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GCSE Spanish. Examining Board – AQA www.aqa.org.uk. 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...
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GCSE Spanish Examining Board – AQA www.aqa.org.uk
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.
LIFESTYLE: • Health • Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles & their consequences • Relationships and Choices • Relationships with family & friends • Future plans regarding: marriage / partnership • Social issues and equality
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
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
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
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*
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*
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