| People and Lifestyle | Students learn how to understand, express ideas and give descriptions about identity and relationships with others, healthy living and lifestyle, and education and work. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing vocabulary and structures related to these topics
- Understanding and conjugating the present tense of common regular and irregular verbs
- Understanding and using a variety of adjectives and possessive adjectives
- Understanding interrogatives
- Understanding how impersonal verbs can be used to express opinions
- Understanding and conjugating the future tense
Key skills developed: - How to understand a variety of relevant spoken and written texts
- How to apply vocabulary knowledge and more complex grammatical understanding to translation and writing tasks
- How to use key structures and vocabulary to develop speaking skills
Assessment: Students are assessed formally in Term 3. The assessment ranges across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice questions in all four language skills. |
| Popular Culture | Students learn how to understand information about and discuss free time activities, customs, festivals, celebrations, and elements of celebrity culture. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing structures and vocabulary related to these topics
- Understanding and conjugating the present tense of radical changing and reflexive verbs
- Understanding and conjugating the past (preterite and imperfect), present, and future tenses
- Understanding demonstrative and indefinite adjectives (and agreements), and adverbs
Key skills developed: - How to understand a variety of spoken and written texts within this context
- How to apply vocabulary knowledge and more complex grammatical understanding to translation and writing tasks
- How to use key structures to practise speaking skills
Assessment: Students are assessed formally in Term 5. The assessment ranges across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice questions in all four language skills. |
| Communication and the World Around Us | Students learn how to understand, express ideas and give information about travel and tourism, including places of interest, media and technology, the environment, and where people live. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing structures and vocabulary related to these topics
- Understanding examples of the conditional tense
- Understanding and using past, present, and future time phrases
- Understanding the present and perfect tenses
Key skills developed: - How to understand a variety of relevant spoken and written texts
- How to apply vocabulary knowledge and more complex grammatical understanding to translation and writing tasks
- How to use key structures to develop speaking skills
Assessmen: Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice questions in all four language skills. |
