Staff (Ms, Miss, Mrs, Mr)

Role (Head of Department, classroom teachers, other ML role)

Miss E. Morel

Head of Department

Miss H. Fish

Languages teacher

Year

Term1

Term 2

Term 3

7

Basics

• Numbers: 1-50
• Key phonemes
• Alphabet
• Days and months
• Greetings
• Giving basic information about yourself
• Nationalities
• French facts

Family/Descriptions

• Family members– including extended
• Pets
• Discussing brothers and sisters
• Hair/eye
• Personality
• Pets

Grammar

· Avoir and être

· Definite and indefinite articles

· Using a dictionary

· Possessive pronouns: my/his/her

· Negatives: ne...pas

· Using the relative pronoun “qui”

· Simple adjectival agreement : masculine and feminine

· Comparatives: plus que/ moins que

 Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

Free time

· Sports

· Hobbies

· Frequency/ time phrases

· Simple connectives

· Basic opinions: j’aime, je n’aime pas, j’adore, je déteste/ je préfère/ je pense que/ je trouve ça

Media and social media

• Mobile phones technology
• Use of technology
• Social media: describe use and give opinions
• Types of movies/TV programs

Grammar

· Jouer au/ à la/aux

· Faire du/de la/ des

· ER verbs· Faire and aller

· Adverbs and forming adverbs

· Opinions + use of plural

· Present tense + depuis

· Asking people about likes and dislikes

· Tous les + time reference

Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

Food and drinks

· Fruits

· Vegetable

· Snacks

· Meats

· Ordering food and drinks from cafés and restaurant

· Booking a table

· Quantities

· Formal and informal use of you

· Complaining in a restaurant

Health

· Say what you must / must not do to remain healthy

· Say what is healthy and what is not

Grammar

 · Partitive articles after manger and boire

· Boire

· Il faut/il ne faut pas

· Meilleur/ pire que

· Reinforce comparatives

· Introduce near future

Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

8

School and education

· School subjects

· Giving and understanding the time

· Revisit days of the week and numbers

· Uniform/ clothes

· School facilities

· Future ambitions

· Describe your school routine

Grammar

· Revisit ER vebs present tense: étudier

· Faire: full  present tense stem revisit

 · Negatives: ni...ni, ne...rien, ne..que, ne...jamais

· Revisit comparatives and superlatives

· Introduce simple form of perfect : j’ai étudié/ je suis allé( e)

· Futur simple

· Adjectival agreement

· Ce/ces/cettes/cet

 Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

House and home life

• Rooms
• Types of housing
• Furniture
• Adjectives to describe a home
• Ideal home
• Chores
• Daily routine

 Grammar

· Adjectival agreement : irregulars ( vieux, beau,…)

· Prepositions: devant, près, à côté de

· Reflexive verbs: present tense

· Devoir

· Conditional tense

 Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

Local area/places of interest

· Places in town

· Shops

· Directions

· Preposition

· Pouvoir

· Ideal town

 Grammar

· Imperative

· Reinforce conditional and futur simple tenses

· Aller+ au/ à la

· Si structure—present tense

· Formal/ informal use of « you » in French

 Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

9

Holiday and tourism

· Countries

· Travel/ booking travel

· Accommodation

· Renting/booking accommodation

· Locations

· Activities

· Touristic attractions

· Ideal holidays/ future holidays

· Weather: basic and complex

 Grammar

· Revisit superlatives and comparatives

· Perfect tense: regular and irregular

· Relative: qui/que

· Reinforce conditional, futur simple tenses

· y/en

  Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

Work and future career

· Jobs

· Little jobs

· Pocket money and use

· Future plan

· Revisit education: subject and option choices

· Life after high school

· Personal qualities

· Understand job adverts

Grammar

· Masculine/ feminine nouns: identify pattern and adapt

· Imperfect tense: comparing primary to secondary subjects and options

· Adjectival agreement review

· Savoir

  Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

Social issues and environment

Health

· Expressing pain and hurt

· Smoking and alcohol related health concerns

· Discussing what we should do/ should not do to remain healthy

· Revisit exercise/ sport

· Compare past health routine to current

· Discuss new health resolutions

Environment

· Global issues

·  Investigate solutions

Society issues

· Unemployment

· Poverty

 Grammar

• Modal verbs

· Intensifiers and quantifiers

· Reinforce negatives: ne rien/jamais/que/plus+ ni...ni, aucun, personne

· Reinforce perfect tense

· Reinforce imperfect tense

· Reinforce future tense

· Starting sentences with infinitives

  Homework

At least once weekly, at most twice weekly. A mix of vocabulary learning, spellings, readings, writing and translation tasks.

