French
Autumn 1
Year 10
Leisure Activities
Francophone events, online activities, cinema and TV, keeping active, making plans and invitations
Revision of 3 key tenses:
Present tense (regular and irregular verbs)
The near Future tense
The perfect tense
Year 11
School
Opinion on school subjects, school buildings and facilities, comparing your school and schools in France, school rules, school uniform, school activities, use of ‘il faut’ and ‘il est interdit de’, modal verbs, direct object pronouns, the imperfect tense
Autumn 2
Year 10
Family and friends
Talking about identity, weekend routine, friends and friendship, describing people, role models, reflexive verbs, sequencers and connectives, adjectives
Year 11
Future aspirations and work
Types of jobs, work preferences, future plans, hopes and wishes, importance of languages, part-time and holiday jobs, work experience, mock exams (listening, reading and writing), conditional tense, simple Future tense, adverbs, combining perfect and imperfect tenses
Spring 1
Year 10
Celebrations and School
Birthdays and festivals, school in Francophone countries, school subjects and school life, school rules, comparative adjectives, adverbs, impersonal verb structures with infinitives
Year 11
World Issues
Mock exams (speaking), weather and natural disasters, protecting the environment, volunteering, music festivals and sporting events, use of ‘on doit’ and ‘on peut’, emphatic pronouns, the passive
Spring 2
Year 10
School and Healthy Living
Primary school, learning languages, meals and mealtimes, mental health, imperfect tense, negatives, partitive article, imperative modal verbs
Year 11
Revision of topics and Exam Skills
Role-play, photocard and general conversation practice, developing written and spoken answers, asking questions, revision of all topics, listening, reading and writing exam skills
Summer 1
Year 10
Healthy Living and Lifestyle
Describing illness and accidents, booking appointments, lifestyle changes, simple future tense, reflexive verbs in the perfect tense, complex expressions followed by the infinitive
Year 11
Revision of topics and Exam Skills
Revision of all topics, listening, reading and writing exam skills
Summer 2
Year 10
Holidays
Holidays and accommodation, dream holiday, activities on holiday, conditional, giving advice (il vaut mieux... il vaut la peine de...)