3 Spanish
Course Description
Learning Area Leader: Ms A. Mansfield.
Explore the language and culture of Spain and Latin America whilst continuing to develop your communicative competence to a high level.
Skills/content you will cover in this course
Express and justify ideas using a wide range of vocabulary and language structures
Interpret written and aural texts
Converse with others with increasing fluency
Topics include media and technology, the environment, travel and tourism and current affairs in the Spanish speaking world.
Skills you need to be successful in this course - resilience, critical thinking, communication and collaboration, assessing and analysing information
This course is useful for or will lead to - you can study languages at university as either a major or minor subject. Knowing a second language is very useful for a wide range of careers, such as business, education, tourism, government, translation and interpretation and journalism.
Recommended Prior Learning
Level 2 Spanish
Additional Course Specific Contributions & Equipment/Stationery
Additional language specific stationery items required for this course include:
1B5 exercise book,
A4 grammar folder
Small notebook for vocabulary
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Spanish 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended spoken Spanish texts
NZQA Info
Spanish 3.3 - Interact clearly using spoken Spanish to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives in different situations
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Spanish 3.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended written and/or visual Spanish texts
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Spanish 3.5 - Write a variety of text types in clear Spanish to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 21
Learners must achieve this assessment in order to count towards the 14 credits needed for University Entrance.
Disclaimer
Please note that course assessment and costs/equipment may change.