Spain - a country widely known for Flamenco music and dance, bullfights, fantastic beaches and lots of sunshine. It is famous for the Balearic Islands in the Mediteraean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and a number of uninhabited islands on the Mediterranean side of the strait of Gibraltar, such as the Chafarine islands, the isle of Alboran, the "rocks" of Vélez and Alhucemas, and the tiny Isla Perejil. Spanish is the 4th most spoken language in the world. At De La Salle secondary school and Language College four teachers teach Spanish at KS3 and KS4.The link to our partner school De La Salle in Spain is:http://www.lasalleandalucia.net/The places listed below have Spanish-speaking populations greater than 100,000. These are approximate current estimates:
| Mexico | 106 million |
| Colombia | 44 million |
| Spain | 44 million |
| Argentina | 39 million |
| United States | 31 million |
| Venezuela | 25 million |
| Peru | 25 million |
| Chile | 16 million |
| Guatemala | 14 million |
| Ecuador | 13 million |
| Cuba | 11 million |
| Bolivia | 8.7 million |
| Dominican Republic | 8.5 million |
| El Salvador | 6.8 million |
| Honduras | 6.8 million |
| Nicaragua | 5.5 million |
| Paraguay | 4.5 million |
| Costa Rica | 4 million |
| Puerto Rico | 3.6 million |
| Uruguay | 3.4 million |
| Panama | 3 million |
Teachers:Mr Morgan - Head of MFL departmentMrs Feriani - Director of Language CollegeMs Boureda - International Links CoordinatorMrs Cabrera - GTP teacher of Spanish and GermanSpanish ResourcesListen to Spanish radio station on:http://www.listenlive.eu/spain.htmlKS3 Spanish:
www.musicalspanish.com www.languagesonline.org.uk www.mflgames.co.uk
www.mflresources.org.uk - worksheets, powerpoint displays and other stuff for all 3 languages, added for free by kindly language teachers across the UK
www.quia.com -
www.cicclapaz.com - Spanish grammar tests,http://www.linguascope.com -Ask your teacher at De La Salle for a password and username
www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk - so many free resources uploaded by teachers to share,
http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/ www.alienlanguage.co.uk -
www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage - love, friendship, word of the day, jokes, games and grammar…
www.spaleon.com - grammar!
www.studyspanish.com - vocabulary practice
www.vokabel.com - vocabulary tests
www.realspanish.net KS4, interesting, with worksheets to print out
http://www.thelearningbank.co.uk/shireland/vocational/ - work related, French, German and Spanish, lots of stuff, but very specific,www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage - love, friendship, word of the day, jokes, games and grammar…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - revision for everyone, video clips, listening, newspaper articles etc, have a closer look
www.cicclapaz.com - Spanish grammar tests, www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk - so many free resources
http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/ - http://www.edexcel.org.uk - useful coursework ideas plus the samplesKS4 Spanish:
www.atantot.com ask your teacher for the username and password
www.linguascope.com ask your tacher for the username and password (click on intermediate)
www.realspanish.net KS4, interesting, with worksheets to print http://www.thelearningbank.co.uk/shireland/vocational/ -
www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage - love, friendship, word of the day, jokes, games and grammar…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - revision for everyone, more there than appears at first glance, video clips, listenings, newspaper articles etc, have a closer look
www.cicclapaz.com - Spanish grammar tests
www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk - so many free resources uploaded by teachers to sharehttp://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/ videos of FLA talking about GCSE topics
http://www.edexcel.org.uk - useful coursework ideas plus the samples www.spaleon.com - grammar!