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:

Deberes para miercoles, 13 de enero (Homework for 13th January)

Ex1.  Re-arrange the sentences in the correct order to make a text about someone going out for dinner (similar to the David Backham text we did in class).

Ex 2.  Look at the information in the table.  Use that information to complete the gaps in the text below the box.

Writing and Speaking Exam Preparation – for 4th December

This is what your written exam will look like, the questions in the speaking exam will be very similar!  Make sure that you prepare and memorise answers of at least 3 sentences for each question, you should give a statement, and opinion and a reason for your opinion.  Try to vary your vocabulary and use the future tense as well as the present tense.

 

The tick grid below is to remind you of the structures you should try to include, the ones that are shaded in you don’t need to use as we have not yet covered those in class – good luck!!

End of Term Exams – Revision (from 3/12/09)

The end of year exams begin next Thursday (3rd December).  You need to look back through your exercise books and your vocab books and revise the following topics:

• Describing and comparing people – hair and eyes, physical  attributes, personality, etc…
• Sports – ‘jugar’ + ball sports, ‘practicar’ + other sports
• Hobbies – me gusta + activity
• Food and Drink
• Future tense

To practise your vocabulary, click on the linguascope link on the right-hand side of this page and go onto the following exercises:

• las verduras
• la fruta
• el desayuno
• los snacks
• los deportes
• los pasatiempos

To practise forming sentences and the future tense, click on the languagesonline link on the right-hand side of this page and complete the following exercises:

• Caminos 1 Unidad 9 – ex.3 – The Verb -ir
• Caminos 1 Unidad 9 (nueva edicion) – ex.9, 10 & 17

Further practise on www.espanol-extra.co.uk – CORE level

• Language and Grammar
  •  nouns and adjectives (all exercises)
  • Verbs – the present tense (regualar and radically changing)
  • Verbs – the future tense
• Descriptions – all exercises
• Food and Drink – all exercises
• Free-time – all exercises