Component 1: Speaking Oral test: 7-9 minutes (Foundation tier) 10-12 minutes (Higher tier) 25% of qualification

Three tasks: One role play One photo card discussion One conversation Learners are not permitted to use dictionaries in any part of the assessment.

Component 2: Listening Written examination: 35 minutes (Foundation tier) 45 minutes (Higher tier) 25% of qualification

Listening comprehension tasks with non-verbal and written responses Learners are not permitted to use dictionaries in any part of the assessment.

Component 3: Reading Written examination: 1 hour (Foundation tier) 1 hour 15 minutes (Higher tier) 25% of qualification

Reading tasks with non-verbal and written responses, including one translation task from French into English Learners are not permitted to use dictionaries in any part of the assessment.

Component 4: Writing Written examination: 1 hour 15 minutes (Foundation tier) 1 hour 30 minutes (Higher tier) 25% of qualification

Writing tasks including one translation task from English into French Learners are not permitted to use dictionaries in any part of the assessment.

Year

Term1

Term 2

Term 3

10

Personal Information/ Media/Free time

· Revisit descriptions

· Friendships and relationships

· Role-models

· Arranging to go out

· Use of formal/informal you

· TV programmes and movies

· Social media and its influence

· Views on social media

· Books

· Music

· Revisit sports and hobbies

· Shopping for clothes

 Grammar

· Adjectival agreements

· Faire du/ de la

· Jouer du / de la+ instrument

· Jouer au/ à la/ aux

· Use of depuis with present tense

· Imperfect tense with descriptions

· Modals

· Vous/ tu

· Asking questions

· Perfect tense with sports and hobbies

· Near future

· Comparatives and superlatives

· Expressing likes and dislikes and develop vocabulary through synonyms work

 Assessment/homework

Timed translations

Timed writing

Past papers reading/listening

Role-plays/conversation task

Homework set twice weekly: vocabulary learning, reading or writing tasks.

Food and healthy-living

· Food categories

· Likes, dislikes, preferences

· Talking about meals

· Ordering food and drink

· Making reservations

· Shopping for food

· Quantities

· Food for special occasions

· Risky behaviours: smoking, drinking and drugs

· Peer pressure

· Expressing your views

· At the doctor’s/ chemist

 Grammar

· Perfect tense

· Imperfect

· Should/ could/ would

· Partitive articles

· Formal and informal you

· Adverbs + formation

· Quantities + de

· Negatives

· Revisit imperative

  Assessment/homework

Timed translations

Timed writing

Past papers reading/listening

Role-plays/conversation task

Homework set twice weekly: vocabulary learning, reading or writing tasks.

Home and Local Area

· Places and locations

· Types of housing

· Rooms

· Directions

· Daily routine

· Things to do in are

· Social issues in your area

· Climate and weather

· Environment

 Grammar

prepositions : en face de…

Relative clauses

Reflexive verbs in past, present and future tenses

Conditional and future tenses

Aller en/ au /à la

Y and en

   Assessment/homework

Timed translations

Timed writing

Past papers reading/listening

Role-plays/photo cards/conversation task

Homework set twice weekly: vocabulary learning, reading or writing tasks.

Mock exams

11

School, education and career plans

· Work experience

· School subjects

· Discussing choice of options and reasons

· Comparing education systems

· Jobs

· Little jobs

· Applying for jobs

· Expressing future ambitions

· Post 16 education

 Grammar

Time phrases

Imperfect

Devoir

Present participles

Comparatives/ superlatives

Formal language

Perfect tense

Near future/ future

Conditional 

Assessment/homework

Timed translations

Timed writing

Past papers reading/listening

Role-plays/conversation task

Homework set twice weekly: vocabulary learning, reading or writing tasks.

Speaking exams preparation

• Complete question sets from booklets
• Practise answers
• Practise of role-plays and photo cards tasks
• Revisit Year 10 content
• Revisit key structures
• Exam skills

Assessment/homework

Timed translations

Timed writing

Past papers reading/listening

Role-plays/conversation task

Homework set twice weekly: vocabulary learning, reading or writing tasks.

GCSE speaking examinations:

Will be carried out between April and May over a 5 week period determined by the exam board.

Reading/writing/listening exam preparation

• Revisit content Year 10/11
• Practice papers
• Exam skills sessions