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Equal Rights

La igualdad de los sexos closes AQA's Aspects of Hispanic society theme and carries three strands: la mujer en el mercado laboral, el machismo y el feminismo, and los derechos de los gays y las personas transgénero. The notes cover the Hispanic realities a strong answer needs - la brecha salarial and el techo de cristal, the Spanish integral law against gender violence of 2004 and the equality law of 2007, the mass 8 March mobilisations, Argentina's Ni Una Menos, and the legal milestones of equal marriage in Spain in 2005 and in Argentina in 2010 - together with the Spanish needed to discuss discrimination precisely, and the register that lets a candidate handle sensitive material without slogans.

5 sections~26 min reading time4 competenciesLevel Standard 2 · Advanced 3

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Exam profile

AO1 · Understand and respond, in speech and in writing, to spoken Spanish on equality and discriminationAO2 · Understand and respond, in speech and in writing, to written Spanish on rights and the labour marketAO3 · Manipulate the language accurately, using a range of lexis and structureAO4 · Show knowledge of, and respond critically to, equality in Hispanic society

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basic level

AS Spanish (7691) includes this sub-theme within Aspects of Hispanic society. The expectation is accurate description of women's position in work and society, of machismo and feminism, and of the rights of gay and transgender people, with clear opinion and secure tenses.

higher level

The full A-Level expects law and reality to be distinguished: formal equality has been achieved on paper in several areas while gaps persist in pay, promotion and unpaid work. Answers must evidence that gap, concede progress, and reach a judgement in Spanish using subordination and the subjunctive of value and doubt.

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Equal Rights

Women at work: la mujer en el mercado laboral#

StandardAQA 7692 3.1.1 - La igualdad de los sexos: la mujer en el mercado laboralDfE GCE modern foreign languages subject content

Four concepts carry this strand and each has a fixed Spanish name that you should use rather than paraphrase. La brecha salarial de género is the gap between what women and men earn on average. El techo de cristal is the invisible barrier that keeps women out of senior posts - the complementary image, less well known and worth a mark, is el suelo pegajoso, the sticky floor that keeps them in the lowest-paid jobs. La conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar is the reconciliation of work and family life. La doble jornada is the second shift: paid work followed by unpaid domestic work and care, which in Spanish is called el trabajo de cuidados or los cuidados. Use them precisely and an answer instantly sounds informed.

Explain the pay gap rather than merely asserting it, because that is where the marks are. Three mechanisms are well documented and can be stated safely without invented figures. First, la segregación ocupacional: women are concentrated in sectors and occupations that are on average less well paid - care, cleaning, retail, education - a pattern called segregación horizontal, and are under-represented in senior grades, which is segregación vertical. Second, la parcialidad: part-time and interrupted careers are far more common among women, and la jornada parcial suele ser involuntaria. Third, la penalización por maternidad: earnings diverge after a first child, since caring responsibilities fall unequally.

Spain has legislated repeatedly in this area and the milestones make excellent AO4 evidence. The equality act of 2007, la ley para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres, introduced obligations including planes de igualdad in larger firms and a principle of balanced representation on electoral lists. Parental leave was progressively equalised, so that since 2021 both parents in Spain have the same non-transferable birth leave of sixteen weeks - a reform designed precisely to attack the maternity penalty by making leave equally costly to employers whoever they hire. Larger companies are also required to keep a pay register. Naming a law and its purpose, rather than reciting a number, is what distinguishes a top-band answer.

The register to aim for is analytical, not indignant. Useful verbs: cobrar (to earn or be paid), ganar, ascender (to be promoted), acceder a un puesto, ocupar un cargo, renunciar a, incorporarse al mercado laboral, reincorporarse tras la baja. Useful nouns: la contratación, la promoción, el salario, la retribución, el convenio colectivo, la baja por maternidad or por paternidad, la excedencia, la corresponsabilidad. And useful hedges to avoid unverifiable claims: en promedio, por término medio, en la mayoría de los sectores, según los datos disponibles, la tendencia apunta a. One correctly used hedge protects a whole paragraph.

Worked example

Translation into English: a passage on the second shift

Translate into English: «A las seis y media sale de la oficina y empieza su segunda jornada: la compra, los deberes de los niños, la cena. Su marido colabora, dice ella, aunque colaborar sea una palabra que ya lo explica todo: en su casa, la organización sigue siendo cosa suya.»

