The Crypt French Department: Programme of Study Autumn 1 Year 7 Tasters What is a cognate? Skills: Taster lessons Places in a town and preferences with reasons. Grammar: Opinions, intensifiers, negatives. Assessment: Quiz
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
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Family and pets How do you use adjectives correctly?
School How can I express my opinion?
Free-time How do you form the present tense?
Where I live How do you form the near future tense?
Summer Project
By the end of year 7, students will be able to…
Skills: Talking about school and subjects and activities. Giving opinions and comparisons. Telling the time.
Skills: Talking about sports, free time activities, adverbs of frequency, opinions on activities.
Grammar: Adjective agreement, avoir and être. Grammar: Preference verbs (aimer, préférer, Assessment: Grammar detester, adorer), and Vocabulary Quiz, comparative adjectives. Speaking, Mid-Year Exam Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Listening
Grammar: Regular -er, -ir & -re verbs. 1st person infinitive structures, adverbs of frequency.
Skills: Introducing yourself, numbers and dates, describing your family and pets, colours.
Year 8 Holidays Daily routine and clothes How do you form the past What is a reflexive verb? tense? Skills: Describing our daily Skills: Describing your routine and clothes. summer holiday Talking about going out (normally, last year, next and making excuses. year, ideal holiday). Describing the weather, Grammar: Reflexive verbs seasons and holiday in the present tense. activities. Recapping adjective agreement including Grammar: The perfect adjectives before nouns. tense of -er, ir & re verbs Using modal verbs. using avoir and être. Recapping present and Assessment: Grammar near future tense. and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking, Mid-Year Exam Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Listening Year 9 Technology World of work How can we use How do you form the infinitives? conditional tense?
Festivals and Health How do French people celebrate? Skills: Describing French festivals and celebrations. Describing illnesses and accidents and offering advice. Grammar: Using a wider range of modal verbs. Using avoir mal à. Recapping prepositions. Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Translation
Film review What do these scenes show us?
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Translation
Skills: Talking about summer plans. Completing Skills: Talking about your summer projects. house. Saying what you Designing a consolidation are going to do. Describing boardgame. countries and nationalities, where you Grammar: Consolidation live and your town. of Year 7 Grammar. Near future tense Grammar: il y a & il n’y a pas de, using aller + à Assessment: Grammar la/au, prepositions of location. J’habite à/en. On and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking peut + infinitive. Near future tense.
Food and Drink What is a modal verb?
Assessment: End of Year Exam, Speaking My interests What is a pronoun?
Skills: Describing food and mealtimes. Arranging to visit a restaurant or café and saying what went wrong. Discussing healthy eating. Grammar: Recapping the partitive article. Using manger and boire in 3 tenses. Using negative structures. Asking and answering questions. Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Translation Environment How do you form the imperfect tense?
Summer Project
Skills: Summer tourism Skills: Describing film and project in which students television genres and write an email requesting preferences. Talking about information and complete musical instruments and a peer assessed photocard music preferences. on holidays. Grammar: Consolidating opinion verbs in 3 tenses. Use of depuis + present tense. Use of comparatives and superlatives. Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking
Revision and skills
…express their opinions and justify them on the topics of family, sport, free time and where they live. …understand the gender of nouns and adjective agreement rules. …understand what an infinitive is and conjugate verbs in the present and near future tenses.
By the end of year 8, students will be able to… …express their opinions and justify them on the topics of holidays, festivals, health, food and drink and film, TV and music.
Grammar: Consolidation of key grammar from Y8.
…conjugate verbs in the past, present and near future tenses, using a variety of Assessment: End of Year 8 time phrases Exam, Speaking …understand the use of modal verbs and reflexive verbs. …understand and respond to role play prompts accurately. Summer Project
By the end of year 9, students will be able to…