Spanish 7691

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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)

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)

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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