GCSE Spanish

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GCSE Spanish

• Examining Board AQA
• www.aqa.org.uk

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What will I study over the next 2 years?

• The 2 year course is split into 4 main areas
• Lifestyle
• Leisure
• Home and Environment
• Work and Education
• The following slides will tell you about these
  topics in more detail...
• You will be expected to understand provide
  information opinions about all of the topics.

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LIFESTYLE

• Health
• Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles their
  consequences
• Relationships and Choices
• Relationships with family friends
• Future plans regarding marriage / partnership
• Social issues and equality

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LEISURE

• Free time and the media
• Free time activities
• Shopping, money, fashion trends
• Advantages disadvantages of new technology
• Holidays
• Plans, preferences, experiences
• What to see and getting around

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HOME AND ENVIRONMENT

• Home and Local Area
• Special occasions celebrated in the home
• Home, town, neighbourhood and region, where it
  is and what it is like
• Environment
• Current problems facing the planet
• Being environmentally friendly within the home
  and local area

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WORK AND EDUCATION

• School / College Future Plans
• What school / college is like
• Pressures and problems
• Current and Future Jobs
• Looking for and getting a job
• Advantages disadvantages of different jobs

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What else is there?

• Grammar to be able to recognise and use
  appropriately...
• Nouns, adjectives
• Verbs
• Tenses (past, present, future for Grade C or
  above)
• Conjunctions (linking words to you and me!!)
• And a few other elements with complicated names
  that we will come across along the way ?
• For more information on this, look at the
  website

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What else is there?

• Communication strategies as well as learning
  items of vocabulary, you will develop ways of
  understanding and producing the language even
  when you may not be 100 sure of what a word
  means!
• For more information on this and vocabulary,
  look at the website

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What exams will I do?

• You will be assessed in the following four
  skills, that you will be used to practising in
  Key Stage 3...
• Listening 20 of overall grade, exam at end of
  course
• Reading 20 of overall grade, exam at end of
  course
• Writing 30 of overall grade, you will submit 2
  written pieces of work done in exam conditions
  throughout the 2 yr course
• Speaking 30 of overall grade, you will
  complete 2 different / separate speaking tasks,
  carried out by your teacher throughout the 2 yr
  course