SOS salud is short agony aunt letters related to diet with giving advice. El tabaquismo- you might think this is more AS but sometimes able GCSE students are surprised by how much they understand particularly as this is a topic they know about and the language is taken and adapted from a newspaper article on the net so is full of cognates. The questions also clear up some of what they might not understand.

Instead of approaching Daily routine as a lexical task which is what we often do with Year 7, this approach focuses more on verbs and daily routine is simply the context, so in the end what matters is that they can apply the rules not that they know 10+ phrases for describing routine. My Year 7 can now define a regular/irregular and reflexive verb. They know what an infinitive is and what to conjugate means. We then went on to look at the gap fill more closely so that they can add connectives and time phrases to a description of their daily routine as I am sure you all do. The difference now is that when they prepare for their speaking assessment at the end of this term they will hopefully, some at least add activities they do in the evenings that I haven't taught them.

Not particularly original but I have quite a lot of fun reading out the story for the listening activity and being a Spanish 'Vicky Pollard'- also I find the card sort really gets them thinking about metalanguage and how verbs work- I find mind mapping a really good way to get them to figure out the rules instead of giving it to them- pre-populate a mind map with sub headings so they only have to fill in details and that works well. I also like getting them to work with infinitives and verb tables because they don't use them effectively if you don't actively show them how.

This is the right version to look at. I shared the wrong ppt last time so it would not have made sense. It was used to prepare students for a Controlled assessment on giving advice and health issues Worked really well and generated some lively discussion

I shared a lesson plan on giving advice with accompanying documents and then received a comment which made me have another look. This is in fact the full lesson plan ppt that goes with those resources, sorry about the mistake.

I use this to get students in to the topic of food which can be a bit boring. I get them to prep their own answers, and then speed date to ask and answer with as many partners as possible. I am trying to get them to be more authentic in their responses to get those top marks in Speaking.

Developed from Edexcel rojo activity on Pans Lab Reading, adapting texts and then writing, watching extracts of the film and commenting. Could be a build up to an assessed piece of writing or speaking Historia oficial is a Higher reading activity

This was created after a student in my Y11 class asked at what age you can drink in Spain. I am always looking for ways in to topics that give them a flavour of A Level and we were just about to start the health topic when it occured to me to link the idea of health issues and youth problems to legal age of consent and the fact that young people are in too much of a hurry to grow up.

I have a challenging Y9 Spanish group made up of all boys. I took them to the computer room and told them they were investigative reporters who were interested in the supernatural and the unexplained. They were then given this task sheet and I have never seen them so focussed. They all decided it was alien in origin and won't be persuaded otherwise, even when I told them about the severed heads.

I teach the whole of Y9 but only once a week so I have to get through a lot very quickly, and they have only started Spanish this year. This is then how I have approached familiarisation with the present tense using the model teenager and the teenager from hell. The vocab inserts get stuck in their books for reference at the start of term.

Los personajes is based on the idea of creating a soap opera like LOST but a spanish version,first developed in conjunction with Edexcel for GCSE Spanish Unit 4, I will add my GCSE version soon

I created a whole SOW around the idea that Y9 were making a low budget latin american version of LOST-see KS$ GCSE textbook for Edexcel for original idea. So when we do sports we do water sports and introduce them via likes and dislikes before introducing more conventional sports

Not the most inspiring of topics. The grammar summary is aimed at my class in particular but you might find it useful and it is easy to adapt to a different context that might be more relevant. The quien manda is a reading but I need to re-add questions/tasks so will you. Cinderella brings together talking about relationships with imperfect and present tense and helping around the house.

A series of tasks I have put together for my Y10 Spanish group on topic of food and diet in order to make the start of Y11 less hectic because I never quite cover as much of curriculum as I would like to in Y10. It includes key vocabulary for listening and reading on food topic, some verb tense revision but actually key sentences for how to talk about diet, then a writing task. They will be doing CA on health in autumn.

F/H or higher reading tasks on smoking and alcohol Non verbal response

Previously I just posted an explanation of the activity and how to use it. I have now added the instructions/prompt sheet I give to my students and a vocabulary task sheet on music which is based on Edexcel AS past papers

I have just put together display for sprucing up classroom at start of term- have had them laminated A3- For years I have been putting up classroom language signs and then failing to sustain insistence that they use the phrases so I have distilled it down to absolute minimum on one poster and have decided to challenge them to keep it going all year. Meetings and greetings- not all that clever really but again just to see if I can get them to say hi in Spanish spontaneously if the constant reminder is on display

Quite a challenging reading task for Y9, but do insist they don't mindlessly tick boxes but have to make a note of new language. I get them to use the language in order to then write a lengthy paragraph about cinema going habits and preferences. I have got them to ask and answer the questions in pairs as well.

Knicked the idea from GCSE text book and then created a whole series of resources around a group of Spanish speaking characters marooned on an island. You can then do daily routine of the survivors, water sports rather than conventional sports/Who caused the plane to crash and why/ who is having an affair with who and so on-relationships. It lends itself to anything you like in the end. Suddenly boring topics become more fun and students have really run with the idea. will add more of my stuff on this soon

Can be used with able students in Y9, particularly the questionnaire vas al cine a menudo