Spanish

Details of exam

Reading and Writing: 1 hour – for the writing you will have some short exercises where you will have to include a variety of tenses including present, near future and preterit tenses. You will also have to translate some short texts from Spanish into English and English into Spanish.

Make sure you answer the questions for the reading in the language stated in the instructions.

Topics to revise

Relationships with family and friends • Talk about and describe family members and friends • Describe how you get on with family members and friends • Talk about your ideal future partner • Talk about future plans – marriage/ children

Home, town and neighbourhood • Describe your house and the rooms in it • Say what your house is like • Say what you can/can’t do in your town/region • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of where you live • Say where you would like to live in the future • Verbs ser, tener and estar • Adjective agreement • Possessive adjectives • Reflexive verbs casarse/enfadarse/ llevarse • Present tense Near future tense (voy a + infinitive) • Hay • Prepositions • Poder + infinitive • Irregular verbs ir and hacer • Conditional tense

My studies • Give and understand opinions about different subjects • Talk about your studies • Talk about your school and daily routines • Tener que/deber que + infinitive • Porque to justify and express reasons • Comparatives and superlatives • Using past, present and future tenses

Free-time activities • Describe what you like and dislike doing • Talk about your freetime and plans for the weekend • Buying food and drink • Talking about eating out and special occasion meals • Talking about sport • Perfect tense • Present tense consolidation including irregulars – salir, querer, preferer, ver, dar • Adverbs of frequency • Using three tenses

Revision tasks to be completed

• Speaking questions to be prepared using the speaking mats provided • Go through the grammar and vocabulary in your exercise books

Other tips

• Ensure you are revising little and often • Try to do 5-10 minutes of Quizlet / vocab revision a day • Ensure you are doing ‘active’ revision – writing things out, repetition, using flashcards, getting someone to test you, recording and listening to yourself. • Use the Topics folder on Sparkjar.