KS4 MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) – Leigh Academy Blackheath

Year 10

Module 1 - My Studies/Life At School

Core declarative knowledge: What should students know?

To describe subjects, teachers, facilities, rules, uniform, timetable, extra-curricular, daily routine.
To make comparisons and justify opinions, for example about subjects, use of technology, teachers etc.
To know differences in the school system in UK and Spanish speaking countries.
To use the past tense to talk about primary school
Grammar:
- Using a variety of negatives
- Using the neuter article: lo
- Using indefinite articles: cada, otro, todo, mismo, alguno
- Using quantifying articles: muchos, varios, algunos, unos, pocos
- Using impersonal verbs (se debe)
- Using desde hace + present tense
- Forming adverbs from adjectives (tristemente)
- Forming and answering questions (key question words e.g. como/que/donde)
- Form the imperfect tense

Core procedural knowledge: What should students be able to do?

Students will apply declarative knowledge to be able to answer the following questions:
- What do you study? What’s your school like? What are the teachers/uniform like? What was your primary school like?
Students will apply knowledge to complete a GCSE Role Play assessment as well as translation and written tasks.
They will also use declarative knowledge to be able to successfully answer reading and listening comprehension tasks.

Links to prior learning (to be made explicit and tested)

Articles
Adjectival agreement
Comparatives/superlatives
Ordinal numbers e.g. segundo.tercero
Present tense conjugation and pronouns
Use of the infinitive
Vocab – days, dates, times, colours, clothes, sports, daily routine, technology , conjunctions
Pronunciation/phonics – e.g. vowels/double ll/j/v

Module 2 - Education, Post-16/Jobs, Career Choices & Ambitions

Core declarative knowledge: What should students know?

To use the future tense to explain job preferences – including charity work, gap year
To justify future plans (e.g. to help others/to earn money)
To use the past tense to give details on a part time job/work experience – when/where/pay/tasks/opinion of people and place
Grammar:
- Using possessive adjectives
- Using lo and lo que
- Using tener phrases (tener la intencion/tener suerte)
- Using the near future tense
- Using the past tense (imp/pret)
- Two-verb structures QUERER, TENER la intención de,ESPERAR, PENSAR,
- IR a + infinitive
- Subjunctive present after cuando (future meaning)

Core procedural knowledge: What should students be able to do?

Students will apply declarative knowledge to be able to answer the following questions:
What are you going to study next year? What are you going to do after your studies? What did you do on work experience?
Students will apply knowledge to complete a GCSE Writing, Listening and Reading paper.
They will be able to succeed in the writing paper with a good understanding of the markscheme (e.g. cover all bullet points/range of tenses and opinions)
They will use cognates, context and common sense to deal with unfamiliar language
They will apply common suffixes to work out unfamiliar language
They will be able to make deductions in reading and listening

Links to prior learning (to be made explicit and tested)

To give opinions, make comparisons and justify reasons.
To confidently use the present tense, including irregular verbs
Negatives, comparisons, superlatives and question words

Module 3 - Home, Town, Neighbourhood & Region

Core declarative knowledge: What should students know?

Explaining different types of houses and areas
Saying where things are in your house (furniture/rooms/floors)
Talking about ameneties in your area
Discussing advantages/disadvantages of living in countryside/city
Grammar:
- Verbs – uses of ser and estar (focus on es/esta difference)
- Negatives – ningun and ninguna
- Agreement – feminine/masc nouns
- Locative adverbials and prepositions”
- Using al/a la and del/de la correctly
- Using demonstrative adjectives and pronouns (este/ese/aquel)
- Using possessive pronouns (Mio/tuyo/suyo – como es el tuyo?)
- Applying previous knowledge of imperfect/conditional tense to this topic
- Expressions of sequence (e.g. despues de)

Core procedural knowledge: What should students be able to do?

