How to get a grade 8 or 9 in Spanish in speaking and writing

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Tenses

  • Present
  • Past Tense: Preterite, Imperfect, Perfect and Pluperfect
  • Future: Near, Conditional and Real Future
  • The Gerund: Present Continuous (what is happening right now) and Imperfect Continuous (what was happening at the exact moment)
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Grammar structures

  • Antes de + Infinitive (before doing something)
  • Despúes de + Infinitive (after doing something)
  • Tener que + Infinitive (to have to do something)
  • Esperar + Infinitive (to hope to do something)
  • Pensar en + Infinitive (to think of doing something)
  • Acabar de + Infinitive (to have just done something)
  • Para + Infinitive (in order to do something)
  • Suelo + Infinitive (i usually do...)
  • Dejar de + Infinitive (to stop ...ing to quit ...ing) 
  • Dominar + Infinitive (to be fluent in...)
  • Si clause
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Time Phrases referring to the past

  • Ayer - yesterday
  • Anoche - last night
  • El fin de semana pasado - last weekend
  • La semana pasada - last week
  • El mes pasado - last month
  • El año pasado - last year
  • Hace dos / tres días / semanas / meses - Two/three days/weeks/months ago
  • Anteayer - the day before yesterday
  • Ayer por la mañana - yesterday morning
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Time Phrases referring to the present

  • Todos los días– every day
  • Los fines de semana– at weekends
  • Cada …– every …
  • Una vez / dos veces a la / al– once / twice a …
  • Present tense + desde hace (have been ...ing for...)
  • Hace + expression of time - ago
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Time Phrases referring to the future

  • Mañana - tomorrow
  • El fin de semana que viene- next weekend
  • La semana que viene- next week
  • En las vacaciones- in the holidays
  • Elaño que viene- next year
  • Esta tarde - this afternoon
  • Esta noche - tonight
  • Mañana por la mañana - tomorrow morning
  • Mañana por la noche - tomorrow night
  • Mañana por la tarde - tomorrow afternoon
  • Durante la semana - during the week
  • Los sábados por la semana - on saturday mornings
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Frequency (How Often?)

  • Muchas veces - many times
  • Todo el tiempo
  • Varias veces - everal times
  • Siempre – always
  • Normalmente – normally
  • Generalmente – generally
  • Frecuentemente – frequently
  • A menudo – often
  • A veces – sometimes
  • De vez en cuando – from time to time
  • Rara vez / raramente – rarely
  • Nunca - never 
  • Un vez por día - once a day
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Connectives and Linking Words

  • Como - like/as
  • También - also      
  • Por ejemplo - for example
  • Aunque - although
  • Sin embargo - however
  • Por lo tanto - therefore
  • Durante - during
  • De antemano - beforehand
  • Y- and
  • Pero - but
  • Hoy en dia - nowadays
  • Mientras que - whilst
  • Tampaco - neither
  • Claro - of course
  • Por un lado - on the one hand
  • Por otro lado - on the other hand
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Negatives

  • No - not
  • Nada - nothing
  • Nunca - never
  • Ninguno - none
  • Ni...ni - neither...nor
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Comparatives, Superlatives and Equality

Comparative:

  • Más + adjective/adverb/noun/ + que
  • Menos + adjective/adverb/noun/ + que
  • Better than - mejor que
  • Worse than - peor que

Superlative:

  • El,la,los,las + más/menos + adjective
  • Lo + adj - the ....ing
  • Best - el/la/los/las + mejor
  • Worst - el/la/los/las + peor

Equality:

  • Tan + adjective/adverb + como
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Opinion Phrases

  • Pienso que
  • Me parece que
  • A mi modo de ver
  • Porque
  • Puesto que 
  • Por eso
  • Use of opinions such as ¡qué! and ....ísimo
  • Me encanta
  • Me gusta
  • Me interesa
  • No me gusta
  • No me gusta mucho
  • No tengo ganas de + infinitive
  • Me importa
  • Me preocupa
  • Me molesta
  • Use of adjectives
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Checking your work!

  • Verb endings - do the endings match the subject or tense
  • Word order
  • Agreement - adjective match noun. Singular? Plural? Masculine? Feminine?
  • Spellings
  • Accents

Something to help you with:

Articles:

  • A/Some = un/una/unos/unas
  • The = el/la/los/las

Articles + Prepositions

  • To the = al/a la/a los/a las
  • From the/Of the = del/de la/de los/de las
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Checking your work! Part 2

DOPs (Direct Object Pronoun)

  • Me = me
  • You (sing) = te
  • Us = Nos
  • You (pl)
  • it/them = lo/la/los/las

IDOPs (Indirect Object Pronouns)

  • To me = me
  • To you (sing) = te
  • To him/her = le
  • To us = Nos
  • To you (pl) = Os
  • To them = Les

*they go before a conjugated verb but after a infinitive

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Checking your work! Part 3

Personal Pronouns

  • I = yo
  • You (sing) = tú
  • He/She = él/ella/usted
  • We = nosotros/nosotras
  • You (pl) = vosotros/vosotras
  • They = ellos/ellas/ustedes

Possessive Pronouns

  • My = mi/mis
  • Your = tu/tus
  • His/Her = su/sus
  • Our = nuestro/nuestra/nuestros/nuestras
  • Your = vuestro/vuestra/vuestros/vuestras 
  • Their = su/sus
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Checking your work! Part 4

Demonstrative Pronouns

  • This/These = este/esta/estos/estas
  • That/Those = ese/esa/esos/esas
  • That/Those = aquel/aquella/aquellos/aquellas

Whose:

  • Cuyo (masc.sing)
  • Cuya (fem.sing)
  • Cuyos (masc.pl)
  • Cuyas (fem/pl)
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Comments

esmeed

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SO useful for my speaking!!

inskipa2

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muchas gracias

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