A very comprehensive set of resources to study the topic of the weather in Spanish. Suitable for students of all levels, the presentation starts with simple vocabulary activities and little games (Simon says, Battleship, human dominoes) and it builds up from there (weather forecasts, leisure activities in different kinds of weather).
It also includes a range of reading activities to do with the weather and the climate in Spain. Additionally I have included several reading and writing activities about Spanish geography to provide the students with a better understanding of Spanish geographical features (and at the end of the topic they will even believe you when you say that it does indeed snow in Spain; quite a lot, actually!)
A very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (mainly higher) to translate from Spanish into English. The resource includes 91 sentences and six long paragraphs and they cover the following aspects of Theme 2 (Local, regional, international and global areas of interest), organised as follows:
Part 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region
Part 2: Social issues (charity/voluntary work; healthy, unhealthy living) and Global issues (the environment; poverty/homelessness)
Part 3: Travel and tourism
Finally, the six longer paragraphs include language related to all three categories.
The sentences 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…)
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.
Three reading and writing activities to explore the reasons behind the success of Guillermo del Toro’s film Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno).
PLEASE NOTE: This resource is part of a much longer and much more exhaustive resource, my Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide, which can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
There is a free sample of the guide on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
These four mats provide the students of all abilities with a lot of useful language to support them when writing about Identity and culture. Each mat is double sided, and page one contains a lot of vocabulary (nouns, adjectives, conjunctions, time phrases and intensifiers) as well as a series of scaffolding structures (“sentence starters”). The second page in each mat contains twelve key verbs conjugated in the first person singular (yo) in six different tenses (the preterite, the imperfect, the present, the future, the conditional and the present subjunctive) and a section on complex structures on the second page, with examples of comparatives and superlatives, idiomatic expressions, conditional sentences (“si fuera…”), the present perfect and negative sentences.
A series of reading and writing activities to study the theme of masculinity and femininity in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth), supported with quotes from the film and from the director.
PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
This resource includes a series of reading and writing activities (including two essay questions) to explore the topic of violence in Guillermo del Toro’s film Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno). The resource also includes a list of useful vocabulary and an essay-writing checklist.
PLEASE NOTE: this resource is part of a much more comprehensive and more detailed resource, the Pan’s Labyrinth Student Support Guide that can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448
The guide is over 70 pages long, and a free sample can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/el-laberinto-del-fauno-planos-y-ngulos-de-c-mara-pan-s-labyrinth-shots-and-camera-work-12002490
This very comprehensive bundle includes a lot of resources to support Spanish GCSE students prepare for their writing and speaking exams.
The bundle consists of:
A GCSE overview, with a student-friendly description of the speaking and writing exams, copies of the mark schemes and feedback sheets to provide the students with immediate, personalised feedback after each mock exam /practice activity.
A speaking test preparation booklet. This 245-page booklet includes 59 role plays, 90 photo cards and a list of questions to prepare the general conversation in the speaking exam. The booklet covers all the topics of the GCSE course at both higher and foundation level.
The 90-word questions booklet, which includes 24 GCSE-like questions covering all the topics of the course.
Two Grammar booklets (one being an abridged, printer-friendly version of the other one) covering all aspects of GCSE grammar.
A Spanish to English translations booklet.
A Complex structures guide.
A vocabulary booklet.
Verb tables.
A game of Trivial Pursuit to practice for the general conversation.
This bundle currently consists of 13 individual resources, each related to one of the themes or sub-themes of the new A Level Spanish course (AQA specification).
There is a variety of activities, including translations, summaries, finding expressions that mean the same and answering questions in Spanish.
More activities will be added soon.
This resource consists of a series of reading, writing and speaking activities about the vote in the Spanish Congress (in September 2018) that passed a bill to exhume Franco’s remains from El Valle de los Caídos .
The main text is about the vote itself, about the construction of El Valle de los Caídos and what it represents, the reasons for moving Franco’s remains and what will happen to them in the future.
The activities include exam-like questions, such as finding expressions that mean the same as the words given, changing sentences so that the information in them is correct, a 90-word summary, several questions to answer in Spanish and a paragraph to translate into English.
The last three pages of the resource consist of a “fact file” providing information about Franco’s life and dictatorship, and two speaking cards (theme discussion cards) based on the information in the fact file.
