¡hola! A-level spanish thread :)

Volver and Amélie are on the poster for that!! By the way, is the language in your banner thingy (I've forgotten what it's called) Portuguese? I really want to go, but I don't think I'll have the transportation to get there and the only film I'm eligible for is Entre les murs and it's at 6pm! Which film are you going to see?

My friends said it went okay too. One said that there was a very weird passage on the reading passage about Santa Claus, I think. She may have completely misunderstood it though Both my friends can't tell how they've done on the writing as well! I think that would be the hardest to revise for just because of the content they want you to put in, and it carries the most marks for the writing :/

I didn't even ask! Damn. I didn't even have a proper lesson yesterday because the Spanish exam was going on. I had plenty of time to ask, but I didn't! I didn't even do much Spanish in class so I could've went home, but I stayed and then got home late. I did things wrong on Monday. Well it was Blue Monday, so I guess that it affected my decisions, but it didn't make depressed. Hahaha! You made me laugh so much! I thought I was bad at art and then I saw what you wrote! Well, I am bad at art (I can't even draw stick men properly), but I know enough artists...I think.

I really wish I did French!! I was better at French at GSCE level than Spanish. Now my French is really crappy :/ I've read lots of War Literature about Germans in France during World War I and II and I recently watched the film 'Un long dimanche de fiancailles' which is set during World War I It was really good! I think I prefer History to Art as well, even though I study neither of them!!

There's a map of Spain detailing the Spanish regions in my Spanish class room and my old Spanish teacher showed us where lots of places were and I often walk past that map, but I can't remember where anything is! I think I'm actually going to make an effort to learn where places in Spain are after my Jan exams! My knowledge of English geography is quite good now, but it was terrible before. I used to think London was in the North and I just erased Wales from the map and when I added it back then it was up North by Scotland My old Spanish teacher had to tell me where Wales is and she's a Spanish native. What's worse is that I live kind of close to Wales, but still didn't know where it was

She is the most irritating teacher I've ever had!!! I don't even know why she has an A level class! She's so weird as well. Hopefully she's just doing it in class and hopefully she'll hear me in the oral exam!

Ah, I forgot Wealth and Poverty. That is good too. I really need to revise it because I've forgotten a lot of it. I think I could talk more about immigration and the environment though. Maybe it's because they're more memorable for me and I just need to revise Wealth and Poverty more. It was also a topic that we started before September, then stopped and after restarted, haha. I don't even know how much left we have to do. There's a section on Euthanasia and Abortion right? If there is, then we haven't covered it yet and we haven't started one of our cultural topics which is the film Volver! I need to make a list of films I need to watch over the summer. I've made one of things I want to achieve this year

I also study English Lit, Philosophy and Ethics and Maths If abortion and euthanasia are on the syllabus then it'll remember me of AS Ethics which was pretty good. I'm looking forward to talking about them in another language. If they're not on the syllabus then I need to stop hallucinating or I need to stop obsessing over euthanasia and abortion. What other subjects do you study?

I don't know what it's like for your exam board, (we're on WJEC) but maybe they thought you needed teaching on exam technique? One of my friends was a fluent French speaker but he didn't do very well because he didn't listen to the exam technique.

For me it (AS and A level) seems more about learning how to get marks instead of being good at speaking Spanish (can anyone correct me on this?)

You're friend was right about Santa Claus, there was a really weird passage about Santa and perfect men, and it was so funny I nearly started laughing in the exam hall! Yeah, well I thought the writing was my strongest section last year, and it turned out to be way weaker than the other parts so I'm just telling people I don't know about the writing this time!!

Ah that's annoying! Haha, I am appalling at art, I'm known throughout my year for being absolutely dreadful at it! And I know very little about artists (apart from Monet, because we've done that in loads of detail in French!)

I'm sure you're French is still really good, it would all come back to you if you went out there! Did you consider doing it for A level? Haha, well I did History at GCSE and loved it, but I decided it felt a bit repetitive doing it at A level as the topics were quite similar to the GCSE ones.

Haha, that's quite funny, makes me feel much better about my geography being bad! I guess it's my sense of direction that's really bad though, it's much worse than my geography... I frequently get lost! My friend was going to look at at uni in Scotland, but I was telling everyone she had gone to look at a uni in Wales because I got confused as to where it was, then when I told people what uni it was there were like err that's in Scotland!! .

She sounds really frustrating, is there anyone you can speak to about her?