Fix the tenses and the time expression
Sale and empieza are present tenses describing a routine, so English uses the present simple. A las seis y media is at half past six. La segunda jornada is the second shift or second working day - jornada is a working day, never a journey, which is un viaje.
Translate the list idiomatically
La compra is the shopping (the food shop); los deberes de los niños is the children's homework - deberes here is not duties; la cena is dinner. English usually needs an article or a verb: the shopping, the children's homework, dinner.
Catch the irony in colaborar
Su marido colabora is literally her husband helps out, and the writer's point is that the word itself reveals the inequality: you help with something that is not your responsibility. Render it as helps out or lends a hand and keep the comment that follows.
Handle the subjunctive after aunque
Aunque colaborar sea una palabra que... uses the subjunctive because the speaker is conceding a hypothesis rather than stating a fact: although helping out is a word that already explains everything. Do not translate the subjunctive with an English subjunctive; English marks the concession with although alone.
Render cosa suya
La organización sigue siendo cosa suya means the organising is still her business or still down to her. Seguir plus gerund is still doing something. Cosa suya is idiomatic possession; her thing would be too weak in register.

Result: At half past six she leaves the office and begins her second shift: the shopping, the children's homework, dinner. Her husband helps out, she says, although helping out is a word that already explains everything: in their house, the organising is still down to her.

Typical mistakes

Translating to earn as ganar in every context; for wages Spanish normally says cobrar - cobra dos mil euros al mes.
Using la carrera to mean a career only; in Spanish it also means a degree course, so specify la carrera profesional when you mean the working life.

Active revision

Explica en español, en unas 120 palabras, tres causas de la brecha salarial de género, usando en cada una un conector causal distinto (debido a, ya que, puesto que).

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level Spanish (7692) specification - subject content (AQA) · GCE AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages (Department for Education)

Machismo and feminism: el machismo y el feminismo#

AdvancedAQA 7692 3.1.1 - La igualdad de los sexos: el machismo y el feminismoDfE GCE modern foreign languages subject content

Define el machismo carefully, because the English word macho carries a narrower meaning. In Spanish, el machismo is a set of attitudes and social structures that treat men as superior or that assign women a subordinate role; it is not only individual behaviour but also la cultura machista embedded in language, humour, advertising and institutions. Related terms: el micromachismo, for everyday behaviour that seems trivial in isolation - interrupting, assuming a woman will take the notes - and el patriarcado, the structural version of the same idea. Its counterpart, el feminismo, is best defined for an examiner in its own terms: el movimiento que reivindica la igualdad de derechos entre mujeres y hombres. Note la sororidad, solidarity between women, a word with no everyday English equivalent.

The gravest expression of the problem has its own legal category in Spanish, and precision here matters. La violencia de género or la violencia machista denotes violence against women by a partner or former partner because they are women; Spain's integral law against gender violence, passed in 2004, created specialised courts, protection orders and a state-wide free helpline. In much of Latin America the term is el feminicidio or el femicidio for the killing of a woman on grounds of gender, and several countries, Mexico among them, have made it a distinct criminal offence rather than treating it as ordinary homicide. Do not import English terms here: use la violencia de género, una orden de alejamiento, una denuncia, la víctima, el agresor, el maltrato.

The movement's recent history in the Spanish-speaking world gives you dated, verifiable evidence. In Argentina, Ni Una Menos brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets from 2015 against femicide and became a reference across Latin America. In Spain, the 8 March mobilisations reached exceptional scale in 2018, with a feminist strike that combined stopping paid work, domestic work, consumption and study - la huelga feminista - and made la brecha salarial and los cuidados into front-page issues. In Chile in 2019 a feminist performance created in Valparaíso was reproduced in dozens of countries. These are events, with places and dates: far stronger evidence than the assertion that feminism is popular.

Argue the debate rather than reciting it. Three defensible positions can be built in Spanish. The first: la igualdad legal ya está conseguida y el problema es su aplicación - equality exists on paper and the task is enforcement. The second: la desigualdad es estructural, so laws must be accompanied by education, by la corresponsabilidad in the home and by changes to working culture. The third, the honest complication: the movement is itself plural and its internal debates - about language, about prostitution, about how the law should be drafted - are public and lively in Spain. Acknowledging that plurality, with a phrase such as el feminismo no es un bloque homogéneo, sino un movimiento atravesado por debates internos, is exactly the critical nuance the top AO4 band asks for.

