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Spanish GCSE Student Guide: Is This The Right Subject For Me?
Spanish GCSE Student Guide: Is This The Right Subject For Me?
This requires you to The reading section In the foundation In this part of the
listen to recordings will give you paper you will write exam you will do a
in Spanish and passages to read about a photo, write short role play with
answer questions on and questions to one short passage the examiner and
what you hear. answer. Some of and one longer talk about a photo.
Some of these these questions will passage on a choice You will also talk
questions will require you to of two topics. In the about two of the
require you to choose from higher paper you topics you have
choose from multiple-choice will write longer studied.
multiple-choice answers, and some passages about two
answers, and some will need you to topics from a choice
will need you to write short answers of four. At both
write short answers in English and levels there is also a
in English and Spanish. Passages translation exercise,
Spanish. will be from Spanish from English into
sources such as Spanish.
emails, magazines
and books. You will
also need to
translate sentences
or a short passage
from Spanish into
English.
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Example questions
Las mujeres están preparando el chorizo por la tarde en la mesa del comedor.
A in the kitchen. []
D in the garden []
Answer : C
Answer : Comfortable.
Next steps
Talk to your teacher about taking GCSE Spanish.
Visit the Edexcel website (www.edexcel.com/gcse2016) for more information about what
you will be studying and how you will be assessed.
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