Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

Year 7

Unit 1: Who you are and phonetics

Unit 2: Me and my life

 
Unit 3: My active life

Unit 4: The colours of the world – Art project

Units 5 and 6: Film Study – Les vacances de Petit Nicholas – Holidays

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

An introduction to the French culture and the Francophone world through the poem “Dans Paris”.

Learning the phonetic sounds and pronunciation.

Introducing yourself and asking questions of others such as age, where you live, your birthday and how you are feeling.

Introduction to giving opinions about hobbies and activities in the present tense.

Exploring links between French and English through cognate words.

Developing listening skills to identify other people’s hobbies.

Introduction to essential French grammar by using “my” and “your”

Developing language skills by including justifications and reasons why you enjoy/dislike activities.

Introduction to technology and your life online.

Giving examples of what causes you stress, like going to the dentist.

Developing language skills by forming negative sentences.

Learning a range of colours, including talking about “light/dark” shades.

Introduction to physical description for yourself and others. (hair/eye colour).

Introduction to clothes, animals.

Introducing prepositions to describe where something is located.

Understanding the relationship between adjectives and nouns in French and use this when describing a photo.

Exploring the culture surrounding holidays in France through the use of the film “Les vacances de Petit Nicholas”.

Talking about holiday plans in the present tense including; where you stay, how you travel there, what you bring with you.

Developing descriptive skills to describe the physicality of the film characters and the locations.

Introducing a future tense in order to discuss your aspirational holiday plans.

Across the year students will be assessed against the 4 main skill strands of listening, writing, reading and speaking.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students introduce themselves?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss their hobbies and interests?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students give extended reasoning for their likes and dislikes?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can student design and describe their own art work?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss their holiday plans?

Year 8

Unit 1: Paris, je t’aime

Unit 2: Paris, je t’aime

 
Unit 3: Film study – Les Choristes and School

Unit 4: Me and my future

Unit 5: Le monde francophone

 
Unit 6:  Le monde francophone

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

 Introduction to home and region.

Using the present tense to talk about where you live.

Talking about what you have/ don’t have in your town.

Discussing things that you can/can’t do in your area.

Developing giving positive/negative opinions about your town with justifications.

Introducing the past tense to talk about what you have done locally.

Extending skills to be able to discuss where you live.

Exploring what the city of Paris has to offer.

Continuing to develop the past tense to describe an imaginary holiday to Paris.

Learning the school subjects and your timetable.

Talking about what your school does/doesn’t have.

Introducing comparative language to describe your favourite subjects and teachers.

Topic is supplemented by the French film Les Choristes.

Introducing the future tense in order to give predictions and film reviews.

Reviewing personality adjectives.

Discussing what makes a good role model.

Developing comparative skills to compare friendship qualities and talk about your family

Developing the future tense in order to discuss your plans for the future.

Introducing vocabulary around the world of work and careers.

Introducing the Francophone world, countries and different nationalities.

Developing reading comprehension exam skills through the use of cognates.

Reinforcing knowledge about the cultures in the Francophone world.

Exploring different music festivals and food traditions.

Bonus culture: Celebrating Bastille day July 14^th. Exploring why it is celebrated, how it impacts us today.

Across the year students will be assessed against the 4 main skill strands of listening, writing, reading and speaking.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students talk about where they live?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students draw comparisons between Paris and Bridgwater?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students compare their school life at Chilton to life at Fond L’Étang?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe themselves and others to show what makes a good role model?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students demonstrate knowledge about the Francophone world?

Year 9

Unit 1: Social issues and environment

Unit 2: Film study – Bienvenue les ch’tis

 
Unit 3: Holidays

Unit 4: Technology in everyday life  

Unit 5: Les villes francophones

 
Unit 6: Healthy lifestyles

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

Reviewing knowledge surrounding the French revolution and discovering forgotten French figures from history such as Olympe de Gouge.

Discussing the environment and social topics that move us. Such as diversity, deforestation, pollution.

Introducing the film topic by exploring the geography of France and North/South stereotypes.

Reviewing film specific language and the future tense to make predictions about the film.

Reviewing character description to talk about our favourite characters.

Reviewing the skills surrounding photo description to talk about stills from the film.

Considering the world of work, future jobs and aspirations, such as charity work or apprenticeships.  

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Discussing activities, we did at home during the summer using the past tense.

Describing an imaginary charity work experience by reviewing environment topic vocabulary.

Discussing a disastrous holiday in the past tense using justifications.

Exploring different types of technology from present day and before.

Considering how technology impacts our everyday life and the effects on young people.

Exploring how technology is used by different people nowadays like influencers.

Reviewing all tenses to discuss our online activities in the past, present and future.

Building on holiday vocabulary to consider Francophone countries.

Reviewing the present tense including; where you stay, how you travel there, what you bring with you.

Talking about what you have/ don’t have in certain holiday destinations

Discussing things that you can/can’t do on holiday.

Developing giving positive/negative opinions about your holiday with justifications.

