In Key Stage 3 students will practise the 4 skills, speaking, reading, listening and writing. Students will start learning about using the present tense in French and using key words to be able to communicate in the foreign language early on. We will start with describing things and people, say what people have, do and where they go. In Year 7 we will also start asking questions and expressing future intentions. In Year 8, we will first focus on the past tense and sharing experiences and talking about what we did. We will then learn about school and food as well as talking about the environment. In Year 9, the focus will be on family and technology in the first half-term followed by what we do in our free time as well as discovering what French people do over the festive season. In the spring term, we will first learn about food, sport and describing our house and town. Then we will discuss environmental and social issues. For the summer term we will describe what we learn at school and what we do on holidays.
| Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key Concepts | Describing a thing or a person Saying what people have, do and where they go Asking questions | Sharing past experiences Talking about what you and others do at school Talking about the environment | Free time/Festivals Food/Sport/House Social issues/ Environment Holidays/ School | |
| Autumn Term (Sep-Oct) |
Describing a thing or a person
Verb ‘être’ = to be Verb ‘avoir’ = to have Adjectives to describe a thing or person | Sharing past experiences
Feminisation of nouns Past tense Information questions | La famille/La technologie Ma famille et moi (family) On se marie (relations) On garde le contact (technology) Tu es technophile | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Assessment focus on listening and Grammar (je tu il/elle pronouns) | Assessment focus on reading and speaking | Assessment focus on reading, writing and grammar | ||
| Autumn Term (Nov-Dec) |
Saying what people do
Sept couleurs magiques (text) Verb ‘faire’ = to do -ER verbs | Talking about what you did Il y avait = there was Langue de Boeuf (text) Talking about nouns you can’t count Formal and informal situations: | Free time/Festivals What you like to do On fait la fête (party time) Partout, c’est la fête (festivals) | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Assessment focus on reading, translation and Grammar (how to conjugate the -er verbs) | Assessment focus on speaking and writing | Assessment focus on listening and grammar | ||
| Spring Term (Jan-Feb) |
Saying what people have
Use the plural Il y a = there is Numbers | Talking about what you and others do at school
Talking about what you are doing this week and what you do every week Saying what you do or did in a typical day | Food/Sport/House
La nourriture (food) Tu fais du sport? A la maison (my house) Là où j’habite (where I live) | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Assessment focus on speaking | Assessment focus on listening and speaking | Assessment focus on reading, writing and grammar | ||
| Spring Term (Feb-April) |
Saying where people go Verb ‘aller’ = to go Answer questions Familiale (text) | Comparing how people do things
Communicating in other languages Talking about what you can, must, will and want to do | Social issues/ Environment
Associations caritatives (charities) Health Environment Problèmes sociaux | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Assessment focus on writing and translation | Assessment focus on reading and writing | Assessment focus on listening and grammar | ||
| Summer Term (Feb-May) |
Asking questions
-RE verbs -IR verbs Negation[1] | Communicating in other languages
Talking about what has happened at a specified time Déjeuner du matin (text) | Holidays/ School Les vacances (holidays) Past activities L’école et les matières (school and subjects) | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Assessment focus on listening and grammar | Assessment focus on reading, listening and writing | Assessment focus on listening, reading, writing and grammar | ||
| Summer Term (May-July) |
Expressing future intentions
Future tense Negation [2] Prepositions | Talking about the environment
Talking about what you know Talking about travel activitie | School [2]/ The future
La vie scolaire (school life) Les études (future studies) L’avenir (the future) | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Assessment focus on reading and speaking | Assessment focus on speaking | Assessment focus on speaking | ||
Year 7
Key Concepts
Describing a thing or a person
Saying what people have, do and where they go
Asking questions
Quality Mark AssessmentsAutumn Term
(Sep-Oct)
Describing a thing or a person
Verb ‘être’ = to be
Verb ‘avoir’ = to have
Adjectives to describe a thing or person
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on listening and Grammar (je tu il/elle pronouns)
Autumn Term
(Nov-Dec)
Saying what people do
Sept couleurs magiques (text)
Verb ‘faire’ = to do
-ER verbs
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading, translation and Grammar (how to conjugate the -er verbs)
Spring Term
(Jan-Feb)
Saying what people have
Use the plural
Il y a = there is
Numbers
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on speaking
Spring Term
(Feb-April)
Saying where people go
Verb ‘aller’ = to go
Answer questions
Familiale (text)
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on writing and translation
Summer Term
(Feb-May)
Asking questions
-RE verbs
-IR verbs
Negation[1]
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on listening and grammar
Summer Term
(May-July)
Expressing future intentions
Future tense
Negation [2]
Prepositions
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading and speaking
Year 8
Key Concepts
Sharing past experiences
Talking about what you and others do at school
Talking about the environment
Quality Mark AssessmentsAutumn Term
(Sep-Oct)
Sharing past experiences
Feminisation of nouns
Past tense
Information questions
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading and speaking
Autumn Term
(Nov-Dec)
Talking about what you did
Il y avait = there was
Langue de Boeuf (text)
Talking about nouns you can’t count
Formal and informal situations:
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on speaking and writing
Spring Term
(Jan-Feb)
Talking about what you and others do at school
Talking about what you are doing this week and what you do every week
Saying what you do or did in a typical day
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on listening and speaking
Spring Term
(Feb-April)
Comparing how people do things
Communicating in other languages
Talking about what you can, must, will and want to do
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading and writing
Summer Term
(Feb-May)
Communicating in other languages
Talking about what has happened at a specified time
Déjeuner du matin (text)
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading, listening and writing
Summer Term
(May-July)
Talking about the environment
Talking about what you know
Talking about travel activitie
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on speaking
Year 9
Key Concepts
Free time/Festivals
Food/Sport/House
Social issues/ Environment
Holidays/ School
Quality Mark AssessmentsAutumn Term
(Sep-Oct)
La famille/La technologie
Ma famille et moi (family)
On se marie
(relations)
On garde le contact (technology)
Tu es technophile
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading, writing and grammar
Autumn Term
(Nov-Dec)
Free time/Festivals
What you like to do
On fait la fête (party time)
Partout, c’est la fête
(festivals)
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on listening and grammar
Spring Term
(Jan-Feb)
Food/Sport/House
La nourriture (food)
Tu fais du sport?
A la maison (my house)
Là où j’habite (where I live)
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on reading, writing and grammar
Spring Term
(Feb-April)
Social issues/ Environment
Associations caritatives (charities)
Health
Environment
Problèmes sociaux
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on listening and grammar
Summer Term
(Feb-May)
Holidays/ School
Les vacances (holidays)
Past activities
L’école et les matières (school and subjects)
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on listening, reading, writing and grammar
Summer Term
(May-July)
School [2]/ The future
La vie scolaire (school life)
Les études
(future studies)
L’avenir (the future)
Quality Mark AssessmentsAssessment focus on speaking