Year 11 spanish

If you have demonstrated some ability in second language learning in the junior school or  have a special interest and/or background in the subject, this is the course for you.  This course will prepare you to have the language skills to go to a school trip to Spain, where you will be able to put these into practice.

The programme will be based on the Spanish in the New Zealand Curriculum and will prepare you for selected NCEA Level 2 standards to be taken the following year.

The course is based on the prescribed vocabulary and structures set down in Spanish in the New Zealand Curriculum, with emphasis on the communicative use of language.

Classwork will focus on:

• developing the four language skills – speaking, listening, reading and writing

•  increasing knowledge of Spanish culture, both in Spain and Central/South America.

You will understand and produce more complex language. You will communicate beyond the immediate context, for example, about past and future events. You will understand and produce a variety of text types.

Course content focuses on:

• communicating information, ideas, and opinions through different text types;

• expressing and responding to personal ideas and opinions and

• communicating appropriately in different situations.

This understanding and these skills are developed in the context of:

• a wide variety of material drawn from set courses, newspapers, magazines, literary texts, radio broadcasts, songs, podcasts, video footage; and

• activities supporting vocabulary and grammatical structures.

One of the following :

•  satisfactory completion of a Year 10 language course.

•  a demonstrated special interest in the subject.

•  prior knowledge of the basic vocabulary and structures of Spanish.

Assessment in Year 11

Learning Progressions are an evaluation of student progress using various modes of learning as evidence (not just a one-off test).  They are based on the New Zealand Curriculum, and show the level at which a student is demonstrating knowledge or skills.  Our Learning Progressions Framework maps out students’ development as they move through Years 9 - 11. 

Within each subject, at the end of a phase of learning (ie. topic, unit or skill), students will be evaluated using these indicators: Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Advancing.  For more information about what these mean, please see the Year 9 - 11 section of our website.