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Year 9. Vocabulary learning. In class we whizz through, looking at pronunciation and rules, making sentences. Watch out! It’s easy to get to Christmas and feel as if you’ve done lots of Spanish but not really learnt any. Make sure you do your learning homework.
Click here for a list of useful food vocabulary. While you are there, you might think about downloading the Interlex software. It tests you on lists of words and remembers which ones you need testing on again. You may like this too, to listen to some different food words.
Click here to learn numbers with Liliana. She pronounces the c/z in cinco and diez the Mexican way, but she’s a really useful teacher.
Open this document for the words you meet at the beginning of Year 9:
Sp vocab homework 1
Year 10
Missing your Spanish exchange partner already? Don’t worry – I recorded them before they left, talking about their favorite films: Spanish film recordings They are using the same sheet you used in class, so you should be able to follow what they are saying!
Spanish Grammar Booklet. Known as the Matthew booklet. Spanish grammar .
At parents’ evening, did I say you needed to do more to learn words at home? Why not look at lingolex ? It has lists of vocabulary for the things we have been doing: Describing people, Places in town… Of course, if you want a site that tests you with fun games, use linguascope. You should have the username and password written in your planner.
Worried you need more of the basics? Days, months, colours… Try Spanishspanish. Digital dialects is good too.
Year 11
You need to have a good look at this piece of controlled assessment from last year aqa grade d writing spanish. It has got everything on your checklist: opinions and reasons, complex sentences, preterite, imperfect, conditional, present, other future expressions, mostly accurate for exam conditions… and yet it got a D. You must think how you can create a piece of writing that reads well, avoids repetition and has little idiomatic expressions. The difference between a D and an A* is minimal! Make sure you do it.
Revising topics for the reading and listening exam? Here’s vocab lists plus reading activities:
emotions and relationships
y11 environment
Las vacaciones
Here’s the talking about music sheet talking about music
Need to really get a grip of your Spanish for the oral exam. It all fits on one page of A3! Download it, learn it, practise using it, no excuses: gcse conversation on 1 sheet of A3 It’s helpful for writing too!
Click here to learn the parts of the body with lingolex or if you realise after your Mocks you need to work on learning jobs and professions, click here. Have a good look at the links above for other year groups.
If you want to practise reading more articles in Spanish, go to the i-cafe. Click GO then choose Spanish. Then you must click the “Ediciones Precedentes” button (not the arrows) to access the full archive.
For Listening, go to www.audiria.com . Click on the TV section and watch a TV programme in Spanish. Click on Text for the transcript, so your brain can practise hearing words not noises.