I think under technological change, there might be something about Euthanasia/Abortion, although apparently it's not covered much in the text book but there might be stuff on it in the exam/oral so most teachers find extra stuff about it/try to cover it. So you'll be able to bring in all your philosophy and ethics there

Ah that's a really nice combination Doing English and Maths is rather impressive! I also do Economics and French (as you've probably guessed hahah!) and General Studies. I did English literature AS.

Do you know when you're doing your oral?

¡Hola todo el mundo! Estudio el español para mis “A-levels” en este momento y me encanta mucho. Sin embargo, hoy en día tengo un examen de español (de AS) y me siento muy muy MUY nervioso.

No obstante, me encanta el español. ¿Qué libros/películas/regiones estudias en este año? Yo estudio “El Túnel” por Ernesto Sábato y “El laberinto del fauno” de Guillermo del Toro.

¡Lo siento si existes errores!

She almost started laughing too! She then thought her Spanish was way off, lol. I've always preferred the reading and listening sections to the writing section because all the answers are right in front of you. You just have to find them, lol. The answers really aren't in front of you in the writing section. I think it's so hard to guess what you've gotten on an essay in any language really. I thought I failed one section of my English Lit exam and it turned out that I did better on that section than on the other.


I went to France last year for a week and I only said things like 'merci' and 'de rien' or 'bonjour', haha. I went to a part in France where most people spoke English and where shop owners spoke Spanish, German and English so that was annoying. Yeah, I really wanted to study French as one of my A levels, but it clashed with another subject and my school wouldn't allow me to do 5 subjects. It's a shame really. I wish I did History as a GCSE as well! I'm not gonna talk about why I didn't study History because that would result in me ranting about my school again, lol. A level History seems really hard. I think I'd die if I studied it!


Haha, I get lost quite often as well. I went to York with my brother and sisters and if it wasn't for them then I would have been lost in the York city centre! I still don't know how they navigated through that city centre. Everything looked the same to me. Haha, before I applied to UCAS I didn't know where many universities were either! I think Wales and Scotland were meant to be by each other, because I thought Wales was up north with Scotland and you mistook a uni in Scotland as being in Wales! I guess we learn from our mistakes though!


She's my main teacher and there are only 2 teachers who know enough Spanish to teach it us at A level and she's one of them. She taught the AS French class and they got Es which is kind of scary. That's why our other Spanish teacher is the main teacher for the French class. She's a better teacher and will probably help them improve their bad AS grade. She makes me not want to speak in class, but we have a Spanish assistant that we speak to so I get my speaking time with her and I feel like I'm making progress. If it gets to the point where my classmates and I aren't making any progress then I'll speak to the head of department


Yeah, they are under the technology section! Thanks for telling me I actually find the technology section quite interesting We are actually going to do practice oral exams every week, but I was away last week and so missed one. I thought we were not going to speak much in class so I was pleasantly surprised to know that we'll practise every week. We're finally getting time to speak! It's really hard though!


I don't know why I chose to study Maths. Well, I kinda like it and it feels so good when get a question right that seemed impossible to do when you first looked at it, but I wish Maths and French were in the same block because I would have dumped Maths on its ass and then would have run and hugged French I had my C3 Maths exam today and it was terrible. It really made me wish it was a French exam!!! Haha. Which exam board did you do English Lit on and why did you drop it? What is General Studies, lol? I wish I knew a lot about Economics, haha. It does sound interesting. I'm into too many things. I also like Science Picking 4 A levels was one of the hardest things that I've done in my life.

Ah, es extrano, nuestras asignaturas son muy similares - estudio el espanol, el literatura ingles, las matematicas y la historia!

Tuve un comienzo dificil al ano porque no se que quisiera hacer y pues era enfermo, debido a esto no me gusto mis asignaturas ni la escuela en general. Aunque ahora me encanta el colegio y mis clases Los encuentro bastante dificil, creo que la tecnica del examen es mas dificil que la informacion que se tiene que saber, pero me le gusta

Entiendo, el chico le gusta las clases de ingles? Debes ser extrano para el, si. Hay dos clases de literatura ingles en mi ano, soy en la mejor y hay 4 chicos y 3 chicas (habia 5 chicos pero decidio a hacer psicologia a vez). Sin embargo en la otra clase son todas chicas! Solo una de ellos le gusta hacer su trabajo, es muy frustrante para ella. Mi clase es mejor porque hay muchas personas muy inteligentes y trabajadores, creo que esta es muy importante en asignaturas como ingles donde los discusiones son un gran parte.

Porque quieria cambiar escuelas? Para hacer Frances tambien? Te gustas tu colegio ahora?

