SPANISH - GCSE REVISION

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE Spanish. It can be used independently by students as well as for teacher-directed classroom practice. It contains 16 units which focus mainly on the themes: myself family and relationships daily activities my role model hobbies and leisure.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Each unit consists of a knowledge organiser recapping the target sentence patterns and lexical items a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>P.I.P.O. framework:</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pre-reading tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (activation of prior knowledge and pre-teaching)</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In-reading tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (intensive exploitation of texts)</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Post-reading tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (consolidation)</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Output</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (pushed-output tasks)</span></p><p>Consistent with Dr Conti's E.P.I. approach each of the 16 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables) lexis (both words and chunks) grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing) meaning and discourse.</p><p>The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging tried and tested classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing faulty translation spot the missing detail sentence puzzles etc.</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Table of contents</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1 Introducing myself</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2 Describing myself my family and friends</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>3 Talking about my hobbies and interests</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>4 Describing a typical day in school</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>5 Describing what I do after school</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>6 Talking about a typical weekend</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>7 Talking about what I did last weekend</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>8 Talking about when I was younger</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>9 Discussing the qualities of a good friend</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>10 Describing the qualities of a good partner</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>11 Saying why I don't get along with people</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>12 Saying why I get along with people</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>13 Saying why I argue with my parents</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>14 Discussing why couples break up</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>15 Talking about a person I admire</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>16 Bringing it all together - Parts 1-5</span></p>