This resource contains 18 pages full of information (facts and statistics) covering all aspects of the themes covered in year 1 of the new Spanish A Level course. There are nine pages about Aspects of Hispanic society (three pages about Traditional and moden values, three oabout Cyberspace and three pages about Equal rights) and nine pages about Artistic culture in the Hispanic world (Modern day idols, Spanish regional identity and Cultural heritage).
I wrote this resource to help students include enough cultural information to score well in AO4 in paper 3 (the speaking exam), but information included in the resource can be easily adapted to a variety of reading and translation activities.
This three-page file includes a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Today’s youth, tomorrow’s citizens (Jóvenes de hoy, ciudadanos de mañana) part of the theme Aspects of Political Life in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with wide range of facts and statistics about the topic, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam). The information in the file can also be easily adapted to reading or translation activities.
This resource is a quick reminder of how to use the preterite and the imperfect in Spanish, with an explanation of how each tense works, verb tables to conjugate regular and irregular verbs, time phrases that typically require the use of each tense, a lot of examples and activities for the students to practise.
This resource is part of a much bigger resource, my GCSE grammar booklet, that can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11984926
This bundle 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 cards can be found as a single resource (a 100 page booklet which also includes an overview of the A Level course and the assessment criteria for Paper 3) on this link:
This bundle contains three resources to help students prepare for Paper 2 of the new Spanish A level exam:
Spanish A Level Grammar booklet (118 pages).
Paper 2 booklet: Como agua para chocolate.
Paper 2 booklet: La casa de Bernarda Alba.
The two Paper 2 Booklets include an overview of the paper and the mark schemes, some starter questions to help the students start discussing the texts, quotes taken from the texts for the students to analyse, a variety of essay questions and a list of useful expressions to write an essay.
A series of activities to help students reflect about the elements of the fairy tale in Pan’s Labyrinth. The resource first explores the structure of the fairy tale and how this is reflected on Pan’s Labyrinth, it is then followed by a reading and writing activity (90-word summary) about the most common elements in fairy tales (characters, setting…). The next section includes a series of questions about how all of the above is shown in the film. Finally there an AS-type essay question.
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
A series of activities to help students research (and write about) the use of colour in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth). It includes a lot of screen shots to illustrate the main points, a translation, an essay question, and opportunities for independent work (the influence of Dario Argento).
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 bundle contains a lot of resources to support Spanish A Level students prepare for Paper 2 (specifically El laberinto del Faouno) and Paper 3:
A Level Fact File: a booklet (48 pages) with a lot of factual information about the themes and sub-themes of the AQA specification.
Discussion cards: a very comprehensive set of discussion cards (72 cards) covering all themes and sub themes of the course.
Spanish Grammar Booklet: 108 pages covering all aspects of grammar needed at A Level.
El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) support guide, 84 pages to study different aspects of the film in detail.
Paper 2 support booklet, with an overview of the A Level course and the Paper 3 requirements, and a lot of essay questions.
Additionally, I have included a lot of reading activities. More to follow shortly!
A series of reading, writing and translation activities to help Spanish A Level students explore the use of monsters in Guillermo del Toro’s film El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth).
The resource is divided into two sections (“Monstruos, humanos y religión” and “Los monstruos y el miedo a la diferencia”), and the activities include:
Spanish to English translation
Read a text and correct the mistakes
Explain del Toro’s quote about monsters
Answer questions in Spanish on a longer text
Two English into Spanish translations
A Level Essay
The final pages of the resource include useful vocabulary to write an essay and a check list to help the students reflect on what they have written.
This bundle contains a lot of A Level resources that the students can use as part of their home learning:
Fact file, with a lot of factual information for all the topics of the A Level course
A very comprehensive Grammar Booklet, with thorough explanations of the main grammar points and activities to practise them.
Discussion cards, based on the topics of the AQA A Level course and on the Paper 3 exam.
Support booklets for several of the books and films that can be studied for the course.
A very detailed student’s support guide to work on Pan’s Labyrinth (our of all the resources I have produced, this is the one I am most proud of).
A variety of reading and writing activities on several different topics.
Lesson on how to conjugate and use the future simple in Spanish. Suitable to GCSE students of all abilities.
