Modern Foreign Languages

Department vision

Languages are part of the cultural richness of our society and the world in which we live and work.  Learning a foreign language contributes to mutual understanding, a sense of global citizenship and personal fulfilment. At WGSG students also learn to appreciate the target language countries and their people, culture and way of life.  Learning a foreign language gives students opportunities to express themselves with increasing confidence, independence and creativity. We explore the similarities and differences between the target language and English.  Students develop their communication skills, an understanding of the structure of language and their general literacy skills.

French - Year 7

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Introducing yourself 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Presenting and developing opinions 

  • Learning structures to describe what you were like when you were younger and how you would like to be 

  • Learning how to communicate in French during lessons 

  • Learning the verbs être and avoir 

Thematic content 

  • Talking about likes and dislikes 

  • Describing what you have in your bag 

  • Describing your personality and your physical appearance 

Term 2 

Talking about school 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Justifying opinions with a range of adjectives 

  • Using connectives and time phrases 

  • Introduction to present tense 

  • Introduction to past and future tense structures 

Thematic content 

  • Giving opinions about school subjects 

  • Describing your timetable 

  • Describing a typical school day 

  • Talking about the food you eat 

Term 3 

Describing what you do in your free time 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Learning a range of present tense verbs 

  • Understanding the prepositions à and de with different articles 

  • Using infinitive verbs after a range of opinion phrases 

Thematic content 

  • Talking about the technology you use 

  • Describing the sport you do 

  • Talking about the weather 

  • Describing what you like to do in your free time 

Term 4 

Describing your town or village 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using the structure ‘il y a’ in different tenses 

  • Learning the verb ‘aller’ 

  • Using the modal verbs ‘pouvoir’ and ‘vouloir’ in the present, imperfect and future tenses 

Thematic content 

  • Describing what there is in your town 

  • Describing what you can do in your town 

  • Talking about where you go at the weekend 

  • Explaining what you want to do 

Term 5 

Talking about holidays 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Introduction to the near future tense and structures for predicting an event in the future 

  • Introduction to the passé composé past tense and structures for narrating an event in the past 

  • Revision of regular and irregular present tense verbs 

  • Revision of key structures to describe activities and give opinions 

Thematic content 

  • Describing where you usually go on holiday 

  • Predicting what you are going to do on holiday in the future 

  • Narrating an account of a previous holiday 

Term 6 

Tense and Sentence structure 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision, recall and embedding of the linguistic structures taught during Terms 1-5 

  • Practice of Future Tense and Past Tense verbs and key structures 

  • Revision and practice of connectives, opinion structures, time phrases 

  • Revision and practice of imperfect tense structures 

Thematic content 

  • Narrating an event in the past 

  • Predicting an event in the future 

French - Year 8

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Discussing media preferences 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision of regular -er verbs and key irregular verbs être, lire, faire, metre and aller 

  • Development of knowledge of the passé composé 

  • Presenting developed opinions using a range of adjectives 

Thematic content 

  • Describing what you watch on TV 

  • Describing your favourite films 

  • Describing what you are reading 

  • Describing what you do on the internet 

  • Narrating an event about what you did last night 

Term 2 

Narrating an event in the past 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Development of knowledge of past tense verbs with ‘avoir’ with regular and irregular verbs 

  • Introduction to past tense verbs with ‘être’ 

  • Giving opinions in a range of tenses 

  • Recall and practice of near future tense 

Thematic content 

  • Describing activities during a recent trip 

  • Describing how you travelled 

  • Giving opinions about a trip 

  • Describing a future visit 

Term 3 

Talking about yourself, your family and your interests 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using the verb être with time phrases, intensifiers and connectives 

  • Masculine and feminine adjective endings 

  • Opinions with infinitive verbs 

  • Introduction to reflexive present tnese verbs 

Thematic content 

  • Describing your personality 

  • Describing your interests 

  • Describing relationships 

  • Talking about music 

  • Describing what you wear 

Term 4 

Describing your house, town and local area 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Making comparisons with ‘plus’ and ‘moins’ 

