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Spanish (9SP0)
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Free Spanish (9SP0) revision notes for Pearson Edexcel A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Theme 1: La evolución de la sociedad española
El cambio en la estructura familiar
El mundo laboral
El impacto turístico en España
Theme 2: La cultura política y artística en el mundo hispanohablante
La música
Los medios de comunicación
Los festivales y las tradiciones
Theme 3: La inmigración y la sociedad multicultural española
El impacto positivo de la inmigración en la sociedad española
Enfrentando los desafíos de la inmigración y la integración en España
La reacción social y pública hacia la inmigración en España
Theme 4: La dictadura franquista y la transición a la democracia
La Guerra Civil y el ascenso de Franco (1936-1939)
La dictadura franquista
La transición de la dictadura a la democracia
Prescribed literary texts
Bodas de sangre, Federico García Lorca (1932, play)
Como agua para chocolate, Laura Esquivel (1989, novel)
Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Gabriel García Márquez (1981, novel)
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1987, novel)
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Gabriel García Márquez (1961, novel)
El túnel, Ernesto Sábato (1948, novel)
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (1944, short stories)
La casa de Bernarda Alba, Federico García Lorca (1936, play)
La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende (1982, novel)
Modelos de mujer, Almudena Grandes (1996, short stories)
Nada, Carmen Laforet (1943, novel)
Primera memoria, Ana María Matute (1959, novel)
Réquiem por un campesino español, Ramón J. Sender (1953, novel)
Prescribed films
Diarios de motocicleta, dir. Walter Salles (2004)
El laberinto del fauno, dir. Guillermo del Toro (2006)
La historia oficial, dir. Luis Puenzo (1985)
La lengua de las mariposas, dir. José Luis Cuerda (1999)
La misma luna, dir. Patricia Riggen (2007)
Las 13 rosas, dir. Emilio Martínez-Lázaro (2007)
Machuca, dir. Andrés Wood (2004)
Mar adentro, dir. Alejandro Amenábar (2004)
También la lluvia, dir. Icíar Bollaín (2010)
Todo sobre mi madre, dir. Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
Voces inocentes, dir. Luis Mandoki (2004)
Volver, dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2006)
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Grammar
Nouns and articles: gender, plurals, el with stressed a, lo + adjective
Adjectives: agreement, position, apocopation, comparison, adjectives as nouns; numerals, quantifiers and intensifiers
Adverbs: formation in -mente, comparison, adjectives as adverbs, interrogative adverbs
Pronouns: subject, object and reflexive forms, stressed/unstressed forms, position and order
Relative (que, quien, el que, el cual, cuyo), demonstrative, indefinite, possessive and interrogative pronouns
Indicative tenses: present, preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect and conditional perfect
Infinitive, gerund and past participle; verbal paraphrases (ir a, estar + gerund, acabar de, llevar + gerund)
The subjunctive: commands, conditional sentences, after conjunctions of time, para que and sin que, in relative clauses, after other subordinating conjunctions and after verbs of wishing, commanding, emotion, doubt, denial and possibility
Voice: reflexive passive, impersonal se, ser and estar + past participle; uses of ser and estar
Constructions with verbs, 'nuance' reflexive verbs and modes of address (tú, usted, vos)
Prepositions: simple and complex forms, the personal a, por and para
Conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating and que introducing a clause), negation, questions and commands
Word order, time expressions with hace/hacía, cleft sentences, comparative constructions (including de lo que), concession other than aunque and indirect speech
Discourse markers and fillers
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