This is a worksheet i made for the A-Level topic of health and fitness which focuses on the short film 'el cazo de Lorenzo'. The film explores issues related to children with disabilities and the worksheet includes an essay in the edexcel AS format. Also here are links for 'Por cuatro esquinitas de nada' and 'El viaje de María' which are on the same theme.
If anyone is stuck for ideas for a new novel to study at A-Level Spanish, can I strongly recommend 'El lápiz del carpintero' by Manuel Rivas (also responsible for 'La lengua de las mariposas') It's an amazing story set in Galicia around the time of the Civil War and written by one of Spain's best contemporary authors. On Saturday, my A-Level students interviewed him at the World Literature weekend in the British Museum - he was an incredibly warm, humble and inspiring person and this is a short clip from the interview where he tells us an anecdote from his childhood in order to explain how he uses his own experiences of people to develop his novels' characters.
This is a presentation i've been using with A-Level students to help them focus on building coherent, meaningful and grammatically correct sentences. It aims to help them identify where phrases are too vague, have bad grammar or simply don't relate to/answer the exam question.
This is an updated webquest using Google Street view (as the original doesn't work due to ongoing changes to Toledo's google street)It helps practice instructions in Spanish whilst navigating around a city in Spain. I've added in some tasks where the students have to visit websites of businesses and shops in Toledo - as an added twist, these questions are delivered to them by speaking Spanish Voki Avatars. Instructions video underneath to help plan how to use it; although i'm keeping it as an end-of-year challenge as it will probably cover 2 lessons.
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This is a presentation i made for use as starter or as independent learning. The aim is to get students to exploit as many cognate verbs as possible in their Spanish writing. It contains drills on over 120 verbs in many different tenses/constructions. Save zip file and then open it - Sorry for stupid name.
Interactive game to practice descriptions. This new level is with audio clues instead of written ones. Can be used as whole-class game or individually by students. Added version compatible with earlier Office suites (2003)
I'd wanted to do something like this for ages. This is a whole lesson & homework which begins with revision & exercises on the imperfect tense and continues to a story where i send my year 11 off to some of Spain's worst hotels. Each student has a genuine tripadvisor.es review to translate and then a written task where they use the imperfect tense to describe their own stay at these hotels. Some of the lesson is BVGS specific but should be quite easy to adapt to your own classes. Save zip file first and then open it.
2nd worksheet using google street view to practice instructions in Spanish using the city of Granada. Updated for 2013 as the nice people at Google maps updated their photos without telling me!
Second level of the describilicious game with harder clues and more suspects to eliminate. Save zip file first and then open it.
This is a story i made about Spanish idioms and contains a silly story about my year 11s having an exchange visit from Spain. Worksheet to go with the presentation too. Save zip file first and then open it.
This is a lesson I made about 'false friends' in Spanish. It has a vocab sheet, revision flicker and a silly story featuring my year 10 class.
This is a presentation i made to help my students learn and revise Spanish phrases which are either hard to translate, or have multiple meanings/uses.
This is a lesson I use as an introduction to A-Level. It's based on Spanish idioms related to colours and animals.
This is a presentation to help students learn 50+ Spanish verbs but is also good for finding patterns in Spanish between different types of words. Answers included as well as presentation.
