Pupils in year 7 come with a range of back ground knowledge in French so pupils are introduced to the main SSCs of French (sound symbol correspondences.) By the end of the year pupils will be able to give details about themselves and their family, and their school life including subjects, teachers, equipment and school uniform. Pupils will also be able to give justified opinions on their favourite school subjects, their favourite teachers and develop their answers using the comparative. Pupils are encouraged to use key grammatical terminology from KS2, for example nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Year 7 Overview
June
Trinity 2 July
Topic/Big Question Theme(s)
Sept School Life
Michaelmas 1 Oct School Life
School n France objects in the classroom
My studies
Nov My teachers
Michaelmas 2 Dec My teachers
Who is your favourite teacher and why?
Jan What do you wear?
who is your favourite School uniform teacher and why
Lent 1 Feb What do you wear
School uniform
Mar All about me
Lent 2 Apr Likes and dislikes
Talk about yourself
Give opinions
Talk about family
Assessment
Assessment 1
Year 8 Overview
Year 8 will build upon the vocabulary, grammar and phonics developed throughout year 7. Of particular focus will be infinitive verbs and how these are used in the future tense and with modal verbs. Attenion will also be paid to a wider range of more complex connectives to enable pupils to employ a larger variety of sentence structure. Sound Symbol Correspondences (SSC) and phonics will be taught throughout to increase proficiency and confidence in spoken French. Pupils will be encouraged to give and justify opinions.
June Topic/Big Question My family and Descriptions
Theme(s)
Trinity 2 July Phone use and future tense
Family
Assessment
Sept My hobbies
Michaelmas 1 Oct Where I live
Nov My town
Michaelmas 2 Dec My town
Jan My body
Assessment 2 (in June)
Lent 1 Feb Illness
Mar At the doctor
Lent 2 Apr Healthy Eating
Application of phonic Sport and other -er knowledge verbs Speaking Reading Writing Translation A6:A13 Vocabulary acquisition
House and area
Describe places in a town
location of places directions
Body and saying something hurts
Saying what is wrong
At the doctor's surgery food and drink
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
exam
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
role play at the doctors directed vocabulary checkpoint testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
speaking assessment including read aloud and 3 questions, 1 of which is in the future tense
Year 9 Overview
Trinity 1 May healthy eating continued
future tense and il faut healthy living verbs
In year 9 pupils will continue to acquire vocabulary and apply this across a range of different topics. Pupils will apply their knowledge of a wide variety of infinitive verbs and employ them to the past and future tenses, imbuing them with an increasing level of autonomy with the language. Pupils will continue their work on sound symbol correspondances, which will further equip them to pronounce new vocabulary independently. This year will give year 9 an introduction to the themes covered at GCSE level, whilst interleaving a range of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in a variety of contexts.
Trinity 2 June July Topic/Big Question How will you be Where will you go on healthy holiday Theme(s) future tense and il faut future tense Assessment
Year 7 exam
Trinity 1 May My family
vocabulary testing checkpoint - healthy living and illness
Michaelmas 1 Sept Oct summer holidays summer holidays where did you go in the summer? grammar checkpoint past tense verbs
Nov school
Michaelmas 2 Dec school
what did you do in the my school life summer? asessment covering directed vocabulary listening, reading and testing focusing on translation skills retrieval and SSC
Jan family
my school life
family relationships
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
exam
Lent 1 Feb family family relationships
Mar friendships
Lent 2 Apr friendships
what is a good friend
what is a good friend
directed vocabulary testing focusing on retrieval and SSC
checkpoint - reading, listening and translation
Trinity 1 May TV and cinema Tv and cinema