Spanish revision resources

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After ds1 failed to cover himself in glory in his end of y8 Spanish exam (didn't do terribly, but lost loads of marks on basic grammatical errors), I feel he needs to spend just a small part of his 9 week holiday (yes, NINE WEEKS ) on getting to grips with the language.

Can anyone recommend good resources (books or web-based) which he can work his way through in a structured manner, and which will be reasonably appealing to a 13 year old boy (i.e. he really doesn't need to know how to buy a house in Spain!). He has access to Linguascope's website through school, but he doesn't need endless vocab games, his vocab's fine-ish - it's really grammar that I'm after.

suggestions very much appreciated

hopeful bump - any Spanish teachers around?

Galore Park do very good grammar-centred textbooks for Spanish.

If it's verbs he struggles with, you could try this website:

www.schoolmouse.eu

There are some pre-set games already there (present tense regular and radical-changing at the moment) but if there is a specific area he needs revision on, I can tailor-make one (or may already have one and would just need to give you a code for it).

It's a free website that a friend of mine has put together for me! Games can be played against the computer or against another person (if someone is on that game at the same time).

There are 3 different games for verbs based on the card game 'Rummy'; Battleships and a horse-racing one where you type in the verb to get your horse to jump the fence. Just remind him that no pronouns are needed in Spanish!!

thanks - the website looks great - I'll ask him what he particularly struggled with, but I think it was verbs

I'm trying to brush up my Spanish and I find www.studyspanish.com useful. It has verb drills and grammar exercises. Some of it might be a bit advanced for Y8 (the subjunctive tense, etc, which I didn't do until A-level) but it does have drills of regular verbs in the present and other tenses which might help