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The environment & where we live.

Town vs. country, the local area, climate change, recycling, the natural world. From "vivo en un pueblo pequeño" to "tenemos que proteger el planeta".

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Tarjetas de medio ambiente.

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Revision & practice workbook

The complete printable booklet for this topic — knowledge organisers, sentence builders and AQA-style exam practice for all six subtopics, with a full answer key. Real scannable QR codes link each section to its live lesson page.

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One-page knowledge organiser

Environment & where we live — revision sheet

Everything for this topic on a single page: sentence builders, top vocab and grammar quick-fire for neighbourhood, region & climate, environmental problems, solutions, town vs. city and the planet of the future. Tap the sheet to view it full size.

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AQA GCSE Spanish Environment and where we live knowledge organiser — a one-page revision sheet covering neighbourhood, region and climate, environmental problems, solutions, town vs. city and the planet of the future.
Interactive presentation · 13 slides

The Mastery Blueprint — revision slides

A visual run-through of the whole topic — vocabulary, grammar mechanics and exam tactics. Flick through the slides and zoom in to read any of them, right here on the site.

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Environment & where we live · Six bitesized lessons

From your own street to the planet's future. Six full lessons covering where you live, your region's climate, the environmental problems Spain faces, what we can all do, the urban-vs-rural debate (la España vaciada) and what 2050 might look like. Each lesson has all eight steps PLUS a cultural-read article rooting the topic in real Spanish-speaking culture.

Bitesized lesson · all 8 steps

Lesson 1 — Donde vivo

Your neighbourhood, town or city. Present tense + descriptions + opinion-and-reason. Cultural anchor: Spanish neighbourhood life — la plaza, las tapas, los vecinos.

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Bitesized lesson · all 8 steps

Lesson 2 — Mi región y el clima

Weather, regions, geography. Weather expressions + comparatives + descriptions. Cultural anchor: Spain's diverse regions — Galicia, Andalucía, Cataluña.

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Bitesized lesson · all 8 steps

Lesson 3 — Los problemas medioambientales

Pollution, climate change, droughts, plastic. Impersonal se + connectives + present subjunctive. Cultural anchor: Doñana, the Mar Menor, la gran sequía.

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Bitesized lesson · all 8 steps

Lesson 4 — Las soluciones

Recycling, sustainable transport, renewables, individual action. Hay que / se debe / se puede + imperatives. Cultural anchor: Spain as a renewables leader, supermanzanas in Barcelona.

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Bitesized lesson · all 8 steps

Lesson 5 — Pueblo o ciudad

Urban vs rural Spain, mudarse, lo que se pierde y lo que se gana. Comparatives + preterite + imperfect. Cultural anchor: la España vaciada and the neorrurales movement.

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Bitesized lesson · all 8 steps

Lesson 6 — El planeta del futuro

2050 visions, climate predictions, youth activism. Future + conditional + si + imperfect subjunctive (H). Cultural anchor: España 2050, la Estrategia de Transición Ecológica.

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⭐ Game · Tetris de frases

Tetris — Medio ambiente y dónde vivo.

Drag falling words into the right slot to build full sentences from this topic. Easy mode for solo practice, Difícil mode with lives for a class challenge. Pick one lesson or play with everything mixed.
⭐ Game · Endless runner

Calle Mayor — Medio ambiente y dónde vivo.

Run down the Spanish street. Read the English word at the top, then dodge into the lane with the correct Spanish translation. Vocabulary drawn from this topic's six lessons. Pick one lesson or play with everything mixed.
⭐ Game · Mountain climber

Summit Sentences — Medio ambiente y dónde vivo.

Climb the mountain by building Spanish sentences chunk by chunk. Each wrong tile loses oxygen — pick carefully. GCSE sentences pulled from this topic's six lessons, with grammar tips on every distractor.
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