Spanish

Learn key vocabulary for talking about your friends and family. Practise your language skills to describe and respond to questions about those close to you.

Marriage and partnership is important to a lot of people's lives. Revise key vocabulary to be able to discuss weddings and relationships.

Learn key phrases and vocabulary to discuss different types of technology, their uses, advantages and disadvantages, and the impact of social media.

Learn key phrases and vocabulary about different forms of entertainment. Practise your language skills to help you understand and give opinions about TV, film and music.

Sport is a key free time activity for many people, whether they’re playing or watching. Learn key phrases and vocabulary to help you discuss sports and exercise.

Food plays an important part in Spanish culture. Revise vocabulary to talk about foods, discuss restaurants and cooking, and order meals.

The different festivals and customs of Spanish-speaking countries are well-known throughout the world. Revise key vocabulary used to discuss traditional celebrations and parties, as well as music festivals.

Practise your listening and reading skills and revise key phrases and vocabulary used to discuss different types of home and home life.

Practise your language skills and learn how to give directions, describe the weather and talk about different places in towns or neighbourhoods.

Whether it’s for clothes, food or anything else, shopping plays an important part in everyday life. Practise using language to discuss shopping, speak with shop assistants and understand advertising.

Healthy and unhealthy living covers broad health issues. Practise listening, writing and reading skills to talk about health and lifestyle.

It is important to be able to understand written and spoken passages about the environment and to be able to discuss environmental problems and what you and others do to help, for example by recycling or volunteering.

Poverty, homelessness, unemployment, crime and discrimination, are examples of social and global issues. Develop your understanding of these issues and practise translation, reading and listening skills.

Holidays and tourism is a broad topic. It is important to know the basic vocabulary, to understand written and spoken information and to be able to talk and write about your own holiday experiences.

Learn key phrases and vocabulary about Travel to understand texts on the topic and use spoken language in everyday practical situations.

It is important to be able to understand spoken and written texts on the topic of school and college and to be able to talk about your own experiences of studying.

Learn key vocabulary on life at school. Practise writing and listening skills to help deal with topics such as school uniform, school rules, problems at school and extra-curricular activities.

It is important to be able to discuss what your plans are for future study and to understand reading and listening texts on the topic of education post-16.

It is important to be able to understand written and spoken passages about jobs and to be able to describe work and work experience.

Learn to discuss future plans and understand texts on the topic of career choices and ambitions. Practise the sort of language you would need at a job interview.

A noun is a naming word used for a person, thing, place or idea. In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine. The word for ‘the’ or ‘a’ changes depending on the gender of the noun and whether it is singular or plural.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. In Spanish, adjectives have different endings depending on whether the word they are describing is masculine, feminine, singular or plural.

Adverbs are words that add meaning to the verb and describe actions. They tell us when or how something is happening or where the action in a sentence takes place.

Pronouns are used to replace nouns. Pronouns are usually shorter and quicker ways of referring to a noun to help make sentences less repetitive.

Use the present tense to describe what you do and what things are like. The present continuous can be used to talk about what is happening now.

Use the preterite tense to talk about completed actions at specific times in the past. The preterite is used when the past action has a definite beginning and definite end.

Use the imperfect tense to talk about repeated or continuous actions in the past. The imperfect is used when the past action doesn’t have a definite beginning and definite end.

The perfect tense is used to express or describe actions that have happened in the recent past. It has two parts that always need to be used together.

Use the immediate future tense to talk about what is going to happen. The future tense is used to express what will take place.

Use the conditional tense to talk about intentions and ambitions that may happen in the future. The conditional is used for polite requests and to express phrases using 'would', 'could' and 'should'.

Add variety to your written and spoken Spanish by using other tenses and verb forms. Develop your language skills and improve comprehension by recognising and practising a range of structures.

Negative words can be used in different ways in Spanish. Construct negative sentences by using 'no' and other negative words and phrases.