We have organized the grammatical requirements for GCSE Spanish into 40 grammar lessons (click on the links to see the grammar syllabus).
You will need to acquire extensive knowledge and understanding of Spanish grammar, gradually over the duration of the year, since this requires not only theory but a lot of practice. In the exam, you will need to demonstrate your knowledge in the four areas that comprise the exam: writing, reading, listening and speaking.
How our Spanish grammar lessons work
We have gathered a series of grammar videos, which are accompanied by explanations in English, examples, and interactive exercises about each one of the grammatical themes included in the grammar syllabus. They are free to access and we are updating them constantly. At the end of each one, there is a mini-assessment to check the progress, although they are only for VIP students. Besides, you will always have the possibility to request a one-to-one tutorial, to work with a specific topic more in detail.
Remember that this knowledge will be tested during the exam, so the more extensive and varied this knowledge is, the better the final mark will be.
AQA Grammar Syllabus
- Nouns: gender and singular and plural forms
- Articles: definite and indefinite (el libro, un libro)
- Adjectives: agreement and position (la gata negra)
- Comparative and superlative (estudia más que yo)
- Demonstratives: adjectives and pronouns (este, ese, aquel…)
- Possessive adjectives and pronouns (mi libro, el mío)
- Indefinite (cada, otro, todo, mismo, alguno)
- Negative words in Spanish and double negative (no tengo ningún libro)
- Interrogatives (qué, dónde, cómo, quién…)
- Adverb’s formation
- Adverbs of time, place and common adverbial phrases
- Quantifiers & intensifiers (muy, bastante, demasiado, poco, mucho)
- Subject pronouns (yo, tú, usted, él, ella, nosotros…)
- Tú vs usted
- Object pronouns: direct and indirect
- Reflexive pronouns (me lavo, te peinas, se acuerda…)
- Pronouns after a preposition (para mí, conmigo)
- Relative (que, quien, lo que)
- Reflexive verbs and constructions (se puede, se necesita, se habla)
- Negative forms and interrogative forms
- Uses of SER and ESTAR (es nervioso o está nervioso)
- “Like” in Spanish (GUSTAR)
- Present indicative (presente de indicative)
- Present continuous (estar + gerundio)
- Preterite (pretérito indefinido)
- Imperfect (pretérito imperfecto de indicativo)
- Present Perfect (pretérito perfecto de indicativo)
- Immediate future (ir a + infinitivo)
- Future (futuro simple)
- Conditional (condicional simple)
- Pluperfect (pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo)
- Gerund (el gerundio)
- Past Participles (participio pasado)
- Spanish command: imperative affirmative and negative
- Subjunctive in the present (presente de subjuntivo)
- Subjunctive in the imperfect (pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo)
- Passive and Impersonal verbs
- Prepositions, including personal “a”
- Prepositions POR and PARA
- Conjunctions (y, pero, o, porque, como, cuando)