French Skills
Speaking and Pronunciation
Reading
Listening
Year Three - Listen attentively and enjoy short stories, nursery rhymes, games and songs. - Recognise familiar words and short phrases. - Begin to link the spelling, sound and meaning of words.
- Read familiar words and short phrases accurately. - Understand the meaning in English of some short words read in French. - Use mimes, images and sounds as prompts. - Begin to learn to gist read by hunting for key or known words and cognates.
- Communicate with others by way of short sentences, asking and answering simple questions, engaging in role play activities. - Respond to and join in with simple rhymes and songs. - Explore patterns and sounds of the language and begin to develop accurate pronunciation and intonation.
Year Four
Year Five
Year Six
- Listen to longer passages and understand more of what is heard by picking out key words and phrases covered in current or previous topics.
- Listen for longer periods of time and more frequently, increasing exposure to authentic foreign language material and using prior knowledge and gist listening to aid comprehension.
- Listen for longer periods of time and more frequently, increasing exposure to authentic foreign language material and using prior knowledge and gist listening to aid comprehension.
- Read aloud short pieces of text and use gist reading skills, cognates, dictionary and prior knowledge to understand what is being read
- Improve decoding of longer unfamiliar texts using - Improve decoding of longer unfamiliar texts using key key language learning strategies and a dictionary. language learning strategies and a dictionary. - Understand that adjectives come in different - Understand that adjectives come in different forms and forms and when you describe a person in terms of when you describe a person in terms of a profession, a profession, adjectival agreement rules will apply adjectival agreement rules will apply and spelling may and spelling may change. change. - Develop knowledge of the francophone world - Develop knowledge of the francophone world including including celebrations and acknowledge shared celebrations and acknowledge shared core values. core values.
- Build up a larger bank of spoken vocabulary - Build up a larger bank of spoken vocabulary including including chunks of appropriate language by chunks of appropriate language by developing memory developing memory skills and revisiting prior skills and revisiting prior learning. learning. - Create more complex and longer sentences with - Create more complex and longer sentences with accurate pronunciation, retention and recall. accurate pronunciation, retention and recall. - Learn to manipulate language and know that it is - Communicate with others in French with increasing - Learn to manipulate language and know that it is transferable between topics. confidence and accuracy. transferable between topics. Begin to speak in the - Begin to speak in the third person singular: Il/ Elle… - Recall and reuse a larger number of nouns with the third person singular: Il/ Elle… - Explore the patterns in regular -er verb conjugation appropriate definite, indefinite or partitive articles. - Explore the patterns in regular -er verb - Perform simple role play, keeping the conversation - Use scaffolds and reference materials to improve conjugation range of spoken vocabulary and develop short spoken going for longer by asking follow-up questions eg. - Perform simple role play, keeping the sentences with accurate pronunciation. ordering food and drink in a French café, giving conversation going for longer by asking follow-up - Learn to ask and answer questions and incorporate a directions in town. questions eg. ordering food and drink in a French negative reply where appropriate. - Give a variety of positive and negative opinions on a café, giving directions in town. number of topics, extending the sentence with - Give a variety of positive and negative opinions justification using a range of conjunctions. on a number of topics, extending the sentence - Begin to use the verb aller + infinitive to express future with justification using a range of conjunctions. intention eg. Je vais achèter des pommes au - Begin to use the verb aller + infinitive to express supermarché. future intention.