The Crypt French Department: Programme of Study
School How can I express my opinion?
Skills: Talking about school and subjects and activities. Giving opinions and comparisons. Telling the time.
Grammar: Preference verbs (aimer, préférer, detester, adorer), comparative adjectives.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Listening
Daily routine and clothes
What is a reflexive verb?
Skills: Describing our daily routine and clothes. Talking about going out and making excuses.
Grammar: Reflexive verbs in the present tense. Recapping adjective agreement including adjectives before nouns. Using modal verbs.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking, Mid-Year Exam
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
Free-time
How do you form the present tense?
Skills: Talking about sports, free time activities, adverbs of frequency, opinions on activities.
Grammar: Regular -er, -ir & -re verbs. 1st person infinitive structures, adverbs of frequency.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Translation
Where I live
How do you form the near future tense?
Skills: Talking about your house. Saying what you are going to do. Describing countries and nationalities, where you live and your town.
Grammar: il y a & il n’y a pas de, using aller + à la/au, prepositions of location. J’habite à/en. On peut + infinitive. Near future tense.
Assessment: End of Year Exam, Speaking
Food and Drink What is a modal verb?
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
World of work
How do you form the conditional tense?
Film review What do these scenes show us?
Environment How do you form the imperfect tense?
My interests What is a pronoun?
Skills: Describing film and television genres and preferences. Talking about musical instruments and music preferences.
Grammar: Consolidating opinion verbs in 3 tenses. Use of depuis + present tense. Use of comparatives and superlatives.
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking
Summer Project
Skills: Talking about summer plans. Completing summer projects. Designing a consolidation boardgame.
By the end of year 7, students will be able to…
…express their opinions and justify them on the topics of family, sport, free time and where they live.
Grammar: Consolidation of Year 7 Grammar. Near future tense
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking
…understand the gender of nouns and adjective agreement rules.
…understand what an infinitive is and conjugate verbs in the present and near future tenses.
Summer Project
Skills: Summer tourism project in which students write an email requesting information and complete a peer assessed photocard on holidays.
Grammar: Consolidation of key grammar from Y8.
Assessment: End of Year 8 Exam, Speaking
Revision and skills Summer Project
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.
…conjugate verbs in the past, present and near future tenses, using a variety of time phrases
…understand the use of modal verbs and reflexive verbs.
…understand and respond to role play prompts accurately.
By the end of year 9, students will be able to…
Skills: Discussing the pros and cons of technology and new media.
Grammar: Recap of present, past, near future using time markers. Preference verbs + infinitives, advanced negatives, direct object pronouns, adjectival endings.
Assessment: Translation Quiz, Reading and Listening
Year 10 Unit 1: Identity and relationships with others (1.1)
Skills: Describing ourselves, friends and families including personality and appearance. Discussing relationships, ideal partners and future plans.
Grammar: The present tense of regular and key irregular verbs. Reflexive verbs in the present tense. The near future and simple future tenses.
Assessment: Listening and Reading, Writing, Grammar Audit
Skills: Talking about jobs, careers, future plans and ambitions.
Grammar: Using the conditional tense. Expanding range of future phrases. Using pour/afin de + infinitive. Using qui & que.
Assessment: Translation Quiz, Speaking
Skills: Film review of La Classe. Discussing key themes, characters and giving opinions.
Grammar: Use of literature review vocabulary (il s’agit de…) and KS3 grammatical and GCSE opinion structures to create character descriptions and a film review.
Mid-Year Assessment, Translation Quiz
Unit 2: Free-time activities (2.1)
Skills: Discussing free time activities, including sport, music, film and TV and reading.
Grammar: The perfect tense with être and avoir. Recapping the present, future and near future tenses.
Assessment: Listening and Reading, Speaking
Unit 3: Media and Technology (3.2)
Skills: Discussing the pros and cons of technology, social media and staying safe online.
Grammar: The conditional tense. Recapping the present, future, near future and perfect tense. Using depuis + present tense, demonstrative pronouns, using pronouns en & y. Recapping GCSE opinion verbs.
Assessment: Mid-Year Exam, Listening and Reading
Skills: Discussing what you do to help the environment, environmental problems and their impact.
