KS3 FRENCH
In Year 7 French, students learn to give and understand simple personal information. By the end of the year they should also have a good understanding of fundamental concepts of sentence structure, and be able to have a short conversation about a few topics.
In Year 8 French students learn to give and understand developed information and opinions about familiar topics immediately related to their daily lives.
By the end of Year 9, students can understand and communicate complex ideas relating to the world around them.
Throughout KS3, students learn to read, listen, write and speak in French. Wherever students can understand information in French, they are also taught to write and speak about it, and vice versa.
Over the year students are systematically taught French phonics to support their reading and writing.
Students also learn about French -speaking world. They are shown that all cultures are unique and exciting to learn about. We model effective and respectful cultural interaction, and practice communication skills such as active listening, filtering the important information, structuring ideas logically and expressing ideas clearly.
KS3 topics by year
Year 7
- Describe yourself, others and favourite objects
- Nouns, articles, adjectives and present tense of avoir
- Family, friends and school subjects
- Present tense of être, adjectival agreement, comparisons, possessive adjectives, object pronouns
- School, where you live and animals
- Present tense of regular ‘er’ verbs + irregular: aller, faire
- Wild animals and farm animals
- Perfect tense and plural of nouns and adjectives
- Meals, restaurants, ordering food
- Partitive articles, opinion verbs and modal verbs+ infinitive/noun, negatives
- Recipes; understanding quantities
- Il faut + noun/verb, opinions and justifications
Year 8
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Local area, directions, leisure and going out
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Use of ‘Il y a’, prepositions to/at, modal verbs
- Clothes, weather and daily routines
- Verbs: ‘faire de’ and ‘jouer à’, reflexive verbs, possessive adjectives
- Talk about holidays
- Present tense of -ir and -re verbs, near future tense, preposition ‘in’, perfect tense with avoir
- Winter/summer sports, active holidays and injuries
- Perfect tense of aller; J’ai mal au/à la/à l’/aux; pouvoir + infinitive
- Entertainment (music, film, TV and books)
- Direct object pronouns, verb+ infinitive, opinions in the past
- Old and new technology
- Adjectives (agreement and position), verb + preposition + infinitive, impersonal structures, structuring arguments
Year 9
- Being a teenager, relationships and pressures. Comparing what life was like for teenagers in the past.
- Using pronouns in positive and negative sentences, modal verbs, Imperative, imperfect tense
- Healthy living and eating
- Near future tense, the pronoun “en”, revision of the perfect tense, simple future
- Parties and festivals. How to organise a party and talking about festivals or special events
- Revision of near future, Conditional “on pourrait + infinitive”
- Perfect tense with être, imperfect tense
- Holidays inc how to travel by train
- Negatives, present tense revision, perfect and imperfect together
- Describing houses and bedrooms
- Revision of present tens, prepositions, si clauses with the imperfect and conditional
- Jobs and ambitions
- Revision of imperfect and conditional, different tenses with “quand”
- Feminine and masculine nouns
Key Contact
If you would like any more information about this subject, please contact Kirsten.gregory@thebicesterschool.org.uk