French
Autumn 1
Year 7
Greetings and Basics
Greetings, simple personal information (name and age), numbers to 30, the French alphabet, dates and birthdays, objects in your school bag, definite articles, introduction to the idea of gender
Year 8
School
Morning routine, school subjects, likes and dislikes, simple opinions and reasons, after school activities, present tense verbs, reflexive verbs
Year 9
Clothes Meals
Clothes, including school uniform, review colours, breakfast, lunch and dinner, likes and dislikes
Autumn 2
Year 7
In the classroom
Classroom vocabulary, simple classroom instructions, colours, Christmas, adjective endings, indefinite articles
Year 8
Leisure Activities
Sports and games, more opinions, musical instruments, holiday activities, expressions with ‘faire’, near future tense
Year 9
Eating habits and eating out
Being vegetarian/vegan, justified opinions, party food, eating at a restaurant/café, shopping for food, Christmas dinner
Spring 1
Year 7
Family members and pets
Brothers, sisters and other family members, pets, use of possessive pronouns for my and your Avoir in the present tense.
Year 8
Family and Home
Revision of family and description, jobs, where people live – geographical location, weather.
Year 9
Bodies and health
Parts of the body, illness, healthy living, sporting activities and keep fit, use of the imperative
Spring 2
Year 7
Descriptions
Description of physical appearance (size, eyes and hair), description of character, Être in the present tense, use of simple intensifiers
Year 8
Perfect Tense
Introduction to the perfect tense with regular and common irregular verbs.
Year 9
Music and Cinema
Music, francophone singers and groups, cinema, watching a French film (La Famille Bélier)
Summer 1
Year 7
At home
Description of where you live, rooms in the house, description of a bedroom, evening activities, simple prepositions, present tense, regular -er verbs
Year 8
Perfect Tense
Television programmes, viewing habits, opinions, telling the time – 24 hour clock, perfect tense with être
Year 9
Leisure activities
Reading, new technology, review of 3 key tenses: Present, Perfect and Near future.
Summer 2
Year 7
In Town
Numbers to 60, telling the time, places in town, giving and understanding simple directions, use of tu and vous
Year 8
Going out
Invitations, shops and shopping, modal verbs, numbers to 100
Year 9
Enivronment and future plans
Environmental issues, modal verbs, future tense, cultural project