1 / Intro to GCSE
Explanation of Course / Controlled Assessment / GCSE Topics
Home and Environment
Accommodation / Spice Up Your Spanish Sheets
Top Tips for Controlled Assessment
Where you live: description of house, opinions and reason / Present tense, adjectival endings, opinions and reasons
2 / Home and Environment
Home and Local area / Description of home town, local area, region, / Present tense, adjectival agreement
3 / Home and Environment
Opinions and reasons / what there is to do there
what’s good and bad about your area and why
How your area has changed in the last 5-10 years / Passive voice – what one can do
Use of negatives
Perfect tense
4 / Home and Environment
Past accommodation/area / Where you would like to live in the future
What your dream area would be like and where it would be located
Opinions and reasons / Conditional- simple phrases (I would like + infinitive) + other key conditional phrases
Extended sentences: If I could/If I had the chance/if it were possible, ……
5 / Home and Environment / Environmental problems in your area (current);
Solutions to environmental issues:
what shouldbe done to help the environment
What you do personally to help the environment / Filler phrases (in my opinion/as far as I’m concerned); Use of present tense;
Use of passive voice (should/shouldn’t)
6 / Home and Environment
Environment local and global issues / What else you could do for the environment at home and in your local area
What you will do in the future to help your local environment
Distribute Controlled Speaking Assessment question / Present tense
Future tense (examples of both forms)
7 / Home and Environment
Preparation for CA speaking / Preparation for CA speaking / Task planning forms
CA feedback sheets
October Half term
8 / Preparation for CA speaking / Preparation for CA speaking
9 / Controlled Speaking assessment 1
Week beginning 11th Nov / Home and Environment
( Local area)
10 / Leisure (or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle / Healthy Living
- Healthy food and drink
- Health problems
11 / Leisure(or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle /
- Do you lead a healthy lifestyle? – what healthy/unhealthy things you consume and how often
Opinions and reasons
‘Filler’ phrases
Time references/ frequency phrases
12 / Leisure(or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle /
- What you do to keep fit and why it’s good for you
- What sports/sporting event you recently took part in
Perfect tense
Time markers (frequency etc)
Qualifiers/connectives
13 / Leisure(or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle
14 / Exam week
Spring term Yr 10 2016
wk / context & unit / purpose / grammar & skills coverage1 / Leisure (or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle /
- Smoking/alcohol drugs – problems associated
- Reasons why young people might take drugs
- Opinions and reasons
Qualifiers
Connectives
Relative/subordinate clauses
Phrases + infinitive
2 / Leisure (or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle / What should a person do if they want to give up smoking/alcohol/drugs? / Present
Time references/frequency
Phrases + infinitive
Conditional
3 / Leisure (or Lifestyle)
Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyle /
- What are the main stress factors for young people?
- What do you usually do to manage stress?
- What should a young person do if they feel stressed?
4 / Lifestyle (or Lifestyle)
Health / Present tense
Past tense
Conditional
Use of passive voice (you should/shouldn’t)
5 / Distribute Controlled Writing Assessment 1 /
- Preparation for CA writing
6 / Distribute Controlled Writing Assessment 1 /
- Preparation for CA writing
February Half term
7 / Controlled Writing Assessment 1
Week beginning 10th March / Healthy Living
8
9 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
relationships with friends and family / all about me
- physical description
- personality
- values
present tense revision
adjectival agreement
opinion + infinitive
10 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
relationships with friends and family / my life
- my typical day
time references/frequency phrases
11 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
relationships with friends and family / my family
- who is in your family
adjectival agreement
possessive adjectives
connectives / qualifiers
12 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
relationships with friends and family / my friends
- relationships with friends
- the ideal friend
- if it is easy to trust friends
adjectival agreement
possessive adjectives
conditional tense (be & have)
Summer term Yr 10 2016
wk / context & unit / purpose / grammar & skills coverage1 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
Job / studies /
- Do you have a part time job?
- How much money do you earn?
- What will you spend your money on in the future?
2 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
future plans regarding marriage/partnership / my future plans
- regarding education / career plans
- personal plans regarding friends, marriage and family
Opinion and reasons
3 / Lifestyle
Choices / my ideal future
- opportunities (work / education / gap year)
- ideal future regarding friends, marriage and family
4 / Lifestyle
Relationships and choices
Social issues / Young people
- issues facing young people
- what you would change about your life
5 / Prepare CA Writing 2 / Celebrity
6 / Prepare CA Writing 2 / Celebrity
7 / Complete CA Writing 2 / Celebrity
May Half term
8 / Listening and Reading Past paper practice
9 / Listening and Reading Past paper practice
10 / End of Year Listening and Reading Exams
11 / Results
12 / Work experience
13 / Work experience
Autumn term Yr 11 2016
wk / context & unit / purpose / grammar & skills coverage1 / Work and Education /
- Name of school / type/ location / facilities/subjects/number of pupils/teachers/extra-curricular activities
- opinions and reasons
- What subject you should be able to do at school and why
Modal verbs:
Subjunctive phrases
Conditional
2 / Work and Education /
- school subjects and opinions
- School day – (past/present) ideal school
- school rules; opinions and reasons
- A school rule that should be implemented
Key conditional verbs
Poder / deber
Conditional tense
3 / Work and Education /
- Description of a school tripyou have been on (where/when/who with/how long/activities/opinions with reasons)
4 / Work and Education /
- Future plans: travel/part time job studies /career/ place of work /Ideal job
Conditional tense
Subordinate clauses using ‘si’
5 / Preparation
CA Speaking 2 /
- School and Future plans
6 / Preparation
CA Speaking 2 /
- School and Future plans
7 / CA Speaking Test 2 /
- School and Future plans
October Half term
8 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism /
- Type of holiday you prefer with reasons
- Are holidays important? Why/why not?
Opinions
Connectives
9 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism /
- Preterite /
- Perfect tense
10 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism /
- Description of a past holiday: Where/when/how/with whom/activities/weather/opinions
Perfect tense
11 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism /
- What are the main tourist attractions in the area?
- What is there to do for young people?
Opinions and reasons
Connectives
12 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism /
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of tourism? Why?
13 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism /
- What kind of holidays will you take in the future?
Relative clauses
Subordinate clauses
14 / Yr 11 Mock exams
Christmas Holidays
Spring Term Year 11 2017
wk / context & unit / purpose / grammar & skills coverage1 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism / What would your dream holiday be like? / Conditional tense
Subordinate clauses
2 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism / Prepare CA Writing 3
3 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism / Prepare CA Writing 3
4 / Leisure:
Holidays and Tourism / Complete CA writing 3
5 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers / Complete any re-sits of Controlled Speaking or Writing assessments
6 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
7 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
February Half term
8 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
9 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
10 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
11 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
12 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
13 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
Easter Holidays
Yr 11 Summer term 2017
wk / context & unit / purpose / grammar & skills coverage1 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
2 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
3 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
4 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
5 / Listening and Reading Practice / Past papers
6 / French/Spanish GCSE / Listening and Reading exams
7 / French/Spanish GCSE / Listening and Reading exams
May Half term