A series of reading, writing and translation activities to explore the main themes of Pan’s Labyrinth: obedience, the treatment of masculinity and femininity, and the use of violence. The resource is 20 pages long and it includes short written questions, translation activities, gap-fills, true, false and not mentioned activities and several essay questions. 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 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.

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.

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 13 pages booklet to help higher ability GCSE students to work independently and and to include a wider variety of structures in their written work. There are two sections in the booklet: Section 1 focuses on tenses, and it includes a summary of how to conjugate the present tense, the preterite, the imperfect, the future simple and the conditional, as well as verb tables for AR, ER and IR verbs in those tenses, including tables for six irregular verbs (ser, tener, estar, ir, poder and haber). This is followed by a explanation on how to conjugate and use a further four tenses: the present perfect, the present continuous, the pluperfect and the conditional perfect. Section 2 focuses on other structures that will help the students include variety and complexity: - lo + adjectives - comparatives and superlatives - negatives - conditionals ('si' clauses) - the infinitive - the present subjunctive - object pronouns - other useful structures Finally, the booklet includes a "check list" or a guide of the kind of structures that the students would be expected to include in work that is graded 4-5, 6-7 or 8-9.

This booklet contains eight questions that follow the format of the 90-word questions in the new French GCSE writing exam. They cover all aspects of Theme 2 (Local, national, international and global areas of interest), 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). 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 resource contains a lot of factual information about Spanish society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Aspects of Hispanic Society in the new Spanish A Level course (Traditional and Modern Values, Cyberspace and Equal Rights). 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 an overview of the course and of Paper 3.

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 resource contains a lot of factual information about Hispanic society, focusing on the three topics that cover the sub-theme Multiculturalism in Hispanic society in the new Spanish A Level course (La inmigración, El racismo and La convivencia). 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 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.

A very comprehensive set of sentences to translate from Spanish into English. The full resource is 29 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, and they provide a good coverage of all aspects of GCSE grammar, with references to a variety of tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, present perfect, conditional, future), and a wide range of complex structures (negatives, comparatives, conditional clauses…). While I believe that the resource can be used with students of all abilities, it is aimed mainly at foundation students. A higher version of the same booklet can be found on this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-gcse-spanish-to-english-translations-11958629

A 38 page booklet to help prepare Spanish A Level students for Paper 3 (speaking test). The booklet focuses on the Theme Multiculturalism in the Hispanic world, and it contains 18 discussion cards covering Immigration (6 cards), Racism (6 cards) and Integration (6 cards). Each section is followed by a list of 20 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.

This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Cyberspace of the New Spanish A Level theme Aspects of Hispanic society. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (social networks, mobile technology, the influence of the internet). 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. Cards for each sub-theme can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Additionally, a booklet containing all cards for all the different sub-themes at a very reduced price can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713

This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Cultural heritage of the New Spanish A Level theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (Historical sites and pre-Hispanic cultures, art and architecture, musical heritage). 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. Cards for each sub-theme can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Additionally, a booklet containing all cards for all the different sub-themes at a very reduced price can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713

This resource consists of six discussion cards based on the sub theme Spanish regional identity of the New Spanish A Level theme Artistic culture in the Hispanic world. The cards cover a variety of aspects of the sub-theme (regional traditions, regional cuisine, regional languages). 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. Cards for each sub-theme can be found in my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/corcuera Additionally, a booklet containing all cards for all the different sub-themes at a very reduced price can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spanish-a-level-paper-3-speaking-discussion-cards-themes-1-2-3-and-4-11934713

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.