A complete first lesson on writing A Level Spanish literature essays, using La casa de Bernarda Alba. Includes a 60-minute teacher PowerPoint and a printable student pack with a model essay, quote bank and sentence bank.

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Teach your Year 13 students how to write a literary essay in Spanish, step by step.

This ready-to-teach lesson uses one theme, freedom in La casa de Bernarda Alba. Students see the structure of an A Level essay, learn the PEA method (Punto, Evidencia, Análisis), and write their first analytical paragraph by the end of the hour.

What's included

• 18-slide teacher PowerPoint for a 60-minute lesson, with a starter, live PEA modelling, a colour-coding task, a phrase hunt, independent writing, peer feedback, an exit ticket and homework. Speaker notes are included on every slide.

• 5-page student pack (PDF):

  • essay structure and PEA at a glance

  • a Spanish sentence bank for introducing arguments, analysing quotes and concluding

  • connectors and literary vocabulary

  • a quote bank organised by theme: oppression, freedom, honour and double standards

  • an annotated ~440-word model essay

  • a scaffolded PEA paragraph with a checklist and an extension challenge

Suitable for: A Level Spanish (Year 12–13) literature teaching, classroom use, cover lessons and independent study.

Format: PowerPoint (.pptx) and printable PDF.

Celebrate European Day of Languages 2026 with a complete lesson, ready to teach.

What's inside:

• 🎉 The "Hello" Challenge — ten greetings from across the world

• 🎧 Listening Challenge — audio track (with QR code + link included) where students guess ten mystery languages from short clips

• 🌍 Did You Know...? — ten facts about European and world languages

• 🗺️ European vs. World Languages — a language-families detective task with word banks

• 🏆 The Ultimate Trivia Challenge — five multiple-choice questions

• 🕵️ Lost in Translation — a loanword-origin hunt (ketchup, robot, avatar...) plus a "guess the idiom" game from nine languages

• 🚀 Reflection & Challenge — wrap-up questions and a take-home language challenge

• ✅ Full built-in Answer Key — every answer explained, including word origins and etymology notes

A handy reference guide for students to practice describing a picture

Start the new school year the fun way! This ready-to-go icebreaker pack gets your GCSE Italian classes chatting from lesson one — just print and go.

Includes:

• 📖 A 30-phrase vocabulary bank covering everything students need for both activities — great as a lesson starter or classroom display

• 🤥 Due verità e una bugia — the Italian take on "two truths and a lie" with a worked example and space for students' own sentences

• 🔍 Trova qualcuno che... — a mingle-and-find activity with 10 playful prompts (including who's dozed off in class and who's fallen over in public 😅)

• 📱 A QR code linking directly to a matching Quizlet set for extra practice at home

• Clear, simply-scaffolded English instructions that work from day one, even for classes just starting Italian

Ideal for Year 9/10/11 GCSE Italian classes, cover lessons, or a bright, engaging start to the school year.

The perfect way to kick off the new term! This ready-to-go icebreaker pack gets your GCSE Spanish classes talking from the very first lesson :)

Includes:

• 📖 A 30-phrase vocabulary bank covering the language students need for both activities — perfect for a lesson starter or a wall display

• 🤥 Dos verdades y una mentira — a fun twist on "two truths and a lie" with a modelled example and space for students to write their own

• 🔍 Encuentra a alguien que... — a mingle-and-find activity with 10 playful prompts (yes, including who's fallen asleep in class and who talks to a teddy at night 🧸)

• 📱 A QR code linking straight to a matching Quizlet set, so students can keep practising the vocab at home

• Simple English instructions with heavy scaffolding, so it works even in the first week back

Two worksheets, one for Higher and one for Foundation + companion presentations, one for Foundation with answers to revise core GCSE Vocabulary.

My students really worked well in this lesson and appreciated realising they knew much more than they thought.

A handy reference guide for students to practice describing a picture

A handy reference guide for students to practice Spanish sounds & letters

GCSE Italian — Booklet 1: Me, My Family & Relationships
Unit 1: Describing Yourself — FREE Taster

Get a full, ready-to-teach unit — completely free.

What's inside:

• 📖 Vocabulary — 30 essential words + QR code straight to a Quizlet list

• 📗 Reading practice — 3 differentiated tasks + Vocab Checkpoint 1

• 🎧 Listening practice — 3 tasks (audio included) + Vocab Checkpoint 2

• ✍️ Grammar — Essere and Avere (present tense), fully explained and drilled

• 🗣️ Speaking practice — Photo description + Vocab Checkpoint 3

• 📝 Writing practice — 40-word description task

• 🔄 Translation practice

• 🤖 AI extension task — stretch and challenge, built in

• 🧠 Final Brain Dump — 2-minute vocab recall to lock it all in

• ✅ Full answers, including listening transcripts

Also included: the companion PowerPoint (with answers) — ready to teach straight from the slide.

Everything is spaced, recycled, and checkpointed so vocab actually sticks — not just a worksheet, a full lesson sequence.

👉 Like what you see? This is just Unit 1 of 5 — grab the complete Booklet 1 (PDF + companion slides) here https://www.cartacanta.co.uk/shop/p/booklet-1-my-personal-world-italian-gcse

GCSE Spanish — Booklet 1: My Personal World
Unit 1: Family & Relationships — FREE Taster

Get a full, ready-to-teach unit — completely free.

What's inside:

• 📖 Vocabulary — 30 essential words + QR code straight to a Quizlet list

• 📗 Reading practice — 3 differentiated tasks + Vocab Checkpoint 1

• 🎧 Listening practice — 3 tasks (audio included) + Vocab Checkpoint 2

• ✍️ Grammar — Ser and Tener (present tense), fully explained and drilled

• 🗣️ Speaking practice — Read-aloud + roleplay + Vocab Checkpoint 3

• 📝 Writing practice — Describe a picture

• 🔄 Translation practice

• 🤖 AI extension task — stretch and challenge, built in

• 🧠 Final Brain Dump — 2-minute vocab recall to lock it all in

• ✅ Full answers, including listening transcripts

Also included: the companion PowerPoint (with answers) — ready to teach straight from the slide.

Everything is spaced, recycled, and checkpointed so vocab actually sticks — not just a worksheet, a full lesson sequence.

👉 Like what you see? This is just Unit 1 of 6 — grab the complete Booklet 1 (PDF + companion slides) here - https://www.cartacanta.co.uk/shop/p/booklet-1-my-personal-world-companion-presentations

A lesson containing booklet in pdf + companion presentation, with answers, to revise 6 core tenses for Spanish GCSE (present, preterite, imperfect, near future, simple future, conditional).

Here you have 3 game templates (Reto - Contrarreloj - Impostor) you can add & adapt to any lesson - could be used as a vocabulary recall, a starter, a plenary, after a writing task to wake up the students!