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🇪🇸 Grammar Spine · WJEC GCSE Spanish (3840QS)

The grammar spine

A language has no tidy modules — but its grammar does. These ten mini-lessons teach the whole grammatical backbone of WJEC GCSE Spanish in sequence, from the building blocks to the structures you need to recognise. The course is untiered (grades A*–G), so everyone works through the same ten — 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.

Core · clusters 1–8
1
🧱 Building blocks Core

Nouns, gender, articles and adjective agreement.

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2
🗣️ The present-tense system Core

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

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3
👥 Talking about people Core

Subject, object and reflexive pronouns; negation; questions.

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4
💭 Plans & opinions Core

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

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5
⏪ The preterite Core

The simple past for completed, specified events.

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6
📖 Perfect & imperfect Core

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

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7
⏩ Future & conditional Core

The inflectional future and conditional, with irregular stems.

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8
🔗 Joining ideas Core

Comparatives, adverbs, prepositions, por vs para and the personal a.

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Recognise & skills · clusters 9–10
9
🎯 Structures to recognise Recognise

Understand (don't produce) the subjunctive, passive, pluperfect, gerund and imperative — plus acabar de, seguir + gerund and desde hace.

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10
🔊 Sounds & exam technique Skills

The alphabet, phonics & sound-symbol rules for reading aloud, and how the untiered 45% NEA course works (Oracy, set work, Listening, Reading & Writing).

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Built to the WJEC GCSE Spanish (3840QS) specification.
A single, untiered course (grades A*–G) with 45% Non-Exam Assessment, covering three broad themes: language for leisure and wellbeing, language for travel, and language for study and work.
Clusters 1–8 are the core you produce; cluster 9 gathers the structures you only need to recognise; cluster 10 is the alphabet, phonics and exam technique.