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Some GCSE SPANISH translation resources...

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.

¿Por qué a los gatos les gustan las cajas? (3x4)

See if you can put the pieces of this text in the correct order. It starts with "¿Por qué...?" (=why?)

Can you understand the text?

Use the word list beneath the exercise to help you to understand the full text:

2014 - año del selfie

Suitable for AS Spanish?

Here is the resource on textivate: http://www.textivate.com/menu-5rljn1

See the pdf resources below - plenty of sequencing activities to choose from, plus a gapfill, a separate the words activity, and anagrams text, an initials text and a fill in the vowels text.

Here's a link to the full article, from which an extract was taken for the resources below: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/12/141210_trending_selfie_2014_gtg

Here are those 11 pdfs (in no particular order):

Moggin tiene hambre

Short story in Spanish with lots of repetition of key structures. Here it is on textivate: http://www.textivate.com/menu-ydhjn1

Here are a load of pdfs printed from this story using the "Print worksheet" button on the textivate screens:

La crisis y el consumo navideño en España

The pdfs below were printed from this resource on textivate: www.textivate.com/menu-rhhjn1

The resource in the above link contains about 30 interactive exercises all based on the one text.

The text is about the effect of the crisis on consumers in Spain, and it was taken from this article on the Eroski Consumer website - revista.consumer.es/web/es/20131201/economia_domestica/77602.php - which goes on to give consumers ideas for spending less at Christmas.

The worksheets below were printed using Google Chrome's 'save as pdf' feature (via the 'Print worksheet' button on the textivate screens.) This blog post talks more about worksheet printing on textivate.

Halloween (SPANISH)

Some links to Halloween resources in Spanish below (and a few embedded resources too).

En la cafetería (embedded activities with images)

This text was put together as part of a Spanish unit of work which included food and drink, ice-cream flavours, euros, dialogues, pictures, sounds etc and which was combined into a free TaskMagic standalone program (for Windows).

This program contains over 250 interactive exercises and over 60 worksheets, and it can be downloaded completely free from this page on the TaskMagic blog: taskmagic.posthaven.com/taskmagic3-spanish-sample-unit-en-la-cafeteri (lots more info about the resource there too).

The text used for this blog is from 1 of the 16 files that make up that TaskMagic resource.

¿Cómo vas al colegio? (experimenting with something new...)

Trying out something new in the exercises below...

Mixing text and image matching.

Click on the play buttons to open the activities.

AR, ER, IR verbs (SPANISH) conjugation

The pdf resources below were printed from the following resource on textivate: www.textivate.com/menu-mlgjn1

They were printed using the save as pdf feature of Google Chrome, which is recommended for printing from textivate. (Some browsers - especially internet explorer - do not print the activities as they should...)

En la cafetería (embedded resources)

This program contains over 250 interactive exercises and over 60 worksheets, and it can be downloaded completely free from this page on the TaskMagic blog: https://taskmagic.posthaven.com/taskmagic3-spanish-sample-unit-en-la-cafeteri (lots more info about the resource there too).

The text used for this blog is from 1 of the 16 files that make up that TaskMagic resource. (I've added some vocab matching as well, most of which is from the Find it! exercise for the TaskMagic Mix&Gap file).

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