Summer Assessments – Beginning 23rd May 2011

The summer assessments will cover the following topics:

Travel and transport
Holiday activities
Countries
Places (in town / compass points)
You will also need to revise the past and future tense. 

Use the following links to help you revise:

www.linguascope.com – beginner – el tiempo, los paises, el transporte, en la ciudad

www.languagesonline.org.uk – spanish – caminos 2 – unidad 1, unidad 8

www.espanol-extra.co.uk – core – weather, countries, holidays, language and grammar (the preterite)

www.vocabexpress.com – mis vacaciones (all the topics in that folder)

Below is your speaking and writing assessment to prepare for after half-term:

Assessments: Starting 6th December

The assessments next week will cover the topics of:

– describing what people look like

– describing people’s personalities

– comparing people

– sports and hobbies

– future tense and opinions

– food and drink

Use the following links to revise:

www.linguascope.com – beginner – las pasatiempos / los deportes / las frutas / las verduras / desayuno / los snacks

www.languagesonline.org.uk – caminos 1 – unidad 7 (nueva edicion) / unidad 8 / unidad 11 (nueva edicion) / unidad 12 /

Below is your speaking test, make sure that you know answers to the questions off by heart.  Go back through your exercise books to help you find the answers.  Remember to get level 5 you must use:

– opinions

– accurate verb endings

– future tense

– a variety of vocabulary

Deberes para el viernes 4 de diciembre

Read the text below and then decide whether the sentences are true, false or not in the text.

Deberes para el 1 de noviembre

Learn the following verbs and pronouns off by heart and write a short text saying which sports you play (30-40 words):

Describir una foto – para el 15 de octubre

Don’t forget to choose a photo of your own or download one from the web and write a description in Spanish about it (approx. 100 words).  Below are some phrases that you might want to use:

 

Se llama ……….             – He / She / It is called ………….

 

Tiene ……..años           – He / She / It is ……………. years old

 

Es ……..y ……..y tiene el pelo …… y ……..          – – He / She / It is …… and ……….. and has ……….. and ………… hair

 

Es …………. pero muy ……………..            – He / She / It is …………… but very ………………

 

Tiene ………………            – He / She / It  has …….(family / pets)

 

Vive en ……………           – He / She / It lives in ………….. 

 

Trabaja en ……….            – He / She / It works in ……………..

 

Le gusta ……………          – He / She / It likes ……………….

 

No le gusta …………        – He / She / It  doesn’t like …………………

Deberes: Para el 1 de octubre

Read the information about Venus and Serena Williams below and then complete the sentences 1-5 with the name of the correct sister!  Once you have done this, you need to translate each sentence into English.  Any problems, send me a comment or come to see me in ML7.

Deberes (Homework) – Para el 17 de Septiembre

Complete the answers to the worksheet below in your books.  You may need to use a dictionary to look up some of the words, if you don’t have a dictionary, use www.wordreference.com – this is a good online dictionary.

You can download the worksheet here:

Bienvenidos!

Welcome to the Year 8 Spanish blogsite.  This is where you will find helpful information, summaries of what we did in class, homework sheets and extra revision exercises (for those of you who feel very keen!).  I will also post a list of links to other websites that will help you with your learning. 

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to send me a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.  Remember to keep checking the blog, especially if you have missed any classes – this will stop you from getting behind.  Finally, I’m very pleased to be teaching your class this year, so let’s work hard and make the most of it!

Sra. D

speaking exam

summer_speaking_assessmentSL

Vocabulario – Las Vacaciones (Holiday Vocabulary)

Below is the verb ‘ir’ (to go), this is a key verb as we also use it to form a future tense.  Try to memorise it to the tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep until it is imprinted on your brain.  Remember we always learn verbs in the same order:

yo – I      tu – you       el – he      ella – she     nosotros – we      vosotros – you (pl)      ellos / ellas – they (m/f)

modes of transport  Click to download a Pdf of the modes of transport.