A standalone reading task on house and home for KS3 intermediate or GCSE. The reading comprehension consists of four descriptions of Spanish homes on sale with a vocabulary search, true or false comprehension questions, translation into English and a plenary speaking task. With answers.

A translation game to get pupils producing accurate justified opinions about food, drink and what they eat. Pupils play in threes, roll the dice and then one pupil is the referee who checks the accuracy of their statements. There are also translation grids to use as a plenary into Spanish and English or as knowledge organisers for the topic.

A standalone resource for GCSE on the topic of tourism and its impact on the environment. This has some challenging activities and goes beyond talking about the pupil’s own experiences and will allow them to talk about tourism as a social/ environmental issue. The resource includes advantages and disadvantages to sort, reading activities, translation tasks and a scaffolded writing exercise. This resource will allow pupils to write/talk about the impact of tourism. Answers included.

A standalone resource to begin the topic of holidays with GCSE pupils and to support pupils to write and talk about their holidays likes & dislikes in the present tense. There are various activities within this resources: A reading activity to introduce cognates & key thematic vocabulary Revision of countries and using à/ en/ au for ‘in’ A speaking / writing mat to answer the question ‘tu préfères quelle sorte de vacances?’ Translation practice into French using the language mart A plenary short writing task: to write a paragraph on holidays (with a model answer) Answers included.

A standalone resource on the topic of music and music-listening trends in Spain. It consists of a text to study, with a vocabulary search and synonym match up, a reading comprehension task and plenary translation tasks which recycle the key vocabulary from the first tasks. Answers included.

Consider purchasing the full A Level Translation Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-spanish-translation-practice-bundle-range-of-topics-into-english-and-spanish-12050364 This is an exam style text on la Tomatina festival and gender violence during the tomato fight to translate into English, followed by translation into Spanish, recycling the same vocabulary. Suggested answers are also included and the text provides key cultural references that can be used in the Speaking exam. There is a free example of this type of resource here on the topic of paternity leave, to preview the quality: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-permiso-de-paternidad-translations-on-el-mercado-laboral-and-paternity-leave-with-answers-12043678

A comprehensive resource on the role of grand-parents in Spain. There are two reading activities, a gap-fill and a comprehension question, translation into Spanish targeting the subjunctive and translation into English. Cultural references about Spain are embedded in the two page resource .

Mi familia. This is a Spanish translation resource pack on the topic of family and relationships with answers and will help pupils prepare for the translation part of the exam. There are 40 sentences in total, 20 different sentences to translate into each language, which recycle key family and relationships vocabulary, complex and idiomatic structures and specific grammar points. The sentences include: past, present & future tenses lo que más me gusta/ lo que me fastidia imperfect & past description Conditional sentences (si tuviera mi elección/ si fuera rico) Verbs which are followed by an infinitive (suelo, prefiero, evito etc.) ‘gustar’ verbs perfect tense (siempre he soñado con…)

Three comprehensive worksheets of exercises on the future tense to allow pupils to practise forming this tense. There are grammar exercises, translation tasks and verb conjugation activities.

Consider purchasing the full A Level Translation Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-spanish-translation-practice-bundle-range-of-topics-into-english-and-spanish-12050364 An exam style text on ‘el impacto de la tecnología en la familia tradicional’ in Spain to translate into English followed by translation into Spanish, recycling the same vocabulary. Suggested answers are also included and the text provides key cultural references that can be used in the Speaking exam. There is a free example here on the topic of paternity leave, to preview the quality: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-permiso-de-paternidad-translations-on-el-mercado-laboral-and-paternity-leave-with-answers-12043678

Consider purchasing the full A Level Translation Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-spanish-translation-practice-bundle-range-of-topics-into-english-and-spanish-12050364 This is an exam style text on immigration in Spain to translate into English followed by translation into Spanish, recycling the same vocabulary. Suggested answers are also included and the text provides key cultural references that can be used in the Speaking exam. There is a free example here on the topic of paternity leave, to preview the quality: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-permiso-de-paternidad-translations-on-el-mercado-laboral-and-paternity-leave-with-answers-12043678

GCSE resources on the topic of household chores, las tareas domésticas, with suggested answers. There is a GCSE style reading question, some vocabulary activities and a grammar manipulation gap-fill question.

Two resources to use in any lesson on health and smoking. These resources include a reading comprehension (exam style), a grammar gap-fill task based on smoking and short writing task. The tasks are based on tasks from the new IGCSE specification.

An article on musical tastes and preferences in Spain with reading comprehension & vocabulary activities, with a plenary translation tasks. It also includes useful cultural references for pupils to refer to in their speaking exam. Suggested answers included and it can be downloaded in .doc and .pdf.

A translation game to get pupils producing accurate sentences about the basics: name, age, nationality, languages, family, pets & description. Pupils play in threes. Two pupils roll the dice and translate the sentences while one pupil is the referee who checks the accuracy of their answers. There are also empty translation grids to use as a plenary exercise into Spanish and English.

A resource on the linguistic abilities of Spanish young people and its link to unemployment in Spain. There are reading tasks with true/false, sentence match up and synonym finding exercises and translations into Spanish and English. The translations into Spanish all require the subjunctive. Answers included.

Standalone resources for a whole lesson on the impact of COVID-19 on tourism in Spain. The resource includes reading activities, translation into English and Spanish and up-to-date cultural references. There is also a PowerPoint with a ‘ready to use’ lesson sequence. Answers included.

This is a Spanish translation resource pack on the topic of the environment with answers and will help pupils prepare for the translation part of the exam. There are 40 sentences in total, 20 different sentences to translate into each language, which recycle key environment vocabulary, complex and idiomatic structures and specific grammar points. The sentences include: past, present & future tenses acabar de + infinitive al + infinitive Conditional sentences (si tuviera mi elección…) Verbs which are followed by an infinitive (suelo, intento, evito etc.) ‘gustar’ verbs the use of para + infinitive

Consider purchasing the full A Level Translation Bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-spanish-translation-practice-bundle-range-of-topics-into-english-and-spanish-12050364 An exam style text on illegal immigration to Spain to translate into English followed by translation into Spanish, recycling the same vocabulary. Suggested answers are also included and the text provides key cultural references that can be used in the Speaking exam. There is a free example here on the topic of paternity leave, to preview the quality: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-permiso-de-paternidad-translations-on-el-mercado-laboral-and-paternity-leave-with-answers-12043678

A language mat to allow pupils to build answers to talk about what they like to do in their holidays. There are two examples for pupils to translate and then they can use the language mat to construct their own sentences and to scaffold their own answers.