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Spanish

There are four sections for examination:

1. Oral Assessment

(a) General conversation. Candidates may avail of the option of discussing a leterary work.
(b) A role-play situation.

2. Listening Comprehension

Candidates will listen to a tape-recording and answer questions on what they have heard, e.g. public announcements, extracts from radio, conversations overheard, etc..

3. Reading Comprehension

Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of information from menus, public signs, timetables, brochures, guides, letters, newspaper or magazine articles and works of literature. Higher Level candidates will explore levels of meaning to show awareness of stylistic aspects of literary texts.

4. Written Production

The candidates will use the language to communicate feelings and attitudes and to explain, discuss and summarise given texts.

Mark Allocation
Section Higher Level Ordinary Level
Speaking 25% 20%
Listening Comprehension 20% 25%
Reading Comprehension 30% 40%
Writing 25% 15%

Note: On a number of courses Spanish can now be started ‘ab inito’ which means from the beginning - even if you did not do Spanish as a subject in the Leaving Cert.. However having studied it in the Leaving Cert. would be an enormous advantage.