A three-page file with a lot actual information about Spanish culture and society, focusing on the topic of Equal Rights, 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). The information contained in the resource can also be easily adapted and used in a variety of reading and translation activities.

This is a resource to practise the use of the preterite tense to talk about holidays activities. It is ideal for the first lesson after the summer break for GCSE students. There are eight activities: verbs revision: find how to say in Spanish twelve verbs in the first person singular of the preterite tense. during the holidays: students read a series of sentences (all in the preterite and using the verbs from activity one) and decide how often they did them during the holidays. opinions: decide whether the opinions are positive, negative or neutral. write five sentences using the language from activities 1, 2 and 3. verb practice: change the verbs in activity one into the second person singular. questions: using the vebs in activity 5, write five questions for a partner about their holiday activities. speaking: interview a partner to find how often the partner did those activities during the holidays. extension: write five sentences about the partner’s holidays activities. Finally, the last page of the resource includes a reminder of how to conjugate the preterite tense.

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 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.

A set of activities that I used with my French 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. View more

Student support booklet for new AS paper 2 (translation and essay). It includes... - Student-friendly summary of the new specification and the paper 2 requirements - Sample question and mark schemes - 6 additional essay questions - Old specification essay questions to provide further practice - Student check-list on how to write a good essay (with a content and a language section) - Four pages of useful expressions to write a good essay

A set of 26 Photo Cards covering the whole of Theme 3 (Current and future study and employment) of the new GCSE course: 3.a. My studies (8 cards) 3.b. Life at school / college (6 cards) 3.c. Education post-16 (4 cards) 3.d. Jobs, career choices and ambitions (8 cards) Each card includes five foundation questions (in red) and five higher question (in blue), the first of which is always '¿Qué hay en la foto?. If you like this resource, Photo Cards for theme one and theme two, as well as a booklet covering all three themes, are also available in my shop. UPDATED: I have modified this resource to better resemble the photo cards on the AQA exam: there are now five foundation and five higher questions on each card (instead of four). At foundation level one of the first three questions (what in the exam would be the printed questions) requires the use of a tense other than the present. At higher level references to three time frames are needed, with one time frame other than the present required in one of the first three questions and the remaining time frame in one of the other two questions.

Two lessons to talk about being ill and visiting the doctor, including how to talk about different diseases, their symptoms and their remedies.

A whole unit of work to teach the topic of school to Year 7 students. The Notebook presentation (44 slides) covers the following areas: - school subjects - opinions - adjectives and - timetable and the time - school facilities - general information about school - school uniform The grammar focus is on agreement of adjectives, opinions in the past and "hay" and "no hay". All supported with 11 worksheets, including a writing frame summarising the whole topic. Update: I have now included a PowerPoint version of the main file, converted from the original Notebook file. I recommend whenever possible to use the original version, as the file conversion has changed the layout of some slides and some features work less effectively on Power Point.

A set of 15 role plays covering theme one of the new Spanish GCSE course (based on the AQA specification). It includes 8 foundation and 7 higher role plays, and it covers the aspects family and relationships, technology in everyday life, leisure and festivals. Each role play includes candidate's role and 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. UPDATE - Feedback sheets now included.