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Home Tutoring.org.uk - Español

Home Tutoring.org.uk offers Spanish at all levels and for all ages. We use a range of resources to cater for individual needs and we do from conversational Spanish to teaching the grammatical structures of verbs and tenses. Tutoring can be done on an individual or very small group basis and always at a pace that is suitable for the student.

Following is an overview of the topics we cover at each level, and these are to suit the individual needs of the learner which means that grammar, writing, reading and listening will only be done if requested. Speech and general understanding are done as standard.

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Key Stages 1 & 2 & Beginners   Key Stage 3 & Basic   Key Stage 4 (GCSE) & Intermediate
Key Stage 5 (AS/A2 Level) & Advanced   Basic Spanish for Holiday & Work

 

Primary KS1&2 Spanish - Years 1-6 / Ages 4-11 & Beginners:

The topics covered at Key Stage 1 are:

  1. ¡Hola! - covers saying "Hello", "How are you?" and "Goodbye";
  2. Yo - covers saying your name, age and where you are from;
  3. En clase - covers saying "What's this?" and "How do you say... in Spanish?";
  4. Hora y Fecha - covers saying time, numbers, dates and months;
  5. ¡Me gusta! - covers saying likes, dislikes and opinions;
  6. Spanglish - covers Spanish words that are just like English;
  7. Familia - covers talking about your family and pets;
  8. Sonidos - covers the special Spanish sounds: j, rr, ñ, h and more;
  9. El tiempo - covers talking about the weather, seasons and months;
  10. Animales Salvajes - covers naming wild animals and what they eat;
  11. Gente VIP - covers describing favourite celebrities simply;
  12. Banderas - covers naming colours, shapes and countries;
  13. Música - covers talking about favourite music and playing an instrument;
  14. De vacaciones - covers naming countries and transport;
  15. Fútbol - covers talking about favourite teams, team colours and football vocabulary;
  16. Fiestas de España - covers how Spanish people celebrate Fiestas.

The units covered at Key Stage 2 are:

  1. Yo - covers simple greetings, introducing yourself, making simple statements and asking simple questions about name and age and numbers 1-10;
  2. Canciones y juegos - covers responding to a song in Spanish, understanding simple instructions, making a game, expressing preference and numbers 11-20;
  3. ¡Vamos a celebrarlo! - covers saying what you can do well, celebrating achievements and special occasions, making simple statements about activities, expressing praise, months of the year, writing an invitation and asking permission;
  4. Retratos - covers parts of the body, colours, descriptions of people, making simple statements about appearance and giving a simple description of a person;
  5. Los cuatro amigos - covers responding to a story, understanding simple instructions, giving a simple description of an animal and making simple statements about movement;
  6. Cultivando unas cosas - covers responding to a story, buying things, ordering in a restaurant, expressing likes and dislikes about food and saying what you would like;
  7. ¡A bordo! - covers making statements about travel, describing the weather and days of the week;
  8. La paga - covers expressing opinions about likes and dislikes about food and toys, justifying opinions, numbers 21-39 and simple prices;
  9. ¡Cuéntame un cuento! - covers responding to a story, instructions and numbers in multiples of 10 up to 100;
  10. La vida deportiva - covers healthy food and drinks and making simple statements about activities and diet;
  11. El Carnaval de los animales - covers giving simple descriptions of animals and their habitats, telling the time on the hour and asking and answering simple questions;
  12. ¿Qué tiempo hace? - covers describing the weather, naming clothing, revision of numbers up to 40, saying the temperature and saying the date;
  13. La comida sana - covers expressing likes, dislikes and preferences about food and drinks, making simple statements about food and drink and following and writing instructions in a recipe;
  14. Yo soy músico - covers responding to a song in Spanish, expressing and qualifying opinions about musical preferences and making simple statements about musical instruments;
  15. Vamos al colegio - covers the alphabet, describing a journey to school, naming places in the locality, giving and understanding simple directions, using repair strategies to keep a conversation going and telling the time on the half-hour;
  16. Pescadoras valencianas - covers responding to a painting, writing and performing a poem, giving a simple description of a scene or place, using adjectives to add interest and detail to a description and writing instructions;
  17. El retorno de la primavera - covers responding to a poem and a Greek myth and making statements about seasons and weather;
  18. Los planetas - covers naming the planets, giving a description of a planet and making statements about the position of a planet;
  19. Nuestro colegio - covers places around the school, making statements about everyday school routines, school subjects, telling the time using quarter-hours and minutes and making statements about people in school;
  20. Nuestro mundo - covers a contrasting Spanish-speaking locality, making statements about travel to another country, the weather, animal habitats and geographical features and understanding weather reports;
  21. El pasado y el presente - covers comparison of modern day settlements with those in the late 1940s, giving a description of what someone is wearing, making statements and asking questions about a town, descriptions of people and following instructions for a dance;
  22. Aquí y allí - covers making statements about forms of entertainment, numbers 71-99, money and prices with higher numbers, expressing and justifying opinions and telling the time using the 24-hour clock;
  23. Poner una cafetería - covers talking about drinks, snacks and ice creams, describing quantities of food and drink and expressing preferences about food and drink;
  24. ¿Qué noticias hay? - covers making statements about sections in a newspaper and making statements about what's on TV.

