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Year 10

The start of a two-year GCSE course. Topics include: the family; personal relationships; places; shopping; ordering meals; school; travel. Grammar includes: the present, immediate future, imperfect and preterite tenses; direct and indirect object pronouns; prepositions; pronouns; adjectival forms.

Year 11

Intensive listening and speaking practice. New grammar includes: the pluperfect, conditional perfect, future and conditional tenses; some uses of the subjunctive; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; impersonal verbs. Topics include: holidays; accommodation; health and fitness; careers; shopping; public services; the natural environment. There's an extra conversation session every week and an exchange visit to Barcelona.

Year 12

Deeper understanding of contemporary Hispanic culture and society; transformation of meaning and syntax; health and drugs; the role of women; television; advertising; ageing; literature; history; culture. There's an oral assessment on one of four general topics (youth culture and concerns; health issues, education and employment; the world around us) and you should visit a Spanish-speaking country at some point during the holidays.

Year 13

Three literary texts; researching a topical debate for the final oral assessment; responding to authentic spoken language and written texts; translating into and out of Spanish; guided writing; essays; contemporary culture and society.