This resource contains two versions of the same booklet (at foundation and higher level). Each of the booklet contains extensive translation practice (from Spanish into English) covering all themes and topics of the new Spanish GCSE course (based on the AQA specification).
The translations include references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), as well as a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…).
The booklets can also be found separately on these links:
Foundation:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-foundation-11958634
Higher:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-higher-11958629
This resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Aspects of Hispanic Society in the new Spanish A Level course (Traditional and Modern Values, Cyberspace and Equal Rights). I wrote this resource to help my students revise for their upcoming speaking exam (Paper 3), specifically to ensure that they include enough information to score well in AO4 of the paper.
The file also includes an overview of the course and of Paper 3.
Three resources to prepare students fully to talk about the topics of technology, TV and cinema, with activities designed to match the new GCSE requirements.
A 38 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme Multiculturalism in the Hispanic world, and it contains 18 discussion cards covering Immigration (6 cards), Racism (6 cards) and Integration (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of 20 questions to encourage the students to further explore the issues covered in the cards.
The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?”).
The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4).
The booklet also includes a student-friendly overview of the new specification, an explanation of the requirements of Paper 3, the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for both part one (discussion if a sub-theme) and part two (presentation and discussion of the individual research project) of the paper.
Finally, the booklet also contain three pages of useful language for the test.
A very comprehensive set of resources to help students revise Theme 2 (local, national, global, international areas of interest) of the new Spanish GCSE and prepare for the speaking test.
The pack includes:
- Role plays booklet, with 20 role plays at both foundation and higher level.
- Photo cards booklet, with 24 cards (each of which includes four foundation and four higher questions).
- General conversation questions, with 49 questions altogether at both foundation and higher level.
- Foundation and higher mark schemes / feedback sheets.
This resource contains two different versions of my grammar booklet. The content of both booklets is basically the same, but while the full version is 62 pages long, the reduced version is more printing-budget friendly, with 37pages.
Both versions of the booklet contain a very comprehensive summary of the grammar required to succeed in the new GCSE course and numerous activities for the students.
Each booklet is divided in three sections, one for each theme of the new GCSE, and withing each of those there are two parts, one dedicated to verbs and one dedicated to all the other lexical categories.
Each entry of the booklet focuses on one aspect of grammar, with a brief explanation of how to use the structure that is being covered, the rules and exceptions that need to be taken into account, and a variety of examples. This is always followed by an “Ahora practica” section with activities for the students to complete. Whenever possible, the examples and activities match the theme that the specific structure has been included under (e.g., the majority of examples and activities used to study the present tense will be related to the topics from theme 1 - relationships, technology, leisure and festivals).
A free sample of this resource (the section on ser and estar) can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-grammar-ser-and-estar-11939670
And the final pages of the booklet, with the verb tables:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-verb-tables-11940354
Finally, each version of the booklet can be found separately in the following links:
Reduced version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-spanish-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939892
Full version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939611
A very comprehensive set of resources to help students revise Theme 1 (Identity and culture) of the new Spanish GCSE and prepare for the speaking test.
The pack i ncludes:
- Role plays booklet, with 14 role plays at both foundation and higher level.
- Photo cards booklet, with 40 cards (each of which includes four foundation and four higher questions).
- General conversation questions, with 45 questions altogether at both foundation and higher level.
- Foundation and higher mark schemes / feedback sheets.
A very comprehensive set of resources to help students revise Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment) of the new Spanish GCSE and prepare for the speaking test.
The pack includes:
- Role plays booklet, with 25 role plays at both foundation and higher level.
- Photo cards booklet, with 26 cards (each of which includes four foundation and four higher questions).
- General conversation questions, with 40 questions altogether at both foundation and higher level.
- Foundation and higher mark schemes / feedback sheets.
Spanish A Level Grammar Booklet. This booklet (120 pages) provides a very comprehensive study of the main grammar points needed at A level (sections of the booklet can also be used at GCSE level). Each section includes an explanation of a grammar point and a variety of activities to consolidate knowledge and understanding. The booklet is divided into the following sections:
1. Nouns
1a. gender
1b. number
2. Articles
3. Adjectives
4. Comparatives and superlatives
5. “Por” and “para”
6. Contractions
7. Negatives
8. Questions
9. Personal a
10. Relative pronouns
11. Possessive adjectives and pronouns
12. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
13. Direct object pronouns
14. Indirect object pronouns
15. Direct and indirect object pronouns used together
16. Apocopation
17. “Ser” and “estar”
18. Conjugating verbs
19. Present tense
19 a. regular verbs
19 b. irregular verbs
19 c. stem-changing (or radical-changing) verbs
19 d. reflexive verbs
19 e. “gustar”
19 f. back to front verbs
20. Preterite tense
21. Imperfect tense
22. Preterite vs imperfect
23. Present perfect
24. Past perfect (or “pluperfect”)
25. Future simple
26. Conditional
27. Commands (the imperative)
28. Present progressive (or “present continuous”)
29. Present subjunctive
30. Passive voice (and how to avoid it)
31. Conditional clauses
Verb tables
This booklet contains 72 speaking cards based on Theme 1, Theme 2, Theme 3 and Theme 4 of the new Spanish A Level course (Aspects of Hispanic society, Artistic culture in the Hispanic world, Multiculturalism in the Hispanic World and Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world).
The cards contain (quite a lot) of factual information about the theme (a lot more than the sample cards from AQA) and three questions, the first one always being “How do you react to the information on this card?” or similar).
The aim of presenting the cards like this is to provide the students with a lot of ideas on what to say about the theme, as well as making them more aware that they always have to discuss the information printed on the card (AO2 and AO4).