  • Using prepositions with de + articles 

  • Revision of ‘il y a’ in different tenses 

  • Revision of modal verb ‘pouvoir’ 

Thematic content 

  • Describing the area where you live 

  • Describing your house 

  • Describing your bedroom 

  • Talking about what you have done at home recently 

Term 5 

Describing your participation in a talent contest 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using structures followed by the infinitive 

  • Describing thoughts and feelings 

  • Using the modal verb ‘devoir’ 

  • Narrating an event in the past tense 

Thematic content 

  • Describing your talents 

  • Explaining what you have to do before entering a competition 

  • Explaining your thoughts and feelings 

  • Narrating an event in the past tense 

Term 6 

Tense and Sentence structure 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision, recall and embedding of the linguistic structures taught during Terms 1-5 

  • Practice of Future Tense and Past Tense verbs and key structures 

  • Revision and practice of connectives, opinion structures, time phrases 

Thematic content 

  • Narrating an event in the past 

  • Predicting an event in the future 

French - Year 9

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Describing what you do in your free time 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using direct object pronouns 

  • Revision of regular and irregular present tense structures 

  • Revision of near future and passé composé 

  • Revision of connectives, time phrases and opinion phrases 

Thematic content 

  • Describing online activities 

  • Describing another person 

  • Planning an event in the future 

  • Describing an event in the past 

Term 2  

Staying fit and healthy 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using the structure ‘j’ai mal à’ to describe injuries 

  • Using the structure ‘il faut’ and ‘il est nécessaire de’ 

  • Introduction to the simple future tense 

  • Introduction to structures used to predict an event in the future 

Thematic content 

  • Describing an injury 

  • Explaining what you must do to stay in shape 

  • Describing what you will eat and drink in the future to stay in shape 

  • Describing what you will do in the future to stay in shape 

Term 3   

The world of work 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using the verb ‘vouloir’ in different tense 

  • Masculine and feminine forms of jobs 

  • Using infinitive structures 

  • Giving opinions using the conditional tense 

Thematic content 

  • Talking about jobs 

  • Explaining why you want to do a job 

  • Giving reasons for the job you want to do 

Term 4   

The world of work 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision of structures followed by the infinitive 

  • Introduction to the imperfect tense 

  • Development of understanding of simple future tense 

Thematic content 

  • Explaining what you need to do a job 

  • Describing what you were like when you were younger 

  • Making plans for the future 

Term 5 

Describing a holiday 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of present tense verbs, including irregular verbs 

  • Reflexive verbs 

  • Revision and recall of past tense verbs 

  • Using the conditional tense to make a hypothesis 

Thematic content 

  • Describing what you normally do on holiday 

  • Describing how you prepare yourself using reflexive verbs 

  • Narrating a past holiday 

  • Making a hypothesis about your ideal holiday 

Term 6 

Tense and Sentence structure 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision, recall and embedding of the linguistic structures taught during Terms 1-5 

  • Practice of Future Tense (near and simple), Past Tense (passé composé and imperfect) and Conditional Tense verbs and key structures 

  • Revision and practice of connectives, opinion structures, time phrases 

Thematic content 

  • Narrating an event in the past 

  • Predicting an event in the future 

  • Making a hypothesis 

French - Years 10 & 11

Year 10

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Theme 1: Identity and culture 

Topic 1: Me, my family and friends 

Topic 3: Free time activities 

Linguistic understanding 

  • To revise the verb ‘être’ in the present and imperfect tenses 

  • To use different adjective endings 

  • To learn a range of regular and irregular present tense verbs 

  • To learn reflexive verbs 

  • To learn a range of modal verbs and infinitive structures 

  • To revise the formation of the imperfect tense 

  • To revise the formation of the passé compose and near future tenses 

Thematic content 

  • Describing your personality 

  • Describing the relationships in your family 

  • Narrating an event in the past tense 

  • Predicting an event in the future 

Term 2   

Theme 1: Identity and culture 

Topic 2: Technology in everyday life 

Topic 3: Free time activities 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision of the verbs jouer, regarder, lire, aller and faire in different tenses 

  • Using the modal verb ‘pouvoir’ 

  • Revision of past tense structures 

Thematic content 

  • Describing the sport you do 

  • Talking about what you read 

  • Talking about what you watch 

  • Describing your use of technology 

Term 3 

Theme 1: Identity and culture 

Topic 4: Customs and traditions in French speaking countries 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Modal verbs in the present, past and future tenses and other infinitive constructions. 