Worked example

Translation into Spanish: writing about equality without slogans

Translate into Spanish: Although the law has changed, many women still say that they are not treated as equals at work. Some companies have introduced equality plans, but critics argue that these are not enough. It is important that men also take responsibility at home, because otherwise nothing will change.

Choose the mood after aunque
Although the law has changed is presented as a fact, so aunque takes the indicative: aunque la ley ha cambiado. Reserve the subjunctive (aunque haya cambiado) for a concession the speaker will not fully grant.
Handle they are not treated
Spanish avoids the heavy ser-passive here. Use the impersonal third person plural, no las tratan como iguales, or the pasiva refleja, no se las trata como iguales. Note the direct object pronoun las for women.
Get the reporting verbs right
Say that plus a fact takes the indicative: dicen que no las tratan. Argue that also takes the indicative when reporting an assertion: los críticos sostienen que estos planes no bastan. Bastar is neater than ser suficiente and avoids an agreement error.
Use the subjunctive after es importante que
It is important that men also take responsibility introduces a new subject and a value judgement, so Spanish requires the subjunctive: es importante que los hombres asuman también su parte en casa. Asumir la responsabilidad or asumir su parte are both idiomatic; corresponsabilidad is the technical noun.
Render otherwise and the future
Otherwise is de lo contrario or si no. Nothing will change = no cambiará nada, with the future tense and the double negative correctly placed. Porque de lo contrario no cambiará nada is natural Spanish word order.

Result: Aunque la ley ha cambiado, muchas mujeres siguen diciendo que no las tratan como iguales en el trabajo. Algunas empresas han puesto en marcha planes de igualdad, pero los críticos sostienen que no bastan. Es importante que los hombres asuman también su parte en casa, porque de lo contrario no cambiará nada.

Typical mistakes

Using violencia doméstica and violencia de género as synonyms; Spanish law distinguishes them, the second referring specifically to violence against women by a partner or former partner.
Presenting feminism as a single doctrine; naming its internal debates shows the critical judgement the higher bands reward.

Active revision

Redacta en español un párrafo de 130 palabras que defina el machismo, lo distinga del micromachismo y cite un ejemplo concreto de movilización feminista en España o América Latina.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level Spanish (7692) specification - subject content (AQA)

Gay and transgender rights: los derechos de los gays y las personas transgénero#

AdvancedAQA 7692 3.1.1 - La igualdad de los sexos: los derechos de los gays y las personas transgéneroDfE GCE modern foreign languages subject content

The Hispanic world contains some of the earliest and boldest legislation in this field, and the dates are the evidence. Spain legalised el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo in 2005, one of the first countries in the world to do so and the first large Catholic country, granting married couples full adoption rights at the same time. Argentina followed in 2010, becoming the first country in Latin America with equal marriage, and in 2012 passed una ley de identidad de género that allowed people to change their registered name and sex without medical or judicial requirements - at the time the most far-reaching gender-identity law anywhere. Uruguay and other countries legislated subsequently, and Spain adopted a law on the rights of trans people in 2023. Where legislation is recent or contested, say so and date it.

Set that legal progress against uneven social reality, because the contrast is the argument. Acceptance is high in the large Spanish cities - Madrid's Chueca district and the annual Orgullo, one of the largest Pride events in Europe, are concrete examples - and considerably lower in some rural areas and in several countries of the region, where laws may be permissive while daily discrimination is not. The vocabulary should be current and neutral: una persona homosexual, gay or lesbiana; una persona trans or transgénero; el colectivo LGTBI, the acronym used in Spanish; la orientación sexual and la identidad de género - which are not the same thing and are frequently confused; la homofobia, la transfobia, los delitos de odio, salir del armario (to come out), la visibilidad.

The strand also invites you to explain how change happened, which is more analytical than listing laws. Three factors are usually cited for Spain: the democratic transition and the 1978 Constitution, which created a rights framework after a dictatorship that had criminalised homosexual conduct; a strong associative movement that campaigned publicly from the late 1970s onwards; and the mainstream visibility of gay characters and public figures, notably in cinema and television, which normalised what had been invisible. The same three factors - constitutional change, organised campaigning, cultural visibility - can be applied to Argentina. Being able to explain a mechanism of change, in Spanish, is precisely what separates the top bands from competent description.