Grammar: Using the imperfect tense and modals. Using si clauses with the imperfect and conditional, recapping il faut & on devrait, using ce qui & ce que.
Assessment: Translation Quiz, Speaking
Unit 4: Customs, festivals and celebrations (2.2)
Skills: Discussing local and international festivals. Discussing birthdays and celebrations.
Grammar: The imperfect tense. Recapping the present, future, near future, perfect and conditional tenses. The perfect infinitive structure. Recapping en & à / au / aux + countries & towns.
Assessment: Listening and Reading, Writing
Skills: Revision techniques for End of Year Exam including speaking skills and consolidation of all topics.
Grammar: Consolidation of all KS3 grammar: 5 tenses etc.
Assessment: Translation Quiz, Speaking
Skills: Creating a lesson on a cultural topic relating to France or a Frenchspeaking country. Creating a magazine in French consolidating Y9 learning.
Assessment: End of Year 9 Exam
…express and justify opinions on the topics of technology, the environment, film and work.
…conjugate verbs in the present, past, conditional, imperfect and near future tenses.
…respond accurately to a photo card prompt.
…critically analyse a film and historical events relating to 20th and 21st century France.
Unit 5: Healthy living and lifestyle (1.2)
Skills: Discussing healthy lifestyles including diet and exercise. Discussing illnesses and injuries.
Grammar: Recapping all tenses and modal verbs. Negative phrases followed by de. Recognising possessive pronouns and demonstrative adjectives.
Assessment: End of Year Written Exam, Listening and Reading
Unit 6: Celebrity culture (2.3)
Skills: Discussing celebrity culture and influence. Consolidation and revision of skills from year 10 especially speaking.
Grammar: Consolidation of all tenses.
Assessment: Listening and Reading, End of Year Speaking Exam.
By the end of year 10, students will be able to…
…understand and produce language on the topics of family and social relationships, free time activities, technology, customs and festivals, healthy living and celebrity culture.
…conjugate regular and key irregular verbs accurately in at least six tenses.
…respond to 90-word and 150-word writing tasks.
…respond to role-plays, readaloud tasks and photo cards in the speaking exam.
Skills: Discussing travel and tourism, weather, holiday activities, why
Skills: Discussing where you live including your house and local area.
9: Education and Work (1.3)
Skills: Describing your school including uniform, rules, school day and facilities. Discussing work
Unit 10: Revision
Skills: Recap from mocks / Consolidation from exams
Grammar: Revision of all grammar points.
Assessment: Listening and Reading
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By the end of year 11, students will be able to…
…understand and produce language on the topics of travel and tourism,
Year 11 Unit 7: Travel and tourism, including places of interest (3.1)
Unit 8: The environment and where people live (3.3)
Unit
holidays are important and places of interest.
Grammar: Revision of all tenses. Revision of il faut and modal verbs
Assessment: Listening and Reading, Writing, Grammar Audit
Discussing global environmental problems and what you can do about them.
Grammar: Revision of all tenses. Present tense subjunctive.
Assessment: Listening and Reading
of world including jobs, applications, university and apprenticeships.
Grammar: Revision of all grammar and tenses.
Assessment: Listening and Reading
Year 12
Teacher 1: Unit 1
Skills: Discussing the changing concept of family
Grammar: Intensive GCSE grammar recap, regular and irregular present tense, future tense, interrogative forms
ASSESSMENT: U1 Paper 1, U1 Speaking
Teacher 2: Unit 2
Skills: Discussing the role of technology in everyday life
Grammar: Using definite articles and reflexive verbs, position and agreement of adjectives, revision of the perfect tense
Teacher 1: Unit 3
Skills: Discussing the role of voluntary and charity work
Grammar: Using comparatives and superlatives, using imperfect and pluperfect together, recognising and using direct and indirect pronouns)
ASSESSMENT: U3 Paper 1, U3 Speaking
Teacher 2: Unit 4
Skills: Discussing French heritage and culture
Grammar: Using irregular verbs in the perfect tense, negative forms, the passive voice and use of “on” and infinitive constructions
Teacher 1: Film study
Skills: Film module (La Haine) - analysis of background, themes and characters.
Teacher 2: Unit 5
Skills: Discussing contemporary French music
Grammar: Using the past historic and imperatives, recognising and using the imperfect, present and past participles.
