AQA A2 Spanish 2016

How is everyone feeling about the summer exam and the oral?

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a lot more confident after my mock! Got an A overall and 3 marks from the overall A* but got an A* in the oral component! What cultural topics are you doing? :smile:

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onlythewall

Original post by eleanor27

a lot more confident after my mock! Got an A overall and 3 marks from the overall A* but got an A* in the oral component! What cultural topics are you doing? :smile:

That great well done! I'm doing como agua and almodovar what about you?

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coffeeneeded27

Original post by onlythewall

That great well done! I'm doing como agua and almodovar what about you?

Ooo I love como agua!!!! I'm doing Casa de Bernarda Alba and El Laberinto del Fauno :smile:

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ihm1997

How do you guys revise for the oral? Our teachers say you're not allowed to learn stuff off by heart, but there must be something more than just going over and over the literature stuff

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cwp29

anyone already done the oral and wanna share any sub topics? lol

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onlythewall

Original post by cwp29

anyone already done the oral and wanna share any sub topics? lol

LOL I haven't done it yet
I'm doing my science EMPAS now so I'm preparing for that, I have no time for Spanish speaking revision

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cwp29

Original post by onlythewall

LOL I haven't done it yet
I'm doing my science EMPAS now so I'm preparing for that, I have no time for Spanish speaking revision

when is your oral? so stressed for all my exams atm

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kash1230

i'm also doing como agua para chocolate but Gaudi for my cultural topic. When is your Spanish oral?

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cwp29

Original post by kash1230

i'm also doing como agua para chocolate but Gaudi for my cultural topic. When is your Spanish oral?

i'm doing Réquiem por un campesino español and Almodóvar (Volver)
oral is on the 27th of this month yours?

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L39

Original post by cwp29

i'm doing Réquiem por un campesino español and Almodóvar (Volver)
oral is on the 27th of this month yours?

How come your oral is on the 27th? are you on the AQA exam board?

Reply 11

britmj

Original post by onlythewall

How is everyone feeling about the summer exam and the oral?

Spanish is pretty much the only exam I'm feeling confident about getting an A or A* in! My oral is the 12th of May so I still have a while to revise for it - doing La Casa de Bernarda Alba and Almodovar (Volver and Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios). The oral seems to be going well, getting A* in my weekly oral mocks, I think I'm more worried about the translations as I know it is fairly easy to lose marks on that. Anyone else worried about that?

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coffeeneeded27

Original post by britmj

Same here with the only exam I'm confident for bar translation! I'm doing La Casa d Bernarda Alba too! My oral is April 29th though... Translation is stressful as it often not the topic specific vocab I worry about but the 'filler' words if that makes sense!?

Reply 13

britmj

Original post by eleanor27

Good luck! That's so early - I'm sure it will be fine! Yeah, I totally get that, or like I will forget a specific grammatical structure, or where the personal 'a' goes or something like that! Which do you find easier? English-Spanish or Spanish-English?

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coffeeneeded27

Original post by britmj

12th May is the date of ny French oral funnily enough! :smile:

I find Spanish-English easier as you don't have to worry as much about grammar/structures etc. you?

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britmj

Original post by eleanor27

12th May is the date of ny French oral funnily enough! :smile:

I find Spanish-English easier as you don't have to worry as much about grammar/structures etc. you?

Oh you also do French! Wow, that's great, I certainly could not have done both! Good luck with that though - and yeah me too, although it really does depend on what they give us to translate, I'm guessing it will be something from current events - hopefully not too complicated in terms of vocab!

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coffeeneeded27

Original post by britmj

here's hoping! Are you feeling prepared for the casa section of the oral?

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britmj

Original post by eleanor27

here's hoping! Are you feeling prepared for the casa section of the oral?

Well, not AS prepared as I feel for the Almodovar section, but I will probably re-read the play and then re-watch it, just so I can remember some of the things I forgot since December! Are you?

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coffeeneeded27

Original post by britmj

Well, not AS prepared as I feel for the Almodovar section, but I will probably re-read the play and then re-watch it, just so I can remember some of the things I forgot since December! Are you?

Yeah Casa is my favourite :smile:

We have 2 spanish teachers and do a culture topic with each so we have a Casa lesson a week :smile:

Reply 19

britmj

Original post by eleanor27

Yeah Casa is my favourite :smile:

We have 2 spanish teachers and do a culture topic with each so we have a Casa lesson a week :smile:

We do too! Except we finished Casa really early and started AS revision as our teachers are making us retake (even though I got an A - it's just to boost my chances of getting an A* overall) but we have gone a lot more in depth for Almodovar so I definitely feel more confident on that!