-          What makes a healthy life now and in the future

-          Advice healthy living posters

-          Autoportrait project to describe self, diet, lifestyle etc – KS3 French end of year project

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Across the year students will be assessed against the 4 main skill strands of listening, writing, reading and speaking.

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss ideas around environmentalism in their area.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe their aspirational future career plans?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students describe a past holiday experience?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss the importance of technology to them?

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students provide extended knowledge on the Francophone world.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Can students discuss how they maintain a healthy lifestyle?

Year 10

Unit: 1

Identity and Relationships with others

Unit: 2

Healthy living and lifestyle

 
Unit: 3

Education and work

Unit: 4

Free time activities

Unit: 5

Customs, festivals and celebrations

 
Unit: 6

Celebrity culture

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

Key Grammar

- introducing yourself: physical description, where you live, likes and dislikes

- personality: describing yourself and others

- future self: talking about what you want to achieve in the future

- presenting your family

- adjectives: position and gender agreement

- 1^st and 3^rd person verbs

- present tense of regular verbs

- simple future tense

- reflexive verbs

- comparatives

- food: what we like and dislike eating.

- health problems: talking about your body and trips to the doctors

- what makes a healthy lifestyle – plans for future health

- recent activities: sport, eating habits, activities with friends

- the near future tense

- negative sentences

- Using the perfect tense

- indirect object pronouns

- talking about school rules

- talking about post-16 education options

- talking about how to improve your school experience

- talking about different job types and careers

- talking about work experience

- negative sentences

- using the conditional

- using superlatives

- gender noun agreements

- expressing a future wish using “je veux” and “je voudrais”

- phrases with quantities

- talking about hobbies and sports

- talking about leisure activities in the past

- discussing opinions on cinema, television and music

- using the imperfect tense

- using the perfect and the imperfect tenses together

- the perfect tense with être

- direct object pronouns

- how we celebrate our birthday and customs

- how the francophone world celebrates their festivals

- talking about going to festivals in the future

- irregular verbs in the present tense

- practice the imperfect

- relative clauses

- irregular future simple tense

- talking about routes into fandom

- why do people want to become famous?

- talking about your abilities and achievements

- the pros and cons of being famous

- famous French people and the Paris Olympics successes

- practice of the perfect tense

- using infinitives as nouns

- identifying the imperative

- the conditional of irregular verbs

- using demonstrative adjectives

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about themselves and their family in three tenses. They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ families.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about what makes them healthy and also what they will do in the future to maintain a healthy life. They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ lifestyles.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about their likes and dislikes of education and their intentions for future education or employment.  They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ future plans.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

At the end of this unit, students will be able to talk and write about what they are passionate about during their free time – sports, technology, media. They will also have developed skills in reading and listening to others’ interests.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to show a cultural appreciation social and cultural events of Spanish speaking countries as well as being able to talk about their own celebrations and traditions.

Assessment Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to talk about celebrities, their role in society and whether they would like to partake in that lifestyle.

Year 11

Unit: 1

Travel and tourism

Unit: 2

Media and technology

 
Unit: 3

The environment

Unit: 4

Revision of Year 10+11 units

Unit: 5

Revision and preparation for GCSE exams

 
Unit: 6

Key Learning

Students need to know and remember from this unit of work

Key Grammar

- holiday destinations and weather

- talking about where you used to live and holiday destinations

- talking about a gap year abroad

- tourism

- dream holiday destinations

- describing cities

- using il y a / il fait with weather in the present and perfect tenses

- revise adjective agreement

- using the near and simple futures

- using the imperfect and perfect tenses

- the passive voice

- different types of media

- how technology has evolved and how people use technology nowadays

- the influences of the digital world – positive and negative effects on our lives

- using phones and apps

- how we use, have used and will use technology

- risks and safeguarding

- revising the perfect tense

- expressing opinions using infinitive constructions

- modal verbs

- avant de

- revising the three tenses: past, present, future

- Après avoir + infinitive

- environmental problems in the modern world

- having a positive impact on the environment and being eco-friendly

- talking about local environment and issues related to Bridgwater

- looking at where you live and describing your home

- talking about your town and what it’s like

- Comparing real and ideal homes

- revision of negative constructions

- the conditional tenses with si

- modal verbs in the present tense – on peut

Check for Understanding

How we will check for understanding in this unit of work

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Students will be able to talk and write about past, present and future holidays as well as being able to understand written and spoken language about others’ holidays.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking will be tested along with year 11 mock exams.

Students will be able to talk their education and vocational future as well as discussing past work experience.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

All key four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, along with grammar will be tested throughout the year.

Students will be able to talk about ongoing social injustices and environmental problems – expressing concern and expressing their wishes for a better future.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Students will be regularly assessed through live teacher feedback and in-class assessments on the key exams skills they need to develop for their GCSE

Students will review key vocabulary and grammar which they need to develop in order to improve their performances. Students will develop all key skills as well as develop their confidence.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

Students will be regularly assessed through live teacher feedback and in-class assessments on the key exams skills they need to develop for their GCSE

The students will also conduct their GCSE speaking exam.

Assessment

Checkpoint:

The students will conduct their GCSE exams in reading, listening and writing