Key knowledge & skills to be mastered by students Year 7
Learning Period 1:1
Autumn Term
Learning Period 1:2 Autumn Term
Learning Period 2:1 Spring Term
Learning Period 2:2 Spring Term
Learning Period 3:1 Summer Term
Learning Period 3:2 Summer Term
Topic title
In class
Free Time
My family, friends and I
My school and
studies
My holidays
A Spanish film:
El Dorado Key questions
What do we have to do in the Spanish class?
What do you do in your free time?
What do you study?
What is your family like?
Where do you live?
What type of films do you like?
Key knowledge and
concepts
●
Use of cognates●
Use of infinitives●Masculine/feminine nouns
● Conjugating the present tense ●Use of verbs +
infinitive
●Use of intensifiers to add interest
●Adjectival agreement
●Adjectival agreement in descriptions
●The verb TO BE (ser vs estar)
●Use of “Hay”
●Describing your city/house/room
●Expressing preferences ●The near future ●Basic preterite
descriptions Skills ●Recognising &
responding to instructions
●Applying key language to communicate own ideas
● Expressing opinions
●Extending sentences with
connectives
● Justifying opinions ● Applying the present tense
●Advanced connectives
● Consolidating the present
tense
●Communicating your own ideas
● Consolidating the present
tense
●Communicating your own ideas
●Justifying your views
Cultural Opportunities
European Day of Languages
Christmas traditions Barcelona & Gaudi Easter traditions San Fermin festival in July
A Spanish film
Assessment Autumn Term Assessment
Spring Term Assessment Summer Term Assessment
Year 8 Topic title
My house and home
Leisure
My clothes, my
look
At the market
A Spanish film:
Chico y Rita
Celebrity project
Key questions
Where do you live?
What do you do in your free time?
What clothes do you prefer?
What do you eat? What type of films do you like?
What are friends &
family like?
Key knowledge and concepts
● Use of SER/ESTAR for descriptions
● Conjugating the present tense (irregular verbs) ● Frequency adverbs
●Negatives ●Talking about future plans
●Use of verbs + infinitive (SOLER)
●Adjectival agreement ● Frequency adverbs consolidation
●Use of food verbs present and past
●Adjectival agreement consolidation
●Adjectival agreement recap
●The PRETERITE tense
●
The verb TO BE (ser vs estar) consolidation ●Use of Modal verbs (DEBER/
PODER/TENER QUE)
Skills ●Describing a picture ●Comparisons
● Applying the present tense and future tense ● Describing a picture
● Expressing justified opinions ● Applying the present tense ● Role play practice
● Applying the present tense and past tense ● Role play practice
●Describing character recap
●Advanced opinions
●Narrating a past tense story line
● Irregular verbs recap
●Communicating your own ideas
Cultural Opportunities
The day of the dead in México/A Spanish author
(Elvira Lindo)
Christmas celebrations
Spanish food sampling
Easter festivals:
Seville processions
A Spanish film/Spanish music
South American geography and
environment Assessment Autumn Term Assessment
Spring Term Assessment Summer Term Assessment
Year 9
Travel and Tourism Home, town, neighbourhood and
region
Life at school
Post -16 Voces inocentes Customs and festivals Key questions
Where do you /did go on your holidays?
Where do you live?
What is your school like? And your primary?
What will the school of the future be
like?
What types of films do you like?
What are different traditions in French speaking countries?
Key knowledge and concepts
● Present tense recap (including irregular verbs) ●Preterite tense recap (including irregular verbs)
● Future tense recap
●Imperfect tense intro:
only key selected verbs for description of a past holiday
●Imperfect tense conjugation intro
●Using comparisons
●expressing obligation
●Future tense recap (including irregular verbs) ●Use of impersonal expressions + infinitive
●Relationships reflexive verbs
●Adjectival agreement recap ● Present tense recap (including irregular verbs)
Skills
●
Extendingopinions
●
Communicating own ideas ● Extended writing (2 tenses)●
Makingquestions ●Responding to real life situations (role play)
●
Complaining● Talking about your views on school issues ● Describing pictures
● Extended writing (3 tenses) ● Describing pictures
● Describing others ● Explaining relationships
●Role plays
●Conversation:
Improvising responses ● Describing pictures Cultural
Opportunities
Holidays types in Spain
Christmas customs
Differences between school in Spain and UK
Easter traditions in Spain
Bonfires of Saint John in June
A Spanish film/Spanish music
Assessment Autumn Term Assessment
Spring Term Assessment Summer Term Assessment
Year 10
Topic title
Social issues
Healthy living
Family, friends & future plans
Free time
Film Study:
Diarios de motocicleta
Revisions
Key questions
What are the social issues in our society?
How healthy is your lifestyle?
What is your relationship with your friends and
family?
How do you use technology?
What is your
favourite band/music/tv?
Consolidation of topics (year 9 and 10
mixed) Key knowledge
and concepts
● Use of modal verbs + infinitive
●Use of conditional sentences with “if”
●Near future vs simple future ●Future expressions ●Preterite vs imperfect
●Present tense recap
●Perfect tense intro
●Use of “se”
(passive voice)
●Preterite vs imperfect ●Perfect tense consolidation
●Near future, simple future &
conditional recap
●Near future, simple future &
conditional recap
●Subjunctive intro key phrases
Skills ●Extended writing
●Making questions
●Role plays: tourist information
●Extended writing
●Role plays: school
●Describing pictures
● Justifying opinions
●Extended conversation
●Describing pictures:
mixed topics
●Advanced Opinions
●Extended
conversation ●Role plays: mixed topics
●Expressing future ideas ●Extended writing
●Extended conversation
●Extended
conversation ●Role plays and pictures:
mixed topics
Cultural Opportunities
El día de los muertos Christmas traditions A Spanish festival: La tomatina
Easter in Spain: La Semana Santa
A gap year abroad Careers with languages
Assessment Autumn Term Assessment
Spring Term Assessment Summer Term Assessment
Topic title
Travel and Tourism Mobile technology and social media
Global problems
Revision mixed topics planned according to class need
Key questions
What do you do/did on your holidays?
What do you use mobile technology
for?
What global issues are the most
worrying?
General conversation questions on a range of topics covered from Year 9
Key knowledge and concepts
●Preterite vs imperfect
●
Future tenses &conditional
●
Intro subjunctive●Applying a range of tenses ●Subjunctive consolidation &
extension
●Applying a range of tenses ●Subjunctive consolidation &
extension
●Consolidation tenses and key grammatical points
●Consolidation opinion openers and connectives
●Consolidation key vocabulary, expressions on all topics
●Consolidation key structures grades 4-5
●Consolidation key structures grades 7+
Skills ●Working out meaning through cognates, context, prior knowledge and other key clues
●Making connections and deductions from the context
●Expressing opinions convincingly
●Using a range of connectives to extend ideas
●Extended writing technique
●Extended conversation technique
●Describing pictures and participating in role plays
Cultural Opportunities
Holiday types in Spanish speaking countries
Technology and heath issues in Latin
America
Global problems in Spanish speaking
countries
Cultural opportunities in the shape of magazine/newspapers articles, radio programme podcast/listening in exam type question
Assessment Autumn Term Assessment: PPE Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing
Spring Term Assessment: Walk and talk reading & listening
Summer Term Assessment: The real thing!
