 the end of Tuesday this week, so my focus is going to be on cramming vocabulary, hence the booklet.
BOOKLET: VOCABULARY BOOKLET 2018
I am teaching the film VOLVER as part of the A level Spanish course. There are some great resources and I have relied on the ZigZag booklet as well as the Hodder Education book esp. as I had never taught this before. Attached are some resources I put together on the use of the colour red in the film. A number of the slides are adapted from other resources shared on blogs, etc. Thanks to all those people who share + do not charge money! The PowerPoint starts with a recap from my previous lesson on the theme of death, etc. The videos are adapted from ones I found on YouTube. They required a bit of editing down to make them useable. Hope the resources are of some use.
POWERPOINT: VOLVER EL ROJO WORKSHEETS: EL COLOR ROJO Almodóvar
The attached resource is nothing great and there will be much better versions out there, but I’m sharing in case it is of use to someone. I have two bottom sets for GCSE Spanish and trying to get them all ready for the heavy demands of the new GCSE speaking exam is daunting. I have a number of SEN students who are finding the work challenging. At my school we follow AQA and the attached booklet is one I will be using from March when I will have covered everything topic-wise. From that point I will be concentrating on final preparation for the oral exam as well as exam technique + general revision.
We are using Rachel Hawkes‘ approach to vocabulary acquisition which she terms as ‘non-negotiables’. We are using the term ‘compulsory language’. I start most lessons running through key bits of language (much of which is essential for students to construct language independently). I have attached some PowerPoint slides as an example. As dull as it is, we just work through the slides and they all tell me the meanings. We have mini-tests as well to make sure they are getting to grips with all the terms. The attached PowerPoint is a collection of many of the slides. They aren’t all used together but are dropped into lessons as appropriate.
RESOURCES: POWERPOINT KEY LANGUAGE SLIDES examples BOOKLET: SPEAKING ASSESSMENT role play and photo card EXAM PRACTICE BOOKLET ASSESSMENT EXAMPLES: MICRO ASSESSMENT exam practice MICRO ASSESSMENT high frequency words
Hardly my favourite topic to teach, but this lesson re: opinions on different ways of buying things worked. I’ll explain how I used the attached PowerPoint bit by bit.
- The PowerPoint begins with a starter using the Mi Gente song. I just wanted to make sure they know the word “gente” and hoped Beyoncé would be better at getting them to remember this than me.
- The photo of El Corte Inglés is part of my routine to get them to describe pictures.
- They know PUEDO, so I’m introducing SUELO. I’m making sure they know the main high frequency verbs like QUIERO, PUEDO, DEBO, DOY, etc. They saw SUELO last lesson, so is a recap.
- Question slide – ¿Dónde sueles comprar? + ¿Por qué? We worked through this bit by bit to make sure they understood everything.
- I then read out three sentences in English which they had to translate into Spanish using the previous slide e.g. I usually shop on the internet because there are more discounts.
- We then went through all the reasons why you might shop in a department store or online + decided which they best described.
- Worksheet. Match the Spanish to the English + then translation of the phrases.
- Reading worksheet. There are three versions of this as my bottom set group is really mixed in terms of ability.
- Written task. Styled along the lines of the AQA Foundation Paper 90 word task which my group is getting used to.
- Past paper reading exam question. I used the slide to explain the issue of whether online shopping is harming the high street + then they did the reading task.
The homework task is a translation based on language from this and previous lessons. I’ve been teaching them “Diría que” as an alternative to “Creo que ../ Pienso que …”.
RESOURCES: De compras TRANSLATION GCSE into ENGL