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Spanish 7691
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Free Spanish 7691 study notes for AQA AS Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Social issues and trends: Aspects of Hispanic society
Aspects of Hispanic society
Modern and traditional values (Los valores tradicionales y modernos)
Cyberspace (El ciberespacio)
Equal rights (La igualdad de los sexos)
Artistic culture in the Hispanic world
Modern day idols (La influencia de los ídolos)
Spanish regional identity (La identidad regional en España)
Cultural heritage (El patrimonio cultural)
Listening skills (Paper 1)
Main points and gist from spoken passages
Detail, figures and specific information
Inferring opinions, attitudes and emotional reactions
Multi-speaker passages: who says what
Answering in Spanish: giving only what the question asks
Summary in Spanish of a spoken passage (content and language)
Works: literary texts
Reading skills (Paper 1)
Non-fiction and online sources: main points and gist
Detail and cross-referencing across a text
Literary fiction and historical texts
Inference, tone and abstract content
Non-verbal response items: matching, true/false, gap-fill
Summary in Spanish of a written text (content and language)
Works: films
Grammar
Translation
Translation into English (Paper 1)
Translation into Spanish (Paper 2)
Tense, mood and register choices in translation
Idiom, false friends and set phrases
Writing on set texts (Paper 2)
Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba
Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Laura Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate
Ramón J. Sender, Réquiem por un campesino español
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, La sombra del viento
Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rimas
Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Las bicicletas son para el verano
Luis de Castresana, El otro árbol de Guernica
Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Essay technique: critical response, structure and evidence (approx 250 words)
Writing on set films (Paper 2)
El laberinto del fauno (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Ocho apellidos vascos (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014)
María, llena eres de gracia (Joshua Marston, 2004)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Abel (Diego Luna, 2010)
Las 13 rosas (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2007)
Grammar in use
Nouns and articles: gender, plurals, el with stressed a, lo + adjective
Adjectives, numerals, quantifiers and intensifiers
Adverbs: -mente, comparison, adjectives as adverbs, interrogatives
Pronouns: subject, object, reflexive; position and order
Relative, demonstrative, indefinite, possessive and interrogative pronouns
Indicative tenses: present to conditional perfect
Infinitive, gerund, past participle and verbal paraphrases
The subjunctive: commands, conditionals, conjunctions of time, para que and sin que
Voice: reflexive passive, impersonal se, ser and estar + past participle; uses of ser and estar
Constructions with verbs, nuance reflexives and modes of address
Prepositions: simple and complex, personal a, por and para
Conjunctions, negation, questions and commands
Word order, hace/hacía expressions, cleft sentences, comparatives and indirect speech
Discourse markers and fillers
Vocabulary & functions
Family, marriage and religion vocabulary
Internet, social media and technology vocabulary
Work, gender equality and rights vocabulary
Music, film, celebrity and media vocabulary
Traditions, gastronomy, languages and regions vocabulary
Heritage, art, architecture and tourism vocabulary
Expressing and justifying opinions; agreeing and disagreeing
Comparing, contrasting and drawing conclusions
Asking questions and seeking information or opinions
Connectives and essay register
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