Support booklet to help prepare students for the new Spanish AS speaking exam (Paper 3). It includes a summary of the specification and exam requirements, copies of the mark-scheme, sample stimulus cards and a variety of questions to prepare the six sub-themes of the AS paper 3. A second file includes a feedback sheet based on the paper 3 mark scheme for quick, personalised feedback.

A set of activities that I used with my Spanish year 7 groups to revise the topics of countries, local area, shapes and colours, geography and the weather, food and economy (as well as personal descriptions, clothes and a weather forecast). They completed the activities over several lessons, working in groups as a competition. They produced some outstanding displays.

Three activities adapted from online questionnaires / quizzes to discuss whether the students depend too much on their mobile phones, social media and the internet in general. Useful vocabulary for the new A Level topic of Cyberspace.

This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new Spanish GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment), 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. A similar booklet including questions for themes 1, 2 and 3 can be found in this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-writing-exam-practice-90-word-questions-11820179

A booklet with eight 90 word questions to revise the theme of Identity and culture of the new French GCSE exam. There are two questions for each of the topics in Theme one (Me, my family and friends, Technology in everyday life, Free-time activities and Customs and festivals in TL countries). Each of the questions contains four bullet points that the students are expected to cover; one of the bullet points refers to the past, another bullet point requires the students to use either the future or the conditional, and another one prompts them to say their opinion. Finally, the booklet also contains a copy of the mark scheme for the 90 word question, which is the same at foundation and at higher level. A booklet with 24 questions covering all three themes can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-french-gcse-writing-exam-90-word-questions-11822119

This file contains 5 foundation and 2 higher listening questions from and old listening paper (Edexcel 2010) adapted to fit the new specification. I find that some students are having difficulties with Section B (questions and answers in Spanish) of the new paper, and there aren't many sample questions in the specimens, so I have translated and adapted previous exam questions to help them. The listening files needed are clearly labelled (e.g. the question labelled SP2010F1 is from the Spanish 2010 Foundation paper, question 1.

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 12-page resource contains three pages full of facts, statistics and figures about immigration in Spain and other Hispanic countries. Each of those pages is then followed by three activities that exploit the information in them: a discussion card (for paper 3), a translation and summary question (paper 1).

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

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

A series of reading and writing activities to support students to explore the theme of obedience in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film El laberinto del fauno. 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

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 resource is ideal to use with your GCSE classes in the run up to Christmas. It contains a series of activities (designed to be used as starters, but some of them could take longer chunks of the lesson,and several of them could be grouped together to take a full lesson) organised as an advent calendar in which the sweet treats have been replaced by much-more-satisfying Spanish activities. There are 23 activities altogether (one for each day from the 1st to the 23th of December), with a Christmas Song to finish off the calendar on the 24th. The activities are designed for GCSE students, but a lot of them can be used (or easily adapted to be used with) KS3 or A Level students as well. All activities are based on Christmas and Christmas traditions in Spain and the majority of them are supported by a printable worksheet (apart from a couple of slides for which the worksheet was not necessary). The activities cover a wide range of vocabulary and structures (with particular emphasis on using “voy a”, “me gustaría” and similar structures to talk about the immediate future), and there’s a succession of games (battleship, game with numbers), reading (correct the mistakes, draw a Nativity scene following the description provided, who is it, and two general knowledge quizzes), speaking (role play, photo card, be nice to your partner) and writing (with several writing frames). It even includes a template to write a letter to the three Wise Men (who reply to the students a few slides later with instructions on what they need to do to make sure they receive any Christmas presents at all!). A useful and (hopefully) fun resource for the festive season. ¡Feliz Navidad!

This set contains 8 photo cards (based on the GCSE MFL speaking exam) to encourage students to talk about the topic of food. Each card contains three foundation questions (asking to describe the photograph, encouraging the students to talk about their habits and to express their opinions, using mainly the present tense), and two higher, more demanding questions. The final card contains five foundation and five higher questions.

This is a board game to get English as a Foreign Language to practise their speaking (and mediation) skills. It is based on games such as Snakes and Ladders, but since I have designed the board, I have explained all the peculiarities in the instructions. Each time the players roll the dice, they will have to complete a speaking, mediation (explain a graph) or grammar task. The different tasks are: making a speech on a specific topic. having a discussion with a partner on a specific topic. answering a question. taking part in a role play with a partner. correcting a common mistake in a sentence. If the player completes the task correctly they can stay in the box where they’ve landed. If they don’t, they’ll have to go back. All the resources needed to play the game are included: 24 grammar cards, 24 discussion cards, 24 question cards, 12 role play cards and 12 graph cards. There are a few special boxed to keep the game more exciting: the lift, that helps the players move forward or backwards a few places; the dice, which allows them to roll the dice again; the field, where they relax for a turn, and the grim reaper, which takes them back to the starting point. The game is designed for B2 students, but can be easily adapted for other levels. EDIT: PLEASE IGNORE THE AWFUL PREVIEWS, THE ACTUAL FILES LOOK FINE, AS SHOWN BY THE COVER PICTURE, A SCREEN CAPTURE OF THE BOARD.

Support booklet to prepare students for the new GCSE speaking exam. The booklet includes a detailed summary of the requirements of the new speaking exam (role play, photo card and general conversation), both at foundation and higher levels, explained in a student-friendly way, as well as the mark schemes for each element of the test, examples of role plays (foundation and higher) and photo cards (with foundation and higher questions), and a very comprehensive list of questions for the general conversation. All the questions have been translated to allow the teachers to use them in the classroom, set them as homework or tell the students to work independently on them . Additionally, the resource includes a foundation and higher check-list to provide the students with immediate, personalised feedback.