Course Outline

Aim

The revision course is designed for students who will be sitting the main GCSE examination papers in June 2012 (Year 11). It is only suitable for candidates entered for the Higher Tier in GCSE Spanish (grades A* to C). The course will be split as follows with equal attention being paid to the four examined skill areas:

• Listening 25%
• Speaking 25%
• Reading 25%
• Writing 25%

Key Topics Covered

Students will have the opportunity for extensive practice of the above-listed four skills within each of the five GCSE “Areas of Experience”:

1. At home and abroad.
2. Education, training and employment.
3. House, home and daily routine.
4. Media, entertainment and youth culture.
5. Social activities, fitness and health.

This will be particularly important with the amount of increased target-language testing for the control assessments. The use of past papers of all boards (adapted where appropriate) will be extensive, to reinforce good practice and to heighten student confidence.

The course will cover important vocabulary in all the five “Areas of Experience” as well as revising the following key grammatical points:

• All Verb Tenses
• Nouns and Articles
• Adverbs and Adjectives
• Possessives
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Comparatives and Superlatives
• Linking words
• Negatives
• Para or por
• Personal ‘a’
• Diminutives and other Suffixes
• Impersonal verbs (eg: gustar)
• Ser and Estar
• Demonstratives
• Subjunctive structures