Home Learning Help – Lirica

by cristahazell | Apr 1, 2020 | ALL Sector, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary News, Spanish Discussions, Spanish Network, Spanish news, Spanish Practice, Spanish resources, Spanish Reviews, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone

Lirica is all about learning languages through music!  What could be more fun?!  Our friends at Lirica have kindly offered to help and support Spanish teachers through giving one month’s free access to their resources! For more details see here

Upskilling to teach Spanish

by Victoria Mitchell | Dec 15, 2017 | Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone

Guest blog by Kerry Phipps, MFL French and Spanish teacher and ALL Council member Teaching background After studying French and Art at university, then completing a Masters in French Translation, I became a primary teacher with responsibility for French throughout the...

Supporting a student with visual impairment

by Wendy Newman | Jul 10, 2015 | Spanish Practice, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone

Alison Hayes, York St John University Supporting a student with a visual impairment over two semesters has been a challenge requiring a few changes to our systems. We did not always get everything right the first time, but we learnt as we went on and it has been...

Las ganas

by charlottelr | Jul 10, 2015 | Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone

Basil Turner, High Wycombe Language students should be encouraged to have ganas or at least a positive attitude to acquiring them. The pithy Spanish modismo using gana may be used positively as in ‘tengo ganas de estudiar el español’, meaning I am keen to study...

Propuesta didáctica para ¡Ay, Carmela! y La Hora de los Valientes

by Wendy Newman | May 19, 2014 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone

Carlos Sanz Mingo (Cardiff University) La Guerra Civil española ha sido fuente inagotable de material para el cine español, que hizo uso de la misma desde poco después de terminar el conflicto (por ejemplo, Raza, de 1942). Las largas vacaciones del 36 (1976) marca un...

Dos unidades didácticas: “Trabajo” y “Entrevista de Trabajo”.

by Wendy Newman | May 19, 2014 | Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone

María García Florenciano (University of Leeds e Instituto Cervantes de Leeds) y Juan Muñoz López (University of Leeds y Leeds Metropolitan University) Resumen Material concebido para estudiantes universitarios que trabajan con un nivel B2+ según el Marco Común Europeo...