Key Stage 3

Spanish

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MFL: Spanish

Year Groups

Year 7

Age 11 - 12

Year 8

Age 12 - 13

Year 9

Age 13 - 14

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At EBS, careers education is a central part of school life. We provide independent, impartial guidance to help students of all ages explore their strengths and passions, and to plan for their future.

From Years 7 – 9 the focus is on career exploration, and students do this through our online platform Unifrog, which helps to identify skills and career interests. We also work with employers, training providers and local colleges to offer real-world experiences. All students complete work experience from Year 10 and meet with our independent Careers Advisor.

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Course ID
N/A
Faculty
Modern Foreign Languages
Department
Spanish
Level
Key Stage 3
Head of Faculty
J. Giffen
Head of Department
E. Piazza
Key Stage 3 MFL: Spanish

Course Overview

In Year 7, students follow a course specifically designed to introduce language learning in Spanish. They continue with Spanish throughout KS3, and the majority of students choose to study a second language in Years 8 and 9, broadening their linguistic and cultural understanding. 

Language lessons are carefully scaffolded across the four key skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students study a range of topics linked to their everyday lives and the wider world, building vocabulary and grammatical knowledge in meaningful contexts. Through a rigorous and sequenced curriculum, students develop confidence in communication, accuracy in language use and an appreciation of different cultures, laying secure foundations for future success in language learning. 

Course Description

Year 7

Term Unit of Work Assessment
Autumn 1 Unit 1 Hola: Basic information: Greetings, age and birthdays, numbers up to 31, describe what is in your rucksack, alphabet, classroom vocabulary, Spanish speaking countries. 
Masculine and feminine articles and using adjectival agreements and connectives. 
Mid unit, peer assessed, speaking assessment. 
Autumn 2 Completion of Unit 1. Unit 2 Mi colegio: School subjects, days of the week, opinions of teachers, opinions of school subjects, snacks, numbers up to 100. Basic grammar: Present tense: -AR, -ER and –IR verbs, adjective agreements, verb: gustar, connectives: porque and negatives.  End of Unit 1 Writing, Listening and Reading Assessment. 
Spring 1 Completion of Unit 2. 
Unit 3 Mi Familia: Family members, household pets, colours, physical descriptions, hair and eyes. Grammar: Irregular verb: Tener – to have, possessive adjectives, adjective agreements (revision) and irregular verb: ser – to be. 
Assessment Week 
Knowledge and application of language from Autumn 1 and 2 
Spring 2 Completion of Unit 3. Unit 4 Mi casa: European countries, regions, home descriptions, rooms of the house, activities at home, bedroom furniture, daily routine. Grammar: Verb: estar – to be located: está, present tense (revision), radical stem changing verbs, prepositions and reflexive verbs.  End of Unit 3 Speaking Assessment including aspects from units 1, 2 and 3. 
End of Unit 3 Listening and 
Reading Assessment. 
 
Summer 1 Completion of Unit 4. Unit 5 Tiempo Libre: Time, sports, opinions of free time activities, future activities. Grammar: Irregular first-person conjugations, irregular verb: ir – to go, present tense and immediate future tense.   
Summer 2 Completion of Unit 5. 
Revision and end of year project. 
Assessment week 
Knowledge and application of language across all units  

Year 8

Term Unit of Work Assessment
Autumn 1 Basic revision from Year 7: Basic information, numbers, birthday, opinions, question words.  
Unit 1 La gente: Talk about activities, revision physical description. comparatives, using reflexive verbs, use sequencing words. 
 
Autumn 2 Completion of Unit 1 and grammar focus; comparatives, present tense and present tense of reflexive verbs. 
Unit 2: Vamos a Salir: Places in a town, using the near future, activities in town, inviting someone to go out, making excuses. 
Assessment Week 
End of Unit 1 Listening and Reading assessment  
Spring 1 Unit 2: Vamos a Salir: Places in a town, using the near future, activities in town, inviting someone to go out, making excuses.   
Spring 2 Unit 3 Mis Vacaciones: Where you go and where you went on holiday, saying how you travelled, introduction of Preterit (Past Tense), What you did on holiday, giving more detail and opinions about a past holiday.   
Summer 1 Completion of Unit 3: Using Present, past and future to describe a holiday, Past tense in more detail. Prepare for longer writing tasks.  
Unit 4 La comida: Mealtimes in Spain, food in a market / buying food, ordering food in a restaurant. 
Assessment week 
End of Unit 2 Listening and Reading Assessment 
Summer 2 Completion of Unit 4.  Use past, present and future tense together, introduction of the imperfect tense.   

