An eight page resource focused on themes in Volver, the carefully constructed soundtrak by Alberto Iglesias and shot selection for key parts of the film. Page 1: Identifying the main themes in the film Page 2: Authentic reading resource Page 3: Questions Page 4: Analysing the soundtrack and music of the film Page 5: Analysing camera shots for key sequences. Page 6: Essay writing skills and what/how/why Page 7: Student directed task hunting for additional shots/sound effects. Page 8: Example essay question and answers + practice question Thanks Josh S for proofreading!

A worksheet to use when teaching adjectives with personal descriptions.

I’ll most likely update this in a few months time but for now I’m going with it.

A post-writing checklist specific to Volver and WJEC.

Task is for students to skim and scan the text looking for the grammatical items numbered above. Will then work on meaning with a MWB activity.

This took surprisingly long to make. A combination of Illustrator and Indesign. I really hope it works. I’m planning to teach compass points on the whiteboard and follow up with this resource. Students will have to read the statements and write the correct cities under the correct dots. Some cities have already been given to act as reference points and these are marked with a pin symbol.

I’m targetting some misconceptions and common mistakes with this lesson. We’ll be focusing on: 3rd person opinions Infinitive structures Use of connectives Using es bueno que sea Cuando sea mayor Ojala pudiera structures Generally navegating the GCSE writing mat to construct/extend sentences

Lots of people from varying nationalities with varying levels of education and experience. They all have a reason for emigrating, some due to war and some due to retirement. Extra information is provided for each person to get students thinking (hopefully) I asked my class to deny entry to four of them and explain why.

20 ways to be more eco-friendly, each with a present perfect sentence explaining what somebody has done to do their bit.

Does what it says on the tin.

Students can translate them, discuss who said them in which context and to whom. The colour coded set are coded by character, the other set are all one colour so no clues are given away. Last page are misc and unsorted.

I've print screened the slides and pasted them above the original content.

This is an editable PDF, write the student’s name and save.

Reading resource with varied opinion about immigration. Not included on page 2 but something I will be doing is rolling a 20-sided die and asking students to formulate a response/question to each person on MWBs. Each person has a number in the bottom corner. Use in conjunction with my resource on showing agreement or disagreement: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12578846

Vocab taken from https://mydailyspanish.com/spanish-agreeing-disagreeing/

I’m looking to add to this with a lesson on Spanish film titles.

The idea for the personality test came about after I saw a similar resource on Twitter. I want my GCSE students to go beyond the obvious when describing themselves. I’ve uploaded a reading as well which came first in this mini-series. We then became very bad recruitment consultants and matched 20 candidates to the jobs from the reading. I haven’t exploited the 24 candidates to the fullest yet, there’ s a lot to unpack there.

Vocabulary builder + battleships + diamond 9 + sentence builder icons are from flaticon.com

This follows a lesson on an introduction to social issues and an explicit lesson on the present subjunctive with opinion triggers. The latter taken from my GCSE grammar workbook.

Match up and talk about the social issues, use the diamond 9 rank to get a discussion going. Talk through any which students are unaware of. Categrosie them. Are they local, national or global issues. Match up the solutions on page 2. Explain hace falta plus infinitive as to suggest something needs to be done. Move onto the present subjunctive, model and practise on MWBs. Complete the pages from the GCSE grammar workbook on the opinions section of the present subjunctive.