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:

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

 

 

 

Comparativos – Comparatives

A comparative adjective is used when we want to compare two things.  In English we either add ‘-er’ to the adjective or use ‘more / less ….. than …‘ : 

e.g.  tall = taller,   beautiful = more beautiful

In Spanish the ‘-er’ form does not exist and we only use the ‘more / less …… than …….‘ way of comparing things.  Look at the examples below:

Now try to translate the following sentences into Spanish.  Click on the thumbnail to check your answers: