The Crypt Spanish Department: Programme of Study Autumn 1 (8) Autumn 2 (7) Year Tasters (food) School 7 What is a cognate? How and why do adjectives change? Skills: Taster lessons Skills: Introducing Introducing yourself, ages and yourself, foods, birthdays, school descriptions and subjects, opinions, opinions of food, adjectives, Spanish cuisine. describing a Spanish school Grammar: Definite article, adjectival Grammar: Definite agreement, article, adjectival opinions, agreement, connectives opinions + plurals, intensifiers, Assessment: connectives, Google Forms Quiz comparatives.
Year Holidays 8 How do you form the preterite tense? Skills: Describing your summer holiday (normally,
Spring 1 (5) 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: End of Unit Assessment (Listening and Speaking)
Assessment: Mid-year Exam (Reading, Writing and Translation)
Daily routine and clothes What is a reflexive verb?
Festivals and Health How do Spanish people celebrate?
Skills: Describing Skills: Describing our daily routine Spanish festivals and clothes. Talking and celebrations.
Spring 2 (5) Free Time What is an infinitive and how can you tell?
Summer 1 (7) Where I live How do you form the present tense?
Skills: Types of Skills: Sports, free house, house time activities, description, rooms, adverbs of furniture, places in frequency, opinions a town, where you on activities. would like to live Grammar: present tense verbs, both regular and stemchanging, me gustaría + infinitive.
Grammar: ser vs estar, hay with indefinite article, prepositions, near future tense.
Assessment: End of Unit Assessment (Listening and Reading)
Assessment: End of Year Exam (Reading, Listening, Writing and Translation)
Food and Drink What is a modal verb?
My interests How do you form the present continuous?
Skills: Describing food and mealtimes. Arranging to visit a
Skills: Describing film and television genres and
Summer 2 (8) Summer Project How do you form the near future tense?
END POINTS 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.
Skills: Recapping all year 7 skills and …understand the use of create video genders and adjectival interview. agreement rules.
Asessment: Video interview
Summer Project Skills: Summer tourism project in which students write an email requesting information and
…understand what an infinitive is and conjugate verbs in the present and near future tenses.
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