AQA GCSE Spanish Topics

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Themes:

Theme 1: Identify and culture

Topic 1: Me, my family and friends

- Relationships with family and friends

- Marriage/partnership

Topic 2: Technology in everyday life

- Social media

- Mobile technology

Topic 3: Free-time activities

- Music

- Cinema and TV

- Food and eating out

- Sport

Topic 4: Customs and festivals in Spanish-speaking countries/communities

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest

Topic 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region

Topic 2: Social issues

- Charity/voluntary work

- Healthy/unhealthy living

Topic 3: Global issues

- The environment

- Poverty/homelessness

Topic 4: Travel and tourism

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment

Topic 1: My studies

Topic 2: Life at school/college

Topic 3: Education post-16

Topic 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions

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Grammar:

3.3.1.1 Nouns

- Gender

- Singular and plural forms

3.3.1.2 Articles

- Definite and indefinite

- lo plus an adjective (R)

3.3.1.3 Adjectives

- Agreement

- Position

- Comparative and superlative (regular and mayor, menor, mejor, peor)

- Demonstrative (este, ese, aquel)

- Indefinite (cada, otro, todo, mismo, alguno)

- Possessive, short form (mi)

- Possessive, long form (mio) (R)

- Interrogative (cuanto, que)

3.3.1.4 Adverbs

- Formation

- Comparative and superlative: regular

- Interrogative (como, cuando, donde)

- Adverbs of time and place (aqui, alli, ahora, ya)

- Common adverbial phrases

3.3.1.5 Quantifiers / Intensifiers

- (muy, bastante, demasiado, poco, mucho)

3.3.1.6 Pronouns

- Subject

- Object (R)

- Position and order of object pronouns

- Reflexive

- Relative: que

- Relative: quien, lo que (R)

- Disjunctive (conmigo, para mi))

- Demonstrative (este, ese, aquel, esto, eso, aquello)

- Indefinite (algo, alguien)

- Interrogative (cual, que, quien)

3.3.1.7 Verbs

- Regular and irregular verbs, including reflexive verbs

- All persons of the verb, singular and plural

- Modes of address: tu and usted

- Radical- changing verbs

- Negative forms

- Interrogative forms

- Reflexive constructions (se puede, se necesita, se habla)

- Uses of ser and estar

Tenses:

- present indicative

- Present continous

-Preterite

- Imperfect: in weather expressions with estar, hacer

- Imperfect (R)

- Immediate future

- Future (R)

- Perfect: most common verbs only

- Conditional: gustar only in set phrases

- Pluperfect (R)

- Gerund (R)

- Imperative: common forms including negative

- Subjunctive, present (R) in certain exclamatory phrases (!viva! !digame!)

- Sunbjunctive, imperfect: quisiera

- Impersonal verbs: most common only

3.3.1.8 Prepositions

- Common, including personal a

- Por and para

3.3.1.9 Conjunctions

- Common, including y, pero, o, porque, como, cuando

3.3.1.10 Number, quantity, dates

3.3.1.11 Time

- Use of desde hace with present tense (R)

3.3.2.1 Articles

- lo plus adjective

3.3.2.2 Adjectives

- Comparative and superlative

- Possessive, short and long forms (mi, mio)

- Relative (cuyo)

3.3.2.3 Adverbs

- Comparative and superlative

3.3.2.4 Pronouns

- Object

- Position and order of object pronouns

- Relative: all other uses including quien, lo que, el que, cual

- Possessive (el mio, la mia)

3.3.2.5 Verbs

Tenses:

- Future

- Imperfect

- Imperfect continuous

- Perfect

- Pluperfect

- Conditional

- Passive voice (R)

- Gerund

- Present subjunctive: imperative, affirmation and negation, future after conjunctions of time (cuando), after verbs of wishing, command, request, emotion, to express purpose (para que)

- Imperfect subjunctive (R)

3.3.2.6 Time

- use of desde hace with present tense

- use of desde hace with imperfect tense (R)