CORE LANGUAGE and OPTION LANGUAGE - 4th Year (Year 10)
(Six 50 mins sessions over 2 weeks)
The students will take the Edexcel IGCSE examination at the end of the Fifth Year.
Throughout the 4th and the 5th years there are 5 topic areas to be covered and the course
book used will be ¡Mira!: OCR GCSE, which will be supplemented as necessary with texts
and exercises from a variety of other textbooks and the Internet. Each individual teacher is,
of course, at liberty to select the material most suited to their class.
There is also a wide variety of other published supplementary materials such as the Nelson
series Gramática Directa, Hablamos, Escribimos, kept in L9, as well as a good number
of Grammar practice worksheet and materials produced by the teachers, which are
continually added to and updated. The use of the IGCSE Moodle course will be
commonplace and in it there are also links to a number of websites geared towards the
preparation of the IGCSE exam.
The aim is to cover one module per half-term . Each module is formed of a revision unit and
5 content units. After the internal examination the classes will prepare a project which will
be based in a Spanish speaking country, write a group newspaper or make a film trying to
include all the material learned during the year. Another option is having a look at Module
6- Mi tiempo libre- concentrating on the cinema section. The book suggests watching the
film “El laberinto del fauno” and work towards a review but any other Spanish/South
American film could be studied.
Module
1
De
Vacaciones
Units
Repaso ¿Adónde fuiste? (pp. 6–
7)
1 ¿Qué tal tus vacaciones? (pp.
8–9)
2 ¿Qué tal el hotel? (pp. 10–11)
3 Buenas vacaciones (pp. 12–13)
4 En el hotel (pp. 14–15)
5 Reclamaciones (pp. 16–17)
Aims
Talk about where you went on holiday
and the weather, describing
accommodation, talking about holiday
activities, booking a hotel room,
making complaints.
Grammar/Skills
*Using the Preterite (regular and irregular)
*Extending sentences with sequencers
*Giving and justifying opinions
*Using the Imperfect and the Preterite together
*Question words and dealing with unpredictable questions.
*Using verbs with usted
*Using me hace falta…
*Joining ideas with connectives
Module
2
De paseo
por
Sevilla
Units
Repaso 1 Mi vida (pp. 24–25)
Repaso 2 En ruta (pp. 26–27)
1 La oficina de turismo (pp. 28–29)
2 Comprando recuerdos (pp. 30–
31)
3 Tomando tapas (pp. 32–33)
4 En Sevilla (pp. 34–35)
5 Las fiestas (pp. 36–37)
Aims
Giving personal information, talking
about means of transport, listening for
the 24h clock, planning and describing
a day out, asking for and
understanding directions, ordering at a
restaurant, talking about festivals.
Grammar/Skills
*Using the Present Tense
*Extending sentences with cuando
*Using adverbs
*Using the near future
*Understanding questions
*Using Imperatives
*Using sequencers: primero, después, …
* Using me gusta+ article, como without article
* Working with distractors while listening and reading
* Using the Preterite and the Imperfect
* Recognising and expressing mixed opinions
* Understanding three time frames
* Using para to extend sentences.
Module
3
A Clase
Units
Aims
Repaso 1 Las asignaturas (pp. 46–47) Giving opinions on school subjects,
Repaso 2 En clase (pp. 48–49)
describing your school routine,
1 ¿Cómo es tu insti? (pp. 50–51)
2 Las normas del insti (pp. 52–53)
3 ¡Los profesores! (pp. 54–55)
4 El acoso escolar (pp. 56–57)
5 El cole del futuro (pp. 58–59)
producing descriptions of school
life, describing the school uniform
and rules, describing teachers,
describing school pressures and
problems, describing the schools of
the future.
Grammar/Skills
* Using me gusta, me encanta,etc
* Using the Present tense with time expressions
* Using the Imperfect and Present tenses
* Giving a range of opinions and justifying them
* Using phrases followed by the infinitive
* Using comparatives and superlatives
* Agreeing and disagreeing
* Using quantifiers: muy, un poco,…
* Using the Future tense
* Using questions to form answers
Module
4
Perdidos
Units
Repaso Mi familia (pp. 66–67)
1 Los supervivientes (pp. 68–69)
2 La vida cotidiana (pp. 70–71)
3 Las tareas (pp. 72–73)
4 Otro accidente (pp. 74–75)
5 Un año después (pp. 76–77)
Aims
Talking about your family, talking about
relationships, talking about your daily
routine and chores, describing people’s
personalities, talking about
experiences and hopes.
Grammar/Skills
* Using possessive adjectives
* Saying numbers and dates
* Using ser and estar
* Talking about the Present and the Past
* Using reflexive verbs
* Using desde hace (for…)
* Using the Present, Preterite and Imperfect tenses
* Using negatives
* Making deductions while listening
* Extending answers
Module
5
Los
Trabajos
Units
Repaso A trabajar (pp. 86–87)
1 ¿Trabajas los sábados? (pp. 88–
89)
2 Prácticas laborales (pp. 90–91)
3 El futuro (pp. 92–93)
4 Mi currículum vitae (pp. 94–95)
5 La entrevista (pp. 96–97)
Aims
Revising Jobs and places of work,
describing part-time Jobs, describing
work experience, describing future
plans, understanding job adverts and
CVs, understanding application
letters.
Grammar/Skills
* Revising masculine and feminine nouns,
* Using tener que + infinitive
* Extending spoken and written answers
* Using the Preterite and the Imperfect
* Using adverbs of time and frequency
* Using different verbs to talk about the future
* Forming sentences with Si… (if…)
* Using the Conditional with gustar and poder
* Understanding specialist vocabulary
* Forming the Perfect tense
* Conducting a job interview