Cover lesson · MFL: Spanish · Year 11 · Advanced
DCF: Data and computational thinking → Data and information literacy
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What this practises: WJEC GCSE Spanish (Made for Wales), Unit 4 Reading and Writing exam skills: reading factual texts “such as a web page, newspaper article, graph”, identifying “the overall message, key points and opinions” and drawing conclusions, answering in English, translating sentences into English, and writing in Spanish in response to a stimulus. Broad theme: language for study and work. This is exam practice, not NEA work.
Print: this sheet, one per pupil, and the stimulus sheet “Young people and part-time work”, one between two. Pupils need calculators for Step 3. No computers are needed. The survey figures are also in trabajojoven-survey.csv if you are in a computer room. No dictionaries or translation apps: the GCSE bans them. There is a word list on the stimulus sheet.
Run: 8 min pupils read the article and survey in pairs · 10 min Step 2, questions in English · 10 min Step 3, the percentages · 8 min Step 4, test the claims · 5 min Step 5, fix the headline · 7 min Step 6, translation, alone · 12 min Step 7, the Spanish writing, alone and in silence. Total 60 min.
Collect: this sheet, for the class teacher to mark against the worked example.
A Spanish youth magazine has published an article about teenagers with part-time jobs. It is based on a survey, and the survey results are printed with it. You are going to read the article as you would in the Unit 4 exam, then check what the article says against the data. Some of its claims are right, some are wrong, and some go further than the data can show. You will change the conclusion so it fits the evidence, then write your own reply in Spanish using the figures.
Read the article (A) and all 6 parts of the survey (B). Underline every number and every claim in the article.
(a) Who took part in the survey, and how did they answer? Give three details.
(b) Give two things young people spend or save their money on, according to the article.
(c) How much does Daniel work, and what effect does it have on him? Give two effects.
(d) Why does Sara think her job is good for her? Give two reasons.
(e) What is the magazine’s conclusion, and what does it say young people should do?
Work out each percentage to 1 decimal place. Be careful to divide by the right group: the whole survey, only the pupils with a job, or only one hours group.
| What | Working | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1. All pupils who have a part-time job | ||
| 2. Pupils with a job who work only at weekends | ||
| 3. Pupils with a job who look after children | ||
| 4. Pupils with a job whose main reason is saving money | ||
| 5. Pupils without a job who say their grades have gone down | ||
| 6. Pupils working 1 to 5 hours who say their grades have gone down | ||
| 7. Pupils working 6 to 10 hours who say their grades have gone down | ||
| 8. Pupils working more than 10 hours who say their grades have gone down | ||
| 9. Pupils without a job who would like one |
For each claim from the article, tick one verdict and give the evidence: a figure from Step 3 or a fact about how the survey was done.
| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1. La mitad de los jóvenes trabaja. | Supported / Not supported / The data cannot show this | |
| 2. El trabajo más común es cuidar niños. | Supported / Not supported / The data cannot show this | |
| 3. La mayoría dice que quiere ahorrar dinero. | Supported / Not supported / The data cannot show this | |
| 4. Trabajar hace bajar las notas. | Supported / Not supported / The data cannot show this | |
| 5. Los jóvenes de España deben estudiar y no trabajar. | Supported / Not supported / The data cannot show this |
Where do you think the writer got “la mitad” from? Look at Step 3.
(a) Write a new headline in Spanish that the data really does support. Use at least one figure.
(b) In English: give one reason why even your new headline should be treated with care. Think about who was asked and how.
Work alone. Watch the tense of every verb.
Write a comment for the magazine’s web page. Work alone, in silence. Include:
Aim for the present, a past tense and a future or conditional, and justify every opinion with porque, ya que or sin embargo.