KS3 & KS4 Spanish curriculum

This unit initially revisits the inflectional future, including regular forms and irregular stems, which pupils embed in the context of aspirations and role models. This provides a useful foundation for an introduction to forming verbs in the conditional tense, which uses the same stems. Pupils are also already familiar with singular 'gustar' in the conditional, which is revisited here. Pupils anchor their new knowledge of the conditional to discuss what they would like to do post-16, and to talk about an ideal world.

1. Pensar en el futuro - entrevista a Camilo: singular inflectional future
2. Pensar en el futuro: plural inflectional future
3. Pensar en el futuro: extended writing
4. Oportunidades: singular conditional, 'quisiera', 'me gustaría'
5. Oportunidades: uses and omission of definite and indefinite articles
6. Oportunidades: photo description and conversation practice
7. Yo que tú: singular and plural conditional
8. Entrevista a un actor de México: conditional
9. Intención o posibilidad: transcription and extended writing

• Pupils know singular and plural persons of regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs in the inflectional future.
• Pupils know some irregular stems in the inflectional future.
• Pupils know how to use 'quisiera' with an infinitive and 'me/te/le gustaría' with an infinitive.
• Pupils know how to use definite and indefinite articles, including where use or omission is different from English.
• Pupils know interrogative pronouns 'cuál/es', 'cuánto/a/os/as', 'quién/es'.
• Pupils know most adjectives come after the noun, but some come before.
• Pupils know strong vowels [e], [a], [o], diphthongs [ía], [ei], [ie], [io], and sound-symbol correspondences [rr], [-r-], [-r], [r-].