Toot Hill School
Modern Foreign Languages Department
Year Eight Homework Tasks
Half Term 2:Food
Language: Spanish
Your homework for this year is going to be to create a booklet with cultural information about
the country (or countries !) whose language you are studying . Your findings for each week
should be displayed on a page in your booklet. Your tasks are detailed below. Buena
suerte!
Week
Homework Task
Guidance
1
Design the cover of your booklet
2
Foods and drinks
3
Speciality
4
Recipes
5
Make it!
6
Review the food
7
Get it ready to hand in‼
Make your cover as bright and inspirational as
possible. Can you find some relevant images to
include?
Research the names of common Spanish foods and
drinks.
Research a Spanish speciality dish. You need to
bring your booklet into school this week so your
teacher can check how you are getting on.
Find some Spanish recipes and record them in your
booklet.
Cook a Spanish dish from your research at home. Try
it out on your family! Can you take some photos and
include them?
Write a review of your Spanish dish in past tense. J’ai
mange ( I ate) C’etait (It was)
Compile and check your booklet. Ensure all of the
above is complete and hand it in to your teacher!
Useful websites: www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.languageslearninglibrary.org
www.visuallinklanguages.com
www.sunderlandschools.org/estrellas
www.languagesgames.org
www.digitaldialects.com
Toot Hill School
Modern Foreign Languages Department
Year Eight Homework Tasks
Half Term 4:Sport
Language: Spanish
Your homework for this year is going to be to create a booklet with cultural information about
the country (or countries !) whose language you are studying . Your findings for each week
should be displayed on a page in your booklet. Your tasks are detailed below. Buena
suerte!
Week
Homework Task
Guidance
1
Design the cover of your booklet
2
Popular Sports
3
Sporting Team
4
Write a report on a match
5
6
Continue the above
Advert for a sporting event
7
Get it ready to hand in‼
Make your cover as bright and inspirational as
possible. Can you find some relevant images to
include?
Research popular sports in Spain. What are the rules?
Who plays them and where? Are there any famous
sports personalities?
Research a Spanish Sporting Team It could be Real
Madrid or … you choose. Find out their colours,
history, etc. You need to bring your booklet into
school this week so your teacher can check how
you are getting on.
Try to include where it was, who played, what it was
like, what you ate and drank, etc.
Continue the above.
Create a poster or flyer advertising a sporting event.
Think about the date, time, place, etc
Compile and check your booklet. Ensure all of the
above is complete and hand it in to your teacher!
Useful websites: www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.languageslearninglibrary.org
www.visuallinklanguages.com
www.sunderlandschools.org/estrellas
www.languagesgames.org
www.digitaldialects.com
Toot Hill School
Modern Foreign Languages Department
Year Eight Homework Tasks
Half Term 1:History
Language: Spanish
Your homework for this year is going to be to create a booklet with cultural information about
the country (or countries!) whose language you are studying . Your findings for each week
should be displayed on a page in your booklet. Your tasks are detailed below. Buena
suerte!
Week
Homework Task
Guidance
1
Design the cover of your booklet
2
Create a timeline
3
Complete the timeline from week 2
4
Write a report
5
6
Continue the above
Describe a historical person
7
Get it ready to hand in‼
Make your cover as bright and inspirational as
possible. Can you find some relevant images to
include?
Create a timeline of key events in Spanish History from
1500 to present day. Can you illustrate it with pictures
of the key people?
You need to bring your booklet into school this
week so your teacher can check how you are
getting on.
Choose one event and write a report on it in your own
words, in English.
Continue the above.
Choose a famous person from your timeline and
describe them in Spanish
Compile and check your booklet. Ensure all of the
above is complete and hand it in to your teacher!
Useful websites: www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.languageslearninglibrary.org
www.visuallinklanguages.com
www.sunderlandschools.org/estrellas
www.languagesgames.org
www.digitaldialects.com
Toot Hill School
Modern Foreign Languages Department
Year Eight Homework Tasks
Half Term 5:Geography and Environmental Issues Language: Spanish
Your homework for this year is going to be to create a booklet with cultural information about
the country (or countries !) whose language you are studying . Your findings for each week
should be displayed on a page in your booklet. Your tasks are detailed below. Buena
suerte!
Week
Homework Task
Guidance
1
Design the cover of your booklet
2
Create a map
3
Choose a city
4
Weather
5
Environmental Issues 1
6
Environmental Issues 2
7
Get it ready to hand in‼
Make your cover as bright and inspirational as
possible. Can you find some relevant images to
include?
Find or create a map of the main cities in Spain. Can
you illustrate it with images of famous landmarks in the
cities?
Choose a city and research it. Find out about the
population, buildings, events, etc.You need to bring
your booklet into school this week so your teacher
can check how you are getting on.
Research the weather in Spain and write a report on it
in your own words, in English.
Find out what the major environmental issues in Spain
are.
What does your country do to help the environment?
What groups are there? What are they called?
Compile and check your booklet. Ensure all of the
above is complete and hand it in to your teacher!
Useful websites: www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.languageslearninglibrary.org
www.visuallinklanguages.com
www.languagesgames.org
www.sunderlandschools.org/estrellas
www.digitaldialects.com
Toot Hill School
Modern Foreign Languages Department
Year Eight Homework Tasks
Half Term 3: The Arts
Language: Spanish
Your homework for this year is going to be to create a booklet with cultural information about
the country (or countries!) whose language you are studying. Your findings for each week
should be displayed on a page in your booklet. Your tasks are detailed below. Buena
suerte!
Week
Homework Task
Guidance
1
Design the cover of your booklet
2
3
Artists
Choose an artist
4
CV
5
Art project
6
Art project
7
Get it ready to hand in‼
Make your cover as bright and inspirational as
possible. Can you find some relevant images to
include?
Research famous artists from Spain, past and present
Choose an artist and research them. Find out about
their style, include pictures of their work, etc.You need
to bring your booklet into school this week so your
teacher can check how you are getting on.
Write a CV in Spanish about your chosen artist. Give
their full names, birth date, education, etc.
Complete a picture / sculpture in the style of your
chosen artist
Complete your picture / sculpture in the style of your
chosen artist
Compile and check your booklet. Ensure all of the
above is complete and hand it in to your teacher!
Useful websites: www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.languageslearninglibrary.org
www.visuallinklanguages.com
www.languagesgames.org
www.sunderlandschools.org/estrellas
www.digitaldialects.com