FRENCH LEARNING JOURNEY KS2 Knowledge Recognition of patterns and sounds, high frequency verbs, expressing simple opinions, speaking in sentences using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures, description of people, places, things and actions, develop understanding of pronunciation and intonation.
Key Concepts
KS3 Year 7: Autumn Term
V – days of the week, months, numbers 16-31, dates, alphabet, brothers and sisters, likes and dislikes, conjunctions, classroom items, description, activities you do G – present tense, verb avoir (je/tu/il/elle), indefinite article, verb aimer (je/tu), definite articles, verb être (je/ tu/il/elle), using adjectives with agreement, negatives, infinitives, possessive adjectives P - SFC, ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘I’, ‘u’, ‘au’, Sfe, ‘en/an’, ‘é/ez/er’, ‘c/ç,’ ‘ain/in’, ‘au’. CC- French festival dates, French names, European Day of Languages, French celebrities, Halloween, French/African classrooms, French comic books, la rentrée, Christmas KS3 Year 8: Autumn Term
V – personal information, school and free time, pets, colours, high numbers, family, house and activities, breakfast, Bastille Day G – present tense (regular –er and irregular verbs), definite and indefinite articles, adjectival agreement, possessive adjectives, avoir and être, habiter, opinion verb + infinitive, nous form of –er verbs, je mange/bois, partitive article, nous/ils form of –er verbs, il/elle P – liaison, ‘h’ muet, syllables and stress, ‘a’, ‘I’, ‘aim’, ‘im’, ‘em/’am/, ‘om/on’, ‘gn’, ‘r’. CC- Housing in France/Africa, French breakfast, Halloween, Bastille Day KS3 Year 9: Autumn Term
V – personal information, celebrities, TV, digital technology, films, going to the cinema, leisure activities, visit to a shopping centre, where you live, weather, chores at home, daily routine G –opinions, present tense (regular and irregular), adjectival agreement, questions, present, perfect, near future, negatives, possessive adjectives, using 3 tenses together, habiter/ il fait, expressions of quantity, on peut+infinitive, different persons, modal verb pouvoir, reflexive verbs (je) P – liaison, ‘h’ muet, syllables, stress, ‘a’, ‘I’, ‘aim-im, ‘em-am’, ‘gn’ , ‘o-ô’, ‘au/eau’, ‘au/aux’, open and closed ‘eu/oeu’, ‘om-on’, open and closed ‘o’, ‘r’, ‘-s-’. CC- 24hr clock, French-speaking African countries, European Day of languages, careers in languages, Halloween, poetry, areas in France, Mali, different types of homes/chores, Christmas
Vocabulary Grammar Phonics
Cultural Capital Content is taught, revisited & upscaled across the 5 years.
KS4 Year 10: Autumn Term
V – holiday details, hotel facilities, travelling, holiday activities, eating out, holiday problems. School subjects and timetable, school facilities, comparing schools in UK and France G –notre/nos, present tense, perfect tense, immediate future, comparative, expressions with avoir, opinions, direct object pronouns
CC- French tourist areas, eating out in France, typical French menus, the French school system KS4 Year 11: Autumn Term
V – describing family celebrations, talking about where you live, places in town, directions, describing a region, tourist information, asking questions, weather, describing your town or village G –using past, present and future tenses, the imperative, using the superlative, using si clauses, using negatives
CC- Regions of France, formal and informal forms of addressing someone, French towns and cities
KS3 Year 7: Spring Term
V – schools subjects, opinions, colours, uniform, telling the time, school day, describing a French school, ideal school G – present tense, likes and dislikes with er verbs, adjectives after nouns, verb porter (je/tu/il/elle/on), er- verbs with on, il y a/ il n’y a pas de, combien de P - ‘ê/è’, ‘eu’, ‘on’, ‘qu’, ‘ou’, ‘ain/in’, ‘ai’, ‘ien’, ‘ch’ CC- French school system, poetry, differences with school uniform, greetings, timetable, Anthea Bell, Easter
KS3 Year 7: Summer Term