Era muy divertido, gritar a un profesor no es normal en mi colegio!! Jaja, debes, es una buena manera a decir que no le entiendes

De nada, es dificil que solo una letra, como 'a' o 'e' puede cambiar totalmente que una palabra significa!

Cómo encuentras las matemáticas? Qué libros etc. estudias en tu clase de literatura inglesa? Estás mejor ahora? Pensaba que ya te habia escrito así que lo siento que no te escibió mas temprano.

El chico en mi clase de literatura inglesa mira triste y deprimido todo el tiempo, pero creo que le gusta la clase Por que hay dos clases de literatura inglesa en tu ano? Ay, pienso que psicología es muy difícil. Mi hermano la estudia :/ Es en el mismo ano de ti Odiaría ser en una clase donde nadie le gusta hacer su trabajo. Diós mío. Pobrecita. Mi clase no es bueno. No hacemos mucho trabajo y lo más intelligente en la clase no es trabajadora. Ella es muy talentosa a literatura inglesa pero podría trabajar más duro. Hay discusiones muy interesantes en mi clase y las personas hablan sobre cosas intelligentes pero no lograron una buena nota en AS literatura inglesa :/

Si, quería cambiar escuelas para estudiar francés :/ No me gusta nada mi escuela ahora. Cometió un gran error cuando decidió quedarme en mi escuela original. No sabía nada sobre cambiando escuelas o colegios hace 2 anos

Tienes exámenes éste mes?

Hahah, it was quite funny! Yeah, I know what you mean, if you're not sure about an answer, you just look in the gap between the answer before and the answer after . I agree, essays are really hard to judge, I was pretty convinced I'd messed up English lti last year and it turned out to be one of my best exams! Whereas in Spanish I thought I'd done OK in the writing and badly in the listening, and it turned out to be the other way round...

Well when they all speak English it's really easy not to practice your French, but I'm guessing if you went somewhere where they hardly spoke any English it would come back to you! Ah, that's really annoying, I would be so annoyed if my school hadn't let me take both languages! They make our option blocks after we've all chosen to try and squeeze everyone's options in. Oh dear, I'm guessing they couldn't fit History into your timetable either? And yeah, A level history does sound pretty tricky, although a lot of people must like it because it's a really competitive degree!


Hahah, that's how I always feel. I always have to rely on friends to get me to places, otherwise I would just get lost. Although having to ask for directions in foreign languages in France and Spain has made me a lot less concerned about it- if I could work my way back to places even if it did mean asking for directions every 5 minutes there I can definitely do it in my own country! Hahah, that is quite funny, good to know I'm not the only one who doesn't know the geography of the UK

Oh dear- do you have the other teacher for any lessons then? Ah, that is quite worrying, had they all done well at GCSE? That's good that you can practice with an assistant as well, we do that too and it's good because you don't have to worry so much about oral practice in class, we can focus primarily on writing/reading/listening instead.

Ah that's good, we haven't started it yet so it's good to hear it's interesting! I think we're starting it next week. Ah that's good, if you can do one every week you'll be an expert by the end!

Yeah, one of my friends feels the same way about maths I think. It's really satisfying when you work something out but it sounds like it can be really frustrating at times! Don't worry, I'm sure you did better than you think- how did you do in Maths at AS? We did AQA English Lit, I dropped it because I found the work load really inconsistent, I had no work for it one night and then hours the next, and last year the coursework had to be done around the same time as my language orals which was tricky! As there's so much work for languages, economics just fitted in better time wise (and I found it a bit more interesting than English!). I enjoyed AS, but the A2 English course didn't appeal to me so much either. General studies ins't accepted for many courses but it's kind of an extra subject that we just have a couple of lessons a week in. There's a module that's kind of science related, an arts related one, now we're doing one on change and progress, and I'm not sure what the final one is. It basically requires you to bring in knowledge from all your subjects, but it's fine because it doesn't really require any revision. I found picking my A level options quite easy, because I like to specialise! I don't like science, and I'm not particularly creative so that didn't leave many things!

Termine mi GCSE de las matematicas temprano (en noviembre) asi que hice C1 el ano pasado, y hice muy bien. Sin embargo, creo que los otros 'modules (?) ' son mucho mas dificiles y no me gusto el contenido de C2 porque era tan mucha trigonometria y prefiero las matematicas puras. Pienso que me gusta C3 mas, y M1 es regular. Es muy dificil pero !me le encanta! Y tu?

En la literatura Ingles, estudiamos The Great Gatsby y Enduring Love para el examen, y Romeo and Juliet y A Streetcar Named Desire para la 'coursework' (jeje, no se la palabra...) Tambien estudiando la poesia de Hardy y Auden para el exam. Me gusta todos los libros/poetas Que estudias?

