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Spanish A Level – Alton

A Level

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Availability & Details

Spanish - A Level AF1-SPANAL/C01

Venue
Alton Campus

Type of study
A Levels

Dates
Academic Year 2024-25 (2 years)

Examination board
AQA Education

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Overview

Fluency in Spanish opens up educational, employment and travel opportunities, especially in Europe, Latin America and the US where Spanish is the most widely spoken language after English. Studying Spanish at A Level will give you the knowledge and the skills to be able to express your opinions spontaneously in both speaking and writing regarding Spanish-speaking society, from popular culture to how technology is shaping our lives. If you dream of speaking and writing a foreign language accurately and confidently and perhaps even working abroad, this course will help meet this ambition.

Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above. A grade 6 in GCSE Spanish is required.

You will study: • Aspects of Hispanic society and artistic culture in the Hispanic world. In this section, we study a wide range of topics such as different celebrations, food, traditions, painting and architecture, celebrities, law and history of the Spanish speaking world. • Multiculturalism in Hispanic society and aspects of political life in Hispanic society. You will have the opportunity to learn about and discuss current affairs affecting Spanish speaking countries such as immigration, racism, integration and young people as well as monarchies, republics and dictatorships and social movements in Spain and Latin America. • One Spanish film and one play. Individual research project – this is where you get to choose. You will research a topic of your choice related to the Hispanic world. You will be given total freedom to research with guidance from your teacher. • Grammar. • In addition, in Year 1 you will practice your spoken Spanish in class with your peers in small groups and also with your Spanish tutor (a native speaker of the language) on a one-to- one basis at the end of each textbook chapter in order to gain fluency and confidence. In Year 2 you will have increased one-to-one speaking practice with your tutor in the months leading up to the examination.

Class activities are wide-ranging, from debates to pair work for discussions, working at your own pace using audio, video, text and internet-based resources in the multimedia language laboratory and via Google Classroom. We also use Virtual Reality (VR) technology to bring the topics closer to you.

100% exam (three examination papers). • Paper one: Listening, Reading and Writing (Translation) • Paper two: Writing (two essays: one on a play and one on a film from a set list) • Paper three: Speaking (discussion of a stimulus card plus individual research project)

Textbook: £30.Access to digital resources: £20 (approximately).Possible overseas visit: £500 (approximately).


My experience at the college has been really good, it’s been really rewarding, all the lecturers were so lovely and supportive there’s no way I could have done it without them - the teaching has been outstanding.

Lucie Brooks, A Level student

College is definitely worth all the effort you put in, you get to meet lots of different people and it’s amazing.

Ebony Puttock, A Level student

“HSDC provided me with the opportunity for autonomous study and the choice of subjects that I wanted to study, which helped me develop relevant knowledge as well as relevant skills for the workplace.”

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