Vamos Booster Courses
Years 7 to 12

A great way to boost their grades

KS3 Booster courses Years 7-9 (specifications below)

Build their confidence and language skills at KS3 for GCSE success as we reinforce the core grammar covered in Years 7–9. Students review key topics such as present-tense verb conjugation, gender and number agreement, common irregular verbs, basic sentence structure, question forms, and the use of adjectives and connectives to extend ideas.

GCSE Booster courses Years 10-11 (specifications below)

Consolidate key grammar and essential structures for GCSE success, such as present, past and future tenses, common irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, comparatives and superlatives, adjective agreement, and extended sentence structures using connectives and opinions.

AS Booster course Year 12

Review the culture of different Hispanic countries including art and literature and speak about cyberspace and the influence in current society. Use the present and perfect subjunctive tense to express doubts, wishes, and emotions and speak about past events, influential people and their purpose in society. Use connectives and idiomatic expressions to enhance conversation style and talk about diversity and inclusion and human rights.

Year 7 Booster

Greeting people and introducing yourself
Getting to know the Spanish speaking countries
Learning to name colours
Counting up to 100
Understanding masculine and feminine and plural nouns
Naming and describing animals
Talking about pets
Learning the use of the present tense: regular and irregular verbs
Describing personality and what others look like

Year 8 Booster

Talking about the place and area where you live
Comparing ser and estar
Using adverbs of frequency
Describing types of houses and rooms and learning prepositions of place
Talking about what you eat and drink and giving opinions on food
Extending the use of verbs like gustar
Talking about holiday travel and transport and describing past holiday experiences
Using the near future
Introducing the use of the preterite tense: regular and irregular verbs

Year 9 Booster

Discuss the internet and social media
Discuss TV programming and musical taste
Use the future tense to discuss jobs and careers
Talk about our daily routine while using reflexive verbs
Talk about fashion and where to buy clothes
Discuss our relationships including friends and family
Talk about trips and life in different Hispanic cities
Use the conditional when discussing possible situations

Year 10 Booster

Talk about daily routines using the present tense regular and irregular verbs
Using time and frequency to ask classmates about activities during the week and weekend
Talk about family and friends; describe their appearance and personality and the relationship we have with them
Using the preterite tense we can talk about holidays and things we have done in the past
Talk about our house and the different rooms as well as our neighbourhood and our city/town
Talk about social media and speak about the advantages and disadvantages of using it
Talk about food, our likes, our diet and also a conversation in a restaurant
Use the future tense to speak about plans and holidays
Talk about different festivals in the Hispanic world

Year 11 Booster

Talk about the environmental and social problems with classmates
Talk about studies at school and about future plans when we finish school
Talk about future career, ambitions, work for young people and different professions
Answer basic questions in a job interview
Talk about some of the main problems affecting young people in our society
Using the Past Tenses (Indefinido, Perfecto & Imperfecto) to talk about different events, habits or experiences
Talk about different places we have been to on holiday and how to book a room in a hotel
More complex sentence structures using a wide range of connectives
Relative pronouns (que, quien, lo que, el que)
Developing analytical and justified opinions in speaking and writing

Year 12 Booster

Discuss the culture of different Hispanic countries including art and literature
Speak about cyberspace and the influence in current society
Use the present and perfect subjunctive tense to express doubt, wishes, and emotions
Speak about past events
Speak about influential people and their purpose in society
Use connectives and idiomatic expressions to enhance our conversation style
Talk about diversity and inclusion and human rights
Present, preterite and imperfect tenses used accurately across different contexts
Future and conditional tenses
Perfect tenses (present perfect and pluperfect)