13SPA

Year 13 Spanish (Level 3)

Subject Description

Head of Faculty: Miss C. Clech.

Students adopt a more focussed approach in grammar and vocabulary in order to extend their comprehension and production skills. Topics covered include: Planning a trip, personal problems, health, publicity, environment, technology, games, social problems and latest news.  There will also be opportunities for food, yoga and dancing in Spanish.    

Students learn to use language variably and effectively to express and justify their own ideas and opinions and support or challenge those of others. They learn to use and identify the linguistic and cultural forms that guide interpretation and enable them to respond critically to texts.   

  • Communicate information, ideas and opinions through increasingly complex and varied texts. 
  • Explore the views of others, developing and sharing personal perspectives. 
  • Engage in sustained interaction and produce extended text. 
  • Analyse ways in which the target language is organised in different texts and for different purposes.   
  • Explore how linguistic meaning is conveyed across languages. 
  • Analyse ways in which the target culture(s) is (are) organised for different purposes and for different audiences.
  • Analyse how the use of the target language expresses cultural meanings. 

 

Prerequisites

Preference will be given to students who have gained credits in Level 2 Spanish.

Discretionary entry will be offered by the Head of Faculty.