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Key Stage 3 French

Topics/Skills Taught

Year 7

Back to School

  • Phonics, personal information, introducing yourself, talking about your family, in the classroom, likes and dislikes, describing yourself and others, activities you do.

In class

  • Phonics, telling the time, school subjects and opinions, school uniform, the school day, a typical French school, school facilities.

My free time

  • Phonics, weather and seasons, sports you play, activities you do, sport in French speaking countries, opinions.

Family life

  • Phonics, pets and animals, describing family members, describing where you live, breakfast, Bastille day celebrations.

In town

  • Phonics, places in town, talking about where you go at the weekend, inviting someone out, ordering snacks and drinks at the café, talking about what you are going to do.

Year 8

Holidays

  • Phonics, Talking about what you did and where you went on holiday, talking about a visit to a theme park.

Festivals and Celebrations

  • Phonics, Talking about festivals and celebrations, buying food at the market, talking about future plans.

Free time

  • Phonics, TV programmes, using digital technology, arranging to go to the cinema, leisure activities, describing a shopping trip.

The world around us

  • Phonics, talking about where you live and your region, what you do to help at home, daily routine and moving house.

Live sport!

  • Phonics, sports, expressing opinions, asking the way and giving directions, healthy living, injuries and illness, French speaking sports personalities.

Year 9

My world!

  • Phonics, extra curricular activities, describing your friends and birthday celebrations, clothes

Future plans

  • Phonics, earning money, jobs and future plans.

Music!

  • Phonics, talking about songs and musical instruments, musical preferences, describing a trip to a concert, talking about how things have changed.

The best of worlds!

  • Ph  onics, food, eating habits, talking about animals and the natural world, helping the environment, describing what you would like to do to change the world.

The French speaking world!

  • Tal king about where you would like to go, sites and monuments, likes and dislikes, discovering more about French speaking countries, future plans, discussing a past trip around the world, French speaking artists.

Extra Curricular Activities

  • Language events linking French and future careers.

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