This document includes a lot of factual information about Spain and other Spanish speaking countries, covering all the themes and sub themes of the new Spanish A level course (AQA specification). The 48-page file (I’ve uploaded a PDF and a Word version) includes three or more pages per sub theme with a lot of figures, statistics, data and examples relevant to that sub theme. Most of the information refers to Spain, as it is the country I know best, but other Spanish speaking countries are also referred to. I first started writing this resource in the weeks leading to the year 13 speaking exam with the objective of providing the students with a single document where they could find a lot of relevant information that they could refer to when discussing the topics in the first part of their exam. I believe that they found it very useful. The information here can also be easily adapted and used in other activities, such as reading activities or translations.

This booklet contains 59 role plays to provide Spanish GCSE students with plenty of practice to prepare for their speaking exam. They are on foundation and higher tier and they cover all three themes of the new course (AQA specification). Each role play includes the candidate’s role and the teacher’s role, and both the ‘tú’ and ‘usted’ forms are used. The file also includes a student-friendly summary of the specification for the new speaking exam and the mark scheme for the role play. I have also included files with the mark schemes (foundation and higher) for the speaking test to provide the students with instant, personalised feedback as they complete practice speaking papers.

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.

Seven worksheets to help teachers provide their students with an overview of the new French GCSE course (AQA specification), the requirements of the new speaking and writing exams (both at foundation and higher level) and mark schemes, and four sheets to provide the students with immediate, personalised feedback for their mock or practice speaking and writing papers. UPDATE: the feedback sheets now include the 2018 grade boundaries, to make it easier for the teachers to estimate a grade.

This resource consists of a booklet with ninety photo cards covering in a lot of detail all three themes of the new Spanish 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 of the cards contains five foundation and five higher questions (colour-coded, using red for foundation and blue for higher), the firsts of which is always “¿Qué hay en la foto?”. One of the first three questions in the foundation set always requires the use of a tense other than the present (past, future or conditional), whereas the others elicit opinions and additional information from the students. In the higher set, all three time frames are covered, with one of the first three questions requiring the use of a tense other than the present and one of the final two questions requiring references to the other time frame. The booklet also includes a student-friendly explanation of the requirements of the new speaking exam and a copy of the mark scheme for the photo card.

This four-page file includes a lot factual information about Spanish and Latin American culture and society, focusing on the sub theme of Popular movements, 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 includes six discussion cards based on the sub-theme of Racism, 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 38 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme Aspects of Hispanic society, and it contains 18 discussion cards covering Modern and traditional values (6 cards), Cyberspace (6 cards) and Equal rights (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of between 27 and 30 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. The titles for the cards are as follows: - La familia en la España de hoy - Los hogares monoparentales, los que más crecen en España. - Aumentan un 4,8% las separaciones y divorcios en España en el primer trimestre de 2017 - El número de matrimonios religiosos en España alcanzó mínimos históricos en 2016. - Los españoles: católicos, no practicantes. - Sólo el 5% de las páginas web están escritas en español. - La piratería descendió en España en 2016 por primera vez en diez años. - El 94% de los niños españoles de 14 años tienen su propio teléfono móvil - El 51% de los hombres españoles y el 49% de las mujeres usan apps de forma regular. - El 10% de los mensajes escritos por los adolescentes es las redes es considerado ‘ciberacoso’ - Facebook continúa siendo la red social más usada en España - Las mujeres trabajan ‘gratis’ es España desde el ocho de noviembre por la brecha salarial. - Ana Patricia Botín, la décima mujer más poderosa del mundo en 2016 - Los colegios concertados permiten que la Iglesia Católica mantenga su influencia en la educación. - Los adolescentes españoles repiten actitudes machistas del pasado. - Cuarenta y cuatro mujeres asesinadas a manos de sus parejas o exparejas entre el uno enero y el diez de noviembre de 2017. - España, Holanda, Dinamarca y Finlandia, los países del mundo más tolerantes con la homosexualidad. - Se dispara el número de denuncias por agresiones homofóbicas en Madrid.

A twelve page booklet to prepare students for paper 2 (writing) of the new A Level Spanish specification (2018 onwards), specifically focused on Réquiem por un campesino español. The booklet includes: a summary of the requirements of the paper the assessment objectives and mark scheme two initial activities to “get the students thinking” (20 questions about key aspects of the short novel, and a variety quotes for the students to discuss) the four essay questions from the AQA sample materials and the two questions form the 2018 exam a further 18 essay questions (some of them adapted from past exam questions from the outgoing specification), covering a wide range of aspects, to provide the students with plenty of practice opportunities four pages of useful language to write an essay a self-assessment check-list for the students to use to reflect on their own work.

