Lady Lumley’s School MFL DEPARTMENT: Year 8 Medium term Scheme of Learning
KS3 FRENCH
Prior learning
Lesson number & title
TOPIC: 3-2-1 Partez ( Studio 1 Module 5)
Autumn term – September-October 7 x 100 minutes
Students should be familiar with structure ‘je vais’ from year 7
Learning outcomes
YEAR 8
Timing
1. Les vacances,mode d’emploi
Give out overview and vocab sheets for topic
To be able to talk and write about where you go on holiday normally
Grammar – nous form of key verbs in the present tense
Au, en, aux with countries
Skills: Phonics: focus on phoneme ‘gn’ – montagne / campagne
Home learning: Write a paragraph on where you normally go on holiday
(Level this to check against end of Y7 level.)
200
2. Je me prépare
To be able to talk about what you do to get ready to go out
Grammar - To be able to use reflexive verbs in the I and **he/she forms
Home learning: reinforcement and extension work on reflexive verbs /
prepare a vocab /spelling test for partner on reflexive verbs
200
3. Je vais en colo
To be able to talk about future holiday plans, say where you are going to go,
who with and what you are going to do
100
Grammar – Using the near future tense
Skills – Use a range of structures to give your opinion. Group Talk on a range
of fashions describing what you think of it
1
Specific resources and suggested
Kagan structures
Studio 1 p90 -91
Vacances – feuille de vocabulaire
Quiz, quiz, trade cards
Rally coach
Grammar support grid for en, au,
aux
Writing frame for assessed
paragraph
Extension sheet on improving
written work
Studio 1 p92 -93
Rally coach cards to say what you
do / don’t do
Quiz quiz on what you do to get
ready
Numbered heads together –
multiple choice on reflexive verbs
HL reinforcement sheet
Extra grammar sheet for HL
Alternative reading sheet
Language deduction grid
Differentiated grammar sheet
Studio 1 p 96 -97
-Rally robin – dice activity for
speaking
-Rally coach translation activity
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Home learning: Sentence translation practice
4. Les vacances:
present
passé
Comparing present and future holidays: READING ASSESSMENT /
LISTENING ASSESSMENT
Grammar: Compare present and future tense
Skills: Recognise and apply patterns for different tenses
Home learning:
100
5. Mes rêves
To be able to say what you would like to do in the future
Grammar – je voudrais + infinitive
Skills: Ranking what you would most / least like to do
Home learning: WRITTEN ASSESSMENT: Write a paragraph to say what
you normally do on holiday and what you are going to do on holiday this year.
100
6. REVIEW
Review of language taught in topic, improvements on written piece, record
levels in progress trackers, complete ‘Bilan’ : self and peer assessment
100
KS3 FRENCH
TOPIC: Un voyage à Paris
November - February
Past tense is new but students will be familiar with some of the infinitive verbs
Learning outcomes
Timing
Give out topic overview and vocab sheet
100
Learn some key information about sights, geography and key facts about
Paris
Grammar:
Skills: Using scanning strategies to read for information. Group work
Home learning: Produce a poster to show what you have learned, and add 3
more pieces of information
YEAR 8
Be able to say what you did in Paris
Say what you didn’t do
Grammar: Past tense: regular verbs –er/-re/-ir AVOIR ‘je’ ‘il’ ‘elle’ form, use
Studio 2 p.28-29
PPts on shared area
-Continuous round table writing –
Prior learning
Lesson number & title
1.Bienvenue
à
introduction
2. Une semaine à Paris
et
Paris:
2
200
Reading based on p.97 ex4 Studio 1
Writing frame and checklist for
written HL task
-QQT present and future sentence
on holidays
-Categorising activity on tenses –
rally coach
Studio 1 p.98-99
-Rally Robin – categorising
activities
-Rally Robin – dice activity for
speaking
‘Bilan’ stuck in book at beginning of
topic.
Specific resources
Introduction ppt on shared area
Champs Elysées song
-Fact finding information about
Paris – (running dictation)
-Continuous round robin – what
know about Paris
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negatives with past tense
Skills: Apply patterns to create past participles and negatives
Home learning: Create a gap fill test for partner on sentences using past
participles
3. Mon album photos
4.
