UPPER SIXTH- (Year 13) Eleven 50 mins sessions over 2 weeks Teacher A=6 periods, Teacher B=6 periods

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1 UPPER SIXTH- (Year 13) Eleven 50 mins sessions over 2 weeks Teacher A=6 periods, Teacher B=6 periods RESOURCES: Course Book Sigue A2 (Ánimo 2 supplements it)- WJEC board. Each student is issued with their own personal copy of: Collins bilingual dictionary, Anaya Diccionario de Español, Acción Gramática, The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary. ICT- Students will regularly use the Moodle courses created by teachers and available via de website to supplement their studies in the classroom and to expand their horizons in terms of independent learning and research. One of the courses is linked to the textbook and the topics studied (Sigue A2- WJEC) and the other relevant course is dedicated to the Guided Studies Option. Other supplementary materials - see below. Topics for WCEC A2 are divided into two main areas: Environmental Issues: pollution, global warming, transport, energy, nuclear energy, renewable energies, conservation, recycling, sustainability. Social and Political Issues: including the role of the media, racism, immigration, social exclusion and integration, terrorism, world of work (employment, commerce and globalisation). Topics for Teacher A: TEMAS GRAMÁTICA TERM 1 U1. La sociedad: familia mono parental, Accents/ stress/ punctuation. Gender of igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, nouns. Present tense of regular verbs. racismo, laicismo, inmigración. Adjectives: position and agreement. Irregular and radical changing verbs. U2.El crimen y el castigo: delincuencia Interrogatives, impersonal verbs, Perfect juvenil, castigos, violencia callejera, fraude, tense, ser y estar, para y por. la policía, niños en la cárcel. La Casa de Bernarda Alba- study of the text in great detail as part of the Guided Studies Option

2 TERM 2-3 U3. El paro: el paro en España, jóvenes en paro, con estudios pero en paro, jóvenes viviendo en casa de sus padres, los gitanos y el paro, los mendigos. U12. La política: política en España, los españoles y la monarquía, terrorismo y ETA, Gibraltar, controversia sobre autonomía y separatismo. U13. La historia: La Alhambra, el Emirato, el Califato de Córdoba, Cristóbal Colon, Los conquistadores, La Armada, la Guerra Civil, Franco, la Transición. Preterite tense, familiar Imperatives, direct and indirect pronouns, comparative and superlative adjectives. Subjunctive: expressions of futurity, indefinite antecedents, object pronouns, cuyo. Subjunctive vs Indicative, impersonal verbs, direct object pronouns with two verbs, order of pronouns. Topics for Teacher B: TEMAS TERM 1 U4. El reciclaje: reciclar y consumo responsable, la huella ecológica, tecno basura, convertir basura en energía, cambio climático. U5. Las energías: energías renovables, qué son?, la biomasa, la energía eólica, la solar, la nuclear, el gas natural. U6. La contaminación: basura, qué hacemos con ella?, contaminación de tráfico, de ruido, basura nuclear. U7. La conservación: un desafío para Europa y para España, participación ciudadana para salvar el planeta, combatir la escasez de agua, los incendios forestales, la sobrepesca. GRAMÁTICA Polite Imperative, Future tense, Pronouns, Adverbs. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, Conditional tense, numbers. Imperfect tense, possessive adjectives and pronouns, negatives, Imperfect vs Preterite. Irregular past participles, prepositions before verbs, personal a, passive voice, revision of tenses.

3 Units 4 to 7 will be grouped into the wider topic of the Environment and the teacher will pick and choose the most relevant and useful exercises from these units in order to cover the topic thoroughly. TERM 2-3 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios- detailed study of this film as part of the Guided Studies Option U8. La medicina: dilema sobre la medicina Conditional Perfect tense, Preterite vs convencional, la pública y la privada, Imperfect, Future Perfect tense, elección de sexo en embriones, conjunctions requiring the Subjunctive. reproducción asistida en España, Eutanasia, cirugía estética, menores y tratamiento psicológico. U9. Las ciencias: mitos de la ciencia, Present Subjunctive- verbs of influence, viajes espaciales, el biorritmo, la donación emotion, doubt. de órganos, trabajos de investigación. U10. La tecnología: cartas en peligro de Imperfect Subjunctive, Past Subjunctive extinción, carnés electrónicos, dispositivos and Conditional tenses, Pluperfect incrustados en el cuerpo, GPS. Subjunctive. oth teachers will dip into Unit 11 when working through the Guided Studies Option **B U11. Las artes: el museo en casa, el Concierto de Aranjuez, Guernica, Dalí, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Gaudí, Paco Pena, Enrique Iglesias, Almodóvar y Penélope Cruz, Cien años de Soledad. Pluperfect tense, irregular verbs in the Preterite, Familiar Imperatives, forming questions. From February onwards, increasing emphasis is placed on practising techniques required for the WJEC examinations, focusing particularly in the speaking, grammar and writing sections. *Teacher A will teach the literature section of the the Guided Studies Option: La Casa de Bernarda Alba in the autumn term. *Teacher B will teach the film section of the Guided Studies Option with María llena de gracia as the main film.

4 In the Spring term the students will chose a topic to prepare independently, but under supervision, for the Oral Exposé part of the Oral examination (SN3). This could either be a book, a film or a region. The Spanish assistant will see each student individually 25 mins per week. They will develop the topics studied in class, will expand the student s cultural knowledge of Spain and will help them prepare and practise for their oral exam preparation. Although it is not compulsory, the students will be encouraged to attend the Spanish Film Club. There is also available for the Sixth Form a study trip to Salamanca during February half term, which always proves very popular. SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES - SIXTH FORM All pupils are supplied with monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and copies of Acción Gramática, Practice in Spanish Grammar and The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary. Supplementary resources used in both the Lower and Upper Sixth include a series of cultural and topic based books, all of which are kept in L9. SUBSCRIPTIONS:- Annual subscriptions to Authentik Interactive. In addition to these published resources, topic-relevant resources are available in Moodle and via all School networked computer workstations. These are continually added to and updated by staff. The School Learning and Resource Centre (LRC) also has a wide collection of titles covering Spanish and South-American history, civilisation and literature. The Department also has a large collection of literary texts covering all periods from the medieval to the contemporary. THE INTERNET is used extensively to provide topical source materials. Films on video/dvd Pedro Almódovar (A 1-hour documentary in English with subtitled interviews in Spanish on the film director). The following films by Almódovar are in Spanish with the option of English subtitles: Abrazos Rotos Como ser mujer y no morir en el intento Hable con ella. Kika La flor de mi secreto. Mala Educación

5 Other films Matador Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios. Todo sobre mi madre. Volver. 800 Balas Abre los ojos- Amada Basqueball Biutiful Carmen Comandante Como agua para chocolate. Diarios de Motocicleta El amor en los tiempos del cólera El amor perjudica seriamente la salud El Bola. El crimen del Padre Amaro El espinazo del diablo El espíritu de la colmena. El Laberinto del Fauno El Orfanato El otro lado de la cama Flamenco Havana Blues Intacto La casa de Bernarda Alba, film version of García Lorca s play. La guerra civil de La lengua de las mariposas. Bombón el perro. La noche de los girasoles La princesa de Éboli Las trece rosas Lobo- Lope Los amantes del círculo polar Los Borgia Los Borgia Los debutantes Los girasoles ciegos Machuca Mar Adentro María llena de gracia Memorias del Subdesarrollo Picasso. Piedras Secretos del Corazón Sólo humano. Tango Tierra y Libertad Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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