One lesson to teach subjunctive to Year 11 Spanish (top set)
Includes:
a list of subjunctive triggers
how to form present subjunctive
activities to check understanding
a quick game/speaking activity (based on the topic of jobs but adaptable to any other topic)
a translation activity
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 guide students through the essay.
L1: Essay structure and planning
L2: Mark scheme and essay language
L3: Essay writing and peer marking
It includes some quick activities on key quotes and key grammar.
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
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.
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
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
Save WEEKS of work with this resource!
A whole unit of work (11 lessons + assessment) to teach Unidad 1: Los cambios en la estructura familiar. I follow Edexcell exam board.
Readings have been adapted from Spanish newspaper articles so it includes plenty of authentic resources and updated (2023) facts.
Overview:
First lesson, expectations and ice breakers (adaptable)
L1 Tipos de familia. Introduction to different family models.
Skills: note taking (listening) and reading. Includes further reading articles.
L2 Tipos de familia 2 (new family models)
How to complete the fact file (la hoja de datos).
Skills: reading and grammar (stem changing verbs
L3 present subjunctive
Skills: Grammar
L4 Traditional family vs modern family
Skills: note taking (listening) and speaking (debate)
L5 Gay marriage
Skills; Note taking, reading and grammar (apocopation)
L6 The role of grandparents
Skills: note taking (listening) reading and grammar (reflexive verbs)
L7 The influence of the church, brief history
Skills: reading
L8 the influence of the church in family models
Skills: listening, reading, translation
L9 domestic violence
Skills: note taking (listening) reading and speaking
L10 Speaking questions preparation
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.
A whole module of lessons planned for a bottom set Spanish class (games + sentence builders).
Lesson content:
L1 what do you do in your free time
L2 Free time activities
L3 Where do you go on holidays
L4 holiday activities and weather
L5 future tense, where are you going to go
L6 future tense consolidation
L7 what did you do/ past tense
L8 how was the hotel
L9 problems during your holiday
Study a Christmas movie in Spanish. Klaus -available on Netflix.
Duration: between 4 and 5 lessons if you are going to watch the movie. The resources can be used before, after or while watching the movie.
Resources (booklet and power point) to use with students of Spanish (made aimed at year 7 but can be used with any year group).
The resources cover:
Before-watching discussions
Trailer
Characters (a reading)
Characters descriptions in Spanish
The main message of the movie (kindness)
A review of the movie
A letter to Klaus (reading, writing)
Unidad 3: El impacto turístico en España.
A lesson to teach students about how tourism has evolved through the years in Spain. Good to use as an introduction for unit 3.
A lesson with comprehension activities to be used before watching episode 1 of the Spanish show Paquita Salas (available on netflix and 28-20 mins episodes).
Perfect for A level students of Spanish or introducing very able groups to Spanish netflix shows.
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.
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