| ¿Adónde fuiste? | Students learn to understand and give information about past trips, describing when, where, how and with whom they travelled. They develop an understanding of and start giving complex opinions about past events. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing about the Spanish-speaking world
- Knowing vocabulary and structures in the preterite tense (past)
Key skills developed: - How to recognise and understand the Spanish phonemes related to the preterite
- How to employ an understanding of the preterite when reading, listening, writing and speaking
- How to use a sentence builder including the preterite to develop knowledge and understanding of key verb structures
- How to use interactive tools to support language learning and in particular the memorisation of preterite structures
- How to apply developing vocabulary knowledge to a variety of listening, speaking, reading and writing activities
Assessment: Students are assessed formally in Term 2. The assessment ranges across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and includes producing a longer piece of writing and engaging in a short conversation. Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice in all four language skills. |
| Habláme de tu rutina diaria | Students learn how to understand and express information related to their free time, the weather, their daily routine, and what they do at home. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing vocabulary and structures from Unit 1 in addition to new language related to free time
- Knowing frequency phrases and the vocabulary of weather
- Knowing key verbs in the present tense as they relate to descriptions of daily routine at home and school
Key skills developed: - How to use prior knowledge to build on and connect the vocabulary, phrases and verbal structures learned in this unit
- How to recognise, understand and produce language describing free time, weather, daily routine and home
- How to apply developing vocabulary knowledge to a variety of listening, speaking, reading and writing activities
- How to tell the time in Spanish and how to give the time of an action or activity
- How to tell when actions in the past have been completed
- How to use the verbs to be, to have, to play, to do and to go in the present tense, in the context of free time, building an awareness of how to use these verbs in other contexts
- How to use metalanguage such as infinitives, conjugations and subject pronouns to aid retention of the key concepts articulated in language lessons
Assessment: Students are formally assessed on this unit at the start of Term 6. Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice in all four language skills. |
| ¿Qué vas a hacer el verano que viene? | Students learn to understand and express information related to future holidays. They learn how to describe plans for the summer, talking about where they would like to go and what activities they would like to do. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing vocabulary and structures from Units 1 and 2 in addition to new language related to making future plans
Key skills developed: - How to recognise, understand and produce language relating to future holidays, Spanish-speaking countries, accommodation types and means of transport
- How to use the near future and conditional tenses
- How to use prior knowledge and previous sentence builders to build on and develop knowledge and understanding of vocabulary and structures
- How to apply developing vocabulary knowledge to a variety of listening, speaking, reading and writing activities
- How to use tenses that refer to the future, such as the near future and the conditional tense, to facilitate communication of future intentions and aspirations
Assessment: Students are assessed formally in Term 6. The assessment ranges across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and includes producing two paragraphs of written Spanish and engaging in a longer conversation. Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice in all four language skills. |
