12 Spanish
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Year 13 (2025) students are required to attend Subject Confirmation on Thursday 23 January to finalise their timetable.
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr H. Overton.
Objectives
- To extend students' linguistic and cultural understanding and their ability to interact appropriately with others.
- To introduce students to new ways of thinking about, questioning, and interpreting the world and their place in it.
- To acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes that equip students for living in a world of diverse peoples, languages and cultures.
- To challenge and consider our own identities and assumptions.
- To develop understanding of the power of language.
- To enjoy using another language in meaningful situations.
Content
This course consolidates learning to date and uses various themes of interest to pupils to reinforce and extend the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Topics studied may include:
- My Future.
- Literature.
- What would you do?
- Festivals.
- Media and Advertisements.
- Complaining.
- Tourism.
Subject Overview
Term 1
Perfect tense, present continuous tense, pronouns, exclamations, future tense, conditional tense, expression wonder.
Term 2
Deberias, possessive pronouns, relative pronouns, relative pronouns.
Term 3
Direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, imperatives, media vocabulary.
Term 4
Future perfect tense, sayings and idioms.
Recommended Prior Learning
An Achieved grade in Year 11 Spanish in each assessment OR Head of Faculty approval.
Subject and Associated Costs
Course Costs: $20.00 Education Perfect online vocabulary learning.
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This subject is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Spanish 2.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of spoken Spanish texts on familiar matters
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Spanish 2.3 - Interact using spoken Spanish to share information and justify ideas and opinions in different situations
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Spanish 2.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of written and/or visual Spanish text(s) on familiar matters
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Spanish 2.5 - Write a variety of text types in Spanish to convey information, ideas, and opinions in genuine contexts
Disclaimer
It is important that you complete your option selection by the due date to enable you to have your preferred course of study. Course availability is dependent on numbers and staffing, and course entry will be confirmed at the beginning of the school year.