Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about past and present events, (Summer travel and back to school)

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting past & present events, past tense (preterite) -ar verbs: 1st person singular (-é) Contrast with: 1st person singular present (-o), revisit negative 'no',

Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Comparing past experiences, (Summer travel and back to school)

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting past and present events, past tense (preterite) -ar verbs: 2nd person singular (-aste). Contrast with: 1st person singular (-é); 2nd person singular present (-as); question words, L1-L2 awareness raising of auxiliaries 'do' and 'did', question words

Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about people and places now vs in general, (Describing people, places, things),

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting (temporary) states/moods and (permanent) traits, revisit SER (for traits) vs ESTAR (for state/mood) in singular and plural persons; adjectival agreement for gender & number, revisit negatives and L1-L2 awareness raising of 'be' in questions

Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Comparing what you and someone else (we) do, (News and media)

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting 'I' and 'we', present tense -er verbs only: 1st plural (-emos); tenemos. Contrast with: 1st person singular (-o); negatives, use of present simple for ongoing meaning

Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Describing what different people do, (At home)

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting I and we, s/he and they, HACER - hago hacemos; hace hacen; haces; revisit negatives, use of subject pronouns,

Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Asking what people can and must do, (In class)

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting 'we can' and 'we must', modals: PODER - puedo podemos; puede pueden; DEBER - debo debemos debe deben, revisit possessives

Year 8 Term 1.1 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about how we organise a party

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting 'we' and 'they', present tense -ir verbs only: 1st person plural (-imos); contrast with: 3rd person plural (-en), use of present simple for ongoing meaning

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Activities past and present, At school

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting past and present events [2], past tense (preterite) -er & -ir verbs: 1st person singular (-í); Contrast pair: 1st person singular present (-o), prenominal adjectives

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Activities past and present, Free time

Key ideas and grammar: Contrasting past and present events [2], past tense -er & -ir verbs: 2nd person singular past (preterite) (-iste); Contrast with 1st person singular past (preterite) (-í) and 2nd person present (-es); question words, L1-L2 awareness raising ('do you / did you...?')

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Describing what people have, Describing how people feel

Key ideas and grammar: Using TENER to mean 'be', TENER in singular and plural persons; cuánto(s); idiomatic uses of tener + noun, subject pronouns (yo, tú, él, ella, nosotros, ellos)

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Free time: what people do, Describing how people feel

Key ideas and grammar: Using DAR to express feelings, QUERER - quiero queremos; quiere quieren + infinitive; idiomatic uses of dar + noun; DAR - doy damos; da; dan

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Places, Describing where people are going to go and why, Tapas

Key ideas and grammar: Using 'para' to express intentions, IR - voy, vas, va, vamos, van a + infinitive; al vs a la; uses of 'de'; para + infinitive

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Places, Bolivia: Un país diverso

Key ideas and grammar: Extended reading

Year 8 Term 1.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Places, Working in a restaurant, Festive traditions at home

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about present actions (-AR, -ER, -IR verbs), regular -ar/-er/-ir verbs: 1st person plural PRESENT tense (-amos, -emos, -imos) & 3rd person plural (-an, -en), subject pronouns nosotros/as, ellos/as