The resources in this post were created based on texts taken from old GCSE Spanish papers, and which featured in a booklet uploaded to the Secondary MFL Matters Facebook group by Kate Jones. Here they are presented in the same order that they appear in Kate's booklet.
The images below are clickable and will open the menu for each resource in a separate browser tab.
Vocab resources with a receptive (or input) focus ask the question "what does ... mean?" rather than "how do you say ...?".
The focus is on students' receptive skills (listening, reading) rather than on productive skills (speaking, writing), so they are less challenging for students. We want to know what they can understand rather than what they can produce themselves.
The screen image above shows a textivate Match resource which has the following characteristics:
This link opens the activity shown in the image above:
http://www.textivate.com/frames.php?ext=50069143432406z&res=m_1in4-50069143432406ze1
This is a cool way of checking and reinforcing understanding of key elements of a text. In this case it is a very short text, but the same principle could easily apply to any text.
What we have here is essentially a reading activity with a multiple choice matching activity. Note the following: