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GCSE Spanish Previous exam materials How to revise for a Spanish speaking exam How to revise for a Spanish writing exam How to revise for a Spanish reading and listening exam Revision websitesGCSE Spanish
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Previous exam materials
How to revise for a Spanish speaking exam
Practise preparing role plays in timed conditions. (15 minutes total preparation time). Watch this video to ensure you're using the preparation time properly.
Practise the reading aloud task by reading phrases from sentence builders or knowledge organisers aloud.
Don't forget the unprepared questions! Prepare key opinions, adjectives and key verbs in 3 tenses to support you with answering these questions.
Practise preparing photo description tasks in timed conditions using the PALM prompt (15 minutes total preparation time).
Learn these phrases that can be used for all photo description tasks.
Practise delivering your Speaking Booklet answers from memory. Record them on your phone and listen back lots and lots of times.
Make sure you know the questions and what they mean as well!
Write your Speaking Booklet answers on flashcards - write them in small chunks at first - and test yourself for 5-10 minutes every day. Work with a classmate to test each other.
How to revise for a Spanish writing exam
Practise past paper writing questions in timed conditions:
There are lots of practice questions in your Y11 C2 Spanish booklet - ask your teacher.
Write the success criteria for the task from memory & use it to plan your answer.
Write your plan (5-10 mins) - check it meets all criteria.
Write your answer in Spanish - go through it and mark it against the success criteria.
Learn 4-5 STAR phrases / Tortilla sheet phrases by heart
Use mind maps to revise vocabulary - use your booklet to create the mind map.
Start a blank page and write as much of the mind map content as you can from memory.
Check the new mind map against the original & fill in any gaps in a different colour. Focus your revision on the missing parts.
Repeat the task and see if you can remember all elements of the original mind map.
Repeat for each topic until you can recall complete mind maps from memory.
How to revise for a Spanish reading and listening exam
Vocabulary is essential in order for you to access the listening and reading questions. Use your booklet / ask your teacher for vocabulary lists. Read them and identify the words you don't yet know.
Make flashcards out of the unknown words and test yourself for 5-10 minutes each day. Work with a classmate to test each other.
Practise past paper questions under exam conditions.
When practising exam questions, ensure you maximise the 5 minutes of reading time initially and write in possible answers to questions and predictions. On the first listen, write down what you can understand in Spanish and the second time round solidify your answer in English. Always listen carefully to the example question first.
Use websites such as www.lyricstraining.com and News in Slow Spanish to practise listening in Spanish.
Listen to Spanish music playlists on Spotify to tune your ear into Spanish sounds.
Use websites such as www.bbc.com/mundo to read in Spanish.
Revision websites
To prepare for a Spanish exam, the most effective approach is to practice in Spanish. This website section contains several resources that enable you to do that.
All papers, all topics
BBC Bitesize
Seneca
Memrise
- Every single word on the AQA specification ready for you to learn
- Can also be used as a mobile app
Lyrics Training
News in Slow Spanish
- Excellent podcast listening practice - choose the speed you need
BBC Mundo
Youtube