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Secondary KS3 Spanish - Years 7-9 / Ages 11-14 & Basic:

The units covered at KS3 have been divided in Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, but they can be adapted to suit individual needs:

Year 7 Units:

  1. ¡Hola! - covers meeting and greeting people, numbers 1-31, giving personal details expressing people's age, the alphabet and pronunciation, birthdays, months, dates and days of the week, constructing written passages or conversations, asking for something, naming classroom objects and understanding classroom instructions;
  2. La familia y los amigos - covers talking about and describing family members and pets, nationalities, reading about people and animals, spelling, talking about Christmas and fiestas and numbers 1 to 100;
  3. El horario - covers talking about school subjects, the curriculum and timetables, telling the time, talking about mealtimes and naming simple items of food and drink, and giving opinions about school subjects;
  4. En casa - covers describing the daily routine, giving simple descriptions of homes and where people live, describing where things are, describing what happens in the house and looking at numbers above 100 and ordinal numbers;
  5. En el pueblo - covers naming and locating places in a town, naming countries and points of the compass and maps, following and giving directions both orally and in writing, engaging in longer dialogues, talking about seasons and weather, reading and writing about the weather and discussing weather effects;
  6. Pasatiempos - covers talking about leisure, hobbies, interests, sport, music and family activities, likes and dislikes, arranging an activity, reading a leaflet, checking information, reading and writing letters, understanding tenses and discussing the weekend.

Year 8 Units:

  1. Nos presentamos - covers describing people in detail, comparing people, writing a formal letter, understanding descriptive language, acquiring information about people, understanding social conventions and gaining cultural awareness and expressing thanks and appreciation;
  2. La comida - covers talking about food and drink and likes, dislikes and preferences, following and preparing recipes expressing size, quantity and measures, asking questions when buying food, ordering drinks and meals at a restaurant and using vocabulary to do with 'tapas' and Christmas food;
  3. La salud - covers parts of the body, ailments, illnesses and remedies, visiting the doctor, chemist or dentist, asking and answering questions about aches and pains, giving and understanding advice and commands, listening for gist and detail on health issues, reading texts and using vocabulary to do with a healthy lifestyle;
  4. De compras - covers choosing and shopping for clothes and presents, describing clothes, considering the appropriateness of clothes, including sizes, listening for gist and detail in descriptions of people, giving fashion preferences and learning about dress codes in Spanish-speaking countries;
  5. El turismo - covers talking about holidays, understanding holiday information, participating in structured conversations, discussing tourism, outings and trips, looking at modes of transport, writing about future plans and talking about destinations;
  6. Diversiones - covers talking about going out and entertainment, concerts, cinema, theatre and sports, ordering and buying tickets, understanding information about public events and recounting a past event or outing.

Year 9 Units:

  1. Nosortos, los jóvenes- covers understanding and giving descriptions of people with justification, describing negative qualities and agreeing or disagreeing, talking about friendships, jobs in the home, pocket money, telephoning, conveying messages, making and receiving invitations, expressing thanks and appreciation and declining an invitation, apologising and making excuses;
  2. Los medios de comunicación - covers talking about different media, including TV, newspapers, advertising and film, expressing and justifying opinions and preferences about TV programmes, noting details and reporting back and understanding reviews and reading for pleasure;
  3. Nuestros proyectos - covers talking about future plans, option choices, form-filling, writing a formal letter and jobs;
  4. Nuestro medio ambiente - covers talking about aspects of the environment and the future world, revising positive commands, using negative instructions, discussing how things used to be and making comparisons and expressing opinions about environmental issues both orally and in writing;
  5. El mundo hispano - focuses on one or more Spanish-speaking countries or regions other than Spain and gaining cultural awareness by comparing and contrasting lifestyles, varying language to suit context and audience, selecting appropriate information and using Spanish in progressively more demanding contexts;
  6. ¿Tú, qué opinas? - covers understanding and producing critical reviews, summarising spoken and written texts, expressing opinions, giving reasons, summarising a television programme and responding to creative writing.

