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Year 11
This curriculum map provides an overview of the languages journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of linguistic topics, cultural themes, and communicative contexts alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills appropriate to their age and stage.
| Half Term | Unit(s) of Work | Key Assessments |
| Autumn 1 |
¡A clase! Vocabulary: School subjects, timetables, rules, facilities, school uniform, teachers, giving opinions about school life, school improvement ideas. Grammar: Absolute superlatives, forming and answering questions, obligation phrases (hay que, se debe), conditional tense. Phonics: [r], [rr], question intonation. Culture: School systems and daily life in Spain. Skills: Expressing and justifying opinions, describing school life, making suggestions for improvement. |
Mixed skill assessment Assessed writing |
| Autumn 2 |
Mi barrio y yo Vocabulary: Describing towns and cities, services, facilities, shops, places to live, describing homes, comparing past and present.Grammar: Imperfect tense for descriptions, preterite tense for events, si clauses, comparatives and superlatives. Phonics: Stress on question words, [ll], [ñ]. Culture: Medellín’s urban transformation and sustainable cities in the Spanish-speaking world. Skills: Describing places and locations, comparing then and now, giving opinions and reasons. |
Mixed skill assessment Assessed speaking |
| Spring 1 |
Un mundo mejor para todos Vocabulary: Environmental problems, recycling, protecting animals, volunteering, social responsibility, healthy living and community issues. Grammar: Present, near future, conditional, imperatives, impersonal structures (hay que, se debe). Phonics: [ge], [gi], [h], stressed vowels. Culture: Environmental projects and campaigns in Spain and Latin America. Skills: Making suggestions, predictions, giving advice and expressing future intentions. |
Mixed skill assessment |
| Spring 2 |
El futuro te espera Vocabulary: Jobs and careers, ambitions, workplaces, future plans, reasons for learning languages, expressing hopes and dreams. Grammar: Simple future tense, conditional, expressing dreams and ambitions, para + infinitive. Phonics: Career/job vocabulary, future tense endings. Culture: Career paths and pioneering individuals in Spanish-speaking countries. Skills: Talking about future plans and ambitions, giving and justifying preferences, linking studies to careers. |
Mixed skill assessment |
| Summer 1 | Exam skills & revision | Mixed skill assessment |