Year 8: Los adjetivos

You should study this set of adjectives to enable you to justify your opinions of school subjects.

Year 10: En el restaurante

Click here to study terms that you might use in a restaurant setting.

Year 13: Los nuevos vecinos

Click here for a vocabulary set from Pp. 46-47 from your A2 Spanish textbook.

Year 12: El deporte para todos

Link to vocabulary from P. 62 of your text book.

Year 9: ¿Qué te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre?

Click here to practice time expressions, expressions of preference and familiar verbs in infinitive, present and preterite tenses.

Using a combination of the above, write around one hundred words on your free time. Include the following:

• What you like / love / dislike / hate doing.
• What you usually / sometimes / always / never, etc. do
• What you did recently / last weekend / last summer, etc.

Make sure you plan your work so that it flows and reads coherently. Link your statements using the connective devices you have learned, adding opinions with justification where you can.

Now, review your work, then add a further paragraph, detailing what you and others are going to do over the forthcoming Easter holiday. Your submission should now be around 150 words long. You could begin this paragraph like this: 'Durante Semana Santa...'

GCSE Spanish: Revision Tool

The Spanish Department has created an app that enables access to a variety of revision resources. You can download this onto your mobile phone or ipad. It also opens as a webpage. Click here to access.

Year 11: Las prácticas laborales

Click here to access revision cards to help you prepare to discuss your work experience.

Prepare a response to a prompt on work experience: 'Describe tus prácticas laborales'. You could mention the following:

1. Where you worked - Hice mis prácticas laborales en... / Trabajé en... / Fui a trabajar en...
2. How long you worked there for - Trabajé allí durante...
3. What you did routinely - Todos los días tenía que... / iba a... / hacía...
4. What you did one day - Un día tuve que... / fui a... / hice...
5. The best and worst aspects - Lo mejor fue... / Lo peor fue...
6. What your boss was like - Mi jefe era...

Be prepared to practise and refine this in our next lesson on Thursday, 27 February.

Year 13: La convivencia de culturas

Click here to access vocabulary and set phrases on the topic of multiculturalism.

Write a response of 150 words to one of the following questions:

¿Es posible que los distintos grupos étnicos puedan integrarse a la sociedad y también conservar su propia cultura?
¿Cuáles son los factores que facilitan la integración? y ¿cuáles son los que lo impiden?  
¿Qué debemos hacer para crear un sentido de unidad en una sociedad multiracial?
¿Qué se puede hacer para promover un sentimiento de pertenencia?

Year 12: Deportes extremos

Click here to study vocabulary and set phrases in advance of our next lesson on Thursday 27 February.

Year 10: Tomando tapas

Click here to learn vocabulary in preparation for Thursday's lesson.

Year 10: ¿Por dónde se va a...?

'Para ir al supermercado, sal del instituto, gira a la derecha, toma la segunda calle a la izquierda y está a mano izquierda.'

Not knowing the area very well, this is my version of how I think you would get to the Co-op from school. Write back to me telling me how to get from school to a restaurant or hotel of your choice in Ipswich. It is important that the language is correct and linked coherently, not that the directions, themselves, be accurate. Here is a link to vocabulary practice to help you with giving and understanding directions. Here is a link to some guidebook phrases and further vocabulary. You should begin with, 'Para ir a...

Year 12: ¿Participante o espectador?

En tu municipio no existe ninguna instalación deportiva. Escribe un mensaje para el foro del sitio web del Ayuntamiento quejándote de la falta de instalaciones y explicando por qué debería ser una prioridad.

Year 11: ¿Qué cualidades son necesarias para ser buen...?

Write down some things that are important or essential qualities to have in order to do your chosen job successfully. You should start like this, 'Para ser...' You should then use a combination of the following structures: '...hay que...'; '...se debe...'; es imprescindible / esencial / importante / necesario / preferible'; 'se precisa'; 'hace falta' + infinitive. Justify at least one of your assertions. You should write at least thirty words. Use the model below to help. This assignment is due by Thursday 13 February.

'Para ser buen profesor hace falta ser experto en tu campo. No sólo eso, sino también es necesario saber controlar el comportamiento incívico y hay que trabajar bien en equipo porque nunca trabajas de forma individual. Finalmente se necesita empeño y amor al trabajo.'

Year 10: Descriptive writing

Look at your response to the 'Mi Ciudad' post below. In the light of feedback and the language structures studied in today's lesson, write an extended and complex response to the following questions:

• ¿Qué hay en Ipswich?
• ¿Cómo es?

Year 10: Las tiendas

 A vocabulary list of types of shop, plus practice of decimals in Spanish. Click here to practise.

Year 9: ¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana pasado?

In class, we have studied how to augment your writing by including time expressions, sequencers, opinions and connectives. We have also studied different verb endings so that you can say not only what you and others do, but also what you and others did.

You now need to write an account of how you spent last weekend. You should try to write up to 100 words. This should be submitted by Wednesday, 12 February. You could start like this...

'El fin de semana pasado...

Click on this link for extra support.

Year 8: Las asignaturas

Three sets of vocabulary:

• school subjects
• days of the week 
• adjectives to help you explain why you like or dislike your subjects.

Haz clic aquí

Read this from Ángel.

'Hola amigos, soy Ángel. Me gusta la geografía porque es interesante, pero no me gusta la historia porque es aburrida. Y ¿tú? ¿qué asignaturas te gustan y no te gustan? ¿por qué?'

Write a short response saying which subjects you like and dislike. Say why.

GCSE Spanish: Vocabulary revision

Click here to access the first set of vocabulary cards for revision

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Year 9: Mi tiempo libre





Click on this link to revise vocabulary items that will help you to speak and write about how you spend your free time. 

Year 12: El deporte y el ejercicio

Vocabulary learning homework task. You should open this link. You will be tested on these items on Thursday 6 February.