1. ¡Bienvenidos!Bienvenue!
What does my child study?
How is the course set up?
How can I help?

2. What does my child study?
Theme 1
Theme 2
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
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
Quick re-cap and over view of what students will study – meant to be relevant to young people. It is NOT holiday languages
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3. What does my child study?
Theme 3
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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4. MFL How is the course set up? Reading 25% Writing 25% Listening 25%
Speaking 25%
Assessed in final exam at the end of year 11 – all assessed externally
Folders
Sections
General information & help sheets
Writing homework
Translation
Grammar
Vocabulary
Overview of the importance of the exams at the end of the 2 year course. Good notes and organisation of folders will certainl
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5. MFL How is the course set up?
Students will be set homework every week – generally
Vocab learning
Written homework
Translation
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6. MFL How can I help? Vocabulary There is a lot
The exam is set from only the vocabulary from the specification
Learning
Little & often
Small chunks
Look, say, cover, write, check
flashcards
Quizlet
Go through the different ways people can learn vocabulary with the hand-outs. Give people time to use all of the different methods to learn the 22 bodyparts terms and then do a Quizlet test.
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7. MFL How can I help? Translation Ask your child to check
Their verb endings – use the grammar section
Their adjectival endings – does the adjective have the correct ending for the noun
Go through the grammar support one can find online – languagesonline.orh.uk & spanishdick.com
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8. MFL How can I help? Written Homework Can be set in chunks
Ask your child to show you this work
Ask them to show you their opinions, conjunctions, verbs in different tenses – colour code with highlighters
You do not need to know if it is correct but making the child think about these aspects and discuss with you will re-enforce their importance
They will be asked to respond to our marking – ask to see it and discuss, get your child to explain to/teach you
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9. How can I help? – Independent Learning
Listening & Reading
Songs with lyrics -
Films with French/Spanish dubbing and French/Spanish subtitles – short bursts
BBC Bitesize
Exercises on languagesonline.org.uk & spanishdict.com
Past GCSE papers – AQA / OCR / Edxcel(Pearson)
Students should do more than just what is set – the more they do the more they will develop!
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