French

Year 7

Half Term 1

Personal Information

  • Introduction to classroom language and numbers.

    Alphabet and high frequency phrases.

    Age and birthdays.

    Family and describing people.

  • Phonics.

    The verbs Avoir and Être.

    Possessive adjectives.

    Adjectival agreement.

    Adjectival position.

    Plural nouns + articles.

    Masculine + feminine nouns + articles.

    Word types: nouns/verbs/adjectives.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 2

Personal Information

  • Pets - Introduction and colours.

    Hair and eyes.

    Physical and personality descriptions of people.

  • Phonics

    Adjectives.

    Recap of avoir and etre verbs.

    Adjectival agreement.

    Irregular adjectival agreement.

    Adjectival position.

    Word types: nouns/verbs/adjectives.

    High frequency verbs.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 3

School Life

  • School Subjects and Opinions.

    Reasons for opinions and making comparisons.

    Describing teachers.

    Classroom and school activities.

  • The ideas pupils will understand and the words they will be able to use:

    Vocabulary for subjects.

    Adjectives to describe people .

    Key verbs for activities.

    Present tense - ER verbs.

    Subject pronouns.

    Comparatives / Superlatives with adjectives.

    Verbs of opinion and reasons.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 4

School Life

  • Telling the time in French.

    Describing the school day.

    Comparing school life in France and UK.

    School facilities and describing your school.

  • The ideas pupils will understand and the words they will be able to use:

    Revision of numbers.

    Vocabulary for school life eg uniform, breaks, lunch.

    Vocabulary to describe school photos.

    Simple negatives.

    Present tense verbs er, ir, re.

    Verbs of opinion and reasons.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 5

Out and About

  • Introduction to food items.

    Giving opinions on food and reasons.

    Shopping at the market.

  • The ideas pupils will understand and the words they will be able to use:

    Vocabulary for food and drink.

    Adjectives.

    Partitive article (some) .

    Verbs of opinion and reasons.

    Question words and how to form questions

  • Questions and answers in French. Practicing dialogues from the lesson.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 6

Out and About

  • Ordering food.

    Shopping for clothes.

    Asking for and giving directions as a tourist in Spain.

  • The ideas pupils will understand and the words they will be able to use:

    Recall of vocabulary for food and drink.

    Question words and how to form questions.

    Recall of adjectival agreement.

    Using intensifiers (too, very).

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.