This is sensitive material and the register must be careful. Prefer factual verbs - reconocer un derecho, aprobar una ley, despenalizar, equiparar, garantizar la igualdad ante la ley - to emotive ones. Use the impersonal to report disputed claims: se ha criticado que, hay quien sostiene que, algunos sectores consideran que. And avoid two frequent errors of tone: describing an entire country as tolerant or intolerant, when law and practice vary by region and generation; and treating rights as a Western import, when the Hispanic examples above predate comparable legislation in many other countries. Precision and dates protect you from both.

Worked example

Building a 40-second stimulus-card answer

The card asks: ¿Cree usted que la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres se ha alcanzado en el mundo hispánico? Build a spoken answer of about forty seconds that would satisfy AO3 and AO4.

Answer the question in the first sentence
Do not begin with a definition. Begin with a position: En mi opinión, se ha avanzado mucho en el plano legal, pero no tanto en la práctica. The examiner now knows where the answer is going, and the rest becomes evidence.
Give one dated Spanish fact
Por ejemplo, España aprobó en 2007 una ley para la igualdad efectiva y, desde 2021, los permisos por nacimiento son iguales para ambos progenitores. A date plus a purpose is worth more than three general sentences.
Give one Latin American fact
En Argentina, el movimiento Ni Una Menos sacó a la calle a cientos de miles de personas desde 2015 contra los feminicidios. This satisfies the specification's demand for knowledge of the wider Spanish-speaking world.
Introduce the counter-evidence
Ahora bien, la brecha salarial persiste y las mujeres siguen asumiendo la mayor parte de los cuidados. Ahora bien is a high-value connector: it marks a turn without the flatness of pero.
Close with a judgement containing a subjunctive
Por eso creo que, mientras no cambie el reparto del trabajo doméstico, la igualdad seguirá siendo incompleta. Mientras no plus subjunctive is an elegant structure that examiners notice, and it converts opinion into a conditional judgement.

Result: En mi opinión, se ha avanzado mucho en el plano legal, pero no tanto en la práctica. Por ejemplo, España aprobó en 2007 una ley para la igualdad efectiva y, desde 2021, los permisos por nacimiento son iguales para ambos progenitores. En Argentina, el movimiento Ni Una Menos sacó a la calle a cientos de miles de personas desde 2015 contra los feminicidios. Ahora bien, la brecha salarial persiste y las mujeres siguen asumiendo la mayor parte de los cuidados. Por eso creo que, mientras no cambie el reparto del trabajo doméstico, la igualdad seguirá siendo incompleta.

Typical mistakes

Assuming that legal equality implies social acceptance everywhere; the gap between la igualdad legal and la igualdad real is the point worth arguing.
Using English terms such as coming out; Spanish has salir del armario, and el armario is used metaphorically in exactly the same way.

Active revision

Escribe en español unas 120 palabras que expliquen por qué España aprobó el matrimonio igualitario en 2005, citando tres factores de cambio y usando al menos dos oraciones subordinadas causales.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level Spanish (7692) specification - subject content (AQA)

El léxico y los giros: the language of rights and discrimination#

StandardAQA 7692 3.1.1 - La igualdad de los sexosAQA 7692 3.3 Grammar

The lexical field, in blocks. Los derechos: la igualdad ante la ley, la libertad, la dignidad, el respeto, la discriminación, el trato desigual, los derechos fundamentales, la ciudadanía. El trabajo: el empleo, el salario, la promoción, el permiso, la baja, la excedencia, el convenio, la conciliación, la corresponsabilidad. La violencia: el maltrato, el acoso, el acoso sexual, el acoso callejero, la denuncia, la orden de alejamiento, la protección, la víctima, el agresor. Los movimientos: la manifestación, la huelga, la reivindicación, el lema, la pancarta, la concentración, el colectivo, la asociación. Note two traps: un colectivo is a group or community, not a collective farm; and una reivindicación is a demand or claim, not a vindication.

Verbs of rights and change carry the argument. Reivindicar (to demand as a right), exigir, denunciar (both to report to the police and to denounce publicly), reconocer, garantizar, amparar (to protect legally), equiparar (to put on an equal footing), avanzar en, retroceder en, superar una barrera, romper el techo de cristal. Two constructions repay learning. First, the impersonal se for what a society does: en España se aprobó una ley integral en 2004. Second, the reflexive-passive with a modal, which is the natural way to express what should be done: deberían garantizarse los mismos derechos en todo el territorio.

