| People and Lifestyle | Students learn how to understand, express ideas and give descriptions about identity and relationships with others, healthy living and lifestyle, and education and work. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing vocabulary and structures related to these topics
- Understanding and conjugating the present tense of regular verbs
- Understanding the imperative
- Understanding and using negative constructions
- Understanding and conjugating modal verbs
- Understanding a range of adjectives and adverbs, including their position and agreement
- Understanding and using the interrogative
Key skills developed: - How to understand a variety of relevant spoken and written texts
- How to apply vocabulary knowledge and more complex grammatical understanding to translation and writing tasks
- How to use key structures and vocabulary to develop speaking skills
Assessment: Students are assessed formally in Term 3. The assessment ranges across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice questions in all four language skills. |
| Popular Culture | Students learn how to understand information about and discuss free time activities, customs, festivals, celebrations, and elements of celebrity culture. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing structures and vocabulary related to these topics
- Understanding and conjugating the imperfect tense of regular verbs
- Understanding and conjugating the near future tense
- Understanding and conjugating the perfect tense with ‘avoir’ and ‘être’
- Understanding adverbs more concretely
- Understanding the use of ‘de’ to show possession
- Understanding and using demonstrative adjectives (ce, cette, cet, ces) to say ‘this’
Key skills developed: - How to understand a variety of spoken and written texts within this context
- How to apply vocabulary knowledge and more complex grammatical understanding to translation and writing tasks
- How to use key structures to practise speaking skills, with a focus on understanding and asking questions
Assessment: Students are assessed formally in Term 5. The assessment ranges across all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice questions in all four language skills. |
| Communication and the World Around Us | Students learn how to understand, express ideas and give information about travel and tourism, including places of interest, media and technology, the environment, and where people live. Key knowledge developed: - Knowing structures and vocabulary related to these topics.
- Understanding present tense conjugation of common irregular verbs
- Understanding perfect tense conjugation using ‘avoir’ and ‘être’
- Understanding and using a wider range of adjectives
- Understanding and using prepositions for countries and modes of transport
- Understanding the use of infinitive verbs
- Understanding and using ‘avant de + infinitive’ to sequence events
- Understanding how to express quantities
Key skills developed: - How to understand a variety of relevant spoken and written texts
- How to apply vocabulary knowledge and more complex grammatical understanding to translation and writing tasks
- How to use key structures to develop speaking skills
Assessment: Informal assessment takes place throughout the unit, through interactive tasks and practice questions in all four language skills. |
