A mini-series of regional identity themed scripts for a cast of four students who will along the way meet an array of helpful locals. The scripts are written at CEFR level B1.
Casa Botín (Gastronomy)
El Día de Ganso (Basque country/curious festivals)
Semana Santa en Sevilla (Religious festivals)
A small sequence of lessons introducing infinitive verbs related to free time and subjunctive opinion phrases.
Lesson one: PPT + PDF focusing on opinion phrases + infinitive verb structures with speaking and writing tasks.
Lesson two: Introduction of me gusta que sea + adjective structures with rule introduction and differentiated translations with a sentence builder. Ideal for MWBs.
A text on el machismo with a pre-reading task. A follow-up task with agree/disagree statements about Pepe which students should respond succinctly to with evidence to justify their selections.
25 global issues and 21 infinitive verb phrases to introduce potential solutions.
This will fit into a series of lessons in which we look at obligation structures such as deberíamos/hay que/tenemos que. Potentially even the present subjunctive
A lesson on some of the controversies surrounding the World Cup in Qatar. Students will learn the vocabulary for some of the issues, compare them with a comparative grid and then write whether they are for or against.
Hopefully this formats okay although I suspect the font (New Atten Round) is protected. If it looks awful then let me know and I’ll re-upload with print screens of each slide pasted over the slides themselves.
I have been teaching es bueno que sea (where bueno can be substituted for any adjective) for a few years now and it has been successful so decided it was time to take it a small step further.
For the original rules please read: https://tinyurl.com/yc3ks8tu
You will need the adapt the PowerPoint template depending on the language you want to drill/practice.
In consultation with year 9 and 11 today we have created some new rules as explained at the bottom of the worksheet.
You can now pick two icons from the blue box.
Bank robber - Rob somebody’s bank and transfer directly to your bank. This can be blocked with a shield.
Lottery ticket - Anybody with a ticket is in the draw for an amount of your choosing whenever you decided to do a mini-raffle with a random number generator.
Bank interest - Announced at the end of the game anybody with this icon can multiply their final score by somewhere between 1.1 - 2.0 to be decided by the teacher.
Prison - Send a classmate to prison for three rounds. They cannot unlock their boxes during these rounds.
Sell items - With this icon you can sell your mirror/shield to the highest bidder.
Classifying arabisms according to the semantic field they belong to.
Words taken from the book History of the Spanish Language by Ralph Penny. (pg 217 -220)
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
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.
A menu of traditional platos típicos with phonetic translations (albeit these are my own). A model for saying what you would like to try at the bottom of page 1.
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.
Trying to develop subject knowledge on an unfamiliar topic I have combined information gleaned from a research paper titled Las aportaciones positivas de la inmigración : miradas desde Andalucía and the widely referenced 1955 study* by UNESCO. The result is this resource containing 35 verbs with a matching up task of important verbs and the pirate game.
The Andalusian report containts many accounts from immigrants in Spain which I will use as readings.
We did a diamond 9 rank activity which I’ll follow up with a speaking and maybe some kind of classification of the benefits into categories (economic, societal, local etc)
Will possibly follow up with a reading on public opinion and response writing: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/opini-n-p-blica-sobre-la-inmigraci-n-12582405