  • Revision of imperfect tense 

  • Revision of passé composé 

  • Conditional tense and if clauses 

Thematic content 

  • Describing your daily routine vs your weekend routine 

  • Giving an opinion about your favourite festival 

  • Describing a festival when you were younger 

  • Narrating a festival that took place last year 

  • Hypothesising about a festival you would celebrate if you lived in France 

Term 4 

Revision for and feedback from PPE exams 

  • Revision of all key linguistic structures 

  • Revision of thematic content 

  • Preparation for speaking exam 

Term 5 

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region 

Linguistic structures 

  • The verb ‘habiter’ in different tenses 

  • The structure ‘il y a’ in different tenses 

  • Structures with ‘ce qui’ 

  • Revision of modal verbs 

  • The simple future tense 

Thematic content 

  • Describing your region 

  • Describing problems with your town 

  • Describing what you can do in your town 

  • Narrating an event you took part in recently in your town 

  • Describing what you will do in your town in the future 

Term 6 

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 4: Travel and tourism 

Linguistic structures 

  • Revision of present tense structures 

  • If clauses 

  • The conditional tense 

  • Recall and practice of five tenses: present, passé composé, imperfect, simple future and conditional 

Thematic content 

  • Hypothesising about a dream holiday 

  • Describing what you usually do on holiday 

  • Talking about the advantages and disadvantages of holidays 

  • Narrating a past holiday 

Year 11

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment 

Topic 1: My studies 

Topic 2: Life at school/college 

Linguistic understanding 

  • The verb ‘étudier’ in different tenses 

  • Revision of present tense verbs 

  • Revision of passé composé 

  • Infinitive structures, including ‘il faut’ and ‘il est interdit de’ 

  • Revision of simple future tense 

Thematic content 

  • Giving opinions about school subjects 

  • Describing a typical school day and describing a memorable day 

  • Giving opinions about the school rules 

  • Talking about future plans 

Term 2   

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment 

Topic 3: Education post-16 

Topic 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions 

Linguistic understanding 

  • The verb ‘devenir’ in different tenses 

  • Conditional tense 

  • Additional infinitive structures: j’ai envie de, j’espère, mon but est de 

  • Subjunctive structures 

Thematic content 

  • Describing what you would like to become in the future and giving a reason 

  • Saying what you have to do and what your parents want you to do 

  • Describing work experience 

  • Talking about part time jobs 

  • Explaining plans after school 

Term  3 

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 2: Social issues 

Topic 3: Global issues 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Structures with ce qui 

  • Modal verbs and infinitive structures 

  • Giving reasons with ‘ça me permettrais’ and ‘ça me donnerais’ 

Thematic content 

  • Describing global concerns 

  • Talking about what you do and what you have done to protect the environment 

  • Explaining what you do to help the community and the voluntary work you would like to do 

Term 4 

Revision of all topics and preparation for speaking exams 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of all topics and key structures 

Thematic content 

  • Preparation of exam skills for speaking exam: role play, photo card and general conversation 

  • Preparation of exam skills for writing, reading and listening exams 

Term 5 

Revision of all topics 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of all topics and key structures 

Thematic content 

  • Preparation of exam skills for writing, reading and listening exams 

 

Mandarin - Year 7

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Introductions 

Linguistic understanding 

  • To learn how to pronunciation according to pinyin 

  • To learn the formation of a character. 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

  • Classroom languages: thank you, bye, stand up, please sit down 

  • to learn how to say numbers in Mandarin 

  • To introduce yourself in detail, name  

Term 2 

Describing yourself 

Linguistic understanding 

  • -the verb “ to have”  

  • measurement words 

 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to say number and age 

-to ask and talk about birthday. 