There are eighteen cards for each theme (six cards for each sub theme), and each section is followed by a minimum of 20 questions to encourage the students to explore and discuss the topic further.
The booklet ends with a list of vocabulary useful for the speaking test, and it also includes an overview of the A Level course, of Paper 3 and of the assessment criteria.
A free sample of this resource can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-discussion-cards-paper-3-speaking-11960474?theme=0
UPDATE (13/06/19) - The booklet has been adapted to replace some of the more general questions and with other questions focused on Spanish speaking countries.
Three sets of foundation and higher role plays covering Theme 1 (Identity and culture), Theme 2 (local, regional, international and global areas of interest) and part of Theme 3 (Present and future education and employment).
The set currently includes 60 role plays altogether.
For other speaking resources (General conversation booklet, Photo Cards) please visit my shop.
This resource contains two booklets, one of them including twenty-four 150-word questions to revise the three themes of the new GCSE course (AQA specification), and a similar one consisting of twenty-four 90-word questions.
In each booklet there are eight questions for each of the three themes of the course (Identity and culture, Local, national, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), and two questions for each of the topics in each theme.
The 150-word question is part of the higher writing exam, and each question contains two bullet points that the students are expected to cover; the bullet points are written to resemble the ones found in the 2018 paper and those in the sample questions provided by AQA. At least one of the bullet points in each question prompts the students to refer to either the past or the future, and several questions ask the students to write their “recommendations”. The booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme for the 150 word question and an overview of the themes and topics.
The 90-word questions include four bullet points that the students are prompted to cover, and they explicitly require them to include references to three time frames and opinions (as per the AQA mark scheme). When possible, one of the bullet points starts with ‘qué hiciste’, a question which appears in many of the AQA samples and that some students often fail to understand. The booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme.
This resource can be used as part of everyday teaching, as end of unit assessment, for revision purposes and as an easy way of setting useful homework.
Three sets of writing papers, following the new Spanish GCSE specification (AQA).
Each individual set includes two papers (foundation and higher) covering one of the three themes (Identity and culture, Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), as well as an overview of the requirements of the exam and a foundation and a higher "check list" to provide the students with quick, personalised feedback for each question.
Also available in French: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-practice-papers-and-feedback-sheets-11751002
Three sets of writing papers, following the new French GCSE specification (AQA).
Each individual set includes two papers (foundation and higher) covering one of the three themes (Identity and culture, Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Current and future study and employment), as well as an overview of the requirements of the exam and a foundation and a higher "check list" to provide the students with quick, personalised feedback for each question.
Also available in Spanish: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-writing-exam-practice-papers-and-feedback-sheets-11729983
This resource is a version of the popular board-game Trivial Pursuit based around the themes and sub-themes of the new Spanish A Level course (AQA specifications).
I have assigned a category to each colour:
Aspects of Hispanic society (red)
Artistic culture in the Hispanic world (yellow)
Multiculturalism in Hispanic society (purple)
Aspects of political life (blue)
Grammar (orange)
Translation (green)
The resource includes a printable board (better printed in colour and enlarged to A3) and 24 question cards (with one question for each category, so a total of 192 questions). Additionally, there is a file with six counters and six “score cards”, with a “pie” for the students to colour the different sections as they achieve them.
This resource can be used as a whole class activity if displayed on the board, but it can also be printed (in colour!) for students to work in groups of up to six.
Three sets of photo cards covering all three themes of the new GCSE course: Identity and culture (40 cards), Local, national, international and global areas of interest (24 cards) and Current and future study and employment ( 26 cards).
Each booklet also includes a student-friendly explanation of the requirements of the new exam and a copy of the mark scheme for the photo card.
Three very comprehensive sets of Spanish to English translations, each covering all aspects of Theme 1 (Identity and Culture), Theme 2 (Local, regional, national, international and global areas of interest) and Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment).
This bundle contains a series of resources to help Spanish A Level students prepare key aspects of Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno):
introducción (introductory activities)
los personajes (characters)
la alegoria (the use of allegory)
el uso del color (the use of colour)
los elementos del cuento de hadas (elementos of fairy tales)
planos y ángulos de cámara (shots and camera angles)
contexto histórico (historical background), including sections on the Spanish Civil War, Fascism and the “maquis”.
The theme of obedience in the film.
The treatment of masculinity and femininity in Pan’s Labyrinth.
The topic of violence in Pan’s Labyrinth.
El éxito de El laberinto del fauno (the success of Pan’s Labyrinth)
The monsters in Pan’s Labyrinth
Paper 2 booklet (essay-writing support booklet)
Each section contains a series of reading, writing and translation activities to study it, a multitude of essay questions (with more questions in Writing Support Booklet) and independent research opportunities.
PLEASE NOTE: THE RESOURCES CONTAINED IN THIS BUNDLE CAN BE FOUND AS A SINGLE BOOKLET ON THE FOLLOWING LINK:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-support-guide-12002448
A set of resources to prepare students for the new GCSE speaking exam (AQA specification), including:
Role play practice booklet, with 59 role plays (at both foundation and higher level) to prepare all three themes of the AQA specification ( Theme 1 Identity and culture, Theme 2 Local, regional, international and global areas of interest and Theme 3 Current and future education and work).
Photo Cards booklet, with 90 photo cards, again on Higher and Foundation level and covering all three themes.
A General Conversation booklet, with a very extensive list of questions covering every aspect of the three themes.
An overview of the GCSE course mark schemes and feedback sheets for the speaking and writing exams.