Subject : Modern Foreign Languages (Spanish / Spanish and French /
Community Languages)
Key staff (Name & role)
Gustavo Garcia - Director of Languages
Juan Toledo - Teacher of MFL / EAL
Toni Malone - Teacher of MFL / EAL
Diego Arenales - Teacher of MFL / EAL
María Saucedo - EAL assistant
Overview
To prepare students for the GCSE in a modern foreign language (for
most students this will be Spanish). We aim to pursue bilingualism
by providing a communicative as well academic approach to
vocabulary. We also encourage parents to maintain community
languages with their children.
Purpose of curriculum
The curriculum is designed in line with the exam board
specifications to ensure that all themes, vocabulary and grammar
points are covered in detail. In addition, the curriculum will also
have some aspects built in designed to aid transition to Key Stage 5
and the development of bilingualism.
Skills delivered
Receptive skills (listening and reading)
Productive skills (speaking and writing)
Translation skills (into both languages)
Literature and academic vocabulary developed
Year 7
Topics: greeting and introducing yourself, information regarding
name, age, birthday, school subjects, opinions about teachers and
school subjects, family, siblings, physical and personality
descriptions, saying where you live, discussing free time activities,
telling the time, discussing sports and using weather phrases.
Grammar: common verbs ending in ER, AR and IR, indefinite and
definite articles, adjectives and adjectival agreement, prepositions,
stem changing verbs, present and immediate future tenses.
Translation skills (into both languages)
Literature and academic vocabulary developed
Year 8
Topics: free time activities, physical and character descriptions,
places in town, asking questions, countries, nationalities, modes of
transport, discussing food, time expressions, quantities, high
numbers, units of measurement, clothes, school uniform, places in
town, types of shops,
Grammar: opinions, adjectives, connectives, comparatives,
reflexive verbs, stem changers, immediate future, personal ‘a’,
preterite tense, future tense, gender of nouns, this and these,
tener + que + infinitives to indicate obligation, se puede + infinitive
to indicate possibility
Translation skills (into both languages)
Literature and academic vocabulary developed
Year 9
Topics: Discussing use of computers, TV programmes, film and
music genres, school subjects and the school day, opinions about
teachers, school rules, healthy food and living, possible future and
past jobs, work conditions, celebrities, fair trade and transport.
Grammar: opinions and adjectives, expressions of frequency,
immediate future tense, preterite tense, personal ‘a’, superlatives,
reflexive verbs of obligation, ‘para’ for complex sentences,
conditional tense, mixed tense sentences, gender, conditional of
‘deber’.
Translation skills (into both languages)
Literature and academic vocabulary developed
Exam board
AQA
Different routes
Spanish GCSE
French GCSE
Certificate in Languages for
Business, CIOL
Community Languages such as:
Portuguese GCSE
Link to specifications
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects
/languages/gcse/spanish-8698
Post 16
We are currently developing our
6th form offer for first delivery
from September 2018. We plan
to offer:
Courses:
A-Level Spanish
A-Level French
A-Level Portuguese
Possible degree routes and
careers
Language specific degrees include:
● BA(Hons) Spanish, French, Portuguese + Community
Languages
● BA (Hons) Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting
● BA (Hons) Translation and Interpreting with Modern
Languages
● BA(Hons) Translation
Other degrees can be taken as joint honours degrees, for example,
● BA(Hons) Journalism and Modern Foreign Languages
● BA(Hons) International Relations and Modern Languages
● BA(Hons) Philosophy and Modern Languages
● BA(Hons) Politics and Modern Languages
In addition to language specific careers like teaching, translation
and interpreting, there are many careers that can be enhanced by
the knowledge of a foreign language including:
● diplomatic sector, football management, international law,
teaching, medicine - Medecins sans frontieres -, journalism,
business, archeology, music industry, etc