-to introduce one’s family, pet. 

-to talk about nationality and countries. 

 

Term 3 

Describing hobbies 

Linguistic understanding 

-giving reasons and justifications 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about jobs and what they want to do in future 

-to talk about hobbies you like 

- Talking about which sports you play 

 

Term 4 

School subjects 

Linguistic understanding 

-giving reasons and opinions 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about what you like doing and reason 

-to talk about abilities 

- Talking about school subjects/ 

Term 5 

School life 

Linguistic understanding 

- Time+ activities 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Describe your class. 

- Describing your school timetable 

- Schools in China (culture) 

-Using the 12-hour clock  

 

Term 6 

Daily routine 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Daily routine activities 

-to describe a school day 

-to talk about transportation  

 

Mandarin - Year 8

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Eating out 

Linguistic understanding 

-Giving opinions 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about food  

-to be able to order food in a simple conversation 

-to express your opinion about food and eating out experience. 

Term 2 

Describing another person 

Linguistic understanding 

- using the present tense 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about colour  

-to describe clothes with colours 

-to describe something/someone in detail 

Term 3 

Describing your town 

Linguistic understanding 

-to describe locations and direction 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about where to live  

-to describe a city’s facilities 

 

Term 4 

Describing your house 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to describe your house and your bedroom. 

-to describe weather features 

 

Term 5 

Holidays 

Linguistic understanding 

- Saying what you would like to do 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Talking about where to go in holidays 

- Talking about getting ready to go out 

- Talking about holiday plans 

 

Term 6 

Shopping 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about shopping for fruit and vegetable 

-Department shopping and shopping online. 

 

Mandarin - Year 9

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Shopping 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about shopping for fruit and vegetable 

-Department shopping and shopping online. 

 

Term 2 

Hobbies and interests 

Linguistic understanding 

-Duration  

-connectives and time phrases 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-to talk about hobbies and interests 

 

Term 3 

Family and friends 

Linguistic understanding 

-jobs (past tense and future tense) 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Extended family member 

-birth year and birthplace 

-A Chinese wedding 

 

Term 4 

Family and daily routine 

Linguistic understanding 

-Describing what you were like when you were younger 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

- My daily routine 

- My family (daily routine) 

- My family (when I was younger) 

 

Term 5 

Describing people 

Linguistic understanding 

-Comparison  

-Give opposing opinions 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Describe people’s appearance 

-describe clothes 

-Describe personality 

 

Term 6 

Local area 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-places around the town 

-taking a taxi 

-Places in Shanghai 

 

Mandarin - Years 10 & 11

Year 10

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment 

Theme 1: My studies 

Theme 2: Life at school/college 

Linguistic understanding 

-Modal verbs 

-Comparisons 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

--Study and school  

Term 2 

Theme 1: Identity and culture 

Topic 1: Me, my family and friends 

Topic 2: Technology in everyday life 

Linguistic understanding 

-Expressing preferences 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Technology and media  

- Role models  

 

Term 3 

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 2: Social issues 

Topic 3: Global issues 

Linguistic understanding 

-Complex structures: No matter A or B… 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT  

---Live Green  

--- Good causes  

--- Healthy life style  

 

Term 4 

Theme 3: Current and future study and employment 

Topic 3: Education post-16 

Topic 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions 

Linguistic understanding 

-Making a hypothesis 

-Predicting an event in the future 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-World of work  

Term 5 

Theme 1: Identity and culture 

Topic 4: Customs and festivals in Mandarin-speaking countries 

 

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 3: Global issues 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Food, drink and festivals 

-Poverty and homeless  

 

Term 6 

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 4: Travel and tourism 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Travel in China 

