The Crypt Spanish Department: Programme of Study
Family
How do I change opinions to make them plural?
Skills: Family members, pets, describing appearance including hair and eyes, describing personality.
Grammar: ser + tener in present tense, further adjective agreement and word order.
Assessment: Mid-year Exam (Reading, Writing and Translation)
Free Time
What is an infinitive and how can you tell?
Skills: Sports, free time activities, adverbs of frequency, opinions on activities.
Grammar: present tense verbs, both regular and stemchanging, me gustaría + infinitive.
Assessment: End of Unit
Assessment (Listening and Reading)
Where I live
How do you form the present tense?
Skills: Types of house, house description, rooms, furniture, places in a town, where you would like to live
Grammar: ser vs estar, hay with indefinite article, prepositions, near future tense.
Assessment: End of Year Exam (Reading, Listening, Writing and Translation)
Summer Project
How do you form the near future tense?
Skills: Recapping all year 7 skills and create video interview.
Asessment: Video interview
By the end of year 7, students will be able to…
…express their opinions and justify them on the topics of family, sport, free time and where they live.
…understand the use of genders and adjectival agreement rules. …understand what an infinitive is and conjugate verbs in the present and near future tenses.
Daily routine and clothes
What is a reflexive verb?
Skills: Describing our daily routine and clothes. Talking
Festivals and Health
How do Spanish people celebrate?
Skills: Describing Spanish festivals and celebrations.
Food and Drink
What is a modal verb?
Skills: Describing food and mealtimes. Arranging to visit a
My interests
How do you form the present continuous?
Skills: Describing film and television genres and
Summer Project
Skills: Summer tourism project in which students write an email requesting information and
By the end of year 8, students will be able to…
…express their opinions and justify them on the topics of holidays, festivals, health, food
last year, next year, ideal holiday). Describing the weather, seasons and holiday activities. Transport and holiday activities.
Grammar: The preterite tense including the irregular verb IR. Recapping present and near future tense. Using comparatives.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Listening about going out and making excuses.
Grammar: Reflexive verbs in the present tense. Recapping adjective agreement. Using comparatives and superlatives. Using modal verbs.
Describing illnesses and accidents and offering advice.
Grammar: Using a wider range of modal verbs. Using impersonal verbs like me duele. Recapping prepositions.
Assessment:
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking, Mid-Year Exam
Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Translation restaurant or café and saying what went wrong. Discussing healthy eating.
Grammar: Recapping use of 3 tenses. Using negative structures. Asking and answering questions.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Translation
preferences. Talking about musical instruments and music preferences.
Grammar: Consolidating opinion verbs in 3 tenses, including plurals. Use of desde hace + present tense.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking
complete a peer assessed photocard on holidays.
Grammar: Consolidation of key grammar from Y8.
Assessment: End of Year 8 Exam, Speaking and drink and film, TV and music.
…conjugate verbs in the past, present and near future tenses, using a variety of time phrases
…understand the use of modal verbs and reflexive verbs. …understand and respond to role play prompts accurately.
Year 9 Unit 1: Technology
How can you use an infinitive?
Skills: Discussing the pros and cons of technology and new media.
Grammar: Recapping of present, preterite and near future tenses, including gerunds
lo+adjective adjectives that come before nouns
Assessment: Reading and Listening Translation Quiz
Unit 2: Work
How do you form the conditional tense?
Skills: Talking about jobs, careers, future plans and ambitions
Grammar: Using the conditional tense, including key irregular verbs
Using if clauses
Assessment: Speaking Translation Quiz
Unit 3: Film
What is a pronoun?
Unit 4: Environment
Skills: Film review of Voces Inocentes, discussing key themes, characters and giving opinions
Grammar: Use of literature review vocabulary
Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Assessment: Translation Quiz
Mid-Year
Exam
How do you form the imperfect tense?
Skills: Discussing what you do to help the environment, environmental problems and their impact
Grammar: Use of the imperfect tense Using direct object pronouns
Assessment: Speaking Translation Quiz
Unit 5: School
How can you use five tenses together?
