Subject:
French and German
Year Group:
7
Name of Qualification:
N/A
Exam Board:
N/A
Topic / Unit Name
Which term
e.g. first half
of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
Myself and my family
Early autumn
Basic greetings and questions
Numbers, days and dates
Personal information
Family members
Physical description
Personality description
Pets
Where I live
Grammar: Regular and irregular present tense verbs,
position and agreement of adjectives, possessive adjectives
Telling the time
Daily routine
Free time: Sports and hobbies and opinions
School: School subjects and opinions, school day
Grammar: Question words, frequency words, time phrases,
negative structures, comparatives, reflexive verbs
Holidays: Destinations, duration, activities
Transport
Accommodation
Weather
Food and drink
Grammar: Near future, frequency words, time phrases,
infinitives
VLE (Year 7 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
Late autumn
How I spend my days
Early spring
Late spring
It will soon be holiday time
Early summer
Late summer
Subject:
French and German
Year Group:
8
Name of Qualification:
N/A
Exam Board:
N/A
Topic / Unit Name
Which term e.g.
first half of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
Grammar revision
My home and local area
Early autumn Late autumn
VLE (Year 8 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
My town and region
Early spring Late spring
Environment
Early summer –
Late summer
Classroom language
Present tense verbs (regular and irregular)
Weather (revision)
Free time activities
Household chores
Describing my house and bedroom
Items of furniture
Location of my town and house
Buildings in a town
Grammar: Impersonal verbs, prepositions, present tense
verbs, near future, time phrases.
What there is to do in the town/local area
Asking for and giving directions
What I did with my friends last weekend
Activities in the past (free time, holidays, when you were
younger)
Grammar: Past tense, present tense, future tense, on
peut/on ne peut pas + infinitive.
Environmental problems (traffic, litter, pollution)
What can be done to resolve these problems
A campaign to protect the environment
Grammar: On doit/il faut + infinitive, on ne doit pas/il
ne faut pas + infinitive, present tense, near future tense.
Subject:
French and German
Year Group:
9
Name of Qualification:
GCSE
Exam Board:
AQA
Topic / Unit Name
Which term e.g.
first half of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
Lifestyle: Health
Early autumn Late autumn
VLE (Year 9 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
www.alienlanguage.co.uk
Lifestyle: Relationships and
Choices
Early spring Late spring
Leisure: Holidays
Early summer Late summer
Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their consequences
Considering whether you live a healthy lifestyle and
changes you could/should make
Parts of the body and illnesses
Advising others
Grammar: Adverbs of frequency, asking questions,
devoir + infinitive, expressions with avoir, negatives,
present tense of –er, -re and –ir verbs, avoir and être
Relationships with friends and family
Describing the character and qualities of yourself and
others
Future plans regarding marriage/partnership
Social issues and equality: poverty, homelessness,
unemployment, working as a volunteer, developing
countries
Grammar: Possessive adjectives, position and
agreement of adjectives, the verbs pouvoir, devoir and
vouloir, reflexive verbs, future tense, verbs followed by
à or de + infinitive
Holiday plans, preferences and experiences
What there is to do at a holiday destination
What to see and getting around (both home and abroad)
Grammar: Imperfect tense, combining the future and
perfect tenses, connectives, the conditional tense,
exclamations.
Subject:
French and German
Year Group:
10
Name of Qualification:
GCSE
Exam Board:
AQA
Topic / Unit Name
Which term e.g.
Details of topic
first half of spring
Useful support materials
Leisure: Free time and
the Media
Early autumn
Late autumn
VLE (Year 10 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
Home and Environment:
Home and Local Area
Early spring
Late spring
Home and Environment:
Environment
Early summer
Late summer
Free time activities
Shopping, money (including pocket money), fashion (past
shopping trips) and trends
Advantages and disadvantages of new technology (internet
surfing, SMS, e-mail, music downloading, blogs and
Facebook)
Grammar: Perfect tense with avoir and être, future tense
with aller, direct object pronouns, indirect object
pronouns, superlatives
Home and local area
Special occasions celebrated at home
Describing and comparing homes, neighbourhoods and
geographical areas
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Negatives, depuis and pendant, qualifiers and
intensifiers, irregular adjectives, indefinite adjectives, the
passive
Current problems facing the planet (pollution, global
environmental issues)
Being environmentally friendly within the home and local
area
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: il faut + infinitive, common subjunctive
expressions, expressions of sequence, present participle,
indefinite pronouns
Subject:
French and German
Year Group:
11
Name of Qualification:
GCSE
Exam Board:
AQA
Topic / Unit Name
Which term
e.g. first half
of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
School and Future Plans:
Education
Early autumn
Late autumn
VLE (Year 11 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
School and Future Plans:
Work
Early spring
Late spring
Revision for external
exams
Early summer
Late summer
School/college and future plans
What school/college is like (facilities, organisation,
curriculum)
Pressures and problems (discipline and sanctions, bullying,
violence, assessment, homework)
Suggestions on improving school life (extra options, length
of day)
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Direct and indirect object pronouns,
demonstrative adjectives, relative pronouns, the pluperfect
tense, on pourrait/on devrait + infinitive, il y a (ago),
negatives, comparatives.
