French

Key Stage 3 (Year 7-9)

 Year 7

Unit 1 – Getting to know French – Phonics and sentence structure / Dictionary skills with infinitives – Present tense -ER verbs (full verb paradigm) and opinion phrases (aimer, détester, préférer)

Unit 2 – Regular verbs in the present tense (Mes passetemps) – Use of full verb paradigm and opinion phrases (aimer, détester, préférer)+ introducing a range of verbs

Unit 3 – Regular verbs, nouns and gender with adjectives
(Mon collège, Ma Ville) – Describing what we do at school and in town using a range of regular verbs.

Unit 4 – Irregular verbs – Avoir, être (Ma famille, mes amis et moi) – Describing friends and family – être plus adj. Describing appearances – avoir + cheveux/yeux. Avoir plus age. Expressions with avoir and differences with Eng – avoir faim/peur/honte/chaud/froid

Unit 5 – Reflexive verbs, modal verbs (Ma vie de tous les jours)
Talking about daily life using key reflexive and modal verbs. Continued development of vocabulary through use of a wide range of infinitives.

Unit 6 – Using irregular verbs faire & aller; The Near Future Tense
(Mon voyage en France) – Scheme of Learning building towards a day trip to France for the year 7 cohort studying French.

Year 8

Unit 1 – Recap of key concepts covered in year 7 course including the role of the infinitive, the process of conjugation and the subject pronouns in French.

• Present tense -er verbs
• -ir and -re verbs
• irregular verbs, avoir, être, aller and faire
• negatives
• articles
• perfect tense through SAP

Unit 2 – Perfect tense with avoir irregular, boire, faire prendre voir
perfect tense with être + imperfect examples, c’était and j’étais
question words.

Unit 3 – adjectives, agreement, reflexive verbs, possessive adjectives + irregular verbs in present and past tense, venir, aller faire, être, future tense (using 3 tenses)

Unit 4 – adjectives, comparatives, possessive pronouns, prepositions, irregular verbs, boire, prendre, il faut + infinitive
partitive article + using 3 tenses

Unit 5 – modal verbs, vouloir, devoir, pouvoir, possessive adjectives, comparative and superlative, imperative form

Unit 6 – Combining all grammar structures in a project – build towards script writing and performance, film project + presentation

Year 9

Unit 1 – Using present tense verbs, direct object pronouns, the near future tense, the perfect tense + three tenses together.

Unit 2 – Using “à” + definite article, il faut, the near and simple future, negatives
Revision of etre, avoir, faire and aller
Using three tenses

Unit 3 – Using masculine and feminine nouns,  modal verbs, the imperfect tense, practising the future and imperfect tenses
Using three tenses

Unit 4 – Asking questions using inversion,  the conditional, reflexive verbs, tense combination + using emphatic pronouns

Unit 5 – Using irregular verbs in the present tense,  reflexive verbs in the present tense, the near future , the perfect tense, the imperfect tense (Using at least three tenses)

Unit 6 – Using depuis + the present tense, the comparative, the imperfect tense, using direct object pronouns + using superlative adjectives

Key Stage 4 (Year 10-11)

Year 10

Le temps des loisirs, Jours ordinaires, jours de fête, De la ville à la campagne, Le grand large

Year 11

Au collège, Au travail, Un œil sur le monde

Key Stage 5 (Year 12-13)

 Year 12

La famille en voie de changement, La « cyber-société », Le rôle du bénévolat, Une culture fière de son patrimoine, La musique francophone contemporaine, Le septième art, La Haine

Year 13

Les aspects positifs d’une société diverse, Quelle vie pour les marginalisés, Comment on traite les criminels, Les ados, le droit de vote et l’engagement  politique, Manifestations, grèves – à qui le pouvoir?, La politique et l’immigration, Boule de suif et autres contes de la guerre

Independent Learning Resources

• Students use www.quizlet.com where they have access to all of their curriculum vocabulary. Students also have log-ins for www.languagenut.co.uk  – which gives them access to exam focused vocabulary and skills training.

• ‘Studio’ textbooks are available in the library and can be used to support homework.

Key Stage 4

AQA

• Students have a blue booklet of speaking questions which they should revise for their speaking exam.
• The French CGP exam practice workbook is available in the library and can be used for listening, reading, translation, grammar and writing practice.
• Studio textbooks are available in the library and can be used to support homework.
• Students also have log-ins for pearsonactivelearn.com – which gives them access to exam focused vocabulary and skills training.
• Students have log-ins for vocabexpress.com which they can use to increase their vocabulary.
• Students should also practice describing photos using their photo description sheet
• Students can use lyricstraining.com for a fun way to do extra listening – try ‘choice mode’, it is especially accessible

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