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Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership
Alleyn’s School – Mr Philip Harper
Year 7 Spanish Spelling Bee
Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership
Alleyn’s School – Mr Philip Harper
Year 7 Spanish Spelling Bee
Contents
1. Lesson plans
2. Teacher resources
3. Rules and word lists
4. Pupil resources
Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership Project
Alleyn’s School – Philip Harper
Spanish Spelling Bee – for Year 7 pupils
Overall objective : to practise and improve their vocabulary, spelling and
memory skills in another language.
Lesson 1
Objective – to learn how to say and understand the different Spanish letters.
Activities :
1. Drill alphabet.
2. Alphabet song
3. Listening – pupils spell classroom objects p12 + p14 (Mira 1)
4. Homework - create posters to help them memorise the sound of each letter – connect
to culture eg T – toro
Lesson 2 (observed by Luisa Alonso from JAGS)
Objective -
a) to understand the rules
b) to revise how to say the letters of the alphabet
c) to practise before the competition starts
d) to reflect on how to memorise vocabulary
Activities :
1. Hand out rules and go through them with the class.
2. Alphabet song (to the tune of ‘I don’t know but it’s been said…)
3. Explain how to do accents (con tilde), pass (paso) & space (espacio).
4. I say word in English and elicit translations and spellings of Stage 1 words from
pupils who volunteer, then reveal word on powerpoint. (7-10 words) – pupils with
alphabet chart in front of them.
5. I hand out the full list of 50 Stage 1 words and elicit strategies for memorising them.
6. Pupils have 5 mins to memorise these words. They will have come across most before
and should focus on difficult or unknown words.
7. Pupils volunteer to come and practise in front of the class. This time without the chart
to support them. Project an online stopwatch onto the board.
8. Homework – the list of 50 Stage 2 words is given to them and they will have a week
to learn these prior to the competition starting for real.
Lesson 3
Objective : to be able to follow the rules and compete fairly and sensibly and have fun
remembering words!
Activity : Stage 2 word competition. There could be a plate competition for 1st round losers
– approx. the 10 best go through.
NB – any misbehaviour will lead to disqualification.
Lesson 4
Activity : Stage 3 word competition – approx. the 5 best go through.
Lesson 5
Objective : to make wider school community aware of the competition and possibly expand
to include all classes in future years.
Activity : THE FINAL – Stage 4 word competition – this will be videoed and shown at
Lower School Assembly (with the permission of the participants) and each finalist will
receive a small prize.
STRATEGIES FOR VOCABULARY LEARNING
1. Spend 15-20 minutes on it initially and then 5 minutes per day
consolidating in the days leading up to the test. Little and often is
more effective than learning it all in one go.
2. Try the LOOK-COVER-SAY-WRITE-CHECK method.
3. Learn accurately – accents and gender are important.
4. Work with a partner or parent to test yourself.
5. Make use of ‘dead time’ (eg waiting for a bus, walking to games etc)
to go over the words in your head.
6. Say the ‘un’ or ‘une’ ; ‘un’ or ‘una’ with emphasis. This will help
you to remember if it is masculine or feminine. The ending of a word
will often give a clue as to its gender.
7. Say your verb conjugations in a rhythm or chant and repeat them
several times until the patterns are lodged in your memory.
8. Make sure you learn Eng → Fr/Sp and vice-versa.
9. Record your vocab on to your i-pod : English word → Pause →
Foreign word. Listen and say the foreign word in the Pause time.
10. Think of links between the English word and the Foreign word to
make it more memorable. (vilain = ugly – villain in English)
11. Devise strategies which work for you. Get into a successful routine
and stick to it.
12. Share strategies : talk to others who are successful and find out how
they go about it.
Make your learning a MULTISENSORY experience rather than
staring glumly at a page!
Competition rules :
1. You will be tested individually and will not use any prompts.
2. You will have one minute to translate and correctly spell as many words
as possible in the Target Language.
3. The teacher will choose the words in random order and will say the
words in English. You will then say the word in the Target Language
and then spell it using the Target Language alphabet. If you don’t know
a word you can pass. If you make a mistake the teacher will move on.
4. You will receive one point per word correctly translated and spelt
within the time. If you begin a word when the timer goes, you will be
able to finish.
5. If there is a tied score, a sudden-death round will be played:
You will take it in turns to correctly spell a word.
If you spell a word incorrectly, you are out.
This will continue until there is one winner and one runner-up.
In a class of 25-30. Approximately 10 pupils will progress to the next
stage of the competition. 5 pupils will progress to the final.
What does the accent look like? What is its name?
á é í ó ú ñ tilde
ü dieresis
Space – espacio
Pass – paso
Hyphen - guión
Article on Spelling Bee – by Prutthik Puvanendiran
Published in the School Newsletter
The Spelling Bee is a competition where we had to memorise words which Mr
Harper, our Spanish teacher, asked us. This competition was English to Spanish.
Mr Harper told us the English word and we had to say the say the Spanish word
and then we had to spell it in Spanish. If we didn't know the word, we would
say ‘paso’, which means pass. There is a quarter final, semi-final and a final. In
the quarter final everyone in our class competed but at the end of the round,
sadly people got knocked out. Then there was a semi-final, where we had to
memorise even harder words than the quarter-final, and a few more people got
knocked out at the end of the round. Finally, it was the final which the Head of
Languages, Mrs Thornton and many other important people came to watch.
Everyone in the finals was very nervous, because there were many cameras
flashing at us while we spoke and lots of people were watching us. This was the
hardest round where we had to translate English words in 1 and a half minutes
but in the other rounds we had to translate words in only 1 minute. At the end of
the round the cameraman took a picture of all the finalists, who were Sonny,
Saskia, James, Marina and Prutthik. James came 5th, Saskia came 4th, Prutthik
came 3rd, Sonny came 2nd and Marina came 1st. All the finalists worked very
hard, as did everyone else. The Spelling Bee really helped us because we knew
how it felt like with many people watching us and cameras flashing at us. Also,
it gave us a head start because most of the words that we had to memorise, were
words which we hadn't learnt so when we get to the higher topics, we will know
a lot.
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