Teacher in Charge: Mrs A. Lawgate.
Recommended Prior LearningMYP Language Acquisition
Optional Subject
Objectives
The course builds on topics covered in Year 9. Students continue to develop their skills using a wide variety of tasks, authentic resources and digital tools.
Content
School Life
MYP Unit | Outline |
School Life | How is school life organised? Students learn to talk about their subjects, opinions and discover what their day might look like if they went to school in a Spanish speaking country. |
Home Sweet Home | Students learn to talk about their homes and the places they live in and compare those to how people live in Spanish speaking countries. |
Free Time and Other Stuff | Students learn to talk about hobbies and sports in New Zealand and Spanish speaking countries. They learn to discuss what they do in their free time and what they do to support their own well-being. |
Celebrations | Students learn to talk about traditions celebrated in Spanish speaking countries. |
Term 1
School Life.
Likes and dislikes with reasons, linking expressions, words for clarifying information, time, question words, transport.
Term 2
Home Sweet Home.
House vocabulary, ordinal numbers, prepositions, demonstrative adjectives, furniture.
Term 3
Free Time and Other Stuff.
Modal phrases, personal pronouns, verbs, present tense conjugation, sentence structure, possession, adverbs, reflexive verbs.
Term 4
Celebrations.
Day of the Dead, New Year's.
Criteria A: Listening Comprehension.
Criteria B: Reading Comprehension.
Criteria C: Speaking.
Criteria D: Writing.
Historian, Flight Attendant, Journalist, Interpreter, Foreign Policy Officer, Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Importer/Exporter, Immigration Officer, Translator, Private Teacher/Tutor, Secondary School Teacher, Teacher Aide, Speech-Language Therapist, Tour Guide, Travel Agent/Adviser, Intelligence Officer