The lesson includes differentiated good and better WILFs, several writing activities of different levels of difficulty, a game of battleships and an extension with an in-depth explanation on how to use the tense and further activities for higher ability students.
Please note that the presentation was created on Notebook and then converted to PowerPoint, which loses some of the features and changed the layout of some slides.
A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic Cyberspace, part of the theme Aspects of Hispanic culture of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam).
A three-page file that includes a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Modern Day Idols, part of the theme Artistic Culture in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level. It provides students with facts and statistics, which should be very helpful in preparation for Paper 3 (the speaking exam).
This two page file includes a lot of information about racism in Spain, part of the new Spanish A Level course, specifically the theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society.
This resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world in the new Spanish A Level course (La influencia de los ídolos, La identidad regional en España and El patrimonio cultural). 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 a detailed overview of the course and of Paper 3.
This resource includes activities based on the topic of Artistic Heritage in the Hispanic World of the new Spanish A Level course.
The first page includes a lot of factual information (taken from this resource: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-year-1-fact-file-aspects-of-hispanic-society-artistic-culture-hispanic-world-11883717). The following pages exploit the information on page one with a variety of speaking, reading and wrting activities: first, a Discussion card about Frida Kahlo that uses the information on page one. It is followed by a translation activity about Velázquez (again, based on the information from page one) and a reading activity (write a 90-word summary) about Goya and Velázquez. Finally, activity five is a creative writing task about Las Meninas.
This resource includes six discussion cards based on the sub-theme of Integration, part of the theme Multiculturalism in the Hispanic world of the New A Level course.
The cards are based on the new speaking exam. Each of them includes information on each the sub theme followed by three questions on each specific topic, the first of which always asks the students to react to the information on the card.
Finally, the six cards are followed by twenty questions that can be used to explore the sub-theme further, and a list of useful vocabulary for the speaking test.
A very comprehensive set of sentences (suitable for all abilities) and paragraphs (suitable mainly to higher students) to translate from Spanish into English.
The full resource is 41 pages long (including title and content pages) and it covers all three themes of the new Spanish GCSE course.
Each theme and each topic is covered in detail with a series of sentences of different level of difficulty. Additionally, at the end of each theme there are six paragraphs, aimed specifically at higher students, that cover the whole theme.
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…).
While I believe that this resource can be used with students of all abilities, it is aimed mainly at higher students. A foundation version of the same resource can be found in this link:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-foundation-11958634
This is a reduced, simplified and printing-budget friendly of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-grammar-booklet-cuaderno-de-gram-tica-11939611
The content of the booklets is very similar and they both provide a very detailed overview of the grammar needed for the new GCSE course, divided into three parts (Theme 1, Theme 2 and Theme 3). Each part has two sections, one devoted to verbs and the other one to other lexical categories. Both books contain a lot of examples and activities for the students.
This version of the booklet takes into account that printing budget can be tight, so I have re formated the original, 62-page booklet, and taken out a few examples, so it is now 37 pages (the last three being verb tables that can be printed separately), but it still contains detailed explanations of a variety of grammatical structures, a lot of examples and a lot of activities.
Content:
THEME 1
Part 1 – Articles, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs and pronouns
Nouns
Articles
Contractions
Adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Por and para
Negatives
Questions
Possessive adjectives
Direct object pronouns
Part 2 – Verbs
Ser and estar
Conjugating verbs
The present tense
13a. Regular verbs
13b. Irregular verbs
13c. Reflexive verbs
13d. Gustar
The Preterite
The Imperfect
Opinions in different tenses
THEME 2
Part 1 – Adjectives and pronouns
Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Part 2 – Verbs
The Future Simple
The Conditional
The Preterite v. The Imperfect
The Present Subjunctive
Uses of the Subjunctive
The Imperative (Commands)
The Infinitive
THEME 3
Part 1 – Adverbs and prepositions
26. Personal a
27. Quantifiers
Part 2 – Verbs
28. Present continuous
29. Present Perfect
30. If clauses
31. The Subjunctive – Further practice
32. Verb tables
N.B. - Please ignore the Word preview of the resource - it does not look like that! To get a good idea of what the resource actually looks like, have a look at the PDF version or the screen captures (for some reason previews of word files alter the format of the resource, but this is only the preview).