French - KS5 overview: Topic Map
Autumn Term 1
La famille et les
relations personnelles
Year 12
Topics
Relationships.
Advantages and
disadvantages of being
single. Peer pressure.
Family relationships.
Grammar
Articles. Infinitives.
Present tense: regular
and irregular verbs.
Partitive articles.
Emphatic pronouns.
Past tense. Pronominal
verbs. Future tense.
Negative form.
Temporal prepositions.
Skills
Key words and
synonyms. Oral
presentation. Use a verb
table. Write a short
essay.
Autumn Term 2
Les médias
Spring Term 1
Une vie saine
Spring Term 2
La culture populaire
Topics
The Internet, mobile
phones, video games, TV
programmes, advantages
and disadvantages of
television, adverts.
Topics
Sports and extreme
sports, leisure, life
styles, diets, smoking,
holiday makers, to
narrate a holiday,
francophonie.
Topics
Music, music and
identity, films, cinema,
fashion, celebrities,
diets.
Grammar
Comparative and
superlative
Adverbs
Pronouns
Passive
Past infinitive
Subjunctive
Skills
To plan possible answers
To ask complex questions
To express agreement
and disagreement
To predict ideas and
vocabulary
To translate into English
To prepare a debate
To organise ideas
To analyse a picture
Grammar
Conditional
À or de + infinitive
Y and en pronouns
Imperfect
Si
Imperative
Complex sentences
Simple perfect
Indirect speech
Skills
To understand idioms
To debate
To paraphrase and use
synonyms
To give examples to
develop your opinions
To explain causes and
offer a solution
To advise
To explain and give
examples
To write a blog
To research
Grammar
Perfect and imperfect
tense
Pluperfect
Future anterior
Impersonal verbs
Faire + infinitive
Present participle
Past conditional
Skills
To improve an oral
presentation
To spot figures in a
listening
To widen vocabulary
To evaluate
advantages and
disadvantages
To replace ‘penser’ by
other verbs
To answer by
changing verb forms
To make hypothesis.
Summer Term 1
Revision and
examination
preparation.
Summer Term 2
Revision and
examination
preparation.
Autumn Term 1
ENVIRONMENT
Year 13
Autumn Term 2
MULTICULTURAL
SOCIETY
Pollution
Type, causes and effect
of pollution
Measures to reduce
pollution
Individual action
Transport issues
Immigration
Reasons
Benefits and problems
Migration in the EU
Curbs on immigration
Energy
Coal, oil and gas
Nuclear and alternative
energy sources
Changing attitudes
Integration
Factors making integration
difficult and facilitating it
To which culture should
immigrants show loyalty?
Experiences of individual
immigrants
Protecting the planet
Ways of minimising
environmental damage
The role of pressure
groups
Initiatives to improve
awareness
Responsibilities towards
other nations
Grammar
Conditional
Conditional perfect
Passive
Indirect speech
Depuis + imperfect
Skills
Giving opinions
Arguing and standing
one’s ground
Understanding statistics
Translation from French
to English
Racism
Victims of racism
Reasons for racism
Measures to eliminate
racism.
Experiences of individuals
Grammar
Future perfect
Recognition of past historic
Negatives
Pronouns
Agreement of preceding
object
Skills
Oral presentation
Adapting text
Researching a topic using
the Internet
Writing a structures response
Translating from English to
French
Spring Term 1
CULTURAL TOPICS
A target languagespeaking
region/community
OR
A period of 20th
century history from
the target languagespeaking country
OR
The work of an
author from a target
language-speaking
country/ community
OR
The work of a
dramatist from a
target languagespeaking country/
community
OR
The work of a
director, architect,
musician or painter
from a target
language-speaking
country/ community
Spring Term 2
CONTEMPORARY
SOCIAL ISSUES
Wealth and poverty
Causes of poverty
Work of charitable
organisations and
governments
Attitudes to wealth and
poverty
Link between wealth
and health
Law and order
Examples of crimes
Reasons for crime and
anti-social behaviour
Measures to reduce
crime
Alternatives to
imprisonment
Impact of scientific
and technological
progress
Technology in the
home and workplace
Medical research
Ethical issues
Grammar
Subjunctive
Overview of tenses
Passive voice – further
practice.
Conjunctions
Relative pronouns
Summer Term 1
Revision and
examination
preparation.
Summer Term 2
Revision and
examination
preparation.