Year 11

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 2: Social issues 

Topic 3: Global issues 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Making a hypothesis 

  • Predicting an event in the future 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Revision of Live Green  

-Revision of Good causes  

-Healthy lifestyle  

Term 2   

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 2: Social issues 

Topic 4: Travel and tourism 

Linguistic content 

-Making comparisons 

-Giving opposing opinions 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-Tourism  

-Food, drink and festival  

-Poverty and homeless 

 

Term 3   

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

Topic 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region 

 

Linguistic content 

-Revision of all Core Language 

 

 

THEMATIC CONTENT 

-My local area 

-Shopping 

-Family relationship 

-Literature and poems 

 

Term 4   

Revision of all topics and preparation for speaking exams 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of all topics and key structures 

Thematic content 

  • Preparation of exam skills for speaking exam: role play, photo card and general conversation 

  • Preparation of exam skills for writing, reading and listening exams 

Term 5   

Revision of all topics 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of all topics and key structures 

Thematic content 

Preparation of exam skills for writing, reading and listening exams 

 

Spanish - Year 8

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Introducing yourself 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Learning how to communicate in Spanish during lessons 

  • Learning the verb tener and ser 

 

Thematic content 

  • Describing your personality and your physical appearance and age 

  • Learning structures to describe what you were like when you were younger and how you would like to be 

  • Talking about pets 

  • Birthdays  

 

 

 

Term 2 

Describing what you do in your free time  

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Presenting and developing opinions in the present and past (likes and dislikes) 

  • Justifying opinions 

  • Infinitive structures  

  • Present tense 

  • Hacer, jugar, ver 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • Describing what you like/dislike doing in your free time 

  • Saying what you can/can’t, usually do in your free time 

  • Describing the weather with cuando 

  • Sports  

 

 

 

 

 

Term 3 

Talking about school 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Opinions and Justifications with a range of adjectives 

  • Using connectives and time phrases 

  • present tense 

  • introduction to past tense 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • giving opinions about school subjects 

  • describing school facilities 

  • describing what you do at break time 

 

 

Term 4 

Family and friends  

 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Hay 

  • Using the 3rd person singular 

  • Adjective agreements  

  • Possessive adjectives 

  • Vivir and estar 

  • Intensifiers 

  • Connectives 

  • Time phrases 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • Describing your friends and family 

  • Describing another person 

  • Numbers 

  • Describing where you live 

  • Location  

 

Term 5 

Describing your town, local area  

 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Using the Hay   in different tenses 

  • Using the “se puede” in the present, imperfect and imperfect subjunctive 

  • Activities in the present, past and future tense  

Thematic content 

  • Describing what there is in your town 

  • Describing what you can do in your town 

  • Telling the time 

  

Term 6 

Tense and sentence structure 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision, recall and embedding of the linguistic structures taught during Terms 1-5 

  • Practice of Future Tense and Past Tense verbs and key structures 

  • Revision and practice of connectives, opinion structures, time phrases 

  • Revision and practice of imperfect tense structures 

Thematic content 

  • Narrating an event in the past 

Predicting an event in the future 

Spanish - Year 9

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

Describing your holidays  

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision of Present tense regular and irregular verbs 

  • Revision of key structures to describe activities and give opinions 

  • Regular and Irregular past tense and structures for narrating an event in the past 

  • Infinitive structures 

  • Time phrases  

 

 

 

Thematic content 

  • Describing where you usually go on holiday 

  • Narrating an account of a previous holiday  

  • Describing how your holiday was and what you would have preferred.  

 

Term 2   

Describing your holidays 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Time phrases  

  • Adjectives  

  •  Near future tense and structures for predicting an event in the future 

  • Opinions and justification 

  • Infinitive structures 

  • Imperfect subjunctive structures (si tuviera dinero, si pudiera elegir + conditional) 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • Describing future holidays 

  • Describing where you would like to go 

  • Saying where you would go if you had the money or if you could 

 

Term 3   

Technology in everyday life 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Time phrases for narration in the past 

  • Time phrases for narration in the present tense  

  • Imperfect tense verbs (-ar, -er, -ir) 

  • Revision of present tense 

  • Justifications using a range of adjectives 

 

Thematic content 

  • Activities to describe how you used to use technology in the past 

  • Activities in the present tense to contrast the past and now 

  • Talking about what apps you use and why, giving opinions and justifications. 

