1. Authentic Spanish, independent learning and reflective cuisine Welcome to MFL’s Express Takeaway homework menu, delivering fresh, hot and delicious homework tasks straight to your doorstep! Choose your homework task from the menu. You can only try each dish once and you must order a different course each time! Enjoy your food! Starters Main courses Write a tweet (no more than 140 characters) explaining a an element of Spanish culture you have learnt about this year. Research five facts about a Spanish speaking country – write in English and show to your teacher Who was Catherine of Aragon? Describe the Chilean mining rescue of 2010. Who was Franco? Who was Che Guevara? Research five facts about a Spanish footballer Find out the capital cities of 5 Spanish speaking countries. What is their time difference from Madrid and how long would it take you to fly there? Who was Eva Peron and where was she from? What is the Alhambra? Research five facts about a Spanish speaking country – write in Spanish and show to your teacher Download a menu from a Spanish restaurant – write what you would like to try and why? Work out how much your favourite meal would cost in Mcdonalds in Barcelona. Who is Pablo Alborán? Listen to him on youtube – give your opinion in Spanish. Research who is at the top of the Spanish charts at the moment? Listen to the top tune and give your opinion in Spanish. Watch an episode of Peppa Pig in Spanish. Ask your teacher for a copy of Disney film titles in Spanish– how many can you work out? Who is at the top of the Spanish football league? Write an identity card for their top scorer. Translate the rules of Pelota into English A spicy selection of culture-focused starters to whet your appetite! Hit your homework hunger hard with this mouth-watering selection of language based main courses! How to order

2. Chef’s Specials Sharers Go on the following Spanish website and find a house with the following: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, a study, a garden and a garage. http://www.remax.eshttp://www.remax.es Go on the following website and find a house with a pool http://www.remax.eshttp://www.remax.es Go on http://www.salamanca.es/ and find out ten things that you could do on holiday in Salamanca.http://www.salamanca.es/ Using: http://www.eltiempo.es/ what is the weather like in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Oviedo, Granada and Salamanca today?http://www.eltiempo.es/ Find the 10 most disgusting sounding tapas dishes. Find pictures of them. Extension: Write a list of the ingredients in Spanish. Practice the following Spanish tongue twister, focussing on your pronunciation and perform to your teacher. Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal.. La jirafa cazadora bebía gazpacho muy frío y cantaba bajo la lluvia. Make a poster to convince people to learn a language. Ask your teacher for an up to date Spanish news article and try to work out the meaning. Try some of the teachers’ favourites. Don’t want to eat alone? A meal with friends can be great fun, too! Try out one of these sensational sharers! Reflective desserts Write your own teacher-style progress report for this week’s Spanish lessons lessons. Compose three extension questions, based on all the language that you know. Using your grammar book, write a sentence in Spanish using the information on each page. Design a revision poster of how to form: The past tense The present tense using ar verbs The future tense Complete an audit of your written work in Spanish. What are your strengths? Where are your common errors? What targets could you set yourself for improvement? Design a whole-class game that reflects on any language skills that we have developed this year in Spanish. Identify ten words that the English language has stolen from Spanish and explain their meanings. Still hungry? Reflect on your progress with a tasty dessert! Set Meal A ………………….………………………..…… Write a song or a poem inspired by the verb ‘tener’ or ‘ser’. Set Meal B ………………………………..………………. Research Pablo Picasso, look at one of his pictures. Share out the following tasks: Describe the picture Give your opinion of it Create a picture of your own in the same style Set Meal C ……………………..…………………………. Complete the quiz outside the languages office and give your answers to your teacher. Set Meal D……………………..…………………………. Research a Spanish monument and create a model of it!