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
A lesson on Tejero’s coup d’état attempt.
Includes listening activities, grammar practice (preterite VS imperfect) and a speaking card activity. + student booklet
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
A lesson (or two, depending on student ability and time constrains) to teach characters from Pan’s labyrinth. Includes a booklet for sturents.
A mixed of activities to analyse each character covering all skills. (20 slides)
One escape the room type of lesson to revise unit 2, el mundo laboral. Ideal to revise in Y13 or use as an end of unit lesson.
Skills:
Key vocabulary
Context
Reading comprehension
Grammar (subjunctive)
Translation
6 different worksheets for students to practice their speaking (3 foundation and 3 higher) based on past papers. Each worksheet has a role play, photocard and conversation questions on three different themes.
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)
A very challenging lesson on christmas for your GCSE spanish groups. Tell your students all about Christmas in Spain and use the powerpoint and the visual clues to support understanding (all the information is written on the notes just in case you need help with the target language). Keep using TL until the very last day :)
The lesson includes a Christmas quiz for a different lesson as well.
(I normally ask my students to make notes and share what they understood after I give them information for each day)
An introductory lesson to study the social and historical context of the play, with reading and listening comprehension activities and a student friendly booklet to work independently.
Resources (booklet and power point) to use with Year 7 students of Spanish.
Pack of 3-5 lessons to study the movie Coco.
The resources cover:
Before-watching discussions
Trailer
Mexican culture
Characters
Songs
A review of the movie
Project ideas
3 lessons based on chapter 5 from Viva (higher and foundation), module 4 (holidays).
Lesson 1:
-Question/answer starter
-Treasure hunt/tripadvisor (3 hotel adds -student centered)
-Reading comprehension
-Memory game (plenary)
Lesson 2:
-Starter (order the dialogue)
-Listening activity (foundation page 15)
-Gap filling listening activity
-Role play (GCSE task)
-Memory game (plenary)
Lesson 3:
-Pronunciation match up
-Song ‘este hotel me vuelve loca’
-Complains match up
-Sentence builder/speaking activity (¿Cuál es el problema?)
-Higher listening from Viva (page 17)
-Translation activity -solutions
Two writing mats to help students master opinions and reasons in Spanish. It includes:
Basic opinions and ways to spice them up + someone else’s opinions + opinions in different tenses.
Basic adjectives to give reasons in Spanish (all topics) + more complex reasons + comparative structures + idioms + reasons in different tenses.