| 7 | All about me: give personal information including languages, nationalities and appearance
Grammar: nouns, adjectives, key verbs.
| Personality, family, school and friendships
Grammar: agreements, connectives, comparisons
| School, leisure activities, pets and animals
Food and drink: likes and dislikes in food and drink, restaurant dishes in France
Grammar: negatives, modal verbs, perfect tense
| My neighbourhood: places in town, activities you can do, ask and give directions, inviting people out
Grammar: prepositions, adjectives | My style: clothes, fashion, shopping, and musical tastes
Grammar: reflexive verbs, present tense, possessive adjectives
| Holidays and festivals
Grammar: future, I would like, perfect tense |
| 8 | Recap:
My neighbourhood: places in town, activities you can do, ask and give directions, inviting people out
Grammar: prepositions, adjectives | My style: clothes, fashion, shopping, and musical tastes
Grammar: reflexive verbs, present tense, possessive adjectives, comparatives, superlatives | Holidays and festivals
Sport and daily routine
Grammar: future, I would like, perfect tense, , depuis | Celebrity and entertainment
Food and parties
Grammar: direct object pronouns, infinitive structures,impersonal structures, future tense, conditional | Transport and holidays, home
Grammar: Imperfect tense, si clauses, using all tenses fluently together | Freetime activities: music, film TV, technology
Grammar: Direct object pronouns, review of tenses and adjectival agreement |
| 9 | Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships
Grammar: revising avoir/être, position of adjectives, reflexive verbs and future tense | Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology
Grammar: present tense of regular and irregular verbs, aller/faire | Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, reading and sports
Grammar: present and perfect tense revision, perfect tense with être verbs, subordinating conjunctions, sequencers | Customs and celebrations: food and eating out, different cuisines, celebrations and festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals
Grammar: verb + infinitive, quantities, perfect tense revision, imperfect tense | Home and local area: describing furniture, our home, household chores, talking about our surroundings and different types of accommodation and describing your town and what there is to do.
Grammar: position and agreements of adjectives, negative phrases, demonstrative adjectives | Celebrity
Grammar: vouloir/pouvoir/devoir + infinitive, conditional tense (focusing on vouloir and aimer), imperfect tense revision |
| 10 | Global issues: environmental problems and their solutions, discussing inequality and poverty in the world
Grammar: si clauses, recognising the pluperfect tense, verbs of possibility.
| Travel and tourism: holiday preferences, visiting different places in French speaking countries
Grammar: depuis + present tense, après avoir/être + past participle, venir de + infinitive, using three tenses together | My studies: describing subjects/school facilities, comparing school in UK and France, describing school life in different countries, describing your ideal school
Grammar: adverbs, perfect tense revision, conditional tense revision | Film Study: Les Choristes. The film explores the importance of a positive attitude towards children, the need for a positive teacher/student relationship, and the way in which teachers and students can grow and learn from each other. Students analyse key scenes from the film and produce a review. | Careers: talking about future options, university, gap year, apprenticeship, work experience, discussing how to get a job and advantages and disadvantages of getting a job
Grammar: revision of the future tense, passive voice, si clauses | Speaking exam preparation: role plays, photo cards, general conversationreading aloud questions all of which cover the themes taught this year.
Translation skills
Grammar: using multiple tenses together |
| 11 | Theme 1 - Me, my family and my friends, technology in everyday life and free-time
Skills: role-play, photo card and general conversation for speaking exam | Theme 1 - Customs and festivals
Theme 2 - Home and local area and social issues
All skills revision for mocks | Theme 2 - Holidays and global issues
Theme 3 - Life at school, future academic plans and work
| Prepare for exam series with a range of revision sessions on each skill area. Focus on technique for speaking exam. | Revision and external exams | |
| 12 | La famille en voie de changement
Discuss trends in marriage, partnerships. Consider the merits and problems of different family structures and problems that can arise between different family generations.
Grammar: imperfect tense, perfect tense, recognising the past historic | La cyber-société
How has technology transformed everyday lives, what are the dangers of digital technology, who are the users of technology and what possible developments could there be
Grammar: infinitive constructions, object pronouns, present tense | Le rôle du bénévolat
Explore the voluntary sector in France and discuss the benefits for those who help and those who are helped.
Grammar: connectives, conditional, si clauses, future tense | Une culture fière de son patrimoine
Explore the notion of heritage and preservation on a regional and national scale, consider how famous heritage sites market themselves, how does heritage impact and guide a society
Grammar: adjectives agreements, si clauses, subjunctive | La musique francophone contemporaine
Discuss the popularity of contemporary French music, its diversity of genre and style, who listens to French music and what are the threats to contemporary French music and how could it be safeguarded. Grammar: questions, subjunctive, conditional | Le septième art
Consider a variety of aspects of French cinema, the major developments in the evolution of French cinema and the continuing popularity of French cinema and film festivals.
Grammar: infinitive constructions, si clauses, connectives followed by the subjunctive |
| 13 | Consider benefits of an ethnically diverse society, need for tolerance and respect of diversity and how to promote diversity. Examine which groups are socially marginalised, measures to help and consider contrasting attitudes to the marginalised.
Grammar: revision of main tenses. | Study of a book, written by a French speaking author.
Discuss theme, character, social and cultural context in book.
Develop essay writing skills and style.
Research IRP and develop presentation/discussion (content and skills)
Development of complex language and essay structure. | Examine different attitudes to crime, prisons - merits and problems, alternative forms of punishment.
Discuss the right to vote, youth political engagement and the future of politics
Grammar: recognising past historic, si clauses, infinitive constructions, passive voice, subjunctive | Understand the importance of trade unions, methods of protesting, attitudes to strikes, and other tensions
Political issues concerning immigration in francophone countries, immigrants and political parties viewpoints on immigration
Grammar: object pronouns, relative pronouns, tense revision | Students will develop their exam techniques, vocab knowledge and speaking/writing skills as well as translation, listening and reading skills.
Refine any exam skills/application of grammar as indicated by mock performances and past paper performances | External exams |