MFL Curriculum map
Year 10
SPANISH (Red = Higher)
Term
Topic
Term 1
TOPIC: Holidays and
environment
SMSC: Choice of
holiday
destinations, target
language holiday
destinations,
environmental
issues and personal
responsibility and
response, pair and
group work.
Skills addressed
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expressing opinions
expressing and developing
ideas
listening for inferred meaning
developing listening and
reading strategies
use time expressions
use high numbers and 24h
clock
learning complete phrases to
promote fluency
applying prior knowledge to
express ideas
introducing variety
Grammar
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tenses: present,
preterite (regular
and irregular),
immediate future,
imperfect (for
weather) and
conditional
tenses: difference
between
imperfect and
preterite
gustarse
disjunctive
pronouns
(receptive)
interrogative
pronouns
por and para in
set expressions
por and para:
understanding
the difference in
use
verbs of
Literacy skills addressed
(GRADUATE unless
specified)
LISTENING
LA1 F/H
LA2 F/H
LA3 F/H
LA4 F/H
LS1 F/H
LS2 F/H
LK1 F/H
LK2 F/H
Expert LA2 F/H
Expert LA3 H
Expert LS2 H
Expert LS3 H
Expert LK2 H
Expert -LK2 F/H
SPEAKING
SA1
F/H
SA2
F/H
SA3
F/H
SS1
F/H
SS2
F/H
SS3
F/H
SK1
F/H
SK2
F/H
SK5
F/H
Key assessment tasks
w/c 28 Sep 15
LISTENING: Jun 10 Higher
or Foundation
READING: Jun 10 Higher
or Foundation
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Term 2
TOPICS: as above
Term 3
TOPIC: School and
future plans
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SMSC: TL schools,
difference between
Spanish and English
schools, reflect on
important choices
in their lives and
how early decisions
can effect later
ones, pair and
group work.
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expressing opinions
expressing and developing
ideas
developing listening and
reading strategies
applying prior knowledge to
express ideas
introducing variety
developing answers to
questions
providing all the information
requested
looking for clues to
understand meaning
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Term 4
TOPIC: Work
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SMSC: Pair and
group work, reflect
on what different
jobs entail and
what path they will
need to follow to
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making use of context to work
out meaning
using knowledge of
grammatical categories to
work out meaning
avoiding repetition of phrases
and vocabulary
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obligation
indefinite
pronouns
impersonal verbs
tenses: present,
preterite (regular
and irregular),
imperfect tense in
set expressions
immediate future
and conditional
tenses: difference
between
imperfect and
preterite
demonstrative
adjectives
comparative
adjectives
the subjunctive
exclamatory
phrases
adjectival
agreement
tenses: present,
preterite (regular
and irregular to
ask questions),
imperfect tense in
set expressions
immediate future,
Express -SA2
READING
RA4 F/H
RA5 F/H
RS1 F/H
RS2 F
RS3 F/H
Expert RK1
Expert RS3
Expert RK2
10
H
w/c 23 Nov 15
SPEAKING AND WRITING:
Holidays and environment
H
H
H
WRITING
WA1
F/H
WA2
F/H
WA3
F/H
WS1
F/H
WS2
F/H
WS3
F/H
WS4
F/H
WK 1
H
WK 2
H
WK 4
F/H
WA2
H
w/c 22 Feb 16
SPEAKING AND WRITING:
School
w/c 29 Feb 16
LISTENING: Jun 12 Higher
or Foundation
READING: Jun 12 Higher
get the job they
want, to reflect on
what a working day
is like.
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checking grammar in written
work
expressing opinions
expressing and developing
ideas
developing listening and
reading strategies
applying prior knowledge to
express ideas
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Term 5
TOPIC: Work
Term 6
TOPIC: School, work
and future plans
SMSC: Reflect on
important choices
in their lives and
how early decisions
can affect later
ones, reflect on
what different jobs
entail and what
path they will need
to follow to get the
job they want, to
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identify false friends
using verbal context to work
out meaning
extending phrases in speaking
and writing tasks
checking pronunciation
ignoring words not needed
for the completion of a task
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pluperfect and
conditional
tenses: difference
between
imperfect and
preterite
imperatives
irregular adverbs
cuyo
usted/ustedes
possessive
adjectives
questions with
prepositions
comparative and
superlative
adverbs
or Foundation
possessive
adjectives
estar+ past
participle
reflexive verbs
ir a + inf.
reflexive
constructions
hay que
tener que
subject pronouns
desde hace +
present tense
w/c 13 Jun 16
CA1: School, work and
future plans
w/c 20 Jun 16
LISTENING: Jan 13 Higher
or Foundation
READING: Jan 13 Higher
or Foundation
reflect on what a
working day is like,
pair and group
work.
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conjunctions
tenses: present +
conditional set
expressions
conditional
beyond set
expressions
negative forms
lo + adjective