V – weather, seasons, sports you do/play, sports other people do/play, leisure activities you do, what you like doing G – present tense, verb jouer à and être (je/tu /il/elle/on), verb faire du/de la/des/d’ (je/tu/ il/elle/ on), aimer followed by an infinitive, nous/ils/elles P –’oi’, ‘j/g’, ‘au’, ‘tion’, ‘u’, ‘Sfe’, ‘qu’, ‘é/ez/er’, SFC, ‘an/en’. CC- Haiku, French sports, sports in French-speaking countries, Tour de France, Bastille Day
KS3 Year 8: Spring Term
V – places in town/village, opinions, prices, weekend activities, invitations, drinks and snacks, what you are going to do, plans for a special weekend G – il y a /il n’y pas, aller, à + definite articles, vouloir, je voudrais/ vous désirez, tu/vous form, near future with je, present tense P – ‘o/ô’, ‘au/eau’, ‘eu/œu’, open/closed ‘o’, ‘-s-’, ‘th’, ‘ill/ille’, ‘aille/ail’, ‘eill/eil’, ‘oy’, ‘y’ CC- French food and drink, traditional French Christmas
KS3 Year 8: Summer Term
V – holidays (how long and where), what you did, visit to a theme park, where you went and how, disaster holiday, Likes and dislikes, festivals and special days G – avoir and être, perfect tense with je, perfect tense with –er verbs, irregular past participles, perfect tense of irregular verbs, perfect tense with être, negatives, present, opinion verbs+ inf. P – ‘h’ liaison, stress syllabification, ‘em/am’, en/an’, ‘aim/in’, ‘ain/in’, ‘om/on’, ‘um/un’, ‘r’, ‘eu/oeu’, ‘ill/ille’, ‘ail’aill/eill/eil/’, ‘euill’, ‘ouill’, ‘ouil’, ‘oy’, ‘y’, SSC , soft ‘c/ç/s/tion’, ‘th’, ‘ch’, ‘qu’, ‘gn’, j/g’ CC-Easter in France, Bastille Day, world festivals
KS3 Year 9: Spring Term
V – daily routine, moving house, discovering a region. Talking about sports, giving opinions, asking for and giving directions G –time phrases, irregular adjectives, present, past and future tense together, finding and translating nouns, using il faut, using mal à/au/aux, using depuis, asking and answering questions in 3 tenses P – ‘eill-eil-euill’, ‘ill/ille’, ‘th’, ‘um-un’, ‘oy’, ‘em/am’, ‘en/an’,‘aille’, ‘ail’, ‘a’. ‘y’, ‘em/am’, ‘en/an’, stress syllabification CC- Corsica, Anthea Bell translation, popular sports in France, Easter
KS3 Year 9: Summer Term
V – family, description of people, places in town, activities, friends, qualities of a good friend, family relationships, making arrangements to go out, describing a night out with friends, life when you were younger, role-models G – adjectival agreement, prepositions, irregular verbs in the present tense, reflexive verbs in the present, near future, perfect and imperfect tense P – ‘-r-’, ‘h’ and with liaison, ‘om-on’, open ‘eu-oeu’, ‘aim-in’, ‘ain-in’ in SSC, ‘um-un’, ‘ill/ille’, ‘ien’, ‘y/oy’, ‘aille’,’ail’, ‘eil’, ‘euill’, ‘ouill’, SSC, ‘c/ç/s/tion’, ‘th, ch, que’ CC- poetry, famous French people, famous role-models
KS4 Year 10: Spring Term
V – school rules, school activities, success at school Leisure activities, film and cinema, sport, using technology, reading and music G –using il faut and il est interdit de, using the imperfect tense, using past, present and future time frames, using depuis + present tense, irregular present tense verbs, using negatives, using the comparative
CC- French-language music and cinema
KS4 Year109: Summer Term
V – TV programmes, going out with friends Food and mealtimes, clothing and clothes shopping, daily routine, describing festivals, food shopping G –comparative, perfect tense, using modal verbs, using quell(le)(s) and ce(t)(te)(s), questions with (qu’)est-ce que… ? , using the immediate future
CC- Festivals in France
KS4 Year 11: Spring Term
V – jobs and work preferences, plans, hopes and wishes, the importance of languages, earning money, work experience World problems, the environment, ethical shopping, volunteering, big events G –using the conditional, the simple future, using adverbs, using the passive, emphatic pronouns
CC- Further and Higher education in France, the importance of languages, effects of climate change in the French-speaking world, large events in France
Post-16 Pathways
GCSE Exams
A-Level French Travel and tourism Evening classes Taking up a second language University studies Employment Travelling Volunteering abroad Working abroad