Year 8 Curriculum Information - Spanish
Topics covered in the Autumn term
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Your personality
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Family & siblings
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Birthdays
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What you like to do
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What sports you do
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Subjects you study
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School subjects & opinions
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Describing your school
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Talking about break time
Autumn Term Grammar
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Adjectives that end in o/a
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Verb tener (to have)
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Numbers/alphabet
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Possessive adjectives
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Opinions + infinitives
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Verb hacer & jugar
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Using –ar verbs to say we do
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Using articles a/the/some
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Using –er and –ir verbs
Topics Covered in the Spring Term
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Describing where you live
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Town & local area
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Ordering in a café
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What you are going to do on the weekend
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Weather
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Talking about a past holidays & what you did
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What you holiday was like
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At the restaurant
Spring Term Grammar
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Using a/some/many
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Using verb querer (to want)
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Using near future tense
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Using cuando (when)
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Pretirate of –ir, -ar, -er verbs
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Pretirate of -ser
Topics Covered in the Summer Term
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Using your mobile phone
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What type of music
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Going to a concert
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Talking about TV
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What did you do yesterday
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Arranging to go out
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Making excuses
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Getting ready to go out & clothes
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Talking about sporting events
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Culture: Describing a film
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Culture: Describing a character
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Culture: Predicting what will happen next
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Culture: Opinion of the film
Summer Term Grammar
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Revise present tense
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Opinion phrases
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Using the comparative
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Using present & pretirate
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Using me gustaria + infinitive
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Conditional tense
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Using reflexive verbs
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Saying ‘these/this’
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Using three tenses
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Adjectives
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Opinions & reasons
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Predictive language
Assessment
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Autumn 1: Reading & Writing
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Autumn 2: Listening & Translation into English
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Spring 1: Reading & Writing
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Spring 2: Speaking
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Summer 1: Listening, Reading & Translation into Spanish (Exam)
Special Requirements/Equipment (what you should buy!)
Spanish dictionary, Whiteboard pen, Green pen, Highlighters
Home Learning
Differentiated Home Learning Menu Tasks (These relate to all of the topics studied)
Useful Websites
