KS4 FRENCH
At KS4, students follow the AQA GCSE specification in French. The course builds on the skills and knowledge they have gained in Key Stage 3. They continue to work on their phonological awareness of the language to develop their listening and speaking skills. Grammatical concepts are revisited from KS3 in order to consolidate the learning before moving on to more sophisticated constructs. Students will continue learning about the French-speaking world and will deepen their understanding of the cultures in those countries.
KS4 topics by year
AQA GCSE French (8652)
Year 10
Me, my family and friends
- Describe yourself and your likes and dislikes, how you get on with others, what people look like and their personality
- Refer to different types of family, your ideal partner and future relationships
- Present tense of regular verbs inc reflexive verbs. Adjectival position and agreement
Assessment: In class listening and Writing assessment
Healthy Living and Lifestyle
- Food and drink preferences, attitudes to fast food and cooking
- Health problems & Addictions
- Reasons to stay healthy
- Compare present lifestyle choices and future intentions
- Describe sporting activities and ways of keeping fit
- Negatives
- Position of adverbs
- Near Future tense
- Perfect tense of regular verbs
Assessment: In class reading and Speaking assessment
Education and work
- School rules and uniform
- School subjects
- Education post-16
- My dream school
- Opinions on jobs, advantages and disadvantages
- Ideal job and work experience
Assessment: In class listening and Writing assessment
Modal verbs
Indefinite adjectives
Conditional of regular verbs
Superlative adjectives
Free Time Activities
- Film, music and TV
- Free time activities, sport, extreme sports and sporting events
- Relationships with family
- Events involving famous people
- Imperfect of regular verbs
- Adverbs
- Perfect tense with irregular past participles
Assesment: In class reading and Speaking assessment
Customs, festivals and celebrations
- Celebrations with families and friends
- Describe local/national festivals in the UK
- France and customs different traditions celebrations Francophone festivals
- Food on special occasions
- Question words and subject inversion
- Present tense of common irregular verbs
- Direct object pronouns
- Revision of perfect tense with avoir and être
- Irregular plural nouns
- Definite and indefinite articles
Assessment: In class listening and Writing assessment
Celebrity culture
- Different routes to fame: music, film, TV, fashion, culture and technology
- Opinions of celebrities
- Personal ambition and skills
- Social media and the impact on young people and society
- Advantages and disadvantages
- French speaking celebrities
- Perfect tense of avoir, être, faire and prendre
- De to indicate possession
- Imperative (tu and vous)
- Infinitives used as nouns
- Savoir + infinitive
- Demonstrative adjectives (ce, cet, cette, ces)
- Present tense of irregular verbs
- Possessive adjective
Assessment: Internal Mock examinations in Listening, reading and writing
Year 11
Travel and tourism, including places of interest
- Refer to and give opinions on holidays, holiday activities, and weather
- Describe places where we used to live
- Refer to places of interest and different locations including francophone islands across the world
- Describe plans for a gap year abroad
- Refer to future travel preferences, including destinations, activities, accommodation, and transport
- Learn about places of interest, including descriptions of things to do and see
- Refer to recent a holiday, including the destination, transport, activities, and accommodation
- Describe a recent holiday experience, including the destination, location, transport, weather, activities and accommodation.
- Learn about French-speaking holiday destinations, including descriptions of cities
- Refer to recent and future holidays / school trips
- Weather expressions
- Adjectives ending in -able
- The imperfect tense of être, avoir and faire
- Revising adjective agreement
- Revising the perfect tense
- Prepositions for countries and modes of transport
- Two tenses together: perfect and imperfect, future and near future
- Pour and sans + infinitive
- Dans and en
- The passive voice
- Revising y and en
Assessment: Internal listening and writing assessments
Media and technology
- Refer to all kinds of media, such as the internet and social media, including how they are used and the frequency of use.
- Refer to usual and recent uses of the internet, including social media and different apps and platforms.
- Give reasons for personal use with advantages and disadvantages.
- Describe the influences of the digital world.
- Refer to the internet and social media, including reasons for and frequency of use, their importance to young people and society, and their advantages / disadvantages.
- Refer to different platforms involving famous people and influencers, with opinions.
- Give opinions about celebrities’ activities / influences on young people and wider society.
- Give opinions of using mobile phones and different apps.
- Refer to technology use in the past, present and future, including frequency of use.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the internet, referring to risks and how to stay safe online
- Revising regular verbs in the present tense
- Revising infinitive verbs
- Present and past tenses together
- Opinion / modal verbs + infinitive
- Revising être, avoir, faire and aller in the present tense
- Avant de + infinitive
- Three time frames
- Adjectives beginning with in- or im-
- Modal verbs in the perfect tense Personne ne … and rien ne …
- The imperative Après avoir / être + past participle
Assessment: Mock Listening Speaking Reading and Writing
The environment and where people live
- Refer to activities at a local level to help and protect the environment
- Refer to wider global issues causing environmental damage and describe future activities that would make a positive impact on the planet.
- Describe the local environment, including environmental issues.
- Describe your home and activities at home.
- Describe your town / village / neighbourhood of residence, including local buildings, activities, and facilities.
- Give opinions including advantages and disadvantages for young people and tourists.
- Compare real and ideal homes.
- Describe an ideal home and area, including future intentions on where to live with reasons
- Verbs + à / de + infinitive A and à Je voudrais
- Infinitives used as nouns
- Negatives
- Partitive articles: du, de la, de l’, des
- Revising the perfect tense with avoir and être
- De after a negative or expression of quantity
- Modal verbs in the present tense
- Si and quand
- Revising the conditional of regular -er verbs
- Indirect object pronouns (plural forms)
Assessment: Mock speaking exam
Revision of all themes and preparation for speaking exam
Assessment: External speaking exam
Key Contact
If you would like any more information about this subject, please contact Kirsten.gregory@thebicesterschool.org.uk