Head of Department: Claire Austin  (claire.austin@buxton.derbyshire.sch.uk)

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Key Stage 3

YEAR 7
French or Spanish :

• Myself and my Family
• My school
• My free-time and interests
• My town
• My holidays
• My daily routine
• Cultural topics of traditions and festivals
• The near future tense
• The Present Tense of regular verbs
• The Present Tense of Key Irregular Verbs
• The Definite and Indefinite Article
• Adjectives and Adjectival agreement
• Negatives

YEAR 8
French or Spanish.

• Youth Culture : Television, Reading and Use of Technology.
• My Identity and Character
• Friendship
• Fashion
• My house and Home
• Food
• Contests and Competition
• Cultural topics of music and diet
• The Past / Preterite Tense
• Possessive Adjectives
• The Near Future Tense
• Prepositions
• Comparative Adjectives
• Modal Verbs
• The present tense of Reflexive Verbs.

YEAR 9
French or Spanish.

• Facebook
• Music festivals
• Describing a date
• Body and health
• Careers and jobs
• Cultural topics of jobs and languages and French and Spanish cities
• Future plans
• Holiday adventures
• My rights and priorities
• Question forms
• Infinitive structures
• The past / perfect tense
• The near future tense
• The simple future tense
• The imperfect tense
• The conditional tense
• Direct object pronouns
• Stem-changing verbs

Key Stage 4

French and Spanish

• Healthy / Unhealthy living and consequences
• Relationships and Choices
• Family / Friends
• Marriage
• Social Issues
• Free Time
• Media
• Holidays
• Home / Local Area
• Environment
• Work and Education
• All previous grammar is revisited
• The subjunctive
• The pluperfect tense