Spanish

Course summary

The French, German and Spanish specifications build on the knowledge, understanding and skills gained at GCSE, focusing on language, culture and society, and fostering a range of transferable skills including communication, critical thinking, research skills and creativity. The course involves actively using the foreign language and the approach tends to be topic-based, dealing with the themes and topics around which linguistic skills are practised and developed. Besides course books, authentic listening and reading materials from news broadcasts, newspapers and the internet are used extensively. DVDs are shown from time to time and visits to see plays and films are arranged where appropriate. The language lab is used weekly and there is also a compulsory conversation class with the foreign language assistant once per week.