YEAR 1 Week Teacher 1 – Topic Area Teacher 1 – Grammar / Skills Teacher 2 – Topic Area Teacher 2 – Grammar / Skills 1 Introduction to the course and assessment of students’ knowledge through bridging material 2-9 Theme 1 – La evolución de la sociedad española Theme 2 – La cultura política y artística en el de habla española El cambio de la estructura familiar Grammar: Nouns, genders and plurals Definite and indefinite articles Adjectives: agreement and apocopation; Lo + adjective The present tense of regular and irregular verbs Skills focus: Reading and responding La música: Los cambios y las tendencias Grammar: Use of ser and estar The present continuous tense The preterite and imperfect tenses Skills focus: Listening and responding El matrimonio y las relaciones Grammar: Stem-changing verbs Reflexive verbs Skills Summarising a written text in speech El impacto de la música en la cultura contemporánea Grammar: The perfect and pluperfect tenses Subject pronouns Direct and indirect object pronouns El mundo laboral en España Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives Adverbs Use of gustar La televisión y las telenovelas Grammar: Ordinal and cardinal numbers Demonstratives Possessive and relative pronouns Las oportunidades de trabajo Grammar: The future and conditional tenses Las nuevas tecnologías Grammar: The future and conditional perfect Skills focus:
Skills focus: Translation from Spanish into English Translation from English into Spanish 10-15 Literary text / Film Theme 2 – La cultura política y artística en el mundo de habla española Work 1 Grammar: The passive Prepositions Negatives Conjunctions Skills focus: Analysing the work Evaluating the forms and techniques used in the work El impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en la sociedad y en la política Grammar: The present subjunctive verbs of influence. expressions of possibility / probability. Skills focus: Summarising a spoken text 16 – 21 Literary text / Film Theme 1 – La evolución de la sociedad española Work 1 Grammar: Constructions with verbs: followed by a preposition Verbs followed by the gerund Verbs followed directly by an infinitive Skills focus: Relating the work to key concepts, issues and the social context Writing a critical response El impacto turístico en España Grammar: The present subjunctive after: verbs/expressions of emotion. conjunctions of time Skills focus: Expressing a point of view Justifying opinions Skills Developing logical arguments to persuade Las oportunidades que ofrece el turismo Grammar: Time expressions por and para Skills focus: Discussing a topic Showing links to Spanish culture and social context
Grammar: The perfect and pluperfect subjunctive Skills focus: Translation from English into Spanish Skills focus: Expressing and justifying viewpoints 7 Research Project – Review 1 Skills focus: Interpreting data and evidence Skills focus: Developing logical arguments to persuade Critical thinking 8-14 Theme 3 – La inmigración y la sociedad multicultural española Literary text/film/Theme 4 La integración en España Grammar: Time expressions Skills focus: Summarising information from a written source Skills focus: Critical written analysis Las medidas adoptadas por la comunidad y el aislamiento de los inmigrantes Grammar: por and para La Guerra Civil y el ascenso de Franco La reacción social y pública Los republicanos y los nacionalistas 15 Research Project Review 2 Skills focus: Evaluating arguments and processes Las divisiones en las sociedad 16 – 21 Revision + review of research project + Revision of book / film studied at AS 4 – La dictadura franquista y la transición a la democracia La dictadura franquista La opresión política Las divisiones políticas 22- 28 Theme 4 – La dictadura franquista y la transición a la democracia Revision of literary text / film studied at A level