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French

Autumn 1

Year 10

Leisure Activities

Francophone events, online activities, cinema and TV, keeping active, making plans and invitations

Revision of 3 key tenses:
Present tense (regular and irregular verbs)
The near Future tense
The perfect tense

Year 11

Our Planet

Geography and the climate
Environmental problems
How to protect the environment
Numbers and percentages
Comparatives and superlatives
Use of a variety of tense including the present, perfect, imperfect and near future

Autumn 2

Year 10

Family and friends

Talking about identity, weekend routine, friends and friendship, describing people, role models, reflexive verbs, sequencers and connectives, adjectives

Year 11

My world

Describing where you live
Mock exams (listening, reading and writing)
Asking for and understanding directions
Using si clauses
Demonstrative adjectives

Spring 1

Year 10

Celebrations and School

Birthdays and festivals, school in Francophone countries, school subjects and school life, school rules, comparative adjectives, adverbs, impersonal verb structures with infinitives

Year 11

My world/ Future aspirations and work

Shopping
Describing your ideal home
A visit to another town or city
Mock exams (speaking)
Summer plans
Future plans and hopes
Different jobs
Travelling by train
Verbs followed by à or de
Structures followed by the infinitive
Simple future, immediate future and conditional tenses

Spring 2

Year 10

School and Healthy Living

Primary school, learning languages, meals and mealtimes, mental health, imperfect tense, negatives, partitive article, imperative modal verbs

Year 11

Revision of topics and Exam Skills

Role-play, photocard and general conversation practice
Developing written and spoken answers
Asking questions
Revision of all topics
Listening, reading and writing exam skills

Summer 1

Year 10

Healthy Living and Lifestyle

Describing illness and accidents, booking appointments, lifestyle changes, simple future tense, reflexive verbs in the perfect tense, complex expressions followed by the infinitive 

Year 11

Revision of topics and Exam Skills

Revision of all topics
Listening, reading and writing exam skills

Summer 2

Year 10

Holidays

Holidays and accommodation, dream holiday, activities on holiday, conditional, giving advice (il vaut mieux... il vaut la peine de...)