This reading activity is part of the sub-theme “Monarchies and dictatorships”, of the theme “Aspects of political life” of the AQA A Level course.
This worksheet contains 50 “thunk” questions in Spanish. A “thunk” question is a seemingly trivial question about everyday life, more or less sensible, that makes you stop and think. There are no right or wrong answers, that is not the point. The idea is to make the students think, encourage them to speak and be creative. They are not theme-specific, they don’t relate to the topics in the A Level course, so everyone will have the “knowledge” required to answer them.
I have used this as a starter activity (often by giving each student two randomly selected questions and giving them a bit of time to think of their answer) and I found that some students loved it, some were incredibly frustrated by it, but they all tried and the lessons were always “fun”. It also provided a great insight into the students personality, as some of the students answer the questions in a very analytical way, whereas others take advantage of the “no right or wrong answers” rule to really let their creativity flow.
This resource contains two separate booklets. The first one contains eight 90-word questions covering all topics of Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment) of the AQA Spanish GCSE specification (two questions for each of the four topics of Theme 3).
Based on the sample papers and the 2018 paper, all the questions include four bullet points; one bullet point refers to the future and one to the past.
The second booklet contains the same eight questions, followed by a table with 20 sentences. Sixteen of the sentences are direct answers to one of the bullet points (four sentences per bullet point); the remaining sentences, while useful, do not answer directly any of the bullet points and wouldn’t give the students much credit for content if used on their own.
The idea behind this activity is to encourage the students to read the bullet points carefully, taking into account the different time frames that they refer to and what they actually ask, thus stopping them from simply writing anything they can think of on each of the different topics without taking into account the requirements of the task.
The sentences can also be used as translation activities.
Themes 1 and 2 also available, and a booklet with all three themes can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-answering-90-word-questions-themes-1-2-and-3-writing-exam-1209181
This resource contains two separate booklets. The first one contains twenty four 90-word questions covering all topics of Themes 1, 2 and 3 of the AQA Spanish GCSE specification (two questions for each of the four topics of each Theme).
Based on the sample papers and the 2018 paper, all the questions include four bullet points; one bullet point refers to the future and one to the past.
The second booklet contains the same twenty-four questions, each of them followed by a table with 20 sentences. Sixteen of the sentences are direct answers to one of the bullet points (four sentences per bullet point); the remaining sentences, while useful, do not answer directly any of the bullet points and wouldn’t give the students much credit for content if used on their own.
The idea behind this activity is to encourage the students to read the bullet points carefully, taking into account the different time frames that they refer to and what they actually ask, thus stopping them from simply writing anything they can think of on each of the different topics without taking into account the requirements of the task.
The sentences can also be used as translation activities.
This worksheet includes an explanation of how to use ser and estar, one of the biggest headaches for Spanish learners, with several examples and two activities.
It is a free sample of a much more comprehensive premium resource, my Spanish GCSE grammar booklet, which can be found on this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-the-gram-tica-11939611
I have included a screen shot of the contents page of the grammar booklet.
This is a free sample of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713
The full resource consists of a booklet which 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).
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 six cards for each of the three sub themes that each them covers, and each section is followed by a minimum of 20 questions to encourage the students to explore and discuss the topic further.
This is a free sample of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-role-plays-speaking-exam-11958988
The full resource contains 90 role plays in Spanish, at foundation and higher level, covering all themes and topics of the AQA specification, and providing the students with plenty of opportunities to practice a variety of linguistic structures, questions and vocabulary.
This resource can be used in lessons but it can also be used for homework or independent study.
The role plays can also be found separated into themes in my shop, and also as part of a longer, more comprehensive speaking resource here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-speaking-test-booklet-role-plays-photo-cards-and-general-conversation-11959963
This worsheet will help Spanish A Level students reflect about the use of different kinds of shots and camera angles in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno.
This is part of a much longer, detailed resource that covers a wide range of aspects of the film. It can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-support-guide-1200244
This file contains three pages with some key verbs in Spanish: the present tense, preterite, imperfect, future and conditional of regular verbs and the same tenses for irregular verbs ser, estar, tener, ir, poder and haber. The tables also include how to form the present participle and the past participle.
This resource is a free sample of a much more extensive resource, my Spanish GCSE grammar booklet, which can be found in its full form in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11984926
The full booklet is 63 pages long, and I have included a copy of the contents page as part of this resource.