Spanish - Key Stage 4

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What students will learn

How it builds on learning

Autumn Term

My studies. Life at school/college:

·         Giving opinions about school subjects.

·         Describing school facilities.

·         Describing school uniform and the school day.

·         Talking about subjects and teachers.

·         Talking about school rules and problems.

·         Talking about plans for a school exchange.

·         Talking about activities and achievements.

Technology in everyday life:

·         Talking about social networks.

·         Talking about socialising and family.

This term students consolidate and extend prior knowledge on the topics of school and technology.

Students will have the opportunity to consolidate and extend prior knowledge and develop new one of using verbs both in present and future tenses, noun-adjective agreement, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, negative sentences, object pronouns, and giving and justifying opinions.

Spring Term

Free-time activities:

·         Talking about free-time activities.

·         Talking about reading preferences.

·         Talking about TV programmes and films.

·         Talking about what you usually do.

·         Talking about sports.

·         Making arrangements.

·         Describing people.

·         Talking about friends and family.

This term students consolidate and extend prior knowledge on the topic of free-time activities.

Students will have the opportunity to consolidate and extend prior knowledge and develop new one of using verbs in present, present continuous, past and future tenses, stem-changing verbs, ‘soler’ plus infinitive, the imperfect tense to say what you used to do, noun-adjective agreement, and giving and justifying opinions.

Summer Term

Interests and influences:

·         Talking about what’s trending.

·         Discussing different types of entertainment.

·         Talking about who inspires you.

Home, town, neighbourhood and region:

·         Talking about places in town.

·         Asking for and understanding directions.

·         Talking about shops.

·         Shopping for souvenirs.

·         Describing the features of a region.

·         Shopping for clothes and presents.

·         Talking about problems in a town.

·         Describing a visit in the past.

This term students consolidate and extend prior knowledge on the topics of interests, influences, home, town, neighbourhood and region.

Students will have the opportunity to consolidate and extend prior knowledge and develop new one of using verbs in present, future, in a range of past tenses, and in the conditional tense, words which have more than one meaning, synonyms and antonyms, ‘se puede’ and ‘se pueden’, noun-adjective agreement, demonstrative adjectives, explaining preferences, recognising and using idioms, and giving and justifying opinions.

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What students will learn

How it builds on learning

Autumn Term

Food and eating out:

·         Describing mealtimes.

·         Talking about daily routine.

·         Talking about typical foods.

·         Describing a special day.

·         Ordering in a restaurant.

Health:

·         Talking about illnesses and injuries.

·         Asking for help at the pharmacy.

Customs and festivals in Spanish-speaking countries/communities:

·         Comparing different festivals.

·         Talking about a music festival.

Jobs, career choices and ambitions:

·         Talking about different jobs.

·         Discussing job preferences.

·         Talking about how you earn money.

·         Talking about work experience.

This term students consolidate and extend prior knowledge on the topics of food, health, customs and festivals in Spanish-speaking countries/communities, jobs, career choices and ambitions.

Students will have the opportunity to consolidate and extend prior knowledge and develop new one of using the passive, spotting words which indicate an increase/decrease, using reflexive verb in the past tense, inferring meaning in literary texts, using absolute superlatives, using expressions followed by the infinitive, adding interest when narrating a story, using ‘soler’ in the imperfect tense, and giving and justifying opinions.

Spring Term

Education post-16:

·         Talking about the importance of learning languages.

·         Applying for a summer job.

·         Discussing gap years.

·         Discussing plans for the future

Global issues - The environment and poverty:

·         Describing types of houses.

·         Talking about the environment.

·         Talking about healthy eating.

·         Discussing healthy lifestyles.

·         Considering global issues.

·         Talking about local actions.

·         Talking about international sporting events.

·         Talking about natural disasters.

This module offers students the opportunity to develop knowledge of new vocabulary on the topics of Education post-16, and global issues.

Students will have the opportunity to consolidate and extend prior knowledge and develop new one of using the present and present continuous, the conditional tense, the present subjunctive, the pluperfect tense, the imperfect continuous, grammar knowledge in translation, and giving and justifying opinions.

Summer Term

·         Revision of all course content for GCSE Spanish.

·         Public Examinations

Consolidation of all course content for GCSE Spanish.