Year 8

• Personal information, Brothers & sisters, Pets, Physical descriptions, Family members, Characteristics.
• School and subjects
• Sport, Hobbies, Likes & dislikes, Information about others, Arranging meeting, Favourite things.
• Where I live, My house, Local area, Activities in town, Food & drink,
• Cultural information about Spanish speaking countries.

Grammar:

• present and near future tense
• ser and estar
• adjectives, comparisons and superlatives

Year 9

• Arranging to go out
• Daily routine and life at home
• Fashion
• Music and hobbies
• Visiting Madrid (travel, directions, things to do etc)
• Health and a healthy lifestyle
• Jobs, pocket money and future plans

Grammar

• the imperfect tense and the preterite 
• ser and estar
• impersonal verbs
• future and conditional tenses

Key Stage 4 – GCSE Specification AQA Languages: for the 2023 – 2025 cohort sitting exams in Summer 2025

Year 10

•          Identity  and culture

• Me, my family and friends
• Technology in everyday life
• Free-time activities
• Customs and festivals

• Local, national, international and global areas of interest

• Home, town, neighbourhood and region
• Social issues (charity/voluntary work, healthy and unhealthy living)
• Global issues (the environment, poverty and homelessness)
• Travel and tourism

Year 11

• Current and future study and employment

• My studies
• Life at school
• Education post-16
• Jobs, career choices and ambitions

Key Stage 4 – GCSE NEW Specification AQA Languages: for the 2024 cohort onwards – for first exams in Summer 2026

New Specification for Summer 2026 exam – outline of new exam structure & assessment at Foundation & Higher Tier – here

 Year 10

•          Theme 1 – People & Lifestyle

Unit 1 – Identity & relationship with others

Unit 2 – healthy living & lifestyle

Unit 3 – Education & Work

Theme 2 – Popular Culture

Unit 4 – Free time activities

Unit 5 – Customs, festivals & celebrations

Unit 6 – Celebrity Culture

Year 11

Theme 3 – Communication & the world around us

Unit 7 – Travel & tourism (places of interest)

Unit 8 – Media & technology

Unit 9 – The environment & where people live

Revision /past papers & speaking exam preparations

The speaking exam will be sat after the Easter holidays in Year 11 and the other three exams will be sat during the exam period at the end of Year 11.