Spanish

Assessment

Our current topics are: • Modern and traditional values • The cyberspace • Equal rights • Immigration • Integration • Racism • Modern day idols • Spanish regional identity • Cultural heritage • Today’s youth, tomorrow’s citizens • Monarchies and dictatorships • Popular movements • Como agua para chocolate, a novel by Laura Esquivel • Volver, a film by Pedro Almodóvar Grammar exercises, reading, writing essays, regular vocabulary learning, preparing and researching for an oral presentation or reading/watching an excerpt from a book or film are the types of tasks that you can expect as homework. You will also carry out an independent piece of research on a topic of your choice on an aspect of Spanish or Hispanic culture at the end of Year 12. You are assessed by our Spanish Department regularly for the duration of the course to gauge your progress. At the end of your two years, you take three papers that assess all four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.