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Secondary KS4 Spanish (GCSE) - Ages 14-16 & Intermediate:

The units covered in general for those who are just wanting to learn a little more Spanish are:

  1. En clase- covers language of the classroom, including basic ICT;
  2. En casa- covers the house, home, daily routines and chores;
  3. En el colegio- covers life and work at school, including opinions and talking about subjects;
  4. Hora, Fecha, Números y Precios - covers time, dates, numbers and prices;
  5. Yo - covers personal descriptions;
  6. Familia, Amigos y Animales - covers family, friends and pets;
  7. Mucho gusto - meeting and greeting people;
  8. El tiempo libre - covers free-time and leisure activities;
  9. De vacaciones - covers countries, holidays and describing holiday activities;
  10. En la cafeteria y el restaurante - covers visiting a café and restaurant;
  11. ¡No me siento bien! - covers simple health problems;
  12. Mi pueblo y provincia - covers describing a town and region;
  13. El transporte y las direcciones - covers finding the way and transport;
  14. En la oficina de turismo - covers asking for and understanding tourist information;
  15. El dinero y de compras - covers pocket money and shopping for food, clothes and presents;
  16. El tiempo - covers weather.

In addition to these topics, we also cover verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns and numerals in a little more depth than at KS3.

For those students who are working towards their GCSE in Spanish we usually follow the AQA Syllabus as the majority of our pupils follow it. However, we have worked towards other syllabuses so please do contact us to enquire whether we could help you.

For the GCSE pupils we cover the following themes and topics and help them prepare for all four assessments (Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking) :

Theme 1 - My World. The topics covered are:

    1A Self, Family and Friends
    1B Interests and Hobbies
    1C Home and Local Environment
    1D Daily Routine
    1E School and Future Plans (up to age 18)

Theme 2 - Holiday Time & Travel. The topics covered are:

    2A Travel, Transport and Finding the Way
    2B Tourism
    2C Accommodation
    2D Holiday Activities
    2E Services

Theme 3 - Work & Lifestyle. The topics covered are:

    3A Home Life
    3B Healthy Living
    3C Part-Time Jobs and Work Experience
    3D Leisure
    3E Shopping

Theme 4 - The Young Person in Society. The topics covered are:

    4A Character and Personal Relationships
    4B The Environment
    4C Education
    4D Careers and Future Plans (post age 18)
    4E Social Issues, Choices and Responsibilities

In addition, we also cover a wide range of grammar that is required at GCSE and that is appropriate for the level to which each student is working towards (either Foundation or Higher), and help students with the two topics that they have specifically chosen for the Conversation component of their examination.

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Secondary KS5 Spanish (AS & A2) - Ages 16-18 & Advanced:

The units covered in general for those who are just wanting to learn a little more or enhance their Spanish are:

  1. En clase- covers language of the classroom, including basic ICT;
  2. En casa- covers the house, home, daily routines and chores;
  3. En el colegio- covers life and work at school, including opinions and talking about subjects;
  4. Hora, Fecha, Números y Precios - covers time, dates, numbers and prices;
  5. Yo - covers personal descriptions;
  6. Familia, Amigos y Animales - covers family, friends and pets;
  7. Mucho gusto - meeting and greeting people;
  8. El tiempo libre - covers free-time and leisure activities;
  9. De vacaciones - covers countries, holidays and describing holiday activities;
  10. En la cafeteria y el restaurante - covers visiting a café and restaurant;
  11. ¡No me siento bien! - covers simple health problems;
  12. Mi pueblo y provincia - covers describing a town and region;
  13. El transporte y las direcciones - covers finding the way and transport;
  14. En la oficina de turismo - covers asking for and understanding tourist information;
  15. El dinero y de compras - covers pocket money and shopping for food, clothes and presents;
  16. El tiempo - covers weather.
  17. España y los países Hispanos - covers looking at Spain and Spanish-speaking countries in general.