Students will apply declarative knowledge to be able to answer the following questions:
- Where do you live? What is there in your area? Describe your house.
- What are the benefits of living in the city?
Students will apply their knowledge into a GCSE Photo Card Speaking assessment as well as a Listening assessment.
Other skills they’ll be able to do:
- Building on formulation of questions – include adonde/a quien/ en que etc.
- Identifying different tenses in questions (como era tu pueblo hace veinte anos)
- Listening for tenses using verbs and time phrases to spot the tense

Links to prior learning (to be made explicit and tested)

Meaning and use of hay
Recap of the position and agreement of adjectives
Recap lo bueno/malo de…
Recap quantifiers e.g. todo/cada/alguno
Recap question words
Recap key adjectives and forming negatives
Recap basic vocab – seasons, numbers, colours, nationalities
Meaning and use of mi(s) and tu(s)
Comparatives/Superlatives
Basic negations

Module 4 - Social Issues: Charity/Voluntary Work/Poverty/Homelessness/Environment

Core declarative knowledge: What should students know?

To describe the role of volunteering and describe opinions of supporting charities
To discuss poverty and homelessness
To describe environmental problems, what you are worried about and how to reduce, reuse, recyle.
To describe natural disasters (deforestation, forest fires..) and ways to help after a natural disaster.
Grammar:
- Using reflexive constructions such as se debe, se puede + infinitive
- Third person singular and plural

Core procedural knowledge: What should students be able to do?

Students will apply declarative knowledge to be able to answer the following questions:
- What is the role of a volunteer? How do they support in international sporting events? What are common environmental problems? How can we help save the environment? What are common natural disasters? How can we help after a disaster?
Students will apply their knowledge into a GCSE Reading and Writing assessment
Other skills they’ll be able to do:
- Apply strategies to approach unfamiliar language know to watch out for words that change the meaning e.g. poco
- Understand the True/False/Not mentioned style questions

Links to prior learning (to be made explicit and tested)

Secure lexicon of infinitive verbs
Countries/areas
Se puede/se debe + infinitive
Expressions of sequence
Structures from M2 on Jobs e.g. espero trabajar/ayudar a los demas
Superlatives

Module 5 - Free Time: Sport/TV/Music/Cinema

Core declarative knowledge: What should students know?

To know a range of sports, music genres, books, TV programmes and types of films.
To give opinions, time frequency and weather
To describe free time activities in the past
Grammar:
- Si clauses
- Using the verb ‘soler’ in at least 2 tenses
- Imperfect: in weather expressions with estar, hacer
- Preterite tense

Core procedural knowledge: What should students be able to do?

Students will apply declarative knowledge to be able to answer the following questions:
- What did you do last weekend? What is your favourite______? Why? How often do you…?
Students will apply their knowledge into a GCSE General Conversation Speaking and Listening Assessment.

Links to prior learning (to be made explicit and tested)

Vocabulary for Sports, Cinema and TV.
Secure knowledge of singular regular preterite formation (AR, ER, IR)

Module 6 - Customs & Festivals/Travel & Tourism

Core declarative knowledge: What should students know?

To describe a past holiday – destination, accomodation, weather, activities, local celebrations, what made it memorable/disastrous
To describe a range of special days/festivals/ events – what you usually do to celebrate and an example in the past
To explain the importance of holidays and describe future holidays and dream holidays
Grammar:
- Preterite tense, including reflexive verbs
- Using preterite and imperfect together.
- To use si clauses e.g. si fuera posible
- To develop understanding of perfect tense

Core procedural knowledge: What should students be able to do?

Students will apply declarative knowledge to be able to answer the following questions:
- Where did you go last year on holiday? What was your most memorable holiday? What did you do? What didn’t go well? Why are holidays important?
- What would be your dream holiday? How do you celebrate festivals/special days? What Spanish festival would you like to participate in?
Students will apply their knowledge into a GCSE Writing/Reading assessment
To apply knowledge to role play scenarios – hotel booking/complaints/directions/shopping etc.
Developing greater complexity in spoken and written accounts of past events or experiences (antes de/después de haber /mientras/desde hace/acabar de)

Links to prior learning (to be made explicit and tested)

Recap daily routine for holiday pupose and compare
Recap all tenses – Secure singular present, preterite and imperfect
formation for regular and key irregular verbs
Recap weather phrases using hacer