Year 9 Term 2.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Chile, Describing what people do and did , talking about the weather

Key ideas and grammar: Using HACER to talk about what people do and did (aand the weather), HACER PAST preterite tense - hago, haces, hace; hice, hiciste, hizo; subject pronouns; question words; present simple for ongoing meaning; now including hacer + weather

Year 9 Term 2.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Galicia, España, Describing a fundraising event - Caamino de Santiago

Key ideas and grammar: Using -AR verbs (-amos) to talk about present and past events, regular -ar verbs 1st person singular PAST preterite (-é) vs 1st person plural PAST preterite (-amos); 1st person plural PRESENT (-amos)

Year 9 Term 2.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Perú, Talking about the history of a Spanish-speaking country

Key ideas and grammar: Using -AR verbs (-aron) to talk about past events, Text exploitation week #1 - regular -ar verbs 3rd person singular PAST preterite (-ó) vs plural PAST (-aron); 1st person singular present (-o)

Year 9 Term 2.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Cambios, Migration and the lives of Cuban Spanish speakers in the USA

Key ideas and grammar: Using -ER/-IR verbs to talk about present and past events, regular -er/-ir verbs 1st person plural PRESENT(-emos, -imos) vs plural PAST preterite (-imos); use of temporal adverbs; 1st person plural PAST preterite (-amos)

Year 9 Term 2.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Cambios, Talking about climate change

Key ideas and grammar: Using -ER/-IR verbs to talk about past events, regular -er/-ir verbs 3rd person singular PAST preterite (-ió); vs plural (-ieron); 3rd sing vs plural present (-e vs -en); mi/mis; tu/tus; nuestro/nuestra (now in plural forms 'nuestros' and 'nuestras')

Year 9 Term 2.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Cambios, The Festival of Languages, project on Chile

Key ideas and grammar: Using all verbs to talk about past events, regular -ar verbs 1st vs 3rd person plural PAST preterite (-aron vs -amos); regular -er & -ir verbs 1st person plural (-imos, -ieron); su/sus; nuestro/nuestra (now in plural forms 'nuestros' and 'nuestras')

Year 9 Term 2.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Eventos importantes, Talking about making a film

Key ideas and grammar: Using TENER for present and past events, TENER PAST preterite tense - tuve, tuviste, tuvo; tengo, tienes, tiene; use of tener que + infinitive; subject pronouns; demonstrative pronouns este, esta

Year 9 Term 2.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Eventos importantes, Comparing how you feel and felt (moving to a new country)

Key ideas and grammar: Using ESTAR for present and past locations and states, ESTAR present vs past meaning - estoy, estás, está; vs estaba, estabas, estaba (for both location and states); adverbs of position; del vs de la (location); regular and irregular comparatives (adjectives only); relative pronouns for subject relative clauses (que)

Year 9 Term 2.2 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Eventos importantes, Talking about local and international events

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about events in progress in the present and in the past, present continuous (estar + -ando/-iendo) vs imperfect estar + present participle for events in progress estaba, estabas, estaba; preterite (for interruptions); relative pronouns for subject relative clauses (donde, cuando); demonstrative pronouns estos, estas

Year 9 Term 2.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Eventos importantes, Reporting the news

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about events in progress in the present and in the past, present continuous (estar + -ando/-iendo) vs imperfect tense for ongoing events in progress; preterite (for interruptions); cuando

Year 9 Term 2.2 Week 5

Assessment week #2