3SPA

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.

Total Credits Available: 21
Internal Assessed Credits: 11
External Assessed Credits: 10
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91568 v2
NZQA Info

Spanish 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended spoken Spanish texts


Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91570 v1
NZQA Info

Spanish 3.3 - Interact clearly using spoken Spanish to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives in different situations


Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 6
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91571 v1
NZQA Info

Spanish 3.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended written and/or visual Spanish texts


Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91572 v1
NZQA Info

Spanish 3.5 - Write a variety of text types in clear Spanish to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives


Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 21
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

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.