Si, estoy bien ahora gracias Tuve Cellulitis y era muy mal pero despues un mes era como normal

Voy a un colegio privado asi que cada clase tiene que ser pequeno, y Ingles es una asignatura muy popular. Estoy de acuerdo, estoy muy contento a estar en mi clase! Es una perdida cuando una persona talentoso no trabaja, tenemos algunos como esta. Creo que Ingles es muy dificil, las esquemas de marca son imposible!!!

Por que no te gusta su colegio? Es una pena, pero al menos puedes dejar pronto Vas a ir a la universidad?

No Aunque tengo muchos practicas Son estresante, no me gustan nada los examanes en A Level, son demasiado dificiles!!

Tienes examenes?

That's why I hate essay subjects sometimes. You don't know how well you've done until you receive your results. I hope I've done well in my essays for my January exams. How have you found your January exams? Why did you drop English Lit when you got an A in it?! I would kill to get an A in English Lit.


I never knew they hardly spoke French in the place I went to. I was so disappointed when I got there, but it was a beautiful place so that made up for everything They do the same for my cousins One of them told me people pick their options first and then make the blocks after, but it's the other way around for us. That's why I have to do English Lit at another school too. I never knew History was a competitive degree. Oh, wow. I learn something everyday. I'm beginning to think that most essay based subjects are competitive now.

I haven't even been to Spain Everyone in my class has but me. I don't even remember how to ask for directions in Spanish let alone French, lol! I actually helped get my friends and I back to a French hotel at night. I was so proud It was a group effort though and I would have probably got lost without their input, haha.


I have the best Spanish teacher for only one lesson a week and the bad one 3 times a week. I don't know what the boy got for GCSE French, but the girl got an A! I know two girls who got Bs for Spanish at GCSE level, but got better than an E at A level. I actually dread the oral exam practice in class :/ I really hate speaking in class and we're given topics to talk about that we've just started that day. At least we know we'll be better in the actual oral exam because there'll only be the teacher and us and we'll (hopefully) know about the topic we're talking about. Today we had to practice talking about things like Euthanasia and IVF which were very interesting to talk about in English, but it seemed impossible to talk about them in Spanish. I hope I'll be an expert at the end. Do you have any tips on how to do well in the oral exam?


Does your friend do OCR Maths? If so, ask them how they found the C3 exam on the 20th. I found it really different to the past papers and that's what made it difficult to me. I think I only didn't know how to do one question, but I know I've done worse than not knowing how to do one question. I got a C in Maths at AS level, but I did a resit in my weakest exam which went well. I only need 5 UMS marks to get my grade up to a B so I really think I've done that now. If I've done extremely well then I may have even bumped my grade up to an A, because my weakest exam was such a hard one. It was even harder than the C3 exam and I honestly find C3 harder than the other Maths exam I resat. When did you do your language orals last year? I actually enjoy and appreciate English Lit now. I thought I made the worst decision choosing to study English Lit, but it's been one of my best options. I study WJEC English Lit and really enjoyed it at AS level. The coursework was my favourite because of the books and the tasks we had to do. I really didn't like the pieces of literature that we had to study for the exam, but they do have some positives. Well I found some anyway. General Studies seems interesting. I think my school should allow it to be an option for some students I think I picked all the right subjects except for Maths. I like lots of things but Philosophy and Ethics incorporates many of thing I like, such as science, so that sorted out a lot of things. The hardest thing was dropping French which I still will never forget. I think my school should have let me done 5 A levels and if I messed up then that would be my fault, lol.

Me encanta C1! Ojala que todos los módulos fueran como C1 Pienso que la palabara para "module" es módulo pero se podría decir algo diferente en Espana. Trig no desparece. Se la estudio en casi todos los módulos La estudié en C2, C3 y ahora en C4 :/ Odio C3. El examen fue horrible la semana pasada. Estudio D1 y S1. No sé como es M1 pero mi amiga lo estudia

Eres muy intelligente Ah, estudié 'The Great Gatsby' para mi' coursework'. No sé la palabra para coursework también . Además, estudié 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' y ' Birdsong' para mi coursework Estudié 'Dancing at Lughnasa' y la poesía se Carol Ann Duffy y Sheenagh Pugh para el examen de AS . No he leido ' A Street Car named Desire' pero he visto películas y emisiones sobre él. Por ejemplo, algunas personas en 'Todo sobre mi madre', un film de Almodóvar hicieron papeles en la obra de teatro. Te gusta? Estudio la poesía de Auden ahora y los libros 'Nineteen Eighty Four' y 'Brave New World'. Para el examen de A2 estudio 'The Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue' por Chaucer, 'Measure for Measure' por Shakespeare, y 'The Duchess of Malfi' por Webester También, tengo que analizar una poema desconcocida en el examen.

