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How are you today? 'Estoy' and 'estás' for states

How are you today and usually? 'Estar' for states and 'ser' for traits

How is she? 'Es' and 'está'

Today vs in general: 'soy' and 'estoy', 'es' and 'está'

How are we? 'Somos' and 'estamos'

Today vs. in general: 'somos' and 'estamos'

This unit requires pupils to use ‘estar’ and ‘ser’ effectively to communicate about how they and others are today and what they are like in general. When using the new plural forms ‘estamos’ and ‘somos’, pupils need also to use plural adjective agreement, applied to familiar and new adjectives.

Me and others: singular 'estar' (for states) and 'ser' (for traits)

The date: 'it is' + numbers and months

Birthdays: questions with 'cuándo'

Dates: questions with 'cuál', 'qué' and 'cuándo'

Special events and festivals: 'el' with dates

In this unit, pupils learn the numbers 16-31 and the months. Using numbers, months and days pupils ask and answer questions about birthdays and dates of other events. They practise the new vocabulary through listening, reading, speaking and writing to secure the knowledge.

Describe things and events: 'es'

How are they? 'Son' and 'están'

Today vs. in general: 'son' and 'están'

El Día de los Muertos: information questions with 'cuántos' and 'cuántas'

El Día de los Muertos: describe an 'altar'

This unit requires pupils to use ‘estar’ and ‘ser’ effectively to communicate about how others are today and what they are like in general. When using the new plural forms ‘están’ and ‘son’ in the context of the festival ‘El Día de los Muertos’, pupils also use plural forms of familiar adjectives.

Me and others: plural 'estar' (for states) and 'ser' (for traits)

Christmas lottery

In this unit, pupils revisit numbers and learn more about Christmas traditions in Spain, specifically ‘El Gordo’, the national Christmas lottery. They practise the full range of known sound-spelling links by listening and joining in with a traditional Christmas song in Spanish.

Christmas traditions in the Spanish-speaking world

What does Quique have? 'Tengo' and 'tiene'

What do you have? Questions with 'tengo' and 'tienes'

What do they have? 'Tiene' vs 'tienen'

On our desk: 'detrás', 'debajo' and 'en'

Hair and eyes: singular and plural agreement of adjectives

My friend Max: understand descriptions

Portraits: describe me and my friend

In this unit pupils use previously taught and newly learnt forms of ‘tener’ in the contexts of school, home and physical description. They synthesise familiar and new language for the purpose of describing a friend. For this they learn new carefully selected high frequency vocabulary.

What I and others have: singular and plural 'tener'

Fallas: -ar verbs 'she, he, it' vs. 'we'

In the languages classroom: -er verbs 'we' vs. 'she, he'

Ask about activities at a fundraising event: -er verbs ' she, he' vs. 'you'

At break time: -er verbs 'he, she' and 'we', the negative 'no'

A dream: -ar verbs 'she, he' vs. 'they'

It's summer! Singular forms of 'hacer'

This unit develops pupils’ verb knowledge. Pupils use singular and new plural forms in various contexts, including the languages classroom, a fundraising event, daily activities, a dream scene and  Las Fallas festival. They use negation and conjunctions ‘también’ and ‘pero’ in extended sentences.

What I and others do: AR and -ER singular and plural verbs

Introducing and describing yourself in Spanish

Saying your age in Spanish

Months of the year in Spanish

Saying the month of your birthday

Saying your name, age and birthday in Spanish

Así soy yo

Saying your nationality

Saying which country you live in and which language you speak

Saying which language you don't speak, which country you don't live in and which nationality you aren't

Saying where you live, your nationality and which language you speak

¿Dónde vives?

Saying the names of 6 pets

Saying it is or isn't a certain pet

Describing the pets with some colours

Describing pets with more colours and joining descriptions with a conjunction

Creating strange animals and describing them

Eso, ¿qué es?

Naming items of clothing

Describing clothes using colours

Describing clothes with colours, sizes and styles

Saying clothes that you have and using a conjunction

Saying which clothes you do or don't have and joining descriptions with a conjunction

Me visto

Describing someone else's size and colour

Naming parts of the head and face

Describing parts of the head and face with colours and sizes

Describing a monster's head and face and joining descriptions with conjunctions

Making monster description better using intensifiers

Describo un monstruo

Saying some food words and saying you want to have some of these foods

Saying you or someone else is hungry, hot and cold

Giving opinions about singular foods and joining opinions using conjunctions

Giving opinions about plural foods and joining opinions using conjunctions

Giving someone else's opinion about singular and plural foods and joining opinions using conjunctions

¡A comer!

Saying different sports

Saying which sports you play and do, which sports you don't play and do, and joining sentences using conjunctions

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These lessons will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.