For argument, this sub-theme needs the language of comparison and of proportion, since almost every claim is comparative. Comparatives: más... que, menos... que, tanto... como, el doble de, la mitad de, en la misma medida que, a diferencia de, frente a, respecto a. Proportion and trend: la mayoría, una minoría, una proporción creciente, en promedio, va en aumento, ha disminuido, se mantiene estable. And the safe attributive frames that let you cite without inventing: según los datos oficiales, de acuerdo con los estudios disponibles, tal como señalan los expertos. Never invent a percentage; a comparison with a named mechanism beats a fabricated figure in every mark scheme.

Finally, three points of usage that mark a careful writer. First, gender-inclusive language is itself a debated question in Spanish - some writers use los alumnos y las alumnas, others el alumnado, and the doubling is common in public communication - so the safest strategy in an exam is the collective noun: el alumnado, la ciudadanía, el profesorado, la juventud. Second, use la persona plus adjective when in doubt: las personas trans, las personas migrantes. Third, keep an eye on the words that name people: los hombres y las mujeres, ambos sexos, ambos progenitores rather than padres when you mean both parents.

Worked example

Repairing a flat answer: from opinion to evidenced argument

A candidate writes: Yo pienso que las mujeres no son iguales que los hombres en España porque es injusto y el machismo es muy malo. Rewrite it to A-level standard, explaining each change.

Diagnose the failures
Three problems. The claim is unfalsifiable (no mechanism), the reasoning is circular (unjust because bad), and the register is childish (muy malo). Note also the comparative error: iguales que should be iguales a in careful Spanish.
Replace the claim with a mechanism
Las mujeres en España siguen enfrentándose a una brecha salarial que se explica, en buena parte, por la segregación ocupacional y por la penalización de la maternidad. Now the sentence states something that could be tested.
Add dated evidence
La ley de igualdad de 2007 obligó a las empresas de cierto tamaño a elaborar planes de igualdad, y desde 2021 los permisos por nacimiento son idénticos para ambos progenitores. Two facts, both datable, both purposeful.
Concede before concluding
Es cierto que la igualdad formal está garantizada por la Constitución; ahora bien, la igualdad real depende del reparto de los cuidados. Conceding the opposing point strengthens rather than weakens the argument.
Upgrade the register
Replace es muy malo with an analytical noun phrase: persiste una cultura machista que se manifiesta en gestos cotidianos. And keep one subjunctive for the judgement: no cabe esperar un cambio profundo mientras los cuidados sigan recayendo sobre las mujeres.

Result: Las mujeres en España siguen enfrentándose a una brecha salarial que se explica, en buena parte, por la segregación ocupacional y por la penalización de la maternidad. La ley de igualdad de 2007 obligó a las empresas de cierto tamaño a elaborar planes de igualdad, y desde 2021 los permisos por nacimiento son idénticos para ambos progenitores. Es cierto que la igualdad formal está garantizada por la Constitución; ahora bien, persiste una cultura machista que se manifiesta en gestos cotidianos. No cabe esperar un cambio profundo mientras los cuidados sigan recayendo mayoritariamente sobre las mujeres.

Typical mistakes

Translating to report a crime as reportar; the Spanish is denunciar, and una denuncia is the formal report.
Writing la mujer española es... as a generalisation about all women; prefer las mujeres en España suelen... which hedges and pluralises.

Active revision

Reescribe cinco frases generalizadoras sobre las mujeres en España convirtiéndolas en afirmaciones matizadas, usando en cada una un recurso distinto: soler, tender a, en promedio, según los datos, la mayoría de.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level Spanish (7692) specification - grammar (AQA)

En el examen: sensitive material in Papers 1 and 3#

AdvancedAQA 7692 4.4 Paper 1 - Listening, reading and writingAQA 7692 4.6 Paper 3 - Speaking, part one

Material on equality reaches Paper 1 as interviews, testimony, opinion columns and reports, and it is often emotionally charged. Two consequences follow for technique. First, comprehension questions on such texts usually target attitude and inference rather than fact, so train yourself to identify the speaker's stance from what is chosen and how it is said: irony markers such as claro, cómo no, or faltaría más; hedges such as bueno, hombre, yo no digo que; and the pre-emptive concession no es que... es que. Second, remember that answers must give only the information required by the question; adding your own indignation earns nothing and costs time.

