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Starter: Key Vocab Youth culture
-Imprimir
Un cantante
Pasado de moda
-Buscador
Una batería
Un cantante
La pasarela
Llevar
El nivel de vida
belleza
Apariencia
delgadas
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La red
La libertad
tiendas
La letra
-Un diseñador
Una actuación
Descargar
Poner a la venta
Un foro
Desarollo
Maquillarse
Un éxito
En directo
Las joyas
concurso
Health and fitness
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Equilibrada
Engordar
El equipo
Sentirse bien
Consumir
Emborracharse
Alimentos
Entrenarse
El bienestar
• trastornos
alimenticios
• La comida basura
• Drogas blandas
• Quejarse
• El numero creciente
• Evitar el estrés
El entorno/ educacion
Un veraneante
El equipaje
Una frontera
Bajo coste
La aduana
Semana Santa
Extranjero
Un dia festivo
El ecoturismo
La amistad
El marido
Jubilacion
El comportamiento
El apoyo
Un amante
La boda
Enamorado
Discutir
Fiel
Romper con
Hogar
pareja
Practical Tips
- Timing
- Leave time for checking
- Take notes when listening, answer questions
after
- Take time to annotate texts and questions
- Answers are in order
- Be specific in your answers
- Question words/phrases
Listening Tips
Qu 1 & 2 Multiple choice
• Beware of the ‘distractors’:
answers which echo a word
from the text, but in the wrong
context.
Qu 3: Gap fill
Anticipate answers before
listening- narrow down to 5050/ use knowledge of grammar
Qu.4: answer questions in
Spanish
Listen once through for gist
Take notes before you answer
Read questions very carefully
Make sure your answer responds
to the question
Check you have used the right
tense
Change verbs and pronouns to
the 3rd person esp ‘gustar’
Check all your answers again
after
Highlight question word
Listening: Examiner’s top tips
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When you can only hear a text, rather than see it, there are times
when you have to guess the words you are hearing. It is important that
you guess something that fits with the logic of the rest of the text.
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Try writing out what you hear in different ways: can you make sense of
an utterance by breaking it into shorter/longer words?
Think letters that sound similar like b/v, ll/y, c/z, j/g and swap them
around to see if a word looks more familiar with a different letter. Don’t
forget that there might be a silent ‘h’: ‘umano/humano
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• Always put your most secure answer first. There often is more
information in the text than you need, so leave any guesses to
the end of a list of answers.
Reading Tips
Qu. 5: Multiple choice
Look for synonymsRead statements very carefully
Qu.6 : Answer in English
Read questions very carefully
Make sure your answer responds
to the question
Look at how many marks each qu.
is worth
Read to make sure it makes
Sense in English- cognates/false
friends
Qu.7:Answer in Spanish
You can lift part of the text if it directly
answers the question but…
Change to 3rd person etc
Make sure it makes sense
Try to use your own words where you
can
If not ,you must be sure that
what you have copied really does
answer the question.
Read the questions very carefully
Change verb endings if needed!
Read the question word- highlightGo back after you’ve answered and
check against this
Spelling mistakes are tolerated except
when meaning is changed
Synonyms
• cada día/ cotidiano, un examen/ una prueba, descansar/
relajarse, lentamente/ despacio.
• (‘decisivo/decisión’ and ‘pierde el
tiempo/pérdidas de tiempo’), ‘formación/entrenamiento’,
‘conseguir un nuevo empleo/futuro profesional muy
exitoso’, ‘por su propia cuenta/de forma independiente’.
Writing Tips
Answer all 4 bullet points within the
word limit ‘lo que..’
Read the bullet points very
carefully- answer them directly
at the start of each paragraph
Present as an article/letter
Do a plan with ideas and possible
structures
Check carefully for mistakes in
basic grammar- genders and
adjectival agreements, verb
endings/forms, gustar,
pret/imperfect
More than one idea for each bullet
point
Elicit tense/key structures for each
bullet point
Keep formal
Activity: Look at the writing
examples
plenary
Last min revision-your focus
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