¡Mola! GCSE Spanish Student Book

Summary:
¡Mola! is a 2-year course that fully prepares in years 10 and 11 for Key Stage 4. ¡Mola! has been specially written to fit the requirements of the GCSE exam specifications for teaching from 2009.

Written by two highly experienced teachers and examiners ¡Mola! aims to give students the confidence, fluency and linguistic competence that is required for success at Key Stage 4.

Features of ¡Mola! include:

• coverage of all GCSE topics offered by the awarding bodies
• task types that will prepare students thoroughly for the new examinations
• a thorough approach to Spanish grammar, with clear explanations and extensive practice
• comprehensive treatment of topic-related vocabulary, giving a secure base for the examination
• carefully developed sequences of activities that exploit the topics fully
• a balanced approach to the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
• integration of cultural topics on Spanish-speaking countries into listening and reading texts

Mola! is supported by ¡Mola! Teacher Guide and audio CD (978 1844 897032) which provides free audio CDs with all the listening exercises included.

• Covers all GCSE topics offered by the main awarding bodies
• Provides tasks to prepare students thoroughly for the new examinations
• Provides a thorough approach to grammar, with clear explanations and extensive practice
• Comprehensive topic-related vocabulary to give students a secure base for the examination
• Carefully developed activities exploit the topics fully and provide a balanced approach to the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Cultural topics on Spanish-speaking countries integrated into listening and reading texts
• Photocopiable answer sheets provided in an accompanying Teacher Guide together with recorded texts on 2 free CDs

Table of Contents:
Módulo 1 Así soy yo
Mi familia y yo
Talking about myself and my family
Revising the present tense of key verbs
Preparing a presentation on this topic
Adjectives
¿Cómo es tu casa?
Describing your home
Describing your bedroom
Using prepositions
Household chores
Pocket money
Daily routine
Reflexive verbs
Mi barrio
Talking about your local area
Finding your way around town
Discussing advantages and disadvantages
ser, estar, hay
Using the imperfect tense
Módulo 2 Gente joven
El tiempo libre
Saying what you like to do in your free time.
Arranging to go out.
Using the past and present tenses
¿Cómo te enteras
Saying what types of media you prefer
Giving opinions and reasons
Using impersonal verbs and infinitives
¿A quién admiras?
Practise using ser and tener to describe people
Practise talking about people you admire
Practise extended writing
Using adverbs and adjectives
The superlative
Módulo 3 El mundo del trabajo
¿Qué tal tu cole?
Different school subjects
Daily routine
School uniform
Verbs expressing necessity and obligation
Pronouns
Las prácticas de trabajo
Applying for a job
Workplace activities
The imperfect and preterite tenses
Opinions
El futuro
Future plans
Using the future and conditional tenses
Using adverbs
Módulo 4 El mundo es un pañuelo
El transporte
Travelling around
Comparing types of transport.
Interrogatives
Prepositions
De vacaciones
Holiday plans
Use of ir a and the infinitive
Hotels and accommodation
Using a dictionary
El tiempo
Talking about the weather
Comparing climates
Different tenses and verbs to describe the weather
Fiestas
Módulo 5 Así es mi vida
Una vida sana
Parts of the body
Health, healthy eating and exercise
Impersonal verbs
Formal imperatives
The infinitive
De compras
Shops and places of business
Quantities sizes and shapes
Eating out
Ordinal numbers
Disjunctive pronouns
¡Vivir a tope!
Talking about youth issues
Using the subjunctive mood

About the Author(s):
Series editor, Mike Thacker, is Director of the Language Centre at the University of Surrey and Chair of Examiners for Spanish for a leading exam board.
Jacqueline López-Cascante is an exerienced MFL teacher. An OU tutor on the spanish Graduate Programme, she is also the subject reviser for IGCSE Spanish for one of the English examination boards.
Judith O'Hare has worked for over 20 years as a teacher, inspector and consultant in MFL. She is an experienced writer of educational texts in modern languages and of assessment materials for Spanish at Key Stages 3 and 4, and is Chair of Spanish for one of the English examination boards.