the wrong ppt last time so it would not have made sense.\n\nIt was used to prepare students for a Controlled assessment on giving advice and health issues\n\nWorked really well and generated some lively discussion

This was created after a student in my Y11 class asked at what age you can drink in Spain. I am always looking for ways in to topics that give them a flavour of A Level and we were just about to start the health topic when it occured to me to link the idea of health issues and youth problems to legal age of consent and the fact that young people are in too much of a hurry to grow up.

I teach the whole of Y9 but only once a week so I have to get through a lot very quickly, and they have only started Spanish this year. This is then how I have approached familiarisation with the present tense using the model teenager and the teenager from hell.\nThe vocab inserts get stuck in their books for reference at the start of term.

I created a whole SOW around the idea that Y9 were making a low budget latin american version of LOST-see KS$ GCSE textbook for Edexcel for original idea.\nSo when we do sports we do water sports and introduce them via likes and dislikes before introducing more conventional sports

This goes with article about legal age of consent and problems facing young people.\nI think they will respond to the A level style theme. Much more fun than doing what is your daily diet and do you get enough exercise.

Not the most inspiring of topics. The grammar summary is aimed at my class in particular but you might find it useful and it is easy to adapt to a different context that might be more relevant. The quien manda is a reading but I need to re-add questions/tasks so will you. Cinderella brings together talking about relationships with imperfect and present tense and helping around the house.

A series of tasks I have put together for my Y10 Spanish group on topic of food and diet in order to make the start of Y11 less hectic because I never quite cover as much of curriculum as I would like to in Y10. It includes key vocabulary for listening and reading on food topic, some verb tense revision but actually key sentences for how to talk about diet, then a writing task. They will be doing CA on health in autumn.

Quite a challenging reading task for Y9, but do insist they don't mindlessly tick boxes but have to make a note of new language. I get them to use the language in order to then write a lengthy paragraph about cinema going habits and preferences. I have got them to ask and answer the questions in pairs as well.

Previously I just posted an explanation of the activity and how to use it. I have now added the instructions/prompt sheet I give to my students and a vocabulary task sheet on music which is based on Edexcel AS past papers

Knicked the idea from GCSE text book and then created a whole series of resources around a group of Spanish speaking characters marooned on an island. You can then do daily routine of the survivors, water sports rather than conventional sports/Who caused the plane to crash and why/ who is having an affair with who and so on-relationships. It lends itself to anything you like in the end. Suddenly boring topics become more fun and students have really run with the idea. will add more of my stuff on this soon

Can be used with able students in Y9, particularly the questionnaire vas al cine a menudo