Resources and ideas for language teachers

Below is a collection of resources which can be used for GCSE Spanish revision. We follow the AQA exam board at my school. The resources can be posted for self study or used in lessons. I do a bi...

https://neiljones.org/2024/04/03/gcse-spanish-collection/

The attached is for GCSE Foundation as I have 2 GCSE groups being entered at this level. We have a booster session tomorrow afternoon in advance of the exams on Tuesday.

https://neiljones.org/2023/06/04/last-minute-spanish-gcse-revision/

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...

https://neiljones.org/2021/10/16/morphology/

I am sharing a homework task I have just put together for my A level Spanish students. I am going back over some of the topic areas we have previously covered. Summary skills have been an area th...

https://neiljones.org/2021/01/09/el-teletrabajo/

My A level students often struggle with pronouns in Spanish – direct, indirect and prepositional. Although we have covered all of these and done practice work, I have made the attached guide to...

https://neiljones.org/2020/12/30/los-pronombres/

I have covered the imperfect subjunctive with my Year 13 students, but it is an area which still causes some difficulty. To support them I have put together the attached booklet. The imperfect su...

https://neiljones.org/2020/12/26/the-imperfect-subjunctive/

The attached resource is something I have put together for my Year 13 students to quickly revise SER + ESTAR. They are quite good at this now, but I want them to start incorporating some idioms e...

https://neiljones.org/2020/12/26/ser-estar/

Thanks to a comment on the blog I have been reminded that I was going to post a booklet on translating from English into Spanish (A level AQA). As there is very limited space left on this blog, I...

https://neiljones.org/2020/08/18/translation-into-spanish-aqa-a-level-spanish/

Guerrero, Una Vida, Muchas Batallas (Warrior, One Life Many Battles) is a short film covering the life of Manuel Guerrero Ceballos and his son also called Manuel (Guerrero Antequera). Manuel Gue...

https://neiljones.org/2020/08/18/dictadores-latinoamericanos-pinochet/

I have been putting things together so that I can do revision of topics that were covered during lockdown – I will want to pop back to some of them as we move through the first term. One part o...

https://neiljones.org/2020/08/09/suffixes-some-revision-las-personas-transgenero/