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Spanish 8692
10 sections available · 44 chapters available
Free Spanish 8692 study notes for AQA GCSE students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Theme 1: People and lifestyle
Identity and relationships with others
Healthy living and lifestyle
Education and work
Theme 2: Popular culture
Free-time activities
Customs, festivals and celebrations
Celebrity culture
Theme 3: Communication and the world around us
Travel and tourism, including places of interest
Media and technology
The environment and where people live
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) and present subjunctive with high-frequency verbs (Higher)
Present subjunctive: forms and contexts of use (Higher)
Negation, interrogatives, passive voice, modal verbs and impersonal verbs
Reflexive verbs, periphrastic expressions (acabar de, seguir/llevar + present participle) and derivational morphology
Modal verbs, impersonal verbs and interesar-type verbs
Derivational morphology: suffixes -ito/-ita, -ísimo, -mente, -idad, -able
Phonics and dictation
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)
Dictation: transcribing short spoken sentences, including words outside the vocabulary list
Phonics: sound-symbol correspondences
Listening skills (Paper 1)
Listening for gist, detail and specific information
Identifying opinions, attitudes and justifications in spoken Spanish (Higher)
Numbers, dates, times and quantities in spoken Spanish
Inferring plausible meaning from context in spoken extracts
Reading skills (Paper 3)
Reading for gist, detail and specific information
Identifying opinions, attitudes, tone and register in written Spanish (Higher)
Inferring plausible meanings of unfamiliar words from context
Translation from Spanish into English
Writing tasks (Paper 4)
Foundation Q1: five short sentences responding to a photo
Foundation Q2: short piece of writing on five compulsory bullet points (approx. 50 words)
Foundation Q3: short discrete grammar tasks
Translation from English into Spanish (Foundation Q4 / Higher Q1)
Overlap task: writing on three compulsory bullet points (approx. 90 words) (Foundation Q5 / Higher Q2)
Higher Q3: open-ended writing task on two bullet points (approx. 150 words)
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