These resources are for teaching the weather in Spanish in the context of holidays and recommending a destination because of its climate.

A Reading Comprehension Worksheet on the Festival of San Fermín in Spain which leads to a piece of extended Writing.

I used this with a top set Year 9 group. I showed the film before doing the activities. I explained that they would find it very difficult to understand but what I wanted was for them to get a general idea of what happens in the story. The film lasts about 12 minutes. I followed this with the activities on the PowerPoint. The memorisation activity at the start gives them the opportunity to learn some key words then you go through what happens in the film expressed in simpler language. Finally comes the blanked text activity.

Los futbolistas y los grupos de música pop que ganan muchísimo dinero no son buenos modelos para la juventud. ¿Estás de acuerdo o no? Justifica tus opiniones. I have taken this as the theme for a lesson which hopefully builds towards the students being prepared to write their own response to the title as part of their homework.

A range of activities covering the A level topic of “el ciberespacio”. These range from reading tasks to translations and summary skills. Two of the activities link to Teach Vid exercises I have put together.

I have been putting things together so that I can do some revision of topics that were covered during lockdown - I will want to pop back to some of them as we move through the first term. One part of this is a resource based on an interview with the Venezuelan trans producer ARCA. I have also taken the opportunity to take a look at suffixes in Spanish. When you see the resources you will see how I have shoehorned that in by using the lyrics from a song from ARCA’s new album!

Presentation of types of programme in Spanish + practice exercises. The video is embedded into the PowerPoint. You must be connected to the internet for it to work. In case of problems the URL for the link is posted at the bottom of the slide.

Piracy. The PowerPoint discusses downloading in its general sense before moving on to differentiate between legal and illegal downloading. The video + listening tasks are embedded and should work when the PowerPoint is downloaded. I have uploaded it to slideshare as the file was too large for this site. Also, the listening task on Spotify is based on a podcast from the SSL4YOU website http://ssl4you.blogspot.co.uk .

Although translation can easily be embedded into teaching, I find that it is important to take a period of time to focus on the skills involved. Attached is a booklet I have put together which is made up of all of the AQA translations into Spanish from recent past papers. I find that pulling everything together from a certain task type helps to focus the students on the skills needed and also helps me as a teacher to spot trends. March 2021 - The booklet has been updated to include the 2020 paper

These Resources are for teaching the topic of Hotel Accommodation. I have added in a focus on the Hotel Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires to provide a bit of Cultural background. They include Questions, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension and Writing tasks.

A collection of worksheets covering the topic of “El machismo y el feminismo”.

This is a pack of reading resources on the A2 Spanish topic of Las actitudes racistas y xenófobas. All the questioning used in the resources is based on AQA Spanish exam styles. Most activities have an accompanying link to a video on YouTube. The video links are embedded and should open automatically if you are linked to the internet. The resources are not arranged in any particular order. The PowerPoint can be cut up as appropriate.

Booklet to provide practice for the writing section of the AS Spanish examination. http://mfljones.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/as-edexcel-unit-2-section-c/

This is intended for higher level GCSE + giving opinions on your town. The YouTube video gives some interesting cultural background.

These resources are to be used following the teaching of the weather in Spanish. The focus is on the seasons and then describing the climate zones of the world. There are two versions of the text for differentiation purposes. The map that is coloured in as part of this activity is printed from the PowerPoint slide 10.

The resources here are aimed at practising clothes within the context of shopping. The main language presented is the verb QUEDAR as well as demonstrative pronouns. A cultural element is provided through the use of the Antena 3 programme Los Protegidos.

The activity relates to opinions on school uniform. The worksheet is printed on card + cut up and the students sort the statements into two columns- for or against school uniform.

Worksheet on the advantages / disadvantages of different sports in relation to health.

This is a reading resource I recently made to supplement work on the LGBT topic for my Year 12 group. It focuses on the case of a trans footballer. More resources can be found on the following link - https://neiljones.org/2020/05/04/las-personas-transgenero/

Transition to A level Spanish activities for Year 11 students. TASK 1 – A Cambio de Nada (film analysis) TASK 2 – Independent Research Project TASK 3 – Comprehension + grammar (based on the Covid19 outbreak + guidance given in Spain) Other resources can be found on https://neiljones.org/