In addition to these topics, we also cover verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns and numerals in a little more depth than at KS3 and KS4.

For those students who are working towards their A2 or AS in Spanish we usually follow the EDEXCEL Syllabus as the majority of our pupils follow it. However, that is not to say that we have worked towards other syllabuses so please do contact us to enquire whether we could help you.

For the AS and A2 pupils we cover the following themes and topics, but will only focus on the specific topic area they are studying, and will help them prepare for all four areas of assessments - Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. (Please remember that AS students will only need to cover Units 1 & 2, whereas those doing A2 will need to cover all 4 Units):

Unit 1 - Spoken Expression and Response in Spanish. General Topic Areas of which students will choose one:

    - Youth culture and concerns
    - Lifestyle: health and fitness
    - The world around us: travel, tourism, environmental issues and the Spanish-speaking world
    - Education and employment.

Unit 2 - Understanding and Written Response in Spanish. General Topic Areas covered are:

    - Youth culture and concerns
    - Lifestyle: health and fitness
    - The world around us: travel, tourism, environmental issues and the Spanish-speaking world
    - Education and employment

Unit 3 - Understanding and Spoken Response in Spanish:

Because students have a completely free choice of issue that does not need to relate to the culture and/or society of a Spanish-language country or community nor to any of the Edexcel general topic areas, we support each pupil with the topic that they have chosen in order to help them prepare for their Oral Assessment.

Unit 4 - Research, Understanding and Written Response in Spanish. General Topic Areas covered are:

    - Youth culture and concerns
    - Lifestyle: health and fitness
    - The world around us: travel, tourism, environmental issues and the Spanish-speaking world
    - Education and employment
    - Customs, traditions, beliefs and religions
    - National and international events: past, present and future
    - Literature and the arts.

In addition to the above topics we also support students in their chosen topic for the written assessment which is a research-based essay in Spanish (240-270 words) that rewards students for Spanish-language research skills linked to an area of interest to the student. This must relate to the culture and/or society of a Spanish-language country, countries or community, and students will need to draw on their knowledge and understanding of this. They will have freedom to determine the content of their research but it must relate to one of the following areas of research:

a Geographical area
b Historical study
c Aspects of modern society
d Literature and the arts (eg text, play or film)

We then support each student in their chosen area.

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Basic Spanish for Holiday & Work:

This course is an introduction to Spanish language and culture, designed for use in holiday and work contexts and is taught as 6 different stages, each being taught at a personalised pace for the student, and each ending with a fact file and a challenge to see how you would cope in the four situations covered in each Stage.

The Stages and Units covered are:

Stage One -

  1. ¡Taxi! - covers taking a taxi from the airport to the city centre;
  2. El hotel - covers booking into a hotel;
  3. En la cafeteria - covers ordering a snack and a drink;
  4. ¿Dónde está el parque? - covers finding and checking out tourist attractions.

Stage Two -

  1. Las tapas - covers ordering tapas and something to drink;
  2. En el restaurante - covers having a meal in a restaurant;
  3. Mucho gusto - covers going out, meeting people and sharing personal details;
  4. ¡Vamos a desayunar! - covers going for breakfast.

Stage Three -

  1. El cajero automático - covers taking money out from a cash machine;
  2. En el rastro - covers finding and paying for bargains at the flea market;
  3. El supermercado - covers buying essential items at a supermarket;
  4. La ropa - covers choosing and buying clothes.

Stage Four -

  1. El piso - covers being shown around a flat;
  2. Una invitación - covers receiving and accepting an invitation to somewhere;
  3. La familia - covers meeting a Spanish family;
  4. La comida - covers chatting casually over a meal and coping with small talk.

Stage Five -

  1. En la RENFE - covers buying a train ticket and getting details about your train;
  2. La oficina de turismo - covers asking for and getting tourist information;
  3. En el hotel - covers finding and booking a hotel room;
  4. Los monumentos - covers finding and visiting monuments and places of interest.

Stage Six -

  1. El trabajo - covers saying what you do for a living and understanding some jobs and workplaces;
  2. La empresa - covers describing a business;
  3. ¿Cuándo nos vemos? - covers arranging a meeting;
  4. El tiempo libre - covers talking about things you do in your spare time.

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