Year 8 French
Term
1
Term
2
Term
3
Topics
Food shopping
Talking about money and price
Countries
Means of transport
Describing towns and villages
Holidays, post cards
School and daily routine
Staying with a French family
Staying with a French family (cont.)
Talk about what you've done
Buying souvenirs
Cafés, drinks, food
Restaurants and menus
Travel plans
Trains and stations
Discussing clothes
Describing appearance
Parts of the body
Illness, doctors
Arranging to go out
Accept/refuse invitations
Leisure activities
Structures
Revise partitive article
de after quantity and negative
Regular -re and –ir verbs
en/au/aux + country
aller + infinitive
voir, venir, pouvoir
dire, lire, écrire
prendre,apprendre,comprendre
Reflexive verbs
vouloir
Perfect tense of regular verbs with
avoir
Time phrases needing past
Demonstrative adjectives
Boire
Irregular past participles
Asking questions in perfect tense
Perfect tense in negative
Partir
il faut, il ne faut pas
Perfect tense with être
mettre
Revision of adjectives
Direct object pronouns
avoir mal à
Other avoir expressions
Imperative
sortir
Comparative adjectives
Independent Study Resources
Text book
Each student is issued with Encore Tricolore 2. At
the end of each chapter is a summary of the
vocabulary and grammar covered and there is a
comprehensive grammar section with explanation
in English in the back of the book.
Further resources
Readers and the Clémentine video are used in
class, but students are encouraged to develop their
own language learning at their own pace by using
the following websites:
http://www.zut.org.uk/beginner/year8.html
French Year 8 materials – no password needed but
only available after 4pm and before 9am
www.linguascope.com
Beginner level
User name: Purcell
Password for 2012-13: fifty
In addition to one homework each week and occasional vocabulary/verb tests, Year 8 have one formal examination in June.