Skills: Discussing school, including subjects, teachers, facilities.
Grammar: Si clauses, consolidation of five tenses
Assessment: Translation Quiz
Unit 6: Cultural Study
Skills: Discussing the Spanish Civil War, its causes and its consequences
Grammar: Manipulation of verbs, nouns and adjectives
Changing from first into third person
Assessment: End of Year Exam
Speaking
By the end of year 9, students will be able to… …express their opinions and justify them on the topics of technology, work, films and the environment. … conjugate verbs in the present, preterite, near future, imperfect and conditional tenses. …respond to photo card and role play prompts. …critically analyse a film and historical events relating to the 20th Century Spanishspeaking world
Year 10
Unit 1: Identity and relationships with others (1.1)
Skills: Describing ourselves and our families, including personality and appearance. Discussing relationships, ideal partners and future plans.
Grammar: Present tense of key regular and irregular verbs
Reflexive verbs
Near Future Tense
Assessment: Listening and Reading Writing
Grammar Audit
Unit 2: Free-time activities (2.1)
Skills: Discussing free-time activities including sport, music, film and TV and reading.
Grammar: Preterite tense of key regular and irregular verbs Opinion verbs
Simple Future Tense
Assessment: Mid-Year Exam
Listening and Reading
Unit 3: Media and technology (3.2)
Skills: Discussing the pros and cons of technology, social media and staying safe online
Grammar: Perfect Tense
Present Continuous Tense
Conditional and Conditional Perfect
Assessment: Listening and Reading Speaking
Unit 4: Customs, festivals and celebrations (2.2)
Skills: Discussing local and international festivals. Discussing birthdays and celebrations.
Grammar: Imperfect Tense
Assessment: Listening and Reading Writing
Unit 5: Healthy living and lifestyle
(1.2)
Skills: Discussing healthy lifestyles, including diet and exercise.
Discussing illnesses and injuries.
Grammar: Modal Verbs
Assessment: End of Year Exam
Listening and Reading
Unit 6: Celebrity Culture (2.3)
Skills: Discussing celebrity culture and influence.
Consolidation and revision of Y10 skills, especially speaking.
Grammar: Consolidation of all tenses
Assessment: Listening and Reading
End of Year Speaking Exam
By the end of year 10, students will be able to… …understand and produce language on the topics of family and relationships, free time activities, technology, festivals and customs, healthy living and celebrity culture.
…conjugate verbs accurately in seven tenses. …understand the use of modal verbs, reflexive verbs and a range of connectives.
…respond to 90-word and 150-word writing tasks.
…respond to role plays, read aloud tasks and photo cards in the speaking exam.
Year 11 Unit 7: Travel and tourism, including places of interest (3.1)
Skills: Discussing travel and tourism, including weather, transport, activities, places of interest, and why holidays are important.
Grammar:
Revision of all tenses
Assessment: Listening and Reading
Writing
Grammar Audit
Unit 8: The Environment and Where People Live (3.3)
Unit 9: Education and Work (1.3)
Unit 10: Revision
Skills: Discussing where you live, including your house and local area.
Discussing the environment, including global issues and what you can do to help.
Grammar: Present Subjunctive
Assessment: Listening and Reading
Full Mock
Skills: Discussing your school, including uniform, school day, rules and school facilities.
Skills: Consolidation from mocks
Grammar: Consolidation of all grammar
By the end of year 11, students will be able to…
…understand and produce language on the topics of holidays, environment, where you live, school and world of work.
Discussing the world of work, including jobs, applications, university and apprenticeships.
Grammar: Revision of all grammar
Assessment: Listening and Reading
Topics:
1.1 Los valores tradicionales y modernos
1.2 La religión católica y las fiestas
1.3 Y vivieron felices… para siempre
1.4 Las múltiples formas familiares
Topics:
2.3 Los teléfonos… inteligentes
3.1 La lucha por la igualdad de las mujeres
3.2 La mujer contemporánea: hablan ellas
Topics:
4.1 Los jóvenes bajo la influencia de los ídolos musicales
4.2 Héroes deportivos
4.3 La nueva cultura de la fama
5.1 La Semana Santa en España
Topics:
5.3 Un viaje gastronómico por Europa
6.1 Perú: Incas, conquistas y maravillas para la historia
6.2 Unas pinceladas de arte mexicano
Film study: El Laberinto del Fauno
Film - history and context
Film - scene summaries
Film - scene summaries
…conjugate verbs accurately in seven tenses.