Estoy contenta que estás mejor ahora

Ah, tu colegio parece bueno. Mi clase de literature inglesa y filosofía y ética fueron muy grandes. Sin embargo, hay menos personas en estas clases ahora. Cuando se hace un examen en inglés no se sabe si ha logrado una buena nota o no porque inglés es tan subjetivo

Mi escuela es mala y soy tonta por quedarme en ella. También, no me dejó estudiar francés y podría haber logrado una buena nota en francés que matemáticas. Hay muchos profesores que no saben nada en mi escuela también. Sé más sobre UCAS etc. que la personas que nos ayuda con UCAS en nuestra escuela :/ Sé mas sobre el programa de mis asignaturas también que algunos de mis profesores. Si, voy a ir a la univesidad pero podría tomar un ano libre antes de entrar la universidad depende de mis resultados en Agosto.

Odio los examenes también. Tuve 5 este mes y acabo de terminar mi último examen el míercoles. Cuantos examenes tuviste este mes? Es peor cuando estudias tus asignaturas a A2, jajajaja!

Odio Matemáticas A-Level.

Si, !C1 es genial! Jaja! En momento me gusta C3 pero no hemos empazado la Trig.... Al principio odiaba M1 pero ahora me gusta bien Es muy molesto cuando el examen sea particularmente dificil

Te gustan tus libros de literatura ingles? Me encanta The Great Gatsby, la lengua es magnifico Estudiamos Duffy para GCSE, me le gustaba mucho! La vimos leer en vivo y era muy bien. (perdon, no se si esta frase es correcta, encuentro los pronombres muy confusos :/ )

Me gusta mucho Auden! Su poesia es muy interesante y inteligente Creo que encontraria muy dificil escribir sobre una poema desconocida :/

Jeje gracias, yo tambien! Creo que los examenes de ingles son muy dificiles, es posible que logres un grado totalmente diferente dependiendo en la pregunta :/

Ah, me encanta mi colegio, no me gusta cuando otras escuelas no son tan bien como mio No es justo.

Que quieres hacer en tu ano libro? Y que vas a estudiar en la universidad? No puedo decidir jeje.

No he hecho examanes esta mes Es bien, pero estara mas estresante en mayo Has hecho muchos examenes?

Lo se, no creo que me gustare el ano proximo ja ja.

Ah I know what you mean, it's so hard to tell how you've done! I'm sure you've done well though . Think my Spanish was OK(ish), although as you say it's hard to tell with the essay. Economics was a pretty horrible paper, but again, hard to tell how I've done! Well I didn't think I'd be able to retain the A at A2 and it was taking up a lot of time that I wanted to be spending on my other subjects. I obviously wasn't going to drop a language, because I want to do them at uni and then I found Economics more interesting than English and had more motivation to do well in it, so I dropped English!


Ah that's really frustrating! It must be quite interesting doing one subject at a different school though

We had school trips to Spain where we stayed with families and stuff, and then I've been with my friends as well hahah, I always feel much more confident asking for directions in foreign countries, probably because I'm more desperate then! Haha that's impressive- my sense of direction is even worse at night

Oh no, that's awful how much their grades dropped But I'm sure you'll be fine, at least you have the other teacher for some of the time . Well for the oral last year I had external examiners, which made it hard to prepare in a way, because literally anything could come up! I'd say don't prepare answers, but make sure you've got good phrases and plenty of knowledge of the topics, almost plan answers more than writing them. Making sure you've got lots of ideas in English first helps too. And then just practice chatting in Spanish loads with your friends. Before I have oral exams, my friend and I just constantly ask each other questions in the foreign language, even if some of them aren't completely related to the exam, it's a good way to pick up vocabulary!

My friend does Edexcel- sorry! Ah that's good, if you can get high UMS at AS, it makes it much easier at A2. I have heard C3's really hard though, and I'm guessing the actual content is similar across the exam boards. I did mine some time before Easter last year, it was good to get them out the way. When did you do yours? Ah that's good, I guess I just got frustrated with English, maybe because we've been studying it all our lives haha! I refer to General Studies as General Nonsense It's a bit like foreign languages in English in a way though! I've got an exam for it tomorrow, I don't like this module though, the mark scheme and question paper seem to want completely different things! Ah that's good, it's nice to have a subject like that . Ah would they not let you take 5?

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