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.
This is a video i made with the help of two of my year 11s to give the class a better idea of how to bring together all the preparation work we'd done for their 1st controlled conditions writing. It really helped get the message across in a humorous way and definitely helped students with the focus on showing off what they had learnt. Big thankyous to Laraib and Bundle. Video a bit squeaky at start but sound quality improves.
1 of 3 halloween-based lessons i'll be doing with my yr 9 Spanish set this week. PP contains a vocab sheet and exercises based on both a cartoon within the PP as well as the 1st part of a Spanish version of Garfield's Halloween special.
Just a few exercises i've done where students use their artistic skills to show they understand Spanish texts.
Towards the end of last year, i played Nintendo Wii with most of my Language classes. This is a video and worksheet with ideas on how you might use the game Wii party in your Spanish class ( could also work for French/German etc). It was a really fun and worthwhile activity and hopefully this year i'll be including the Wii again as part of the module i do on commands/imperatives instead of just an end-of-term treat.
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.
These are the resources i used on a recent project i did with my year 10 about the Favelas in Brazil. There are photos, videos and website links which they used as a starting point to research about life in these Brazilian shanty towns and the aim was to finish off our unit about house, home and routine by writing a factual piece about a home in a favela and an imaginative one about the daily routine of a child who lives there. I've included a couple of the slides that my year 10s made.
A game for the whole class including vocab, maths, drawing, pronunciation. listenings and grammar in French - aimed at Year 7. All instructions are in presentation and there's a video to help understand how it works. You'll just need mini-whiteboards and an interactive board. Remember to enable macros. Bit of a giant file i'm afraid.
Download ENDOFTERMGAME Download ENDOFTERMGAME spanish
3rd time i've done subtitling a cartoon as a way of getting students to use 'recyclable vocabulary'. The focus was on using superlatives & comparatives but it's a good open and fun task which allows students to experiment with different Spanish phrases. I used the Pixar short 'Lifted' and gave my students this Powerpoint in an ICT suite lesson before setting it as homework to complete. I used Movie maker to add the subtitles when i'd graded them and the best one is below.
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 the 2nd project i've done using short films where i get my class to write subtitles focusing on a specific vocab area (interrogatives here) as well as use of recyclable vocab. Powerpoint contains lesson material for interrogatives + the slides I used in the ICT suite lesson. After a week, i took the work in and used movie maker to add the best 3 students' subtitles - one of which is below.
This is a lesson on exclamations in Spanish which led on to an ICT suite activity where my students used this vocab to write subtitles to the animated short film 'Oktapodi'. There are exercises, grammar and a Blockbusters game related to exclamations within the file. I used moviemaker to add the subtitles on to the best 3 in the class - one of which is underneath. I feel guilty when i see this as i enjoyed many an 'oktapodi' on my honeymoon on the lovely island of Santorini last year.
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.
Download Google-street-3 (1) Download Google-street-3-teachers-sheet
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.
This is like the other versions of this game but with Simpsons characters and a focus on prepositions in Spanish as the vocab clues.
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.
I made this webquest for an ICT lesson at the end of a module on Sports/Hobbies. I used 2 Spanish polideportivos' websites and ScreenPresso to make the screenshots for the 2nd one. The questions are all linked to getting info about timetables, activities etc & answers for teachers underneath. Save zip file first and then open it.
Download Los polideps Download LOS POLIDEPORTIVOS (Autosaved)
Part of a relentless campaign to improve vocab retention. These are slides with vocab/picture matching exercises + some extension tasks for most topics. 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!
I use this to practice vocabulary as starter or plenary. Instructions on 1st slide and empty template on slide 2. Download Cuatro en Raya & Quatre à la suite
Second level of the describilicious game with harder clues and more suspects to eliminate. Save zip file first and then open it.
This is an interactive PowerPoint i made to help my students practice their description vocabulary. All instructions on the slide and hopefully i'll upload levels 2&3 soon. Save zip file first and then open it. Sorry for the silly name.
Link to French version on Chiltern MFL blog.
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.
I made this a few years ago but i'm not sure if any schools do roleplays anymore. Could be used for general speaking revision practice as well I guess.
Take a trip round the Spanish city of Oviedo and solve the questions by following the directions on Google Maps.
Would you like to see which monster you are? Here are the updated monsters for all of my classes this year. You will need to go into slide show view to make the flicks work then s to start and stop. (Press shift and F5)
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.
I've made this presentation as a guide on using the internet in Language learning. It focuses a lot on the use of www.wordreference.com.
This is a lesson I use as an introduction to A-Level. It's based on Spanish idioms related to colours and animals.
A crime/mystery game which I use as a whole-class activity over 2 lessons. Remember to enable macros.
This is a vocabulary game I use with my year 7/8 classes. Instructions on slides 1-2. Remember to enable macros.
This is a game I use with all my classes although this template has questions aimed at years 10+. Answers included on separate document.
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.
This is an updated template for millonario in Spanish. I've made it a little more generic and it can be edited fairly easily. Slide 1 has full instructions for teachers and if anyone fancies making a French version, please send me a link.
Help Lady Gaga and Alejandro by revising your Spanish vocabulary. This is a vocab practice presentation which works by not allowing the students to go forward unless they pick the correct option - contains a silly animation at the start so will need to be in slide-show view. It's inspired by the Lady Gaga song Alejandro and includes lots of different topics for KS3 students - sounds a BGT buzzer when they get it wrong.
