Spanish

Students entering the school in Year 7 who choose to study Spanish will study the following topics:

Term 1: introducing yourself and pets, free time and weather; present tense  

Term 2: school, likes and dislikes, family, descriptions

Term 3: home, town, telling the time, weekend plans; near future

In Year 8, students who studied Spanish in Year 7, will study the following topics:

Term 1: holidays; preterite tense, hobbies, music, cinema, mobiles; comparatives

Term 2: food, eating out, shopping for food; near future, three tenses together. Planning an outing and clothes; stem changing verbs, reflexive verbs.  

Term 3: holiday activities and directions

If Spanish is chosen as a second language in Year 8, students will study the topics outlined under 'Year 7' above. 

In Year 9, students on their third year of Spanish, will study the following topics:

Term 1: hobbies, likes and dislikes, films and birthdays; verbs in the past, present and near future. Jobs and future aspirations; tener que+inf. 

Term 2: food and healthy diets, daily routine and aches and pains; reflexive and stem-changing verbs. 

Term 3: children's rights, environment and changes in town; imperfect tense, se debería+ inf. Visiting a Spanish city; future tense. 

Those students in their in their second year of Spanish will study the topics outlined under 'Year 8' above.

In Year 10, students will study the following topics:

Term 1: house, school life, food and drink, health, media. 

Term 2: relationships and family, daily routine, house chores, hobbies, 

Term 3: special occasions, holidays. (End of year exams) 

Students will have the opportunity to work with the Spanish assistant on a regular basis.

In Year 11, students will study the following topics:

Term 1: city life, directions, shopping and money matters, environment, weather 

Term 2: mock exams - transport, childhood, work and future plans and aspirations.  

Term 3: IGCSE exams 

Students will have the opportunity to work with the Spanish assistant on a regular basis.

Clubs and Societies

There are also a number of co-curricular events taking place throughout the year which may involve different year groups.

Trips

• Cataluňa: students can sign up for a trip to Cataluňa in the Summer Term for 5 days (Year 7 and Year 8).
• Andalucía: there is the opportunity to take part in a Homestay programme in Andalucía, staying with host families and attending language lessons in a specialist language school. This trip takes place at the beginning of the Easter holidays (Year 9 and Year 10).

Theatre Trips:

We are dependent on what's on offer at the cinema and the theatre, or if there is an appropriate study day available, for example, but a trip to the theatre in London to see a play in Spanish in the Autumn term has become the norm, having now watched several plays by Lorca and I. Allende.

Other opportunities:

Every year we also welcome the Onatti Theatre company who put on a play for Year 9. 

If you have a specific enquiry for the Spanish Department, email spanish@kes.hants.sch.uk