Spanish (2024) (1SP1)

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Free Spanish (2024) (1SP1) study notes for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.

My personal world

Lifestyle and wellbeing

My neighbourhood

Media and technology

Studying and my future

  • School

  • Future opportunities (e.g. work, travel)

Travel and tourism

Grammar: nouns, determiners, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions

  • Nouns: forming feminine and plural nouns; infinitives used as nouns

  • Determiners: definite and indefinite articles, demonstrative, indefinite and possessive adjectives

  • Subject, direct object, indirect object and reflexive pronouns: agreement and word order

  • Relative, interrogative and neuter demonstrative pronouns; possessive pronouns and pronouns after prepositions (Higher)

  • Adjectives and adverbs: agreement, position, comparative and superlative structures

  • Prepositions: personal a, de, para/sin/antes de/después de + infinitive, verb + preposition

Grammar: verbs

  • Present tense: regular -ar/-er/-ir verbs, the five stem-change patterns and key irregulars

  • Present continuous (estar + present participle) and perfect (haber + past participle)

  • Preterite tense: regular verbs and irregular forms

  • Imperfect and imperfect continuous

  • Periphrastic future (ir a + infinitive), inflectional future and conditional

  • Imperative (affirmative commands)

  • Present subjunctive: forms and contexts of use (Higher)

  • Negation, interrogatives and the passive voice

  • Modal verbs, impersonal verbs and interesar-type verbs

  • Reflexive verbs and periphrastic expressions (acabar de, seguir/llevar + present participle)

  • Derivational morphology: suffixes -ito/-ita, -ísimo, -mente, -idad, -able

Sound-symbol correspondences

  • Vowels and consonant sounds: a, e, i, o, u, ll, ch, z, j, ñ, v, r/rr and silent h

  • Spelling patterns for c, g and qu: ca/co/cu, ce/ci, ga/go/gu, ge/gi, gue/gui, que/qui

  • Stress patterns and written accents (Higher)

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