Save hours and hours and hours of preparation with this Scheme of work for La casa de Bernarda Alba. (10-16 lessons + student booklets).
Very user friendly, you can use the lessons to teach yourself if you have never taught the book before.
Scheme of work overview:
L1 Federico García Lorca An introduction on the life of Lorca and his main works.
L2 Historical context. Pre-civil war Spain Understand the importance of the historical context for the play
L3 Act 1 Analysis of Act 1
L4 Act 2 Analysis of Act 2
L5 Act 3 Analysis of act 3
L6 Character analysis 1 Analysis and comprehension of the main characters
L7 Character analysis 2 Analysis and comprehension of the main characters
L8 Themes Analysis of the main themes in the play
L9 Technique Analyse and learn about the main techniques used by the writer
L10 Essay writing workshop: Explore the structure of the essay (introduction, development and conclusion)
L11 Essay writing workshop: Explore the language used in the essay and the mark scheme (A level)
L12 Essay workshop: Writing practice
L13 Essay consolidation: Quote revision
L13 Essay consolidation: Revision lesson
Extra Explore sessions: Trivial pursuit
Extra Explore sessions: Monopoly
Extra Explore sessions: Tinder profiles for characters
Extra Explore sessions: Quote game
A Christmas lesson with a range of activities to be used at different levels from year 6 to year 8 students of Spanish. Great lesson for the end of term.
Contents:
Christmas vocabulary + Games
GCSE speaking style -qué hay en la foto
Morat -dulce navidad (gap filling and dictionary race
Christmas activities/ crafts ideas
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
2 lessons based on module 4, temas del momento.
Lesson 1
perfect tense -first contact
reading
grammar point -perfect tense, handout with use and formation
never have I ever game + create your own
Lesson 2
perfect tense consolidation/formation
perfect tense practise
game 1 -find the intruder
game 2 -verb race
4 lessons on environment aimed at a mixed ability group based on Viva GCSE (actúa localmente, piensa globalmente)
ideal for remote learning (all slides contain a to do list with instructions for each task), listening tasks included (with link and code to the book) and quizzlet and flippity games to practice vocabulary
based on chapter 8 from viva, only focused on environment
grammar covers revision for all tenses + conditional lesson
Two lessons focused on context before studying ‘El laberinto del fauno’. These have been planned to be taught before watching the movie and they give a good insight into the context before, during and after the Civil War in Spain. (32 slides). It includes a booklet for students.
L1 focuses on the period before and during the war
-La segunda república
-Las dos Españas
-El comienzo y final de la guerra
-La posguerra bajo Franco
L2 covers key elements during postwar Spain that are going to be featured in the movie.
-La resistencia republicana
-El racionamiento durante la posguerra
-La ideología franquista hacia la mujer
Two lessons to cover ‘Un día fatal’ from the new AQA Spanish higher text book (module 1). Lessons include plenty of tasks covering the new GCSE spec (read aloud, pronunciation, grammar etc…)
Start the year right by using only 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. Ideal for KS3 groups.
2 lessons based on Viva foundation, punto de partida 1, module 2 (School and subjects)
Lesson 1:
Gender/subjects recap
Opinions (grammar)
Listening
Sentence builder
Vocab test
Lesson 2:
Adjectives to describe teachers
Listening
Debate about teachers
Jenga game
This is a great resource to help your students prepare for the writing assessment. It includes a selection of key verbs for each theme, basic verbs in different tenses, time expressions, connectives, idiom, slang and more complex structures they can use and even learn by heart to use and adapt to their writing.
Two booklets for Year 11s to practise/prepare for their writing assessment on their own with plenty of advice, different sentences to introduce and finish off their writing, advice on how to tackle translation and a practise paper to apply all the strategies discussed.
A lesson on the life, biography and works of Lorca in preparation to study La casa de Bernarda Alba.
All the activities are based on a text and students will work on reading, listening, grammar, comprehension skills and a summary question while they learn about the Spanish writer.
It can be set as homework or as a project by using the booklet.