Attached is an updated booklet for the GCSE AQA Spanish writing exam at Foundation. With my groups I find that lots of use of mini whiteboards to practise extended writing, esp. the 90 task helps lots. Regular practice using methods such as delayed dictation or showing a model answer which they write it down once removed from display all help to develop their memory and embed more complex phrases.

If anyone has any great ideas on how to improve writing esp. on the 150 word tasks at Higher, please share!

As we are being told that the exams in the summer 2022 will focus on the vocabulary listed in the specification along with words derived from these, we can work on getting al of our students to learn this language. The attached booklets are nothing special. They list the vocabulary as it is presented by the exam board AQA, but each section has a total and Excel spreadsheets are also attached which can be used to create Quizlets, etc. We are running competitions between groups and making pre-learning a large priority. I hope these may be of use.

I have put together some worksheets on suffixes and prefixes to help students work out patterns of words. It is aimed at GCSE students, but I guess that it can be adapted to pretty much any level. The worksheets can all be split into smaller units and dropped into lessons rather than covered all in one go.

Apologies for the multiple “f” in the file names!

I’ve always been very keen to share resources for free. Charging is something I am not keen on esp. as I don’t feel that’s the spirt we should have. Teachers should share with teachers. However, it appears that I have now reached the space limit on my blog and to upload more resources will mean an upgrade of my account which will cost quite a bit more. I have considered deleting lots of previous posts, but then I don’t really want to. While I have been happy to pay to keep the blog going to date, the next stage would be costly. So, I have decided that I am going to go the way I never wanted to and I am putting some resources for sale on the TES website to fund this work. Again, this is not what I wanted. If anyone out that has any clever ideas, please let me know.

I will post whatever I can on here to squeeze out the final bits of space left + start sharing as much as I can on the TES. My name on there is “sanferminuk”. I’m going to go for maximum resources for the lowest price! The poundland of TES resources.

PS. My old free stuff on the TES site is a bit rubbish. Well, some of it.

The attached resources are all linked to developing comprehension skills – GCSE Higher Level reading, in particular. The focus is on raising awareness of the different types of exercise that occur, albeit this can change from year to year although use of inference, distractors, synonyms etc. will always appear whatever the form the task takes. The context here is health and diet although the initial slides can be taken and used for anything esp. as we have moved away from topic based teaching to a more grammar and skills development approach. Hope these are of help + I’m hoping to get back to posting more resources this year which is something I really enjoy – time permitting!

RESOURCES: READING Un vegano VIDEO transcript VEGANISMO Advanced vocabulary COMIDA BEBIDA GCSE HIGHER fill the gaps HIGHER LEVEL READING exam style tasks READING MASTERCHEF READING TL answers GCSE EXAM STYLE

I have made templates for certain exam-style activities which I am using across all topics. I am trying to embed awareness of the new exam question types and an understanding of the assessment criteria. I’m posting a few examples which people may wish to adapt. All you have to do is replace the text / photo et voilá. We follow AQA in my school, so the exam criteria are specific to that exam board.

WORKSHEETS: ASSESSMENT FORM Structured Writing task FROM MEMORYGCSE WRITING EXAM FOUNDATION Question 1 PHOTO la playaTRANSLATION GCSE into ENGLISH foundation BEST FRIENDSTRANSLATION GCSE into SPANISH foundation SCHOOL NOW + IN THE PAST