A revision quickie on key language on the environment

1. A vocab builder 2. Cloze task : a set of key questions on new technologies (below) and a range of model answers which have been gapped. ¿Crees que las nuevas tecnologías han cambiado el mundo laboral? ¿Cómo ha cambiado la forma de la que comunicas con tus amigos en los últimos años? ¿Cuál es tu modo de comunicación preferido? ¿Crees que pasas demasiado tiempo con el móvil? ¿Podrías vivir sin tu móvil? ¿Cuáles son las ventajas principales de Internet? ¿Cuáles son las desventajas principales de Internet?

Four worksheets containing narrow reading texts and tasks on holidays

Three resources I have used with my year 8 (mixed ability) to drill in -ARSE reflexive verbs across all persons. Lots of recycling, tons of activities, enough for one lesson. A logical follow-up to the resources I posted last week (see below)

A sentence builder, reading and vocab building resources

4 word documents packed with vocab building activities teaching useful language chunks through deep semantic processing tasks

(1) A glossary and a wide range of activities on the positives and negatives of my neighbourhood.(2) a match up (hot potatoes) starter /plenary. Challenging. I have used it successfully with my yr 9 top set but it also suitable for KS4 groups of average ability.

3 GCSE revision quickies on holidays, all chunk-based

Vocab reinforcement and oral drills

sentence builder, narrow reading, sentence builder, survey, sentence stealer and one pen one dice

Six narrow reading texts + a gap-fill based on it

- A sentence builder with translation task covering all present verb forms of jugar, ir and hacer - An oral translation board game (no snakes no ladders)

These are the scaffolds I use every day at the beginning of every lesson and at the end to recycle for 5 minutes (students talking in pairs) daily activities + the two tenses.

(1) A sentence builder presenting the structure ‘if I could I would go’ + transport+ accommodation + activities in the conditional (2) consolidation exercises recycling the vocabulary (3) oral scaffold for conversation / survey on topics

1) Two of my most popular resources to practise the preterite in Spanish 2) Oral translation board game to practise preterite in holidays context 3) a warm up set of activities to do before board game 4) a match questions with answers reading activity 5) Oral ping pong translation

A series of preliminary old school grammar drills I stage before engaging in oral communicative drills, a set of narrow reading tasks Find-someone-who with cards other oral tasks to recycle the same chunks of language everywhere WITH ANSWER KEY oral board game recycling the very same chunks WITH ANSWER KEY (instructions included) another set of old school drills for consolidation

reading-to-write resources, oral games, grammar drills, sentence building and vocab building. All recycling the same chunks and patterns

Three narrow reading texts on talking about holidays with a number of tasks aimed at maximising exposure to the target vocabulary and structures 3 files : 1. Narrow reading texts with three tasks on them 2. Same texts have been gapped and missing words/chunks provided in random order 3. Written and oral work - or simply oral work 4. Oral translation board game 5. Oral scaffold

9 pages jam-packed with activities to drill in essential vocabulary on this topic. Detailes answer key included

5 vocabulary builders recycling a wide range of useful phrases for essay writing + discourse markers, many of which are not useful found in textbooks. My students find them extremely useful as they recycle the target language items many times over.