During Year 9 students will build upon their prior learning in yr 7 & 8 and will be introduced to a range of topics including clothes, arranging to go out, holidays, booking accommodation abroad, and discussing holiday preferences.
This year will lay a solid foundation as students will cover the main grammatical structures required at GCSE and further develop their listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills.
Year 9 Spanish will allow the students to expand their knowledge of vocabulary, phonics and grammar and to learn more about the culture and traditions of the Hispanic world.
Arranging to go out, making excuses, discussing outfits, and participating in a fashion show
Students will be introduced to a range of tenses – simple future and conditional and modal verbs.
Assessment: Writing about weekend plans (present and future)
¿Qué haces en verano?
Students will cover the present tense in detail (regular and irregular verbs). They will recap vocabulary covered in the topic of holidays in year 9 and also expand their use of opinions and connectives.
Assessment – Translation – focus on present tense
Destino Barcelona
Students will be introduced to the full paradigm of the past tense. They will begin to use the present and past tenses in the same piece of work to describe what they did on holiday.
Assessment Speaking: Photo description of a past holiday
¿Cómo era?
Students will recap present, preterite and will now learn the imperfect tense to give descriptions in the past. They will also continue to use more complex sentences using all three tenses to describe accommodation etc.
Assessment: Description of a past holiday
Quisiera reservar
Students will develop their transactional language to book accommodation and deal with problems. They will expand their use of the conditional tense and learn about the cultural difference when speaking formally in Spanish – ‘usted’
Assessment: Roleplay -Booking hotel accommodation
Mis vacaciones desastrosas
Students will present an account of a holiday gone wrong. This builds upon the use of present, past, imperfect, future and conditional tenses. Students will continue to develop the ‘20 keys’, complex language required at GCSE.
Assessment: Past paper -GCSE foundation
Enrichment/Extra curricular
Spanish Club – Students will be invited to attend a weekly Spanish club to help consolidate their knowledge throughout the year. They will be encouraged to listen to Spanish apps throughout the year and to watch films in the target language.
Culture club – students also have the opportunity to learn about Spanish artists, history and culture during P7.
Below are some examples of apps that will help students develop their fluency in Spanish:
Duolingo
Memrise
Linguascope
There are some excellent videos to watch on the Oak National Academy website:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-3/subjects/spanish
We also hope to run a Year 10 Spanish language immersion trip in the Autumn term where students will take part in Spanish lessons, learn about Spanish gastronomy, make a typical Spanish dish, learn some Salsa and visit the local market. This trip is to help broaden students’ horizons and encourage them to step beyond familiar cultural boundaries.
