GCSE Spanish Food Sentence Builders

Two GCSE Spanish sentence builders focusing on food likes, dislikes and reasons, and talking about food in three tenses.

This resource is designed to be used in conjunction with the Lifeline Languages GCSE Food Narrow Reading, Translation Worksheets, and Listening & Dictation Worksheets. However, it can be used very effectively on its own or printed two-sided as a Knowledge Organiser. It can support your own material or be used as homework or cover work. We have provided answers for our Translation, Narrow Reading and Listening & Dictation sheets for ease when setting cover.

The first slide, the Food Likes, Dislikes and Reasons Sentence Builder, is designed for Foundation students or as a basic introduction to the Food topic. It may also be suitable for Key Stage Three, depending on when you introduce the topic in your curriculum. The second slide, the Food and Tenses Sentence Builder is designed for Higher GCSE students. It may also be suitable for the top end of Foundation to support them in referring to three time-frames.

Activity Ideas (inspired by Conti’s EPI method):

Teacher starts by focusing on specific columns, practising pronunciation and demonstrating how the sentences build up
Teacher reads sentences, student copies or translates
Teacher reads a sentence out twice with a change of word/pronunciation the second time, students identify the change
Teacher makes silly sentences and asks students to identify why they don’t make sense
Teacher reads a sentence then counts down from 10 before class can repeat it back (delayed dictation)
Students create sentences to be repeated back or translated by the class/partner
Students write sentences in Spanish/English then test themselves by hiding the sentence builders, translating back into Spanish/English then marking their own