The summary question can appear on this sub-theme and it is unusually demanding, because emotive texts tempt candidates into paraphrase-by-repetition. Apply the rules mechanically: content is marked under AO1 for listening or AO2 for reading and language separately under AO3; write full sentences and use your own words as far as possible; marking stops at the first natural break between 90 and 100 words; lifted language earns no AO3 credit; and no content mark is given where irrelevant material is included or the stimulus is copied inappropriately. On a testimony text, the safest structure is one sentence per content point, each opening with a different subject.

For the speaking test, prepare a small stock of dated, sourced facts for each strand, since AO4 rewards knowledge of Hispanic society and this is a sub-theme where general opinion is especially tempting. Three per strand is enough: for work, the 2007 equality law, the equalised parental leave since 2021, and the concepts of techo de cristal and doble jornada; for machismo and feminism, the integral law of 2004, the 8 March strike of 2018 in Spain, and Ni Una Menos in Argentina from 2015; for LGTBI rights, equal marriage in Spain in 2005, in Argentina in 2010, and the Argentine gender-identity law of 2012.

Finally, handle sensitive material with the tact examiners expect. Use the neutral technical vocabulary rather than colloquialisms; report contested claims impersonally (se ha criticado que, hay quien sostiene que); avoid describing whole nations as machista or tolerante; and be ready to disagree with the examiner politely, since Part 1 rewards sustained interaction. The polite disagreement formulas are worth memorising: no estoy del todo de acuerdo; entiendo su punto de vista, pero; hasta cierto punto, sí, aunque habría que matizar que; depende de a qué país nos refiramos - note the subjunctive in that last one.

Worked example

The summary question on a testimony text

A listening passage of about two minutes presents a woman engineer describing why she left a senior post: long hours culture, no flexibility after her second child, and a promotion given to a less experienced male colleague. Write the 95-word summary in Spanish and check it against the rules.

Note down content points, not phrases
Three points carry the passage: a culture of long hours incompatible with care; the refusal of flexibility after the birth; and a promotion decision she judged unfair. Write these as three notes in Spanish before composing.
Attribute rather than assert
The summary reports her account, so use reporting frames: la protagonista explica que, señala que, considera que. This protects you from stating as fact what is presented as her view, and it varies the sentence openings.
Reformulate the key phrases
If she says no me dejaron reducir la jornada, write la empresa le negó la reducción de jornada. Changing voice and lexis is what earns the AO3 mark, because lifted language earns nothing.
Watch the word budget
Aim at 95 words, roughly 30 per point. If the third point is the most important - as the promotion decision is here - place it before you approach the limit, since marking stops at the first natural break past 100.
Re-read once for language only
Check preterite accents (negó, decidió), ser and estar, the agreement of past participles used adjectivally, and the pronouns le and la. One targeted re-reading is worth more than a general anxious one.

Result: Model summary (95 words): «La protagonista explica que abandonó un puesto de responsabilidad por tres motivos. En primer lugar, denuncia una cultura de jornadas interminables, incompatible con el cuidado de sus hijos. En segundo lugar, señala que la empresa le negó la reducción de jornada tras el nacimiento de su segundo hijo, pese a existir un plan de igualdad. Por último, considera injusta la promoción de un compañero con menos experiencia. Concluye que no se marchó por falta de ambición, sino porque la organización del trabajo hacía imposible conciliar su vida profesional y familiar.»

Typical mistakes

Answering an inference question with a moral judgement of your own instead of the speaker's attitude.
Using a memorised slogan in the speaking test; examiners credit spontaneous, evidenced argument, not recitation.

Active revision

Prepara nueve datos verificables (tres por cada eje del subtema) con su fecha y su fuente, y practica introducir cada uno en menos de quince segundos de habla.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level Spanish (7692) specification - scheme of assessment (AQA)

References & sources

Sources

AQA

Department for Education

GCE AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages

Equal Rights

5 sections~26 min reading time4 competenciesLevel Standard 2 · Advanced 3

Equal Rights

Key points

Translation into English: a passage on the second shift

Key points

Translation into Spanish: writing about equality without slogans

Key points

Building a 40-second stimulus-card answer

Key points

Repairing a flat answer: from opinion to evidenced argument

Key points

The summary question on a testimony text

Sources

Equal Rights

Key points

Translation into English: a passage on the second shift

Key points

Translation into Spanish: writing about equality without slogans

Key points

Building a 40-second stimulus-card answer

Key points

Repairing a flat answer: from opinion to evidenced argument

Key points

The summary question on a testimony text

Sources