The Two Spains: 1936 onwards for A Level Spanish

The Civil War, Francoist Period, Transition to Democracy and Democratic Period

Suitable for:
AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas and WJEC
2016 specifications

Students will gain an understanding of the politics and history that shaped Spain in the twentieth century and beyond with this varied and engaging guide.


Excellent – Just what I needed for this new specification

B Cheverton, Teacher and Peer Reviewer

Covers four broad areas:

  1. La Guerra Civil española
  2. La España de la postguerra
  3. 2016 specification relevance:
    • AQA Theme 4: Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world
    • Edexcel Theme 4: La dictadura franquista y la transición a la democracia
    • Eduqas Theme 4: The two Spains: 1936 onwards
    • WJEC Theme 4: The two Spains: 1936 onwards
  4. Transición hacia la democracia
  5. La memoria histórica

Students will enhance their knowledge of Spain and Spanish by:

  • Reading authentic texts tailored to their level
  • Learning new vocabulary relevant to the 2016 specs
  • Delving into research tasks to spark further understanding and discussion
  • Completing comprehension activities based on the exams such as true or false, finding synonyms, match-ups, translations, fill in the gap, multiple-choice, and more!

Teaching time saver! Original texts written specifically for A Level students – no more time-consuming searches for relevant material or accompanying activities.

Flexible! For use in class, as homework and as topic revision.

What do teachers say about this resource? (9060)

Excellent – Just what I needed for this new specification. I would highly recommend it as it encompasses all areas of the topics in detail. A variety of resources and materials which engaged pupils. Some activities can be completed independently – excellent homework!

B Cheverton, Teacher and Peer Reviewer

On the whole I think that it is a superb resource as it offers lots of relevant exercises and texts-video links related to some of the history themes within the Spanish A level specification.

J Ermina, MFL Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Very thorough and engaging set of resources to support teaching this topic. extremely useful.

I like the wide variety of resources both in the pack itself and the support materials. The coverage of all areas of the topic is very thorough with a variety of activities to support students' learning both of the relevant language and the issues to be discussed.

It provides many texts to ensure understanding of the topic from a wide range of sources and registers. Independent listening is included that is very relevant.

Will save hours of preparation time.

D Marks, Tutor & Peer Reviewer

A welcomed resource for the A level Spanish teaching community. A teacher unsure about this part of the spec could actually work through this resource to improve their own subject knowledge! [...] It broadens student knowledge of topics to increase their ability to provide in-depth answers. Students can stretch for higher grades through working with more challenging and topic specific vocabulary.

C Dodge, Teacher and Peer Reviewer

I found it very useful with lots of information which I had not seen before in any other resource. I particularly like this resource because it included a variety of sources/a variety of tasks and opportunity for students to have a broad knowledge of the topic.

It covers all you need to teach about this period of Spanish history.

P Santovety, Head of MFL and Customer

It was very clear and well structured. The exercises were very well pitched to different abilities. Better than textbooks as you can pick other issues not covered in the book.

P Santovety, Head of MFL and Customer