Year 1

Topic/ Theme

Functions/ Notions

Core language

Phonic focus

Autumn 1

• Greetings
• Name
• Magic words

• Simple greetings
• Making simple statements (name, greeting)
• Asking simple questions (name)
• Singing
• Watching video clips
• Using magic words in role play.

• Hola / adiós
• Buenos días /buenas tardes/ buenas noches
• ¿Cómo te llamas? Me llamo
• Gracias / por favor / permiso/

lo siento

• Ll
• Silent h
• ñ

Autumn 2

• Feelings
• Basic classroom vocabulary
• Christmas vocabulary

• Asking simple questions.
• Naming objects round the classroom.
• Asking simple questions
• Game: Simon dice…
• Singing: “Feliz Navidad ”

• ¿Cómo estás? ¿Qué tal?
• Estupendo/ regular/ fatal
• Mesa/ Puerta/Ventana/ alfombra/ pizarra/ silla/

cuaderno/lápiz

• Feliz Navidad.

• e
• i

Spring 1

• Numbers 1 –10

• Counting
• Understand and apply numbers out of sequence.
• Singing: “Cuenta, cuenta”
• Asking simple questions.
• Game: ¿Verdadero o Falso?

• Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez.
• ¿Cuántos hay?
• ¿Qué número es?
• Verdadero / falso

• tr

Spring 2

• Colours

• Making simple statements
• Colouring
• Asking simple questions
• Sing: “El baile de los colores”
• Play: Pass the parcel with colourful objects inside.
• Vocabulary building, letter and sound links

• Rojo, Amarillo, azul, verde, rosa, morado, blanco, negro, naranja.
• ¿Qué color es?

• Ll
• J
• r

Summer 1

• Jungle animals

• Identifying animals
• Matching animals to their habitats
• Counting and colouring.
• Making statements
• Asking questions
• Gender of nouns and simple sentences, (Hay/es)

• Selva
• León, oso, mono, araña, serpiente, cocodrilo, elefante
• ¿Qué animal es?
• Hay... / Es un..

• ñ

Summer 2

• Three Little Pigs
• Goldilocks and the three bears.

• Cultural development, language understanding through context and previous knowledge
• Story telling
• Developing listening and comprehension skills.

• Cerdo
• Casa
• Madera
• Paja
• Ladrillo
• Lobo
• Oso

• ce, ci
• ca, co, cu
• ll

Notes

Reading: Begin to use phonic and other language learning strategies in order to read out words.

Speaking: They can introduce themselves and ask for someone’s name. They can express basic feelings.

Listening: Identify simple words, listen to simple songs, poems and stories.

Writing: Write basic words and begin to write very simple sentences.