ASSESSMENT: U5 Paper 1, U5 Speaking, Y12 mid-year exams
Teacher 1: Film study
Skills: Film module (La Haine) - analysis of background, themes and characters.
ASSESSMENT: 2 marked essays.
Teacher 2: Unit 6
Skills: Discussing the invention of cinema in France
Grammar: Recognising and using the subjunctive, conditional tense and adverbs
ASSESSMENT: U6 Paper 1, U6 Speaking, Y12 mid-year exams
Teacher 1: Exam skills and feedback
Skills: Revision, exams & work experience. Y12 exam feedback and evaluation.
ASSESSMENT: Y12 End of Year Exams (P1 and P2)
Teacher 2: Unit 7
Skills: Multiculturalism, how French society has become multicultural
Grammar: Recognising and using comparative and superlative adverbs, demonstrative adjectives ad pronouns, possessive adjectives and pronouns
ASSESSMENT: Complete next term
environment and where I live, education and work.
…conjugate regular and irregular verbs accurately in seven tenses including the subjunctive.
...understand a wide variety of advanced structures.
…respond to 90-word and 150-word writing tasks.
…respond to role plays, read aloud tasks and photo cards in the speaking exam.
Teacher 1: Exam skills and feedback
Skills: Revision, exams & work experience. Y12 exam feedback and evaluation.
Consolidation of Units 1-6.
Teacher 2 : Unit 7 (cont.)
Skills: ongoing from last term.
ASSESSMENT: U7 Paper 1, U7 Speaking
By the end of year 12, students will be able to…
…understand and discuss the changing concept of family
…understand and discuss the role of technology in everyday life
…understand and discuss the role of voluntary and charity work
…understand and discuss French heritage and culture
…understand and discuss contemporary French music
…understand and discuss the invention of cinema in France
ASSESSMENT: U2 Paper 1, U2 Speaking ASSESSMENT: U4 Paper 1, U4 Speaking
Year 13
Teacher 1: Unit 8
Skills: How marginalisation affects different sectors in society
Grammar: Venir de and depuis, passive in all tenses, indefinite pronouns and adjectives
ASSESSMENT: U8 Paper 1, U8 Speaking
Teacher 2: Literature study
Skills: Study of book Un Sac de billes (analysis of background, themes and characters, essay writing skills)
ASSESSMENT: 2 marked essays
Teacher 1: Unit 9
Skills: Prison in France (the judicial and prison system)
Grammar: Using inversion, present and perfect subjunctive
ASSESSMENT: U9 Paper 1, U9 Speaking
Teacher 2: Literature study
Skills: Study of book Un sac de billes, cont.
ASSESSMENT: Y13
Assessment Week (Papers 1-2-3)
Teacher 1: Unit 10
Skills: Young people and politics, the right to vote, the future of the EU
Grammar: future ideas with quand, using more than 1 tense in the same sentence
ASSESSMENT: U10 Paper 1, U10 Speaking
Teacher 2: Unit 11
Skills: Demonstrations and strikes
Grammar: interrogative adjectives and pronouns, prepositions, irregular forms of the past historic
ASSESSMENT: U11 Paper 1, U11 Speaking
Teacher 1: Unit 12
Skills: Politics of immigration
Grammar: impersonal verbs and dependent infinitives, direct and indirect speech, recognising the imperfect subjective)
ASSESSMENT: U12 Paper 1, U12 Speaking Teacher 2: Revision
Skills: Revision of all units with exam skills for the exams
ASSESSMENT: Mocks (Papers 1-2-3)
…understand and discuss how French society has become multicultural
…conjugate verbs accurately in all tenses.
…critically analyse the film La Haine.
…respond to speaking cards on all topics.
By the end of year 13, students will be able to…
…understand and discuss how marginalisation affects different sectors in society
…understand and discuss young people and politics, the right to vote, the future of the EU
…understand and discuss the judicial and prison system in France
…understand and discuss demonstrations and strikes
…understand and discuss the politics of immigration
…conjugate verbs accurately in all tenses.
...understand the use of the subjunctive and other advanced tenses.
…critically analyse the film La Haine and the book Un Sac de Billes.
EXAMS EXAMS
…respond to speaking cards on all topics and a wide range of IRP questions.
