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🇪🇸 Grammar Spine · Edexcel GCSE Spanish (1SP1)

The grammar spine

A language has no tidy modules — but its grammar does. These ten mini-lessons teach the whole grammatical backbone of Edexcel GCSE Spanish in sequence, from the building blocks to the higher-tier structures. Work through them in order: each one builds on the last.

1 · The teaching

Ten grammar mini-lessons — the graspable overview. Grammar drives the order of the course.

2 · The practice fuel

Theme vocabulary rides on top as drills and games, exercising each structure in context.

Foundation core · clusters 1–8
1
🧱 Building blocks Foundation

Nouns, gender, articles and adjective agreement.

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2
🗣️ The present-tense system Foundation

Regular verbs, stem-changers and the core irregulars; ser vs estar.

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3
👥 Talking about people Foundation

Subject, object and reflexive pronouns; negation; questions.

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4
💭 Plans & opinions Foundation

Near future (ir a), modals, gustar-type verbs, me gustaría.

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5
⏪ The preterite Foundation

The simple past for completed, specified events.

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6
📖 Perfect & imperfect Foundation

Present perfect, imperfect, and the preterite-vs-imperfect contrast.

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7
⏩ Future & conditional Foundation

The inflectional future and conditional, with irregular stems.

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8
🔗 Joining ideas Foundation

Comparatives, adverbs, prepositions and the personal a.

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Higher & skills · clusters 9–10
9
🎯 Higher-tier structures Higher

Subjunctive, passive, acabar de, seguir + gerund, desde hace.

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10
🔊 Sounds & exam technique Skills

Phonics & sound-symbol rules, stress & accents, dictation, reading aloud, cloze, translation.

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Built to the Edexcel GCSE Spanish (1SP1) specification.
Clusters 1–8 sit at Foundation level; cluster 9 collects the Higher-tier additions; cluster 10 is phonics and exam technique.