Spanish

Key Contact:  Lorenzo Launo lal@gryphon.dorset.sch.uk
Syllabus Information: AQA

Course Content

Year 12

• Half Term 1: Teacher 1: La influencia de los ídolos: IOPs, passive voice, DOPs. Teacher 2: Ciberespacio: present tense, present continuous, comparatives/superlatives, ser vs estar, future tense.
• Half Term 2: Teacher 1: La identidad regional: present subjunctive, perfect subjunctive, using numerals. Teacher 2: Los valores tradicionales y modernos: imperfect tense, imperfect continuous, personal a, preterite tense, preterite vs imperfect
• Half Term 3: Teacher 1: El patrimonio cultural: Subjunctive, demonstrative adjectives, possessive adjectives, imperatives. Teacher 2: Film study: Volver: Essay writing
• Half Term 4: Teacher 1: La inmigración: present tense, preterite/imperfect, compound tenses. Teacher 2: Film study continued.
• Half Term 5: Teacher 1: La inmigración continued. Teacher 2: La igualdad de los sexos: perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional perfect
• Half Term 6: Teacher 1: El racismo: nouns/adjectives revision, conditional revision. Teacher 2: La política: present sunjunctive, imperative, perfect subjunctive

Year 13

• Half Term 1: Teacher 1: La convivencia: Pronouns, adverbs, IRP review. Teacher 2: La política continued:
• Half Term 2: Teacher 1: Como agua para chocolate: Essay writing. Teacher 2: Monarquías y dictaduras: preterite revision, imperfect subjunctive, sequences of tenses
• Half Term 3: Teacher 1: Como agua para chocolate continued. Teacher 2: Los movimientos populares: 2nd and 3rd conditional sentences, passive voice.
• Half Term 4: Teacher 1: Units 4,5,6 from Year 12 revision. Teacher 2: Units 1,2,3 from Year 12 revision.
• Half Term 5: Teacher 1: Como agua revision and general revision. Speaking exam. Teacher 2: Volver revision and general revision.

Homework

In KS5 students will be set weekly homework by each classroom teacher from a variety of sources such as Seneca to practice key vocabulary / structures / grammar / exam style questions, Printed booklet / electronic versions –  containing exam style tasks on the modules covered , vocabulary learning/revision

Kerboodle and AQA enrichment worksheets on modules covered in class, Use of authentic resources –  such as videos, news links, for enrichment, Essays practicing written skills, IRP independent research project as part of the students’ end of Y13 speaking tests.