Key Stage 3

Year 7 Teaching Groups 1-6 (2 lessons per week)

Unit 1 – Mi vida – My life

• Greetings and Introductions
• Personality
• Brothers and Sisters
• Birthdays, numbers and alphabet
• Pets

Dictionary Skills Booklet – pupils develop independent dictionary skills

Unit 2 – Mi tiempo libre – My Free time

• Opinions
• Spare time activities
• Weather
• Sports
• Festivals in Spain

Unit 3 – Mi insti – My school

• Subjects and Opinions
• Description of school day
• Description of school
• The right to education

Unit 4 – Mi familia y mis amigos – My family and friends

• Describing family, using possessive adjectives
• Describing hair and eye colour
• Using verbs ser and estar
• Describing where you live

Unit 5 –  Spanish Cinema

Zip y Zap

Year 7 Teaching Groups 7 & 8 (1 lesson per week)

Unit 1 – Mi vida – My life

• Greetings and Introductions
• Personality
• Brothers and Sisters
• Birthdays, numbers and alphabet
• Pets

Dictionary Skills Booklet – pupils develop independent dictionary skills

Unit 2 – Mi tiempo libre – My Free time

• Opinions
• Spare time activities
• Weather
• Sports
• Festivals in Spain

Unit 3 – Spanish Cinema

Zip y Zap

Year 8 French Teaching Groups 1 – 6

Unit 1 – Mes passetemps – My hobbies

• Talking about computers and mobiles
• Using regular ER verbs
• Talking about sports which you play
• Using jouer à
• Talking about activities
• Using the verb faire
• Saying what you like doing
• Using aimer + infinitive
• Describing what other people do
• Using ils and elles

Unit 2 – Ma Zone – My Zone

• Talking about your town / village
• Using il y a / il n’y a pas de
• Giving directions
• Understanding when to use tu and vous
• Talking about where you  go
• Using à + the definite article
• Asking someone to go somewhere
• Using je veux/ tu veux + infinitive
• Saying what you can do in town
• Using on peut + infinitive

Unit 3 – 3…2..1..Partez! – 3,2,1 Let’s go

• Using “nous” to say we
• Talking about your holidays
• Talking about  getting ready to go out
• Using reflexive verbs
• Buying drinks and snacks
• Practising higher numbers
• Talking about holiday plans
• Using the near future tense
• Saying what you would like to do
• Using Je voudrais + infinitive

Unit 4 – Ma vie sociale d’ado – My social live as a young person

• Talking about facebook
• Using present tense verbs
• Giving your opinion about someone
• Using direct object pronouns
• Arranging to go out
• Using the near future tense
• Describing a date
• Using the perfect tense
• Describing a music event
• Using 3 tenses

Unit 5 – French Cinema

Mic Mac- students will watch a French film and complete relevant tasks in French about film content.

Year 8 French Teaching Groups 7 & 8 (1 lesson per week)

Unit 1 – Mon Collège – My School

• Talking about school subjects
• Asking questions
• Giving opinions and reasons
• Agreeing and disagreeing
• Describing a timetable
• 24 hour clock
• Describing a school day
• Using “we”
• Talking about food
• Using the partative article (du/de la/de l’/des)

Unit 2 – Mes passetemps – My hobbies

• Talking about computers and mobiles
• Using regular ER verbs
• Talking about sports which you play
• Using jouer à
• Talking about activities
• Using the verb faire
• Saying what you like doing
• Using aimer + infinitive
• Describing what other people do
• Using ils and elles

Unit 3 – Optional extra

• Talking about animals
• Writing a poem
• Describing a painting

Unit 4 – French Cinema

Mic Mac- students will watch a French film and complete relevant tasks in French about film content.

Year 8 Spanish Teaching Groups 1 – 6

Unit 1 – Mi vida – My life

• Greetings and Introductions
• Personality
• Brothers and Sisters
• Birthdays, numbers and alphabet
• Pets

Unit 2 – Mi tiempo libre – My Free time

• Opinions
• Spare time activities
• Weather
• Sports
• Festivals in Spain

Unit 3 – Mi insti  – My school

• Subjects and Opinions
• Description of school day
• Description of school
• The right to education

Unit 4 – Mi familia y mis amigos – My family and friends

• Describing family, using possessive adjectives
• Describing hair and eye colour
• Using verbs ser and estar
• Describing where you live

Unit 5 – Spanish Cinema

Zip y Zap

Year 9 French Teaching Groups 1 – 6 (1.5 /2/3lessons per week)

Unit 1 – Bien dans sa peau – Feeling good

• Learning parts of the body
• Revision of à + the definite article
• Talking about sports
• Using il faut
• Learning about healthy eating
• Using the future tense
• Making plans to get fit
• Practising the future tense
• Describing levels of fitness
• Using 3 tenses together

Unit 2 – A l’horizon -On the horizon

• Discussing your future
• Learning languages
• Talking about your ambitions
• Near future tense
• Modal verbs
• Common irregular verbs – present
• Asking questions
• Masc & fem nouns
• Je voudrais & Ce serait
• Combination of tenses (near future/conditional, present & perfect)

Unit 3 – Spécial vacances – Special holidays

• Discussing holidays
• Adventure holidays
• Holiday disasters
• Visiting a tourist attraction
• Asking questions (** using inversion)
• Pronoun y
• Conditional (##Je voudrais + infin, *** different forms)
• Reflexive verbs
• Perfect tense
• Combination of tenses for (present, perfect, imperfect (set expressions only) future, near future)

Unit 4 – Qui suis-Je?

• Revising family and describing people
• Revising places in town, activities and times
• Talk about what makes a good friend
• Talk about family relationships
• Making arrangements to go out
• Describing a day out
• Discussing role models
• Revise regular verbs in the present tense
• Revise reflexive verbs in the present tense
• Revise the near future tense
• Revise the perfect tense
• More practice of combining tenses

Unit 5 – French Cinema

• Les choristes

Year 9 French Teaching Groups 7 & 8

Unit 1 – Ma Zone – My area

• Talking about your town / village
• Using il y a / il n’y a pas de
• Giving directions
• Understanding when to use tu and vous
• Talking about where you go
• Using à + the definite article
• Asking someone to go somewhere
• Using je veux/ tu veux + infinitive
• Saying what you can do in town
• Using on peut + infinitive

Unit 2 – 3…2..1..Partez! – 3,2,1 Let’s go

• Using “nous” to say we
• Talking about your holidays
• Talking about getting ready to go out
• Using reflexive verbs
• Buying drinks and snacks
• Practising higher numbers
• Talking about holiday plans
• Using the near future tense
• Saying what you would like to do
• Using Je voudrais + infinitive

Unit 3 – Music and TV

• A study of the music and television of French Speaking countries.

Unit 4 – French Cinema

• Les choristes

Year 9 Spanish Teaching Groups 1

Unit 1 – Mi familia y mis amigos – My family and friends

• Describing family, using possessive adjectives
• Describing hair and eye colour
• Using verbs ser and estar
• Describing where you live

Unit 2 – Mi ciudad – My town

• Opinions
• Spare time activities
• Weather
• Sports
• Festivals in Spain

Unit 3 – ¡Desconéctate!

• Saying what you do in summer
• Talking about holiday preferences
• Saying what you did on holiday
• Describing where you stayed
• Booking accommodation and dealing with problems
• Giving an account of a holiday in the past

Unit 4 – Mi vida en el insti

• Giving opinions about school subjects
• Describing school uniform and the school day
• Talking about subjects and teachers
• Describing your school
• Talking about rules and problems
• Talking about plans for a school exchange
• Talking about activities and achievements