Modern Foreign Languages Department
French Curriculum Overview
Pupils may have been learning French since Reception, using La Jolie Ronde from the end of Reception. Yrs. 1/2: Les Aventures de Minou et Trottine. Yr. 3 Salut Celine et Antoine Units 1 - 7.
Reception
TOPICS
• Greetings
• Ask and say name
• Numbers 1 - 10
• Colours (rouge/bleu/jaune/vert)
• House/I'm asleep
• Je peux jouer, s'il vous plait?
• Vehicles (un bus/un bateau/une avion/une voiture)
• Travelling to France
• Maman/Papa
• Say goodnight
• I'm hungry
• Movement (eg. marche/tourne/ lentement/plus vite)
• Parts of the face
• Big and small
• Food
• Toys
Year 1
TOPICS
• Revise simple greetings
• Numbers 1 - 10
• Classroom instructions
• Yes/No
• Where is..?
• Revise parts of face
• Colours (violet/rose/noir/blanc/marron)
• Revision/extension: movement
• Please and thank you
• Fruit and vegetables
• Parts of the body
• Big and small
• Je peux ...
• Weather
• Places (le bois/le jardin/la plage etc.)
• Say not feeling well/going home
• Christmas
• Happy New Year
• Food
• Revise: goodnight/I'm asleep
• Are you there?
• It's dark/I'm scared
• Revision/extension: weather
• Winter vocabulary
• Clothes
• Say I'm hungry
• Je voudrais
• Areas of the house
• Easter vocabulary
• Animals
• Come and play
• Revise and extend: Family
• Qu'est-ce que c'est?
• Beach vocabulary
Year 2
TOPICS
• Revise transport
• Visiting Paris
• Revise/extend: parts of body
• Revise saying age
• Revise/extend: Food
• Ask and say where you live
• Revise/extend: Clothes
• Revise/extend:Animals
• Farm animals
• Revise food and drink
Year 3
TOPICS
• Revise greetings
• Revise asking and saying name
• Revise asking/saying where I live
• Revise/extend: Transport
• Revise numbers 1 - 10
• Revise classroom instructions
• Alphabet (a-i)
• France and its neighbours
• Travelling to France (la Manche)
• People (eg. une dame/un garcon)
• Answer register (ici/Pas ici)
• Revise big and small
• Revise yes/no/please/thank you
• Qu'est-ce que c'est? C'est...
• House and places vocabulary
• Ask/say how old I am
• How many?
• Open/close
• Numbers 11 - 20
• Prepositions: dans/sur
• Alphabet: a - z
• Revise/extend: Animals
• J'aime
• Days of week
• Understand and answer: Quel est ton ... prefere?
• Revise parts of face
• Good/bad
• Questions: intonation
• Revise/extend: Animals
• Revise colours: De quelle couleur est ...?
• Formal ways of asking/saying how you are
• Negative command: Ne fais pas de bruit
• Food
• Understand/answer: Quel est ton...prefere?
• Je voudrais
• Shopping role play
• Ja'I faim/soif
• Revise: greetings/name/age/
• where you live (spoken and written)
• Crockery/cutlery/drinks
• Revise 0 - 20 (20 - 0)
GRAMMAR
Simple sentence building
Adjectival agreement
Year 4
Year 4 covers Units 8 - 16 and uses Extension activities from Bonjour la France. There is more emphasis on learning to write some French correctly.
TOPICS
Autumn
-Revise greetings, names, age, where you live
-Drinks, crockery, cutlery
-Revise adjectives
-Revise numbers 0 - 20 (20 - 0)
-Introduce numbers 21 - 31
-Family
-Food
-Furniture
-Shops and shopping
GRAMMAR
-Basic sentence construction using c'est + noun and adjective
-Agreement of adjective
-Asking questions
Spring
-Weather
-Days of the week
-Ordinal numbers (1st - 7th)
-Numbers 40, 50, 60
-Prepositions (sur)
-Months of the year
-Dates, birthdays
-Clothes
-Describing people
GRAMMAR
-J'aime and Je n'aime pas
-Je porte/Il,Elle porte/Il,Elle s'appelle
Summer
-Parts of body
-School subjects
-Transport
-Items in pencil case
-Directions
GRAMMAR
-Aimes-tu ?
