Year 9 Curriculum Information Booklet 2017-2018

Modern Foreign Languages – Spanish
Spanish is taught to half the year group at Stretford Grammar School and in Year 8 students
follow the scheme of work set in the ¡Viva! digital resource. Year 9 is the perfect time to
inspire language learning to build a strong springboard for their future learning of Spanish.
Students start their GCSE course at the beginning of Y9, with a strong focus on developing
the four key skill areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Unit 1 –¡Desconéctate!
Students will learn how to talk about the following
aspects of their holidays:
Discussing holidays and weather
Revising the present and the preterite
tenses
Saying what you do in the summer
Using the present tense
Listening to identify the person of the
verb
Talking about holiday preferences
Using verbs of opinion to refer to
different people
Understanding percentages
Saying what you did on holiday
Using the preterite tense
Using different structures to give
opinions
Describing where you stayed
Using the imperfect tense
Working out the meaning of new words
Booking accommodation and dealing
with problems
Using verbs with usted
Using questions to form answers
Giving an account of a holiday in the
past
Using three tenses together
Identifying positive and negative
opinions
Unit 2 –Mi vida en el insti
Students will learn to talk about their school lives in
Spanish:
Giving opinions about school subjects
Describing school facilities