Year 12, transition lesson. Unit 1: Los cambios en la estructura familiar.
Reading about types of family + how has the concept of family changed over the years.
A lesson to use during transition day.
Escape the room type of lesson -students need to solve different tasks to be able to escape the room. At the end of every activity, students get a number to crack the final code to escape the room.
All the activities are based on disney/pixar movies.
The resource contains: slide with instructions, all the materials you will need and answer key.
Tasks cover the following skills and topics:
Colours
Reading / translating
Numbers and mathematical operations (Numeracy skills)
Sports
Animals
Introductions/greetings
Physical descriptions
Three lessons based on ‘qué haces cuando llueve’ viva 1.
The lessons cover all skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking) through the use of sentence builders and the vocabulary used is the one from the book.
An A level taster lesson (60 minutes but can be delivered in less if you skip the speaking) for GCSE students covering the importance of flamenco in Spanish society nowadays and how Rosalia has had an impact on the Flamenco genre in today’s world.
Contents:
Warm up- Spanish stereotypes
Quiz on flamenco - qué sabes del flamenco
Speaking activity (mainly opinions)
Card sorting activity (positive/ negative views on flamenco)
Rosalia- a reading comprehension. The article has been adapted from different newspaper articles
Malamente- speaking task
Speaking card mock activity (plenary)
Q&A
3 lessons to teach module 4, unit 4 of VIVA 1.
The lessons have been planned following EPI method and using sentence builders to teach the vocabulary from that section of the textbook.
skills covered: translation, speaking, listening, reading and writing
Escape the room lesson in French and Spanish aimed at primary school students or beginners in Secondary school. Ideal for transition days to be used with students who do any of the languages at primary. Please notice that this lesson requires a lot of prepation (mainly printing) and it’s quite interactive.
Topics cover colours, sports, numbers, opinions, adjectives and introductions.
A lesson to teach KS3 students about Spanish celebrations during Easter.
Since it’s a cultural lesson, it has been planned to use a mixed between English and the target language.
Brief summary:
Differences between Spain and UK
Easter celebrations - a dictionary of key terms
The dance of the death- Verges (paralel translation)
Quiz/ competition
Speaking activity - share your opinion
Two revision lessons covering topic 3 (el impacto del turismo)
L1 quick revision of the topic
Skills practice (reading, listening and translation)
Vocabulary
L2 vocabulary, revision
Speaking focus, variety of activities and games, leading to a debate on different points based on card task. (edexcell)
Ideally, students will go through the vocabulary ahead of the lesson as part of their revision homework.
For another revision lesson, check out this escape room on topic 3 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12482773
One lesson to teach students to analyse the theme of obedience and disobedience in ‘El laberinto del fauno’. (13 slides)
Structure of the lesson:
Introductory discussion
Gapfill
Pair dictation activity analysing obedient and disobedient characters (speaking)
Model essay and mark scheme
Introductory lesson to Pan’s Labyrinth, focussed on Del Toro’s life, works and style. Includes a booklet for students.
Contents:
-Del Toro’s biography (reading comprehension)
-Del Toro’s most important films and what they have in common (time line of main movies and plots)
-Del Toro’s directing style (listening activity)
-Del Toro’s use of monters (listening activity)
One lesson, as part of unit 6, where students will learn about different reasons that generate controversy in the celebration of different Spanish festivals.
The whole lesson has been scaffolded to complete a speaking card and covers reading, translation and speaking skills.
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.
Two lessons to teach the influence of the church in Spanish society and the family structure to A level students (theme 1, unit 1).
L1 - Overview of the catholic church in Spain and how its influence has changed through the years,
L2- Influence of the church on society and family structures.
Skills:
Listening
Reading
Speaking
Translation
Start the year right by using lots of target language in your first lesson! Easily adaptable -rules and expectations, introduction, book sorting + icebreaker plus some ideas to establish a good rapport with your class from day 1, all in Spanish. Aimed at GCSE classes. It includes differenciation for bottom and top sets.
Lesson / half a lesson on the song ‘me quedo’ by Aitana and Lola Indigo.
Worksheet + powerpoint with biography/ reading comprehension, gap fill activity and idioms and expressions from the song.