Autumn 1 – Students will learn
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Countries, nationalities.
Vocabulary research of holidays – nouns,
adjectives, verbs.
How to understand and communicate
where you went, when and who with.
Past holiday activities.
Ideal holiday activities (conditional)
Opinions of holiday venues, activities and
reasons.
How to communicate using I, you, he, she,
we, they.
Autumn 2
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Clothing items and their gender.
Using a/ the in singular and plural.
Adjectives to describe clothes
Position and Agreement of adjectives with
nouns
Comparisons of clothing items
Past, present, future tense of ‘to wear’
aller (to go) + infinitive to communicate
the ‘near future’
To write a script and present a fashion
show using I, he, she, we, they
Spring 1
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‘my timeline’
Cardinal/ ordinal numbers
Dates in numbers
Strategies
- Using prior knowledge.
- Working out new meanings.
- French pronunciation.
- Gender of nouns.
- Making nouns plural.
- Patterns in the spellings of verbs.
- Conjugating verbs.
Homework
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Strategies
- Dictionary skills
- Applying a model to new vocabulary
- Understanding key grammar
explanations and achieving success
by applying these.
- Possessive adjectives
- Regular –er verbs (porter)
- Speaking and presenting to an
audience.
Homework
- -See SIMs
Strategies/ outcomes:
- Accurate pronunciation
- Conjugation/ memorisation of
irregular verbs
- Using est-ce que and question words
Homework
-See SIMs
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Set phrases of events in life to learn,
pronounce, write.
Use, conjugate modal verbs; vouloir – to
want, pouvoir – to be able to, devoir – to
have to.
Use question words to produce more
detailed questions.
Write and perform a script inviting others to
do activities/ go out and giving acceptance/
making excuses.
- Giving your opinion with reasons.
- Revise past tense activities/ learn to conjugate
future tense activities to respond about
activities you have already done/ are going to
do.
Spring 2
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Understanding negatives (ne…pas)
Using tu and vous
Expressing opinions with reasons
Speaking in a conversation. Uttering
acceptance and rejection and giving
reasons.
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Understand and communicate your ‘daily
routine’ in the present, past and future.
Compare and contrast the daily routine of
others, by using he/ she.
Learn to tell the time in digital/ analogue
language.
Use ‘at’ to communicate times you do your
routine.
Learn and use language patterns to
communicate routine in the past, future tense
and conditional (would)
As above with phrases of household tasks and
duties around the house.
Learn and communicate rooms in the house.
Strategies/ outcomes:
- Use of the full present tense of
reflexive verbs
- Using singular and plural forms of
nouns
- Time – numbers 1-59 + analogue
time phrases.
- Link between spelling and
pronunciation.
- Using pronunciation guide to
pronounce/ evaluate and improve
your French speaking.
- Different spelling patterns between
verb tenses. Using rules to predict
an ‘unfamiliar verb’ in a certain
tense.
- Developing listening skills
Homework
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Summer 1
-Dictionary Skills – How to improve your written work
by the correct and accurate use of a dictionary.
-Nouns and gender – research hobby equipment.
-Present tense verbs – je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous, ils,
elles + er/ ir/ re regular and irregular verbs.
-Opinions of hobbies with reasons.
- Hobby phrases in present tense – positive and
negative.
Spotting patterns in past and future tense
Learn and master past and future tense verb
conjugation.
Strategies/ outcomes:
Homework
- Using some regular and irregular –
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ER verbs.
- Adapting patterns to create verb
phrases in past, present, future.
- Using quand (when) + a phrase in a
sentence.
- Using ‘high-frequency’ words
(normalement, souvent, quelquefois)
Summer 2
- Verbs, Verbs, Verbs.
- Using verbs in the present tense, past tense
(perfect, imperfect), future tense, conditional,
pluperfect to communicate actions of yourself
and others over multiple timeframes.
- Each week will focus on one ‘tense’ and
include presentations, gap-fill mastery, and
open-ended creative writing tasks.
- Extended READING – Reading for pleasure –
Read a story for understanding – ‘The Secret
Diary of Adrian Mole’.
- Extended Writing – Writ a story using verbs in
multiple tenses.
Strategies/ outcomes:
- Understanding and applying
patterns’
Conjugating verbs.
Use of negatives.
Use of quantifiers and sentence
extensions.
Homework
- See SIMs