Patricia inherited a Spanish school textbook from her dad dating back to the 60s. It reveals A LOT about Spain at the time and helps us to understand the WJEC topic of “traditional and modern values” at AS level. I’ve been using her PDF scans for six years now (many others are too!) and today it only occured to me they’d be the perfect material for a Boletín issue.
👋Welcome (back) to Boletín, an English-language newsletter covering historical, cultural and topical stories related to the A Level Spanish course. These newsletters accompany a student worksheet which can be downloaded freely here. This week:
Edition 136 of Boletín.
1961 enciclopedia Alvarez scans courtesy of Patricia
PDF downloads (translation tricks and traps)
📌Issue 136
Okay, it’s another super brief one. I’m sorry!
In class today we explored these brilliant scans of a Spanish school textbook dating back to the 1960s. Patricia, who inherited them from her dad, scanned them in and shared them back in 2020 and they’ve been super useful ever since.
They’re particularly useful since a theme of the WJEC AS course is ‘traditional and modern values’ and after reading a few pages of the textbook you’ll begin to understand the significance of the ‘traditional’ aspect. To the surprise of nobody, the boys and girls sections are vastly different.
Check them out below.
Niños
Niñas
Reminder, the 3rd edition of the Spanish Grammar Workbook is now finally live on Amazon. Enjoy a few free pages below on translation tricks and traps. If you’re reading this, drop a comment on this post and be in with a chance of winning a free copy of the Grammar Workbook. Entries close Thursday 22nd (7 days from now!).
The student worksheet can be downloaded here.
The Translation Tricks and Traps are below - obviously there’s no guarantee that any of these will come up on a paper but year on year they seem to catch a few out.
Have a great week,
Ollie
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All the materials for A Level are super interesting and really bring the topics to life. I tell my students the stories I learnt from my own family's experiences but it is great to be able to provide them also with something tangible.
As per the GCSE grammar book, thank you. All concepts are so easily explained that the students can quickly gain agency and work independently (I have the original version of your book). Thank you!