KS3 SPANISH
In Year 7 Spanish, students learn to give and understand simple personal information. By the end of the year they should also have a good understanding of fundamental concepts of sentence structure, and be able to have a short conversation about a few topics.
In Year 8 Spanish students learn to give and understand developed information and opinions about familiar topics immediately related to their daily lives.
By the end of Year 9, students can understand and communicate complex ideas relating to the world around them.
Throughout KS3, students learn to read, listen, write and speak in Spanish. Wherever students can understand information in Spanish, they are also taught to write and speak about it, and vice versa.
Over the year students are systematically taught Spanish phonics to support their reading and writing.
Students also learn about Spanish-speaking world. They are shown that all cultures are unique and exciting to learn about. We model effective and respectful cultural interaction, and practice communication skills such as active listening, filtering the important information, structuring ideas logically and expressing ideas clearly.
KS3 topics by year
Year 7
Giving my name, age and birthday
- Giving more personal information.
- Understanding the structure of a Spanish sentence
- Recognising numbers 30-100
- Describing people and objects
- Using adjectives accurately
- Using the verbs to be and to have about yourself and other people
- Talking about activities you like to do
- Using the verbs to play and to do
- Recognising and using the present tense
- Giving basic opinions and beginning to justify them
- Beginning to make comparisons
Year 8
- Talking about the area where you live : types of houses , rooms of the house , describing your bedroom and dream home
- Chores
- Grammar: using ‘es’ and ‘está’, using verb VIVIR, prepositions of place, Conditional Tense
- Places in town and where you go
- Directions
- Discussing weekend plans
- City versus countryside
- How Bicester has changed over time
- Christmas Traditions
- Grammar: using ‘hay’ and the verb IR, the Imperative, Near Future Tense, comparatives (tan…como), Imperfect Tense
- School subjects
- Describing a timetable in a Spanish school
- Telling the time
- Grammar: using the verb ESTUDIAR, exclamations with ¡qué…!
- School facilities
- Extracurricular clubs and activities
- Discussing future plans (including part-time jobs)
- Easter Traditions
- Grammar: Using ‘se puede’ and ‘se debe’, using ‘antes de’ and ‘después de’, Future Tense expressions
- Transport and holiday travel
- Holiday activities
- Describing a past holiday
- An Amazonian adventure!
- Describing future holiday plans
- Grammar: using IR with prepositions, the verb SOLER, slang expressions, Preterite Tense, revising the Near Future Tense
- Food and drink
- Ordering in a restaurant
- Healthy diet
- Discussing health and remedies (language for a pharmacy)
- Grammar: using verbs COMER and BEBER, negative expressions, ‘tú’ and ‘usted’, ‘mucho’ and ‘poco’, verb DOLER and The Imperative
Year 9
Personal interests
- Internet and social media, tv and film, music, jobs and careers
- Negatives, comparisons, using ser and estar, future tense with regular verbs
Fashion
- Describing what you wear, shopping and dealing with problems while shopping
- Demonstrative and indefinite adjectives, cardinal and ordinal numbers, direct object pronouns. Present continuous and conditional tenses
Life at home Daily routines and relationships with friends and family
- Direct object pronouns, reflexive verbs
Global issues Comparing routines, talking about global issues and solutions
- Irregular verbs in the future and conditional
- Impersonal constructions
The Spanish-speaking world
- Learning about a variety of Spanish-speaking countries
- Planning a trip across South America
- Radical changing verbs in the present tense, perfect tense with regular verbs and irregular past participles, Imperfect tense, reflexive verbs in different tenses
- Combining the future and conditional
Revision
- Revision of all Year 9 topics preparing for the End of Year Assessment
- Film project
Key Contact
If you would like any more information about this subject, please contact Kirsten.gregory@thebicesterschool.org.uk