Year 8

• Personal information, Brothers & sisters, Pets, Physical descriptions, Family members, Characteristics.
• School and subjects
• Sport, Hobbies, Likes & dislikes, Information about others, Arranging meeting, Favourite things.
• Where I live, My house, Local area, Activities in town, Food & drink,
• Cultural information about Spanish speaking countries.

Grammar:

• present and near future tense
• ser and estar
• adjectives, comparisons and superlatives

Year 9

• Arranging to go out
• Daily routine and life at home
• Fashion
• Music and hobbies
• Visiting Madrid (travel, directions, things to do etc)
• Health and a healthy lifestyle
• Jobs, pocket money and future plans
• School

Grammar

• the imperfect tense and the preterite 
• ser and estar
• impersonal verbs
• Past tense
• future and conditional tenses

 Key Stage 4 – GCSE NEW Specification AQA Languages: for the 2024 cohort onwards – for first exams in Summer 2026

New Specification for Summer 2026 exam – outline of new exam structure & assessment at Foundation & Higher Tier – here

 Year 10

•          Theme 1 – People & Lifestyle

Unit 1 – Identity & relationship with others

Unit 2 – healthy living & lifestyle

Unit 3 – Education & Work

Theme 2 – Popular Culture

Unit 4 – Free time activities

Unit 5 – Customs, festivals & celebrations

Unit 6 – Celebrity Culture

Year 11

Theme 3 – Communication & the world around us

Unit 7 – Travel & tourism (places of interest)

Unit 8 – Media & technology

Unit 9 – The environment & where people live

Revision /past papers & speaking exam preparations

The speaking exam will be sat after the Easter holidays in Year 11 and the other three exams will be sat during the exam period at the end of Year 11.