Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Visit to a Spanish city, (Santa Cruz, Tenerife)

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about actions in the present, PRESENT tense -ar, -er, -ir verbs 1st, 2nd, 3rd person singular; revisit infinitives; revisit 'para' + infinitive

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Family, Talking about family members and their jobs

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about his/her, our, your and their, possessive adjectives - su vs sus; nuestro vs nuestra mi vs mis; tu vs tus, es/son, adjective number/gender agreement

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: An outing with family and friends, Describing how people feel at a music festival

Key ideas and grammar: Comparing how people are and feel, comparatives: más/menos … que; peor(es), mejor(es), nuestro/nuestros, está/están; es/son, adjective number/gender agreement

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Shopping with friends, Comparing things

Key ideas and grammar: Comparing things, demonstratives - este vs esta; estos; esta estas; , comparatives: más/menos … que; peor(es), mejor(es), question words, es/son; está/están; modal verbs

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Weekend activities, Describing what people do and did (sport and other)

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about what people do and did, HACER past (preterite) - hago, haces, hace hice, hiciste, hizo, adverbs of position, del/de la

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Excursions and trips, Comparing where people go and went (cities in Spain and Latin America)

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about where people go and went, IR past (preterite) - voy, vas, va; fui, fuiste, fue; al vs a la

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Asking questions, about i) a past trip ii) famous Spanish-speaking people

Key ideas and grammar: Asking questions about what people did, regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs: 1st, 2nd, 3rd person singular PAST tense; negatives; awareness raising of 'did' in English questions

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Asking questions , about what people do in school

Key ideas and grammar: Asking questions about what people do, regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs: all persons singular and plural PRESENT tense; negatives; awareness raising of 'do'/ 'does' in English questions

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 3

Assessment week

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Describing what is happening now (exercise and fitness)

Key ideas and grammar: present continuous with -ar verbs: estoy/estás/está + present participle (-ando); question words, demonstrative adjectives esta and estas

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Describing what is happening now (making a film)

Key ideas and grammar: present continuous with -ir/-er verbs: estamos/están + present participle (-iendo); queremos/quieren

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Extended reading, Spanish festival: La Tomatina

Key ideas and grammar: Extended reading:, La tomatina

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about past and future trips

Key ideas and grammar: IR + infinitive for future plans, preterite for irregular verbs IR (fui, fuiste, fue) and HACER (hice, hiciste, hizo)