  • Revision of present tense 

 

Term 4   

Technology in everyday life 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Opinions with Lo 

  • Justifications using a range of adjectives 

  • Adjective agreement 

  • Direct object pronouns 

 

Thematic content 

  • Describing the pros and cons of technology 

  • Expressing opinions about technology and different apps and justifying opinions 

 

Term 5   

Describing your ideal town/city  

Linguistic understanding 

  • Introduction to Conditional tense 

  • Irregular verbs in the conditional tense (habría and tendría)  

  • Estar to describe location 

  • Ser to describe the town 

  • Imperfect subjunctive structures  

  • Justifications using a range of adjectives 

  • Adjective agreements 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • Describing where your ideal town/city would be and what it would be like. 

  • Describing how you wish it was 

  • Describing where you would like to live and why 

  • Describing what there would(not) be in your ideal town 

 

 

 

 

Term 6   

Describing your ideal town/city 

Linguistic understanding 

  • If clauses + conditional  

  • Revision of Conditional tense 

  • Justifications using a range of adjectives 

  • Imperfect tense 

  • Preterite tense 

Thematic content 

 

  • Describing ideal activities in your town, what you would do if you could, had the time etc 

  • Describing where you used to live and what you used to do when you were younger in your town 

  • Describing what you did recently in your town 

 

Spanish - Years 10 & 11

Year 10

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

THEME 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest- 

 Travel and tourism 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Opinion phrases present and past and justifications using some expressions and a range of adjectives 

  • Gustar different tenses and different persons 

  • Preterite tense 

  • Imperfect 

  • Opinion phrases with Lo 

  • Infinitive structures 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • Revision of weather expressions 

  • Describing what you like to do 

  • Narrating past holiday 

  • Describing how you travelled, with who, where you stayed 

  • Describing a past holiday using the imperfect tense 

 

 

Term 2   

THEME 3: Current and future study and employment 

TOPIC 1: My studies- Life at school 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Opinions with |Me interesa/ Me gusta 

  • Comparatives 

  • Opinions with Lo 

  • Revision of present tense 

  • Imperfect tense 

  • Narration in the past 

  • Near future 

 

 

Thematic content 

 

  • Giving opinions about school subjects (likes and dislikes) 

  • Justifying opinions with a range of adjectives 

  • Describing a typical day in school 

  • Using the imperfect tense to describe what your primary school used to be like 

  • Describing school uniform and school rules 

  • Discussing problems at school 

  • Narrating a memorable day in the past 

  • Describing a future visit 

 

 

 

Term 3   

THEME 1: Identity and culture 

Technology in everyday life 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Time phrases 

  • Opinions and justifications using a range of adjectives 

 

  • Present tense, reflexive verbs 

  • Preterite,  

  • Imperfect 

  • Future 

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Thematic content 

 

  • Describing what applications, you use and what for in different tenses 

  • The advantages and disadvantages of technology 

  • Reading online vs reading books 

  • Describing relationships and family members 

  • Describing a good friend 

  • Narration of past event with a friend/family member 

  • Future narration 

 

Term 4 

THEME 1: Identity and culture 

Free time activities 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Infinitive structures 

  • Present and past tense 

  • Opinions and justifications in different tenses  

  • Present Perfect 

Thematic content 

  • Describing leisure activities that you do in your free time in the present and past tense 

  • Expressing opinions about free time activities and justifications using a wide range of adjectives 

  • Comparing digital books and paper books 

  • Sports  

  • Films and Cinema 

Term 5 

THEME 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

My town- local area 

 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Haber, vivir, se puede in different tenses (present, imperfect, future and imperfect subjunctive 

