| Course Name: Spanish A Level |
Course Specification
What will you study?
- Aspects of Hispanic society
- Artistic culture in the Hispanic world
- Multiculturalism in Hispanic society
- Aspects of political life in Hispanic society
- Grammar
What skills will you develop?
- Increased fluency, accuracy and precision in Spanish
- Using a range of key expressions and structures
- Using language spontaneously; asking and answering questions
- Presenting viewpoints and developing arguments
- Analysing, evaluating and pursuading
- Using a range of expression – including the list of grammar
- Using self-correction and repair strategies
- Reading and responding to a variety of texts
- Understanding the main points, gist and inferring
- Researching and using case studies/evidence to justify arguments
- Summarising information
- Translating from Spanish to English and English to Spanish
How will you be assessed?
Paper 1
Written exam: 2 hours 30 minutes
Paper 2
- Written exam: 2 hours
- 80 marks in total
- 20% of A-level
Paper 3
- Oral exam - based on a photo card about one of the themes and the individual research project: 21–23 minutes (including 5 minutes preparation time)
- 60 marks in total
- 30% of A-level
