GCSE Spanish Revision Aztec Adventure

A series of 11 tasks based around the planning of a trip to Mexico to explore a spooky Aztec temple where a Mexican researcher recently went missing. Each task focuses on a different topic and students must work together to escape the temple in time!

Pack includes:

* Lesson plan/running order

* Eleven activities, each focusing on a different topic:

* Some images for use as posters/promotional materials

Topics covered:

* Directions and places in the town
* Food and drink
* Shopping
* Personal information and family
* Hobbies
* Daily routine
* School
* Health
* Holidays
* Jobs
* The environment

This activity was originally designed to be used as a fun way of revising some key GCSE
vocabulary during an Easter School revision session. It can last up to a few hours. Can be used as
an after school session or over the course of a week during lesson time.

We were lucky enough to have access to a library with a large basement beneath it and students
split into two groups and communicated using walkie-talkies provided by the school. This added to
the drama — we had a drama student teacher dressed up as a monster and the students in the
basement used torches to navigate from task to task, trying to complete activities within a given
time or risk one member of the team being ‘caught’ by the monster and given a short time out.

It can be easily adapted to work within a classroom, with the ‘research’ group sitting around a table with
dictionaries, ready to assist the group completing the tasks.