Curriculum overview for MFL
Intent
The Modern Foreign Languages curriculum at Oakfield is designed to foster in our pupils a love of language learning and a curiosity about other countries and cultures. Pupils learn how to speak Spanish confidently, with good intonation and pronunciation and they also develop fluency in reading. Pupils are given opportunities to develop language learning skills which can be applied to further language learning in the future.
Threshold concepts
Read fluently
This concept involves recognising key vocabulary and phrases.
Write imaginatively
This concept involves using key vocabulary and phrases to write ideas. Speak confidently
This concept involves using key vocabulary and phrases to verbally communicate ideas.
Understand the culture of the countries in which the language is spoken
This concept involves the background knowledge and cultural capital needed to infer meaning from interactions.
Themes School Hobbies Animals Weather Food Transport Time The body Clothing
Whole school overview for MFL
Autumn Spring Summer
Year 3
Greetings
Spanish culture
Classroom instructions
Animals
Pet shop
Numbers to 5
Plurals
Gender
Year 4
Animals
Classroom instructions
Parts of the body
Spanish poetry
Colours
Size
Adjective agreement
Names
Verbs
Colours
Opinions
Adjectives and word order
Numbers to 10
Conjunctions and simple sentences
Age
Food
Opinions
Shopping
Months of the year
Numbers to 31
Dates and birthdays
Personal description
Definite and indefinite articles
Phrases
Conjunctions
Extend sentences
Numbers to 15
Days of the week
Barcelona
Family
Possessive adjectives
Clothes
Uniform
Year 5
Classroom instructions
Opinions
Sports Sports clothing
Using the negative
Weather
Hobbies
Pets
Year 6 Time
Daily routines
Routines in other cultures
Houses
Hobbies
Poetry
Numbers to 60
Months and dates
School – subjects and timetables
Transport
Rooms in the house
Places in a town
Madrid
Directions
Buying food
Classroom
Stationery
South America
Opinion
Colour
Clothes
Numbers to 100
Café
Spanish food
Lesson and task design
Links to prior learning and retrieval practice
Introduce key vocabulary
Listening and speaking
Reading and writing
Apply
The Nature of Thinking
The Nature of Thinking supports our task design within different year groups
Year 1, 3 and 5 focus on the basic Years 2, 4 and 6 progress to advancing and deepening
Basic Advancing Deepening
Name
Describe
Follow instructions or methods
Complete
Recall
Observe
Use
Match Report
Measure List
Illustrate
Label
Recognise Tell Repeat Arrange
Define
Memorise
Calculate
Recite
Draw recall
Apply skills to solve problems
Explain methods
Classify
Infer
Categorise Identify patterns
Organise
Modify Predict Interpret Summarise
Estimate
Compare Use
Experiment
Demonstrate Practise
Show Arrange
Point out
Graph
Separate
Solve non-routine problems
Appraise Explain concepts
Hypothesise
Investigate Cite evidence
Design
Create Prove Judge
Recommend
Justify Generalise
Propose Discover Arrange
Rate
Evaluate Revise
Conclude Formulate Construct Develop Connect
Prioritise
Lesson sequence
task design for MFL
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