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Introduction
With some 350 million native speakers and around 70 million secondary speakers, Spanish is the third or fourth most commonly spoken language in the world. Only Mandarin, and Hindi (and according to some sources, English) have more speakers. Spanish is an official language on four continents and is the mother tongue in 21 countries. It is the third most used language on the Internet. The stage is set for a further enormous increase in the usage of the language. There are currently 41 million native Spanish speakers living in the US today — and another 11.6 million people who are bilingual. In fact, there are more Spanish speakers in the United States than there are speakers of Chinese, French, Italian, Hawaiian, and the Native American languages combined.

As well as making you more marketable, learning Spanish will enable you to keep pace with the powerful Hispanic influence on today’s popular culture. In addition, while it is certainly possible to travel to a Spanish-speaking country without knowing any Spanish, knowing Spanish will completely transform your travel experience.

Spanish has been described as a language that is “almost phonetically perfect”, meaning that once you know the basic rules of pronunciation, you can correctly pronounce any word you see. It is also a gateway to other languages that you might want to learn at university or later in life, such as Italian or Portuguese.

Staff: Ms B. Fahy, Mrs R. McIntosh, Mrs R. Crawford

Key Stage 3

At Key Stage 3 students learn to identify and use tenses and other grammatical structures. They express themselves both orally and in writing with increasing accuracy and detail. As with French and German, students of Spanish read literary texts in the language, such as stories, songs, poems and letters, to stimulate ideas, develop creative expression and expand understanding of the language and culture

Spanish is studied from Year 9 onwards (pupils choose between German and Spanish). The topics of study include All About Me, My Family and Home, School Life, Free Time, Holidays, Food & Drink, Jobs & Future Plans and Healthy Living.

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Year 9

Year 10

Key Topics

All about Me; School Life; My Family; My Home Life; Free Time; My Town/City

Hobbies; Fashion Shopping & Clothes; Healthy Living; Food & Drink; Holidays

Key Grammar

Verbs in the present tense; Adjectives; Prepositions; Reflexive Verbs and Stem-changing Verbs; How to say you like something; Comparatives; Prepositions

Modal verbs : querer deber and poder; Possessive adjectives; Preterite tense; Combining three tenses; Tener phrases; Demonstrative adjectives

Key Stage 4

Pupils are advised to choose at least one language for GCSE. At Key Stage 4 students of Spanish build on their progress in Key Stage 3. Through frequent vocabulary tests and regular use of past papers pupils become more confident at coping with the demands of GCSE listening and reading. Written and oral work becomes more sophisticated and there is greater use of idiom, for example.

The topics areas which are tested include:
1. The Individual – Relationships, Environment, Daily Routine & Leisure, Health &Lifestyle
2. Citizenship – Travel and Tourism, Media, Spanish Celebrations, Social Issues
3. Employability – School life, Part-time jobs, Future plans

In the GCSE course four skills are tested.

Reading 20% Final examination at end of Year 12
Listening 20% Final examination at end of Year 12
Writing 30% Assessed through controlled assessment; two tasks during Year 11 / Year 12
Speaking 30% Assessed through controlled assessment; two tasks during Year 11 / Year 12

Key Stage 5

The AS and A2 Spanish courses allow students to communicate and understand Spanish in a wide range of contexts and settings. Through the course pupils develop awareness and understanding of Spanish-speaking society, and they explore Spanish grammar in much more depth. Pupils also have the opportunity to read Spanish literature and watch Spanish cinema in the original language. The A Level course is a sound basis for the further study of languages at degree level or equivalent although the skills and knowledge acquired are useful transferable skills even for those pupils who do not progress to studying Spanish at a third-level setting.

AS
1. Relationships, including
• family
• intergenerational issues
• Influences on young peopleCulture and Lifestyle including
• diet or exercise
• smoking, alcohol and drugs or extreme sports;
• stress
• the arts
• social media
• holidays, festivals and tourism.
ORAL EXAMINATION
11 MINUTES approximately
Presentation and General ConversationLISTENING, READING & LANGUAGE EXAMINATION
2 HOURS IN TOTAL
Listening Comprehension (40 mins)
Reading Comprehension (50 mins)
Language Questions (grammar and translation) (30 mins)WRITING EXAMINATION
ONE HOUR
Students write one essay in Spanish in response to a set film or literary text.

AS: 40% of A level

A2
From 20171.  Young People in Society including
• jobs, education and employment;
• career planning – aspirations and/or intentions;
• young people and democracy;
• European citizenship2. Our Place in a Changing World including
• equality/inequality,
• poverty
• immigration
• multicultural society
• conflict
• sustainable living and environmental issues.
ORAL EXAMINATION
15 MINUTES approximately
Topic and General ConversationLISTENING, READING & LANGUAGE EXAMINATION
2 HOURS 45 MINS IN TOTAL
Listening Comprehension (45 mins)
Reading Comprehension & Language Questions (grammar and translation) (2 hours)WRITING EXAMINATION 30% of A2
ONE HOUR
Students write one essay in Spanish in response to a literary text.

A2: 60% of A level

Summary

Students of Spanish can:

  • Infer meaning from written texts and audio excerpts
  • Discover new ways of seeing the world
  • Take on a challenge
  • Show awareness of their own language
  • Organise their work well and manage time and resources effectively
  • Structure a written argument in Spanish

Students of Spanish are:

  • Passionate about communicating
  • Self-disciplined and motivated
  • Interested in detail and accuracy
  • Competent translators
  • Sensitive to cultural differences
  • Resourceful
  • Self-assured speakers

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