Set of lessons (at least 2 without watching the movie) to study the movie Encanto (available on Disney+). Powerpoint and student booklet. You can use the resources before / while / after watching the movie or not watch the movie at all!
Contents:
Exploration of Colombian culture
Characters (gifts, physical descriptions and family tree)
Songs (La familia Madrigal + no se habla de Bruno)
A review of the movie
+2 optional mini projects
Easily adaptable to any year group but designed for year 7 / year 8 students of Spanish.
Skills:speaking, reading, writing and listening
Vocabulary: family, physical descriptions, adjectives, possesion
6 lessons based on Viva (foundation and higher) but not necessarily following the book. The lessons contain a lot of cultural knowledge on the topic of food in Spain and GCSE speaking tasks to practise it, as well as authentic resources and two games to practise speaking and tenses. Your students will love it!
Lesson 1 - eating habits in Spain
Very scaffolded reading comprehension (authentic resource)
Lesson 2 - main meals
listening task using a youtube video
speaking -English or Spanish tradition?
photo task
Lesson 4
Foods
Tense revision
Tense wheel -game
Writing using 6 tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, near future, simple future, present perfect)
Lesson 5
Food, vocabulary consolidation from Viva
Listening
REading
Role play GCSE
Lesson 6
Typical Spanish foods and ingredients
Reading comprehension (authentic resource)
Pinball speaking game
These two lessons are based on VIVA (not strictly following the book). Listening activity is from VIVA higher (page 6).
Both lessons’ main focus is the correct use of opinions (variety of opinions) and the use of the third person singular when giving opinions.
AQA. 3 lessons to introduce free time topic (aimed at year 10), covering free time activities and sports.
Grammar includes opinion phrases + infinitive, present tense (regular, irregular and stem changing) and comparative sentences.
Bank of sentences divided by theme and topic (foundation and higher) with key language structures to be used in new GCSE lessons.
Theme 1 People and lifestyle
Education and work
Healthy living and lifestyle
Identity and relationships with others
Theme 2 Popular culture
Celebrity culture
Customs, festivals and celebrations
Free time activities
Theme 3 Communication and the world around us
Media and technology
The environment and where people live
Travel and tourism, including places of interest
3 lessons to introduce unit 7: el impacto positivo de la inmigración.
L1- España como destino migratorio -reasons why they choose Spain
L2- principales nacionalidades -main nationalities/ groups of immigrants arriving
L3- son bien recibidos? -are inmmigrants welcome in Spain?
Theme 2, unit 4: la música.
Two lessons to be used to introduce this music unit.
Content:
Context slides (listening/note taking)
Reading comprehension (los artistas españoles con más influencia)
Alejandro Sanz: un ejemplo de su influencia en la historia de la música española
Mini presentaciones (speaking)
La historia de la música; una breve panorámica
Speaking-pair dictation-gap filling
Hitster, music game
Five lessons based on VIVA module 4 ‘punto de partida a and punto de partida 2 (intereses e influencias’ and ¿qué sueles hacer?) (mixture foundation and higher).
Grammar focus (present tense, preterite tense).
Tv programs, free time activities and sports.
Unit of work on the Spanish Civil War. Power point + student booklet for all the lessons.
L1 -introduction
L2- causes of the war
L3- measures taken by the republican governenment
L4- constitution and reaction
L5- beginning of the war
L6 -two sides
L7- main battles and role of the women
L8- main battles and the beginning of the end
L9- the end of the war
L10- the end of the war
L11- Grammar, tense revision, pluperfect tense and complex structures
This bundle will give you a wide range of activities to celebrate European day of languages for an entire week with different activities designed to be delivered during tutor time (20 min).
Focus on oracy and celebrating diversity.
European languages quiz
2.Guess how many languages the celebrity speaks
Find Wally in Europe
4.Find someone who
5.Identity day
6.European Dictionary quest
7.Assembly
It includes an assembly.
7 lessons based on Module 1 from VIVA (foundation/higher).
Contents :
GCSE writing tasks
Present tense irregular verbs
Opinions with a focus on third person
weather in the present tense
how to improve sentences
questions and answers about ideal holidays
consolidation games
Three lessons based only on understanding the story, designed to be used before and while students are reading each act, with main quotes, main vocabulary, reading comprehension activities, summaries and mini essay writing questions.
Aimed for students to work independently with the booklet but it can also be used to teach a lesson. All answers are provided on the power point.
Whole unit of work ‘El mundo laboral’
L1- introduction to the topic /context/ glossary of important terms/ reading comprehension/ translation
L2 and 3 -la precariedad laboral y los mileuristas /context /reading/ listening /translation
L4 -grammar focus, preterite tense and all its irregulars
L5- La generación nini /speaking
L6 - tipos de contrato /recap lesson/ listening and translation
L7 - Contratos basura /speaking focus
L8- grammar focus passive voice
L9- El día de la mujer trabajadora
L10- Mujeres que hacen malabarismos /reading /listening/ translation
L11 -Mini IRP assessment preparation lesson
5 lessons to introduce preterite tense and imperfect based on Module 4 Viva higher and foundation.
Grammar focus. Sports and preterite/imperfect tense (regular and irregular verbs) formation (with practice).
Series of lessons on La Tomatina.
L1- introduction to the festival (basic vocabulary) and rules
L2- what do people do at La Tomatina festival -revision of present tense
L3- what did you do at the festival? revision of past tense
L4- GCSE listening practice on the topic of La tomatina
L5- did you have a good time? consolidation of opinions in the past tense
+Extra activity, murder mystery
Three to five lessons on the theme of the Euros 24, aimed at years 7,8 and 9.
Ppt + student booklet
L1 Language covered includes colours and countries. Skills covered are listening and speaking (optional reading), using sentence builders as support. The sentence builder covers basic opinions and reasons. Please go through the slides to choose the activities that best fit your classes. There are comments and further instructions on the notes section.
L2, Language covered includes numbers (places), agreement/disagreement and opinions. Skills covered are reading, speaking and writing.
L3, Language covered includes hair, eye colour descriptions, basic personal information and animals. Skills covered are reading comprehension, translation, listening and writing. For the final project, students design a mascot and write a description in Spanish using the sentence builder.
6 lessons to teach the movie Pan’s labyrinth. You can use each lesson after watching each scene. Plenty of activities based on each scene (reading comprehensions, translations, vocabulary, grammar, speaking). It includes booklets for each lesson.