Self & Relationships

Common Adjectives: a vocabulary set with corresponding activities to enhance memorisation and vocabulary retention. This worksheet includes a unique QR code that students can scan with their smartphone to access pronunciation and games on Quizlet with these words.

Adjectives for describing people: a vocabulary set with corresponding activities to enhance memorisation and vocabulary retention. This worksheet includes a unique QR code that students can scan with their smartphone to access pronunciation and games on Quizlet with these words.

Common Verbs For Self & Relationships: a vocabulary set with corresponding activities to enhance memorisation and vocabulary retention. This worksheet includes a unique QR code that students can scan with their smartphone to access pronunciation and games on Quizlet with these words.

We asked three Madrid students how well they get along with their siblings. Students read the responses and complete the vocabulary and comprehension exercises on this worksheet. Following that, students read a physical description and respond to true or false statements before translating from English to Spanish using phrases from the worksheet.

What style of clothing do you wear? In this vocabulary, speaking, and writing lesson, students learn how to describe different styles of clothing. The worksheet includes vocabulary for accessories and modern styles of clothing and ends with a writing activity for students to produce their own descriptions.

Customs of a Spanish Family: In this worksheet, students read the observations of an English girl who has been living with a family from Madrid.

Family Members: a vocabulary set with corresponding activities to enhance memorisation and vocabulary retention. This worksheet includes a unique QR code that students can scan with their smartphone to access pronunciation and games on Quizlet with these words.

My Extended Family: in this translations worksheet, students read a short text by Jaime on the topic of his extended family. Students complete a match-up activity of key vocabulary before translating the text into English line by line.

The worksheet then switches to the English-Spanish translation of a short text Jaime writes about his friend and stepbrother Alex. Students receive a list of useful vocabulary and are required to slightly adapt the phrases and expressions from the first activity in order to translate the text successfully.

Talking about my friends: a vocabulary set with corresponding activities to enhance memorisation and vocabulary retention. This worksheet includes a unique QR code that students can scan with their smartphone to access pronunciation and games on Quizlet with these words.

Language Frame (Family & Friends): This is a frame for use when speaking and writing about family and friends. It includes six questions for students to prepare their own responses, using the examples given and a full frame of adaptable phrases. This is ideal for use as a topic review and for exam preparation.

Speaking Card (The Family): This is a photo card with four questions on the theme of the family. Students have four minutes to prepare their answers and are provided with the expressions they need to effectively describe pictures and answer questions on this topic. This is ideal for use as a topic review and for exam preparation.

Speaking Card (Friends): This is a photo card with four questions on the theme of friendship. Students have four minutes to prepare their answers, and are provided with the expressions they need to effectively describe pictures and answer questions on this topic. This is ideal for use as a topic review and for exam preparation.

Talking about my friends: in this worksheet, students read an email from a young guy (Julián) who writes about his best friends. The activities that follow check comprehension and students are encouraged to extract useful expressions and vocabulary from the text. The resource ends with a writing task in which students adapt the model and apply what they have learned in order to write an informal email about their own close friendships.

Talking about marriage: in this worksheet, students read the opinions of two college students on marriage and divorce, based on their own family experiences. The worksheet includes vocabulary from the theme of marriage and partnership and T/F questions to check understanding. The final activity encourages students to extract key natural-sounding phrases from authentic texts.

Social Expressions: in this speaking lesson, students learn expressions to sound like a native Spanish speaker and practise using them by writing and practising short dialogues.