KS3 & KS4 Spanish curriculum

This unit introduces pronouns after prepositions, including emphatic use after 'a'. Pupils are already familiar with interesar-type verbs and now learn to combine these with pronouns after 'a' to discuss opinions about technology. Pupils strengthen 'haber' with a past participle for -ar and -er verbs, and learn irregular past participles in the perfect tense, which they embed in discussions of Spanish cinema. Likewise, this topic provides pupils with the opportunity to strengthen the imperfect tense in the third person singular and plural.

1. Internet: 'interesar'-type verbs, pronouns after prepositions
2. La inteligencia artificial: 'tener' meaning 'be'
3. Las redes sociales y yo: conversation practice
4. Dos directores de cine: perfect tense
5. Una peli de Guillermo del Toro: imperfect and preterite tenses
6. La última película que vi: extend writing

• Pupils know how to use subject pronouns in Spanish.
• Pupils know how to use interesar-type verbs.
• Pupils know how to use intonation to ask questions, and know a variety of question words.
• Pupils know singular and plural persons of 'tener' and can use 'tener' with noun where the English equivalent is 'be' with an adjective.
• Pupils know how to form the present perfect using 'haber' and a past particple.
• Pupils know a variety of irregular past participles.
• Pupils know singular and plural persons of regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the imperfect tense.
• Pupils know how to use 'tenía' and 'tenías' to mean 'had', 'había' to mean 'there was' or 'there were', and 'era' and 'eras' to mean 'was' or 'were' with a trait.
• Pupils know sound-symbol correspondences [ñ], [ch], silent [h].