Key Topics

What will ALL students learn?

What will the most able students learn?

Autumn 1

Introduction to the French language; France and other countries:

• Greetings

• Names

• Nationalities

• Classroom language

• Things that you associate with France

• Numbers 1-10

• The alphabet

• What there is / there is not in a town

• Country / nationalities / languages

• Jobs and languages

 1) To communicate about yourself

2) To identify places in town, using both positive and negative statements. 

3) To use the determiners (le / la / les / un / une / des)

Assessments : Reading / Writing

 1) How to write extended sentences using varied connectives

2) To analyse and apply the adjectival endings for nationalities

3) To understand cultural differences

Autumn 2

Favourite things:

• Things you like / don’t like

• Weekend activities you like / don’t like

• Pets

• Special occasions

• Numbers 11-31

• Dates / age / birthday

• You and your friends

1) To give positive and negative opinions

2) To understand how the infinitive is formed for –‘ER; verbs, to ‘IR’ verbs and ‘RE’ verbs

3) To apply correct forms of possessive adjectives

Assessments : Speaking / Listening

 1) To use the verbs ‘Avoir’ (To have) / ‘Etre’ (To be) in  speaking and writing

2) To read extended texts and identify the verb ‘Faire’ (To do) against various pronouns

3) To give excuses using ‘Je n’ai pas de…’ (I don’t have)

Spring 1

 School:

• School subjects you like / don’t like

• Numbers up to 60 / how to tell the time

• School timetable

• School objects

• Problems and excuses

 1) To link prior learning to school subjects and give opinions

2) To put numbers acquired in context and tell time

3) To become familiar with common irregular verbs

Assessments : Reading / Writing

 1) Identifying language from a range of topics within an extended text

2) To extend writing with future tense

3) To read aloud with good pronunciation

Spring 2

 Home and Regions:

• Your area and the weather

• Where you live

• Flats and houses

• Things in your bedroom

 1) To analyse the way adjective endings change in the Dative Case with masculine, feminine and neuter nouns

2) To identify various types of houses and define with a range of adjectives

3) To pick out items of the bedroom and their gender from an extended dialogue

Asessments : Speaking / Listening

 1) To access weather forecast for other countries

2) To apply position of adjectives within sentences

Summer 1

 Family and other people:

• Family

• Morning routines

• Descriptions of appearance and personality

• Relationships

 1) To identify various family members

2) To understand use of reflexive verb

Assessments : Reading / Writing

 1) To develop paragraphs and extended writing, to includes range of topics, grammar and verbs

Summer 2

 Food and meals:

• Eating out

• Numbers 70 – 100 and above

• Ordering food

• Recipes: ingredients and quantities

• Healthy eating

 1) To analyse grammar points from an extended dialogue

2) To understand the verb Aller (to go)

3) To use partitive articles (de / du / de la / des)

Assessments : Speaking / Listening

 1) To understand the concept when using Pas + quantitive article

2) To apply je vais + au, a la, a l’ and aux)