  • Narration in the past tense and future tense 

  • Soler + infinitive 

  • Conditional 

  • Opinions with Lo 

  • Imperfect subjunctive structures 

 

Thematic content  

  • Places in a town 

  • Describing where you live and location 

  • Describing what you can do in a town in the present, past and future 

  • Describing the weather 

  • Talking about shopping 

  • Pros and cons of living in a city 

  • How you would improve your city if you could 

Term 6 

Tense and sentence structure 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision, recall and embedding of the linguistic structures taught during Terms 1-5 

  • Practice of Future Tense, Past Tense and Conditional verbs and key structures 

  • Revision and practice of connectives, opinion structures, time phrases 

Thematic content 

  • Narrating an event in the past 

  • Predicting an event in the future 

 

Year 11

 

Topic 

Learning Outcomes 

Term 1   

THEME 1: Identity and Culture 

Festivals 

Linguistic understanding 

 

  • Opinions and justifications using a wide range of adjectives 

  • Adjective agreements 

  • Past tense (Preterite and Imperfect) 

  • Future tense 

  • Imperfect Subjunctive structures 

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Thematic content 

  • talking about Spanish food and drink 

  • Opinions about food and drink and justifications 

  • Describing Spanish Festivals 

  • Narrating past events/ festivals 

  • Describing festivals when you were younger 

Term 2 

THEME 3: Current and future study and employment 

TOPIC 3: Education post-16  

TOPIC 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Present tense 

  • Narration in the past tense 

  • Conditional tense 

  • Structures to express future 

  • Present and imperfect subjunctive structures 

  • Simple future 

  • Expressing opinions and justifications 

  • Time phrases, connectives, intensifiers  

Thematic content 

  • Talking about part time jobs 

  • What you do to earn money 

  • Work experience 

  • What you would like to do in the future for a job and why 

  • Opinions about jobs  

  • Describing what you would do if you had a gap year 

  • Future plans 

 

Term 3 

THEME 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 

TOPIC 2: Social issues  

TOPIC 3: Global issues 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Present 

  • Impersonal structures  

  • Infinitive structures 

  • Narration in the past 

  • Future 

  • Time phrases 

  • Connectives 

  • Opinions and justifications using a wide range of adjectives 

Thematic content 

  • Protecting the environment 

  • Global issues 

  • Healthy life styles 

  • Future actions about environment 

  • Recent actions using past tense 

Term 4 

Revision of all topics and preparation for speaking exams 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of all topics and key structures 

Thematic content 

  • Preparation of exam skills for speaking exam: role play, photo card and general conversation 

  • Preparation of exam skills for writing, reading and listening exams 

Term 5 

Revision of all topics 

Linguistic understanding 

  • Revision and recall of all topics and key structures 

Thematic content 

Preparation of exam skills for writing, reading and listening exams 

Term 6 

 

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Post 16 at WG6

Four languages are offered for A level study.  These are taught across the two WG6 sites.  We have a long-standing and effective collaboration with Wilmington Grammar School for Boys which enhances the opportunities available in Modern Foreign Languages.  Our extensive offer Post 16 sets us apart from other schools in the area. We offer courses in:

  • French

  • German

  • Spanish

  • Italian

Related Careers

Did you know that 94% of the world’s population does not speak English as their first language and 75% do not speak English at all? It’s a multilingual world and UK companies are now realising that they need foreign languages to compete when trading internationally.  There are career opportunities in languages for all levels of ability and in a wide variety of contexts.  Although fluency will give the jobseeker more options, basic ability in languages is much in demand, as employers seek those capable of communicating  with foreign customers.  Salary uplift for those using languages at work can be anything from 8% to 20%, depending on how central languages are to the role. Jobs involving languages have many attractive features: travel/overseas placements, flexible working hours, opportunities for promotion and new responsibilities.  These are just a few of the careers available to linguists:

  • Translation and interpreting

  • Business and financial services

  • Marketing, media and technology

  • International Trade

  • Central government and Civil Service