A twelve page booklet to prepare Spanish A Level students for paper 2 of the new specification (2018 examination), specifically focused on writing about El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth). The booklet includes: - a summary of the requirements of the paper - the assessment objectives and mark scheme - two initial activities to “get the students thinking” (20 questions about key aspects of the film, and ten quotations from the film for the students to discuss), - the four essay questions from the AQA sample materials - a further 15 essay questions (some of them adapted from past exam questions from the outgoing specification). - four pages of useful language to write an essay -a self-assessment check-list for the students to use to reflect on their own work. PLEASE NOTE: this resource can now be acquired as part of this, much more comprehensive, Pan’s Labyrinth Support Guide: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-el-laberinto-del-fauno-gu-a-de-estudio-pan-s-labyrinth-student-support-guide-12002448

A twelve page booklet to prepare students for paper 2 (writing) of the new A Level Spanish specification (2018 onwards), specifically focused on La casa de Bernarda Alba. The booklet includes: - a summary of the requirements of the paper - the assessment objectives and mark scheme - two initial activities to "get the students thinking" (27 questions about key aspects of the film, and a variety quotations from the play for the students to discuss) - the four essay questions from the AQA sample materials - a further 16 essay questions (some of them adapted from past exam questions from the outgoing specification), covering a wide range of aspects, to provide the students with plenty of practice opportunities - four pages of useful language to write an essay - a self-assessment check-list for the students to use to reflect on their own work.

Booklet with key vocabulary for students to revise for their foundation listening and reading French exams. It contains 15 pages of vocabulary in French. Students write the English next to them and colour-code the words: green for the words they knew, yellow or amber for the ones they were not 100% sure, and red for the words they didn't know at all.

This is a reading activity about Medina Azahara, the fortified Moor medieval palace-city built by Abd-ar-Rahman III outside Córdoba. The site has been recently (July 2018) declared a UNESCTO World Heritage site, which makes it very relevant. The resource includes 4 activities based on those on Paper 1 of the new exam: true, false or not-mentioned, summary, translation and gap-fill.

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.

This booklet contains twenty four questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new Spanish GCSE writing exam. They cover all three themes of the AQA specification, but can be easily adapted to other exam boards. There are eight questions for each theme, and they can be used in lessons, but also as an easy way to set useful homework activities for the students. All 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. UPDATE: A similar resource, focusing on the 150 word questions (higher paper) can be found in this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-higher-writing-practice-150-word-questions-12082077

This resource contains two fact files with a lot of statistics and figures about racist attitudes and legislation against racism in Spain. Each file is followed by three activities that exploit the information in them: a discussion card (for paper 3), a translation and summary question (paper 1).

This file consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme “Monarchies and dictatorships” of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of political life. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme: Franco’s dictatorship, The Spanish Monarchy and Latin American dictators. Each card contains a lot of factual information and three questions to discuss the sub theme. FInally, the six cards are followed by a list of twenty questions to enable the students to study the sub theme further, as well as a list of useful language for the speaking test.

This file contains 8 reading, speaking and writing activities aimed at Spanish GCSE students based on the Mexican Day of the Dead festival (El Día de los Muertos). The activities are: vocabulary match-up gap-fill (using the vocabulary from the first activity) foundation and higher photo card 90-word question Spanish to English translation English to Spanish translation Write questions for the answers

A set of five bilingual (French and English) writing and speaking mats/templates, loosely based on Studio 2. These mats are perfect to set cover work (students can use them to write sentences and paragraphs on each topic, use them to produce posters and classroom displays, or to create revision mind maps). I have also used them in lessons. Some of the activities I have used these templates for include: dictation: read a text that uses the language in the mats and ask the students to write it down. dicta-translation: read a text based on the mat in French and ask the students to write it down in English, or the other way round. paired dictation and translation: same as above but the students read to each other. “great minds think alike”: ask the students to write a number of sentences and then ask them to find out, by reading their sentences to each other, if someone else wrote the exact same sentences, thus proving that they are great minds. “stand up if”: ask the students to highlight sentences in the mats. Then read a text based on it and ask the students to stand up (and then immediately sit down) every time that you read a word or phrase that they’ve highlighted. speed reading: time the students while they read from the template, see how many sentences they can read out/who is the first to read a full text etc. And of course the students can use the writing mat to write their own texts. More mats will be added shortly on topics such as health, school and relationships.