...understand the use of a range of advanced structures including the subjunctive.
…respond to 90-word and 150-word writing tasks.
…respond to role plays, read aloud tasks and photo card discussions.
7.1 La inmigración en España
7.2 La vida y penurias de un 'sin papeles'
Introduction to IRP and Book Study
Grammar: By the end of year 12, students will be able to… …understand and produce language on the topics of family, technology, youth culture, art and
2.1 Las diferentes caras de Internet
2.2 Han cambiado las nuevas tecnologías nuestra vida a mejor o a peor?
Grammar: Present tense, Adjectives, Reflexive verbs, Interrogatives, Definite and Indefinite Articles, Comparatives
Unit 1 Assessment
3.3 Los derechos del colectivo LGBT
3.4 Mejorando la situación de la mujer: ¿un trabajo aún inacabado?
Grammar: Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns, Imperfect vs preterite tense, impersonal verbs, Preterite vs Perfect, Time expressions, Future tenses
Unit 2 Assessment
Mid-year exam
5.2 La tauromaquia, sus diversas formas y la polémica
Grammar: Future tenses, Infinitives,
Negatives, Preterite tense, Present subjunctive
Unit 4 Assessment
6.3 La arquitectura
árabe en Andalucía y sus vestigos
6.4 El patrimonio musical y su diversidad en el mundo hispánico
Grammar: Relative pronouns, Por and para, Ser and estar, Passive voice and impersonal se, Prepositions with verbs
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 6 Assessment
Film - Themes
Film - Characters
Film - Techniques AS Mock exam
Conditional tense, Gerunds, More relative Pronouns
Unit 7 Assessment architecture and Latin America. …conjugate verbs accurately in all tenses. ...understand the use of the subjunctive. …critically analyse the film EL Laberinto del Fauno. …respond to speaking cards on all topics.
Year 13
Teacher 1 (BP):
7.3 La inmigración mexicana en EE. UU.
8.1 Actitudes racistas y xenófobas en la España de ayer y hoy
8.2 Las medidas nacionales y locales en contra del racismo en Hispanoamérica
8.3 Las legislaciones antirracistas en el mundo hispano
Teacher 1 (BP):
9.1 La convivencia entre culturas en la España medieval
9.2 Convivencia e integración en los centros escolares
9.3 La convivencia en la España moderna
Teacher 1 (BP):
10.1 Los jóvenes y la política: ¿activismo o apatía?
10.2 El paro entre los jóvenes
10.3 Su sociedad ideal: ¿una quimera?
Teacher 2 (BP):
12.1 El poder de los sindicatos
12.2 Las protestas sociales en profundidad
12.3 La efectividad de las manifestaciones
Revision and Exams
By the end of year 13, students will be able to… …understand and produce language on the topics of racism, immigration, integration, politics and monarchy.
Teacher 2 (HQ):
Book study: Como Agua Para Chocolate Paper 2 Mock
Teacher 2 (HQ):
Book study: Como Agua Para Chocolate
Teacher 2 (HQ):
11.1 El franquismo en España
11.2 La evolución de la monarquía en España
11.3 Dictadores latinoamericanos
Teacher 2 (HQ):
13.1 Las corrientes pictóricas del último siglo y su legado
13.2 La seguridad y los hackers
13.3 La influencia de la Iglesia Católica en Latinoamérica
…conjugate verbs accurately in all tenses. ...understand the use of the subjunctive and other advanced tenses.
…critically analyse the film EL Laberinto del Fauno and the book Como Agua Para Chocolate.
…respond to speaking cards on all topics and a wide range of IRP questions.