-Verb ETRE
-Je vais
-Possession (de)
Year 5
Autumn
-Greetings and asking/saying name
-Days/months
-Numbers 0 - 20
-Alphabet
-Classroom instructions
-Asking/saying what you have in your bag/pencil case
-Colours
-Indefinite and indefinite articles
-C'est
-Plural forms
-il y a
-Irregular verb AVOIR
-Je n'ai pas de
-Agreement of adjectives
Spring
-School subjects
-Time (o'clock only)
-Asking/saying what you like and dislike
-Numbers 0 - 31
-Dates/Birthdays
-Asking/saying age
-Locations and asking/saying where you live
-Sports
-Je ne comprends pas/je ne sais pas
-Prepositions with towns and countries
-pres de
-Revise AVOIR and introduce NEGATIVES
-Regular ER verbs
Summer
-Describing people (physical description and personality - 1st, 2nd, 3rd person)
-Family and pets (Asking/saying what brothers, sisters and pets you have and giving their names and ages)
-Irregular verb ETRE
-Extension agreement of adjectives
-Revision of AVOIR
-qui as a relative pronoun (qui s'appelle)
Year 6
Autumn
-Family (revision of personal description)
-Jobs and places of work
-Description of pets/friends
-Possessive adjective (mon, ma ,mes)
-Revision and extension of adjectival agreement, AVOIR and ETRE)
-Question words and forms
-Revision of ER verbs
-Introduce irregular verb BOIRE
Spring
-Activities
-Asking/saying what you like/don't like to do
-Numbers 31 - 100
-Types of home
-Revision of locations
-Rooms
-Describing my bedroom
-Aimer +INFINITIVE (Je peux + INFINITIVE)
-Revision of ER verbs
-Introduce irregular verbs ALLER/FAIRE/LIRE
-Prepositions (not with de)
-Revision of adjectival agreement, il y a, j'ai, ETRE, possessive adjective
Summer
-Buildings/places in town
-Directions
-Transport
-Revise countries
-(La belle terre)
-au/a la/a l'/aux
-Revise ALLER
-On peut + INFINITIVE
Year 7
Autumn
-Shopping (Revise numbers)
-Time
-Daily routine
-Clothes (patterns)
-Bathroom vocabulary
-preceding direct object (je le/la/les prends)
-Reflexive verbs
-1,2,3,6 verbs*
-Regular IR and RE verbs
-Irregular verbs PRENDRE, DORMIR and METTRE
-Revise colours and adjectival agreement
-Introduce pour + INFINITIVE
-Question words and forms
Spring
-Food
-Revise meals and shopping
-Weather and seasons
-Revise clothes, activities, countries (+prepositions)
-Introduce compass points
-Parts of the body/saying what's wrong
-Introduce du/de la/de l'/des and when to use de
-Revise j'aime/je n'aime pas
-Revise au/a la/a l'/aux (for toppings, flavours and fillings)
-AVOIR mal a ... (Revise AVOIR and au/a la/a l'/aux)
-Introduce commands
-Revise adjectival agreement
Summer
-Expressions with AVOIR
-Informal letter writing
-Talking about holidays (*in past tense)
-Revise locations/activities/prepositions + countries/ transport/times/dates/weather
-Common Entrance examination technique
-Revise AVOIR
-Extend possessive adjective (2nd/3rd person sing.)
-Perfect tense* (regular and irregular verbs/AVOIR and ETRE verbs)
-Il y avait/c'etait/j'etais/il faisait*
Year 8
Autumn
-The environment
-rules
-adjectives describing teachers and school subjects
-Household chores (pocket money)
-Miscellaneous vocabulary from past CE/Schol. papers
-Il faut + infinitive
- J'ai besoin de/j'ai peur de/j'ai envie de
-Comparison of adjectives
-Adverbs
-Imperfect tense*
-Future tense*
-Conditional tense*
-Pluperfect tense*
-Avant de + infinitive
-Depuis
-Apres avoir/etre + infinitive*
-Venir de + infinitive*
Spring
-Miscellaneous vocabulary from past CE/Schol. papers
-types of film and TV programme
-Joining words
-Pronouns*
-Relative pronoun (qui and que)
-Negatives
Summer
-Miscellaneous vocabulary from past CE/Schol. papers
-Post scholarship and CE projects (video drama/literature/ projects, eg. cultural or historical)