Year 8 Second Language

Term Unit of Work Assessment
Autumn 1 The focus of this unit it to learn about Spain and Spanish speaking countries.  Students will also learn basic topic vocabulary for giving personal information including age, birthday, classroom language and grammar such as masculine and feminine articles as well as using adjectival agreements and connectives.   
Autumn 2 The focus of this unit is to build on the basic grammar and introductory vocabulary whilst introducing topic of School.  Students will learn how to talk about school subjects, days of the week, be able to give their opinions about subjects and teachers. Numbers up to 100. Students will learn how to form the present tense of regular verbs.  Assessment week 
Knowledge and application of language from Unit 1 
Peer speaking assessment 
Spring 1 This unit introduces members of the family.  
Students will build on language using connectives, present tense verbs and will be introduced to common irregular present tense verbs. They will build longer sentences and justify their opinions. 
Listening and reading assessment 
Spring 2 The focus of this unit is to build on the grammar, introductory vocabulary and opinions whilst introducing the unit 4 topic vocabulary of house and home.  
As students will now have built up a range of vocabulary and grammar, they will focus on writing longer paragraphs which will build on their prior and current learning. 
 
Summer 1 The focus of this unit is to build on the grammar, vocabulary and language structures from previous units whilst introducing the unit 5 topic vocabulary of Free time. 
Particular focus will now take shape around the future tense and practising prior language structures whilst combing different time frames. 
Assessment Week  Knowledge an application of all units 
Listening and reading assessment  
Summer 2 The focus of this unit is to build on the grammar, vocabulary and language structures from previous units whilst introducing the unit 6 topic vocabulary of saying what your town is like. 
Particular focus will now take shape around learning new vocabulary whilst practising and perfecting previous language structures, grammar and tenses. 
 

Year 9

Term Unit of Work Assessment
Autumn 1 Basic revision from Year 7 & 8: Personal Details, Question words, agreements.  
Unit 1 Los medios de comunicación: What you use your computer for, Television programmes, genres of films, revise time, music, the past tense rule AR/ER/ IR / and IRREGULARS, comparatives. 
Assessment week. Knowledge and application based on Yr 8 Spanish and some aspects of Autumn 1 
Autumn 2 Completion of Unit 1. Unit 2: El instituto Describing school, school subjects, what you must study, what you are going to study, future tense, conditional tense, discussing teachers, ideal teacher, opinions and opinion phrases, describing school rules, after school clubs.  Unit Listening and Reading Assessment. 
Spring 1 Completion of Unit 2. Revision of all grammar. Preparation for speaking assessment.  Assessment week 
Spring 2 Unit 3: La salud Parts of the body, saying what hurts, describing symptoms, discuss a healthy lifestyle.   
Summer 1 Completion of Unit 3. Begin the SPANISH GCSE Course: 
Bridging the Gap. 
Unit 3 Listening and Reading assessment. Writing assessment Units 1, 2 & 3. 
Summer 2 AQA GCSE UNIT 1   

 

Year 9 Second Language

Term Unit of Work Assessment
Autumn 1 The focus of this unit is to firstly revise basic introductory vocabulary and grammar from Mira 2 Unit 1. 
Students will then learn about the topic of Free time activities and revise the present tense. 
Assessment week. Knowledge and application based on Yr 8 Spanish and some aspects of Autumn 1 
Autumn 2 Students will continue to learn about the topic of Free time activities and the present tense of regular and irregular verbs, the future and conditional tense.  Listening and Reading Assessment. 
Spring 1 The focus of this unit it to introduce technology vocabulary and discuss television programmes, films and music. 
The aim is to continue to draw on prior learning and tenses; present and future tense. This unit will also introduce the past tense.  
Assessment week  
Knowledge and application of language and grammar covering all units 
Spring 2 In this unit students will draw on their prior knowledge of school whilst developing more variety of vocabulary and grammar structures to describe their school, school day, opinions of school and future study plans.  
The aim to move through unit with particular focus on grammar.  
They will continue to scaffold their fluency by drawing on language and grammar from units 1  and 2. 
Listening and Reading  assessment 
Summer 1 The focus of this unit is to introduce the topic of holidays. In this unit students will draw on their prior knowledge of all language to date whist developing more variety of vocabulary and grammar structures to describe what they normally do on holiday, where they went last year and their future holiday plans.    
Summer 2 Focus on Present, past and future tense to be GCSE ready.   

 

Extended Learning

Year 7

Websites Read Visit or Watch Extra
Linguascope; Quizlet; BBC Bitesize Spanish.  Notes and vocabulary in your exercise book.  YouTube: Spanish music videos.   

 

Year 8

Websites Read Visit or Watch Extra
Linguascope; Quizlet; BBC Bitesize Spanish.    Netflix Spanish films.  Year 8 Trip to Cantabria. 

 

Year 9

Websites Read Visit or Watch Extra
Linguascope; Quizlet; BBC Bitesize Spanish; Seneca Learning.  AQA online GCSE text book; online Spanish articles.  Netflix Spanish films.   

 

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