Westlake Girls’ High School Westlake Girls’ High School

Level 2 Spanish

12SPAN
Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mr J. Gines.

Recommended Prior Learning


Subject

Level 

Recommendations

9 Spanish

9

Open entry.

10 Spanish

10

Year 9 Spanish or at the discretion of the HoD.

Level 1 Spanish

1

Year 10 Spanish or at the discretion of the HoD.

Level 2 Spanish

2

14 credits from Level 1 Spanish including at least one Internal and one External assessment.

Level 3 Spanish

3

14 credits from Level 2 Spanish including at least one Internal and one External assessment.



This course aims to develop the student’s ability to understand and communicate with confidence in Spanish in a wide range of genuine situations, both familiar and beyond immediate personal life. Social, historical and cultural contexts relating to the Spanish-speaking world are studied through film, reading and analytical research.

The standards offered in this course may be altered at the discretion of the Head of Department.


Course Overview

Term 1
Holidays and Sustainable Tourism
Life and Work

Grammar: Review of Present and Future tenses, Past tenses. The Conditional tense.
Gender and Adjectival agreement
the Imperative

Term 2
Health and Wellbeing - youth issues, habits and addictions
Media and Advertising

Grammar: The Perfect and Pluperfect tenses
Formal commands





Term 3
Technology and Modern Life
The Environment

Grammar: Relative Pronouns

Term 4
Revision and consolidation

Departments:

Languages


Pathway

Level 3 Spanish

With Spanish, careers exist in a wide range of fields, particularly in conjunction with other professions. (See below in "Pathway Tags".


Disclaimer

Courses will only run based on minimum entries

Selecting a course does not guarantee entry into this course

You may apply for an exemption if you do not meet the prerequisites of a course or if the course requires this for entry

Standards offered can be altered at the discretion of the HOF or HOD of the Department

Some standards in NCEA courses might be optional depending on student strengths