Time scale
Topic focus
Term 1
All about me
Self, family, numbers
Give physical descriptions of self and others
Saying where you are from
Relationships with family
Pets
Descriptive adjectives
Expressing opinions and basic points of view
Term 2
Term 3
School
School subjects
Expressing opinions
Describe their teachers
Describe their daily
List school facilities and name positives and
negatives
My town
Describe the weather where they live
Describe their town, developing their use of
articles, adjectives and agreements
Justify a point of view identifying positive and
negative points about where they live
Describe the features and facilities in their
area and compare with other towns and cities
Say where they would like to live
Term 4
Progression- language structures
Language skills
Art
Exploring the artist
Spanish ‘Miro’ and his
style
Possessive pronouns mi, tu, su
Present tense of verb ‘tener’
Definite and indefinite articles
Regular verbs in the present tense
Adjectival agreements
Basic connectives ‘y’ ‘pero’ ‘porque’
Basic and higher level opinions
Possessive pronouns mi, tu, su
Present tense of verb ‘tener’
Definite and indefinite articles
Regular verbs in the present tense
Adjectival agreements
Basic connectives ‘y’ ‘pero’ ‘porque’
Revisión of Me gusta/me gustan/me encanta/me
encantan
Adverbs of time,reflexive verbs
Voy a +infinitive, quantifiers
Cross curricular links
Geography
Places to live, locations,
world map
The amazon jungle
Pronunciation
Memory
Sentence-building
Creativity
Performance
Autonomy
Science
Endangered species
Dangerous animals
English/literacy
Short poems and stories
PSHE/Citizenship
Types of family
Schools in Spanish
speaking countries
Present tense (vivir, haber, tener, ser, estar)
Reinforcement of definite and indefinite articles
Reinforcement of adjectival agreements
Connectives ‘y’ ‘pero’ ‘porque’
Me gusta/me gustan/me encanta/me encantan/
prefiero
Comparative and Superlatives
Adverbs of time
Voy a +infinitive
Conditional tense
ICT
Using the internet to
conduct research Write
News articles using powerpoint or word
Food technology
Healthy and unhealthy
foods, recipes
PSHE
Healthy lifestyle
Health
Describe symptoms and what parts of the
body hurt
Name items of food and drink and describe a
healthy diet
Explore recipes
Name different sports and describe the
features of a healthy lifestyle
Identify actions to improve lifestyle using near
future tense
Give recommendations using modal verbs
Say where they would like to live in the future
Definite and indefinite articles
Regular verbs in the present tense tener, doler,
beber, comer, tomar, llevar, Adjectival agreements
Connectives ‘y’ ‘pero’ ‘porque’ ‘ aunque’ ‘ademas’
‘sin embargo’
Adverbs of frequency/time phrases
Conditional tense
Near future tense, modal verbs
Term 5
Say where to go on holidays and activities
To describe a holiday using the past tense
To develop opinions and justifications
To explore reviews of real holidays and hotels
To name types of weather and describe the
weather on a previous holiday
To describe where they would go on holiday
Definite and indefinite articles
Regular verbs in the present tense
Preterite tense of regular verbs and some irregular
verbs in the preterite (IR, Hacer, Ser etc.)
Adjectival agreements
Some forms of the imperfect tensehabia/tenia/era
Connectives ‘y’ ‘pero’ ‘porque’
Me gusta/me gustan/me encanta/me
encantan,Creo que/pienso que/en mi opinión
Pronunciation
Memory
Sentence-building
Creativity
Performance
Autonomy
Geography
World map popular tourist
destinations
IT
Research destinations and
reviews using internet
searches
Term 6
Leisure
To list and describe leisure activities
To review a film and describe its plot
To answer questions about free time and
films seen and develop answers
To give recommendations about films and
justify responses
Present tense (jugar, navegar, mandar, ir hacer,
ver, escuchar, montar)
Reinforcement of definite and indefinite articles
Reinforcement of adjectival agreements
Basic connectives ‘y’ ‘pero’ ‘porque’
Me gusta/me gustan/me encanta/me encantan/
prefiero
Comparative and Superlative
Adverbs of time
Voy a +infinitive
Conditional tense
Bastante/ muy /un poco
Modal verbs: debes, tienes que, deberías
Pronunciation
Memory
Sentence-building
Creativity
Performance
Autonomy
Media
Film review, exploring plot,
characters and features
Pronunciation
Memory
Sentence-building
Creativity
Performance
Autonomy
Literacy
Descriptive writing
Term 6
Term 6