Year 2 Term Theme Topic Grammar Autumn half-term 1 Current and future study and employment Life at school/college See resources: transfer deber/poder/hay que/querer to school rules context quantity words mucho/demasiado/bastante (including with plurals) Autumn half-term 2 national, international and global areas of interest Travel and tourism See resources: consolidation of preterite tense (see ) extension of imperfect tense (see ) consolidation of preterite and imperfect tenses (see ) sequencing words, expressions and phrases de/después de haber etc/mientras/desde hace/acabar de developing greater complexity in spoken and written accounts of past events or experiences weather expressions with hacer possessive pronouns mío etc Spring 1 Current and future study and employment Education post-16 See resources: Use of lo in lo que and lo + adjective future tense introduced for eg future study plans building on si clauses with present and future
more complex two verb structures (tener la intención de/tener ganas de/tener el derecho de) Spring 2 Local, national, international and global areas of interest Social issues Healthy/ unhealthy living See resources: recap on deber/tener que/hay que + infinitive and introduce conditional forms – affirmative and negative es mejor/sería mejor/más vale/más valdría negative nunca full explanation of imperfect to allow statements and opinions about previous health habits Summer half-term 1 Identity and culture Marriage/partnership revisiting adjectives to describe and use of que to describe ideal partner and enhance descriptions use of gerund revision of future tense to outline future plans direct and indirect object pronouns Summer half-term 2 Identity and culture Technology in everyday life Social media Mobile technology See resource: revision of past tenses to recount how social media have been used; or life before technology gracias a/sin/con enhanced statements of possibility including permitir, es posible que + subjunctive Year 3 Term Theme Topic Grammar
Autumn half-term 1 Local, national, international and global areas of interest Global issues The environment See resources: modal verbs linked to behaviours (must do/can do/should do/could do etc) si sentences revised for outlining consequences of actions Autumn half-term 2 Local, national, international and global areas of interest Social issues Charity/ voluntary work querer + infinitive querer que + subjunctive para que + subjunctive imperfect continuous Spring 1 Local, national, international and global areas of interest Global issues si fuera…/si tuviera que… with conditional completions hay que + infinitive and es importante que + subjunctive verbs of emotion + subjunctive (me preocupa que/me molesta que) Spring 2 Current and future study and employment Career choices and ambitions enhanced statements of possibility including subjunctive after conjunctions of time (cuando) use of quisiera to express ambitions pluperfect tense perspective Summer half-term 1 End of course examination focus Summer half-term 2 End of course examination focus Differentiation The grammar progression above might be over-demanding for some students. For each language point and grammar area, you'll need to decide the appropriate scope for each group of students –