MFL

Students will develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills with an emphasis on phonics, pronunciation and conversational skills. They will also begin to learn about the Spanish speaking world and cultures.

Unit 1 –  Me Presento (With an emphasis on Spanish phonics)

An introduction to the Spanish language, allowing us to introduce ourselves and conduct small conversations to find out key information about ourselves and others.

• Introducing yourself
• Where you’re
• Age and birthday
• Phonics
• Asking and forming questions
• Likes and dislikes of colours
• Miró artist and describing a photo

Unit 2 –  Mi Burbuja (Continuing to work with Spanish phonics and devlopping grammar and vocabulary)

Developing Unit 1 by transferring key grammar and vocabulary to talk about yourself and others.

• Describing your family
• Pets you have or would like to have
• Physical description of yourself and others
• Describing personality of yourself and others
• Descriptive language
• Christmas in Spain

Unit 3 –  Mis Pasatiempos (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Using connectives and adjectives to further detail and link sentences to say what yourself and others do in their free time and their opinions on these activities.

• Giving justified opinions
• Discussing free time activities
• Sports that you do
• Music likes and dislikes
• Forming and using the present tense to talk about yourself and others
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Hispanic culture – Encanto

Unit 4 –  Dónde vivo (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Developing understanding of the present tense to discuss where yourself and others live and using a wider range of adjectives to justify opinions and further detail responses.

• Describing your house
• Discussing house types and different locations
• Rooms and furniture in the house
• Prepositions
• Talking about future and ideal homes
• Using the conditional tense

After first focusing on recapping and retrieving prior knowledge, students build upon basic grammar, listening, reading, writing and speaking skills and begin to develop these in a more creative and communicative manner. Students explore many cultural aspects of Spain and the Spanish language.

Unit 1 –  En mi ciudad (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

An opportunity to retrieve prior knowledge from the end of year 7 about where you live and to build on this by using the imperfect tense and conditional tense to discuss more complex opinions about your local area, considering alternate points of view.

• Using present, imperfect and conditional tense to discuss where you live
• Describing your town, what there is and what one can do
• Considering pros and cons of living in a city or the countryside using comparatives and superlatives
• Describing cities and towns around the world including ideal towns
• Debating
• El Día de los Muertos – Coco

Unit 2 –  Mi insti (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Using connectives and adjectives to further detail and link sentences to say what yourself and others do in their free time and their opinions on these activities.

• Talking about school and studies in present and past.
• Describing teachers and making comparisons.
• Talking about school life and extracurricular activities
• Comparing past to present and future intentions.
• Comparatives and superlatives.

Unit 3 –  Vacaciones (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Consolidating understanding of a range of past, present and future tenses to narrate holidays.

• Describing holiday preferences and activities
• Narrating a holiday using past tenses and sequencers
• Using future and conditional tenses to discuss plans for upcoming and ideal holidays
• Researching and describing Hispanic travel destinations

Unit 4 –  La comida (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Using grammatical understanding of past, present and future tenses to discuss your eating preferences and habits.

• What you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner using past and future tenses
• Giving opinions in 3^rd person singular
• Food from Hispanic countries
• Food in Spain and their meal times

Developing opinions and views and gaining a deeper understanding of Spanish grammar. These will then be consolidated through reading, listening, writing and speaking.

Unit 1 –  Retrieval, Me, my family and friends (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Retrieving the holidays topic from last year to talk about summer activities and retrieve the use of past, present and future tenses. Talking about ourselves, our families and relationships with some development into future plans.

• Describing yourself and others
• Relationships, family and friends
• Importance and values of marriage
• Future plans
• Writing to our partner Spanish school
• Video links with our partner Spanish school
• NYE- Mis propositos

Unit 2 –  Free time (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Developing Unit 1 by transferring key grammar to talk about our hobbies, our opinions and uses of apps and social media and good role models.

• Talking about our hobbies
• Sports
• Likes and dislikes
• Importance of sports
• Role models
• Social media
• Apps
• Future plans

Unit 3 –  Hispanic culture and cuisine (Continuing to develop grammar, vocabulary and phonics)

Learning about the Hispanic world, in particular cuisine and festivals. Linking topic with grammar.

• Giving justified opinions
• Discuss foods they may or may not have tried/would like to.
• Talking about festivals within the Hispanic world and the history behind them.
• Emphasis on developing skills and grammar.
• Tapas experience trip.

After coverage of the National Curriculum and developing reading, listening, reading and writing skills with in depth knowledge of the Spanish grammar, students will follow the GCSE course to further develop their skills and knowledge of the language.

Unit 1 –  Vacaciones  

An opportunity to retrieve prior knowledge from year 8 with high-level language and deeper understanding of grammar. Developing conversational ‘holiday’ Spanish.

• Talking about past, present and future holidays
• Describing ideal holidays
• Describing accommodation
• Describing a disastrous holiday
• Reserving rooms
• Talking about different destinations
• Developing skills

Unit 2 –  Fiestas /retrieval / Grammar/Skills

Using previous knowledge from Year 9 and emphasising grammar and skills.

• Using past, present and future tenses
• Focusing on skills; in reading and listening
• Retrieving past topics

Unit 3 – Ciudades

Talking about where we live and debating the pros and cons to city versus countryside living.

• Talking about where we live and what it is like versus what it was like.
• Our ideal home
• Pros and cons of city life versus countryside

Unit 4 –  el medio ambiente

Consolidating understanding of a range of past, present and future tenses to narrate global issues and our role within helping them.

• Environmental issues
• Ways to support the environment
• Daily routine and changes to support the environment
• Global issues and problems
• The role of sport within the world.

After first focusing on skills and grammar through GCSE curriculum topics, Year 11 focusses on current studies and future plans as they begin o think about life after High School and prepare for their GCSE examinations.

Unit 1 –  Retrieval/ Skills/ Grammar  

An opportunity to retrieve prior knowledge from all years with a focus on skills and grammar.

• Reading and Listening exam skills
• Speaking practice
• Writing skills and development

Unit 2 –  Insti

Talking about our school, subjects and teachers and using tenses to compare primary school to a future college or university.

• Talking about our school and subjects
• Talking about teachers and opportunities within school
• School trips and future hopes

Unit 3 –  Trabajos

Using prior knowledge to discuss future intentions and the world of work.

• Part-time jobs
• Future plans
• Jobs and opportunities
• Future studies
• A year abroad
• The importance of languages

Unit 4 –  Repaso

Consolidating all programmes of study with an emphasis on reading, listening, reading and writing exam skills. Exam preparation and practice.

• Recap all modules
• Practising all four key skills; reading, listening, writing and speaking.
• Examination practice and preparation.