Current and future jobs
Work experience
Looking for and getting a job
Advantages and disadvantages of different jobs
Comparing jobs and careers
Post-16 choices
Grammar: En + present participle, object pronouns with
negatives, venir de + infinitive, après avoir/être + past
participle, demonstrative pronouns.
Revision
Subject:
Spanish (ab initio)
Year Group:
9
Name of Qualification:
GCSE
Exam Board:
AQA
Topic / Unit Name
Which term
e.g. first half
of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
Self and Family:
Basic information
Early autumn Late autumn
VLE (Year 9 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
Self and Family:
Daily Routine
Household Chores
Free Time
Early spring Late spring
Self and Family:
Recent Events
Future Plans
Early summer
- Late summer
Basic greetings
Introducing yourself (name, age, birthday, description,
personality, where you live)
Family (brothers and sisters, parents, pets, descriptions)
Relationship with family
Grammar: Nouns and genders, position and agreement of
adjectives, present tense, connectives.
Daily routine
Household chores
Free time
Grammar: Regular and irregular present tense verbs, reflexive
verbs, connectives.
A day spent with the family
Plans for the weekend
Plans for the future (job, marriage, children, where you would
like to live)
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Preterite, future tense with ir, conditional.
Subject:
Spanish
Year Group:
10
Name of Qualification:
GCSE
Exam Board:
AQA
Topic / Unit Name
Which term
e.g. first half
of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
Leisure: Holidays
Early autumn
Late autumn
Early spring
Holiday plans and activities
A past holiday
Your favourite and worst holiday
Plans for next year
Your ideal holiday
Where you would go if you won the lottery
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Linking ideas, revision of irregular and regular present
tense verbs, revision of preterite tense, introduction to imperfect
tense for description, comparatives, me hace falta + infinitive,
revision of future tense (ir + a + infinitive), conditional tense, si +
imperfect + subjunctive + conditional.
Subjects and opinions
Work experience
Future plans
What school/college is like (facilities, organisation, curriculum,
uniform)
Pressures and problems (discipline and sanctions, bullying,
violence, assessment, homework)
Your ideal school
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Revision of present, preterite, future and conditional
tenses, comparatives, time expressions, tener que + infinitive,
impersonal verbs, se debe/no se debe + infinitive
VLE (Year 10 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
Work and Education: Late spring
School and Work
Early summer
Late summer
Subject:
Spanish
Year Group:
11
Name of Qualification:
GCSE
Exam Board:
AQA
Topic / Unit Name
Which term
e.g. first half
of spring
Details of topic
Useful support materials
Lifestyle: Health
Early autumn Late autumn
VLE (Year 11 resources and materials)
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk
www.hellomylo.com
www.atantot-extra.co.uk
Leisure: Free Time
Early spring Late spring
Home and
Environment
Early summer Late summer
Parts of the body and illnesses
Advising others
Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their consequences
Your eating habits and what you do to relax
Your health when you were younger
Considering whether you live a healthy lifestyle and changes you
could/should make
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Revision of all tenses, frequency phrases, es importante
+ infinitive, dejar de + infinitive.
Free time activities
Pocket money, household chores and part-time jobs
Last weekend and this weekend
New technology
Spending time with friends
Media (television, film and music)
GCSE Speaking and Writing Assessments
Grammar: Revision of all tenses, emphatic adjectives, present
continuous.
Home and local area
Describing and comparing homes, neighbourhoods and geographical
areas and saying what you can do in them
Current problems facing the planet (pollution, global environmental
issues)
Being environmentally friendly within the home and local area