Spanish — Year 8

Students complete regular vocabulary tests on the holidays topic. At the end of the unit students complete writing and speaking tasks to describe present and past holiday experiences.

• Spiritual
• Moral
• Social
• Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will become more able to express their opinions about past holidays, and will be able to ask others about their holiday experiences. Students will develop the skills needed to promote the benefits of visiting other countries, and will also understand the advantages of travelling to other places to see the diversity of other cultures and environments.

Create a supportive community:

Students will work together to speak positively about past experiences, and will learn to further appreciate differences within their culture and society thus making them more tolerant, and able to speak about how their community is progressing and changing.

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Students will be assessed on Listening and Reading and do weekly vocabulary tests on the unit.

• Spiritual
• Moral
• Social
• Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will be introduced to being able to expressing their opinions on their hobbies and past times. By building up this bank of phrases, and in better understanding the grammar of gender, and plurals, students will become confident in speaking Spanish.

Create a supportive community:

In developing their Spanish together at the same level, students will feel supported by peers to express opinions and to begin to spontaneously speak in a different language.

Quizlet

Students will be assessed on vocabulary regularly by their class teacher. They will complete a speaking assessment in the form of role plays ordering a meal in a restaurant. They will also complete short translations and writing tasks.

• Spiritual
• Moral
• Social
• Cultural

Develop the individual:

Students will be able to speak about favourite foods and drinks which they enjoy on a daily basis. This unit will enable them to practise for a the transactional language needed to order food and drink in Spain.

Create a supportive community:

Through completing role-plays with peers, students will help their classmates in building confidence in spoken Spanish. It will also allow students to feel more independent as they take on specific roles in acting out different scenarios.

Quizlet

Students will complete regular vocabulary tests and retrieval quizzes. Students then complete end of module tests in listening and reading with a variety of question tasks, both open comprehension and multiple choice.

• Spiritual
• Moral
• Social
• Cultural

Develop the individual:

Create a supportive community:

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