French

Year 8

Half Term 1

Free Time

  • Introduction to free time activities with frequency adverbs.

    More extensive use of present tense verbs to talk about your free time.

    Revision of expressing opinions and giving reasons why you like specific activities.

    Using more complex negatives eg to say what you never do in your spare time.

    Talking about your future plans for your free time.

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

    Vocabulary for sports and activities.

    French infinitive verbs for free time eg to do, to play.

    Recall of opinion verbs and connectives.

    Expressions for sequencing events.

    Negatives eg none, never, nobody, nothing.

    The immediate future tense eg I am going to watch/ do.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 2

Free Time

  • Describing the weather and talking about the activities you do.

    Giving opinions of TV programmes and different genres.

    Talking about a cinema experience and analysing a short film.

    Inviting a friend and accepting/ rejecting invitations to do activities.

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

    Vocabulary for weather.

    Infinitive verb structures.

    Complex negatives.

    Frequency adverbs.

    Sequencing structures eg first, then, next.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 3

My Home and Local Area

  • Talking about the places in your town and describing where you live.

    Describing what you can do in your town.

    Describing your ideal town and talking about your future plans.

    Describing a photo of a town.

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

    Vocabulary for places in town.

    Understanding the verb “etre” (to be in French).

    Using the modal verb “can” (on peut).

    The conditional tense.

    The future tense.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 4

My Home and Local Area

  • Talking about your house.

    Describing your house and bedroom.

    Talking about the activities you do at home.

    Describing your ideal house and talking about your future plans.

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

    Recap of the present tense with activities.

    Vocabulary for rooms of the house and furniture.

    Prepositions.

    The conditional tense.

    The future tense.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 5

The World of Work

  • Talking about what jobs people do and places of work.

    Talking about what activities different jobs involve.

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

    Vocabulary for jobs and places of work.

    Present tense verbs for to work and to be.

    Infinitive verbs to describe job activities.

    Using the modal verb “must” “devoir”.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.

Half Term 6

The World of Work

  • Talking about what jobs you would like to do.

    Talking in more detail about your future ambitions.

    Talking about skills/ knowledge needed for specific jobs.

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

    Recap of vocabulary for jobs and places of work.

    Future tense verbs.

    The conditional tense (I would like to).

    Recall of school subjects.

  • Questions and answers in French.

    Languagenut assignments set every week for homework.

    Testing the weekly words.