It’s a classic using the San Fermín song to introduce the months in Spanish and the PowerPoint attached uses this along with a video of a recent encierro in order to illustrate the most famous aspect of this event. I also show a video where students see a mixture of other Spanish festivals in order to give further practice to the months of the year and to illustrate how festivals take place throughout the year in Spain. The overall aim of this lesson is to ask students for the date of their birthday but I will be extending this into a longer conversation including all other questions such as ¿Cómo te llamas?, ¿Cuántos años tienes? etc. that we have covered in earlier lessons.

(Slides 3+4 came from a resource I found online although I cannot remember who made them. Apologies to whoever made them for not giving credit.)

POWERPOINT: Los meses del año  WORKSHEET: months WORDSEARCH

With El Día de los Muertos coming up soon I’m posting two worksheets I’ve made for KS3. The second version is slightly more difficult than the first. Hope they might be of use to someone.

WORKSHEETS: El Día de los Muertos VERSION 1 El Día de los Muertos VERSION 2

The resources here are linked to teaching prepositions of place (near, far, next to, etc.). There is at least two lessons’ worth of material here – we’ll see how it goes! The only cultural aspects I’ve managed to get in are an attempt to work out where Barcelona FC players are in relation to one another in a photo as a starter activity + there is a worksheet on the Seville zoo. I used the latter in my lesson as an extension activity rather than homework in the end + it worked better than I expected.

POWERPOINT: Prepositions of place  WORKSHEETS: Dónde está Terence Dónde están los animales en el parque zoológico de Sevilla Dónde exactamente XWORD El Barça STARTER HIGHER reading&writing and listening L5 prepositions READING Prepositions practice to accompany Av.de las flores slide READING Dónde está exactamente ws READING Las prepositions WORKSHEET Reading&writing

Thanks to Steve Ward for the majority of the work here.

In a previous post I shared resources on teaching the alphabet to a Year 7 (beginners) group. This was to deal with them spelling their names – ¿Cómo se escribe ….? Now we are moving on to talking about age and as such we need to know some numbers. In order to get some cultural reference in I have added in an activity where the class hears football results for Spanish teams as well as an activity where they have to read out the number plates for vehicles across the Spanish-speaking world. This, of course, helps to revise the alphabet covered in an earlier lesson + also draws attention to the many countries in which Spanish is spoken. It’s always worth a reminder!

[Slide 37 there is a video – click on the picture + you should be able to play it. The following slides (38-46) are to be used with mini-whiteboards. The students have to write down the number before the mouse gets into the hole.]

Also, thanks to the comments from Katherine De Lima. If you have not yet seen her blog YOU MUST! There are some great ideas on there – http://quecheveredelima.wordpress.com/ . I’m loving the Pico y Placa idea for teaching numbers and the alphabet.

POWERPOINT: NUMBERS 1-13 + AGE WORKSHEETS: Los resultados de partidos de fútbol numbers 1-13 CROSSWORD PLENARY putting the ages in order WORKSHEET tengo cuatro años

I’m teaching the alphabet to my Year 7 group soon. Attached is the PowerPoint I am going to use. In an attempt to add a bit of culture into the mix (this was a challenge!), I’ve added in an exercise to test the sight of my students which I’ve linked to Manolito Gafotas  imagining that he will have taken such a test at some point. I know this is a tenuous link, but …. Further into the PPT I’ve used the programme Cifras y Letras. The aim is for students to listen + note down the letters chosen and when the word is revealed they look this up in the dictionary. This should help to reinforce the dictionary skills work carried out in earlier slides.

POWERPOINT: ABECEDARIO   WORKSHEET: Alphabet pronunciation sheet

I have already uploaded a post about teaching the weather in Spanish, so I will not repeat the same resources here. This is an extension of the earlier work. Here I focus on the seasons + the weather in Cuba compared with that in Spain. Inspiration from a trip to Cuba earlier this year!

POWERPOINT: SEASONS CUBA + SPAIN  WORKSHEETS: las zonas climáticas HIGHER TEXT las zonas climáticas TEXT