C’était
catacombes?
comment,
les
consequences
-Quiz quiz on sentences in past
-Numbered heads – multiple choice
answers on past forms
Be able to say when you did things on your trip
Grammar: Use irregular past participles and time phrases. Avoir ‘je’,
il/elle/on’
Skills: Memorising techniques for learning irregular verbs
Home learning: Write a paragraph about a trip to Paris (using key word
prompts as cues)
100
Studio 2 p.30-31
-Rally coach – test partner on past
participles
-Trapdoor speaking
-QQT
Be able to understand information about a tourist attraction and say what
you thought of what you saw and did in Paris
Grammar: C’était / J’ai trouvé ça + adjectives
100
Studio 2 p.32-33
-Round robin brainstorming
adjectives
-Jot thoughts on adjectives
-Rally robin giving opinions
200
Past tense challenge cards on
shared area
Grammar assessment on shared
area (needs simplifying RWI)
Skills: Giving opinions and ranking activities in terms of preference
Home learning:
5. Past tense challenge ‘avoir’
verbs
6. 24 heures chrono
Past tense Challenge
GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT: Passé composé (avoir and *être)
Be able to assess understanding of the passé composé with avoir verbs
Grammar: Passé composé with avoir: all forms
Skills: Group work
Home learning: Create a ‘crack the code’ test for your partner for next
lesson
Be able to say where you went in Paris and how you travelled
Grammar: Past tense using ‘être’ – with aller / partir / arriver /sortir /
rentrer
Skills: Apply patterns to use ‘être verbs for masculine and feminine
Home learning: Write a diary entry of one day in Paris, saying what you did in
the morning, afternoon and evening, and how you travelled to different
places.
3
-Past tense challenge group work
100
Studio 2 p.34-35
-Continuous round table –
consequences activity
-Trapdoor speaking
-Jot thoughts – time phrases /
activities / who with / how etc
Lady Lumley’s School MFL DEPARTMENT: Year 8 Medium term Scheme of Learning
7. Preparation
assessment
for
speaking
8. Speaking assessments and
Review
Set up and prepare for speaking assessment on describing what you normally
do on holiday and where you went last year. (prepare a mind map)
Grammar: Contrast present tense with past tense
Skills: Using more than one tense in speaking
Home learning: Revise for speaking test next lesson
100
Speaking assessment in assessment
folder on shared area
READING ASSESSMENT: (check understanding first of difference between
present and past verb forms)
200
Reading on shared area (Studio)
Review in book ‘bilan’
Complete self and peer review (‘bilan’)
Create a teaching resource to help the next year 8 group learn / practise the
past tense
Grammar: Using present and past tense
Skills: Using more complex sentences with opinion phrases and connectives
Home learning:
RECORD ALL LEVELS IN PROGRESS TRACKERS AND STUDENT
COMMENT
KS3 FRENCH
TOPIC: Mon identité (March – end May)
Prior learning
Lesson number & title
1.Mon caractère
Students should be familiar with some adjectives and principle of adjective agreement from Year 7
Learning outcomes
Timing
Specific resources
Be able to describe yours and other people’s personality
200
Studio 2 p.48-49
Say what you / other people spend time doing in their free time
-Rally coach – identifying
Grammar: Using adjectives in the correct form
adjectives in sentences
Skills: Describing others
-QQ – describing people
Home learning: Sell a sibling on E-bay – write a description of a sibling /
-Categorising positive / negative
family member
adjectives
-Jot thoughts on adjectives
-Trapdoor speaking
Be able to say how you get on with people in your family
200
Studio 2 p.50-51
SPEAKING ASSESSMENT – task set in class using reference materials:
Thinking skills task on table plan
Write a script about 2 people in your family and say how you get on with
PPt on shared area
2. On se dit tout
YEAR 8
4
Lady Lumley’s School MFL DEPARTMENT: Year 8 Medium term Scheme of Learning
them – prepare in class (20 mins) then read from script – level this
Grammar: Using reflexive verbs in the ‘je’ and ‘on’ form
Skills: Giving reasons and using connectives
Home learning:
3. Quelle musique écoutes-tu?
Be able to say what music you like and give your opinions on different types
of music and musicians
Grammar: ça me donne envie de + infinitive (pleurer / danser / chanter /
vomir / dormir)
Skills: Agreeing, disagreeing and giving reasons. Group talk task on music
Home learning: Write a paragraph giving your opinions about music
100
4. Mon style
Be able to say what you normally wear / like to wear to go out
Be able to say what you are going to wear next weekend
Grammar: Present tense and near future tense
Skills: Categorising vocabulary
Home learning: Learn clothes vocab for a test in second lesson (put on
Fronter) / Write a dialogue between two celebrities asking and answering
what they are doing at the weekend and what they are going to wear
READING ASSESSMENT (Studio assessment pack)
200
5. De quoi es-tu fan?
Be able to say what you are a fan of and understand extended descriptions
of people’s hobbies
Grammar: Understand and use present / past / future tenses
Skills: Recognise patterns to identify tenses
Home learning: prepare mind map to use in writing assessment
100
6. Prepare speaking
assessment
WRITING ASSESSMENT
Task set in lesson – reference materials given / prepared mind map/ A* mats
– possible level 6
Grammar: Use present, future and past tenses
Skills: Improve your work and add more complexity / detail
Home learning:
100
5
-Rally robin – say who get on with in
family
-Rally coach – thinking skills
activity on family dinner table
setting
Studio 2 p.52-53
-Rally robin – dice activity to give
basic opinions on music types
-Timed pair share – opinions on
different singers / groups
-Trapdoor speaking – opinions on
music
Studio 2 p.54-55
Reading assessment (Stdio)
-Jot thoughts – clothes and
categorise if top / bottom / feet
-Rally robin – categorise vocabulary
-Numbered heads together:
adjective rules
-Numbered pairs – multiple choice
quiz on clothes
-Rally robin – dice activity speaking
Studio 2 p.56-57
-Rally coach – identifying past
present future tenses
-Quiz quiz on above
Assessment task sheet on shared
area
Lady Lumley’s School MFL DEPARTMENT: Year 8 Medium term Scheme of Learning
KS3 FRENCH
TOPIC: Là ou j’habite (mid-June – July)
Prior learning
Lesson number & title
1.Là où j’habite
Students have done some work on places in town at end of Year 7
Learning outcomes
Give out topic overview and vocab sheet for this topic
Be able to describe the house and the town where you live.
Grammar: Use regular and irregular adjectives both after and before nouns /
use comparative phrases
Skills: Applying grammar patterns to new vocabulary
Home learning: Revise for grammar test next lesson
2. Dans mon appart
3. Ma maison idéale
4. Review / Quiz
YEAR 8
Timing
200
Specific resources
Studio 2 p.68-69
-Rally coach on adjective positions
in a sentence
-QQT – write a sentence to
describe your house/ town
Be able to say what rooms there are in your house ** use prepositions to say
where the rooms are
Grammar: Using Il y a + noun / Il n’y a pas de + noun
Skills: Using sequencing words and connectives to make descriptions more
complex
Home learning: Create a description of your house and local area to sell it
100
Studio 2 p.70-71
-Rally coach – sentence translations
-QQ – 3 sentences about your
house – partner identifies the false
one
Create a description of your dream house with a partner – sell this to other
people in your class (use HL piece as a starting point for pair work) **Use
extended sentences to say what you can do there
Grammar: Using adjectives / Il y a un jardin où on peut jouer au foot
Skills: Persuading others and creating detailed descriptions / Peer assess
each other’s work
Home learning: Complete any plans / descriptions to present in second lesson
RECORD LEVELS IN PROGRESS TRACKERS
Be able to assess your learning on this topic: complete self assessment using
‘bilan’ in books and peer check / Quiz on topic
Grammar:
Skills: Self and peer assessment
Home learning:
200
Book computers to do this as a
brochure / sugar paper with plans
and description
6
100
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