French Outline Syllabus YEAR 1 Michaelmas Term Greetings Saying your age Fruit Numbers 1 to 10 Lent Term Review of core vocabulary Numbers 11 to 20 Saying you are hungry Likes/dislikes Countries French alphabet Summer Term Parts of the body Saying you are thirsty Colours Clothing Prepositions
YEAR 2 Michaelmas Term Sounds Greetings Numbers Colours Parts of the body Introducing yourself Song: Frere Jacques Lent Term Questions Days, months and seasons Easter Song: Alouette Summer Term Weather Seasons Feelings Family Clothes Holidays Song: Sur le pont, D Avignon
Year 3 (2 lessons per week) 1. Greetings 2. Numbers 1 to 10 3. Classroom language 4. Cognates and near cognates 5. Understand French children presenting themselves 6. Learn an action poem 7. Parts of the body 8. Learn about verbs 9. Listen to and understand a story 10. Quiz Lent Term 1. Clothes 2. Colours 3. Question forms 4. Learn an action poem 5. Sequence a story using pictures and text 6. Quiz 1. Classroom objects 2. Saying your age 3. Recognizing words in a story, song and poem 4. Recognize sounds and explore new sound patterns 5. Express likes and dislikes 6. Negative phrases 7. Follow instructions 8. Town vocabulary 9. Weather 10. Saying where you live
Year 4 (2 lessons per week) 1. Revise 1 to 10 and learn 11 to 31 2. Revise colours and learn some more 3. Animals 4. Days of the week 5. Pets 6. Understand words in a story, song and poem 7. Recognize that nouns and adjectives have plural forms that agree 8. Rules about adjectives of colour 9. Months of the year 10. Birthdays 11. Recognise and categorise nouns 1. Members of the family 2. Weekly activities 3. Join in with the story, song and poem 4. Explore new sound patterns 5. The negative form 6. Recognise that verb endings change 1. Rooms in a house 2. Furniture 3. Question words 4. Recognize and use a wider range of adjectives 5. Prepositions 6. Differences between UK and France 7. Transport 8. Countries 9. Question forms 10. Understand and use Je voudrais 11. Extend recognition of word classes
Year 5 (3 lessons per week) Michaelmas Term 1. Talking about likes and dislikes (Regular er verbs) 2. Talking about your survival kit (Using avoir: je,tu,il,elle) 3. Describing yourself (Understanding adjective agreement singular) 4. Talking about other people (Adjectival agreement plural) 5. Describing a musician (Using the present tense: je,tu,il,elle) 6. School subjects (Asking questions) 7. Giving opinions and reasons 8. Describing your timetable (Using the 12 hour clock) 9. The school day 10. Food (The partitive article: du/de la/de l /des) 1. Talking about computers and mobiles (Using regular er verbs) 2. Sports (Using jouer à) 3. Talking about activities (Using the verb faire ) 4. Saying what you like doing (Using aimer + the infinitive) 5. Describing what others do (Using ils/elles) 6. Talking about your town/village (Using il y a./il n y a pas de.. 7. Giving directions (When to use tu and vous ) 8. Talking about where you go (Using à + the definite article) 9. Asking someone to go somewhere (Using je veux/tu veux) 10. Saying what you can do in town (Using on peut + infinitive) Summer Term 1. Holidays (Using nous to say we ) 2. Getting ready to go out 3. Buying drinks and snacks (Practising higher numbers) 4. Talking about holiday plans 5. Saying what you would like to do (Je voudrais + infinitive)
Year 6 (3 lessons per week) 1. Television programmes (Present tense er verbs) 2. Films (Present tense of avoir and etre ) 3. Talking about books (-ir and -re verbs) 4. The internet (aller and faire) 5. What you did yesterday (Perfect tense) 6. Saying what you did in Paris (Perfect tense of regular verbs) 7. Saying when you did things (Perfect tense of irregular verbs) 8. Understanding information about tourist attractions 9. Saying where you went and how (Perfect tense with etre ) 10. Interviewing a suspect (Asking questions in the perfect tense) 1. Talking about personality (Adjectival agreement) 2. Talking about relationships (Reflexive verbs) 3. Music (Agreeing/disagreeing) 4. Clothes (Near future tense) 5. Talking about your passion (Past, present and future) 6. Describing where you live 7. Describing your home) 8. Talking about meals 9. Discussing what food to buy 10. Talking about an event 1. Talent and ambition (Vouloir) 2. Encouraging or persuading someone 3. The imperative 4. Saying who is the best, the most, the least 5. Showing how much you can do with the French language
Year 7 (3 lessons per week) 1. Talking about Facebook (Using present tense verbs) 2. Giving your opinion about someone (Using direct object pronouns) 3. Arranging to go out (The near future tense) 4. Describing an evening out (Perfect tense) 5. Describing a music event (3 tenses) 6. Parts of the body 7. Sport 8. Healthy eating 9. Making plans to get fit (Practising the future tense) 10. Describing levels of fitness 1. Describing jobs 2. Learning languages 3. Saying what you used to do (Imperfect) 4. Discussing your future and your past 5. Talking about your job 6. Discussing holidays 7. Imagining adventure holidays (Conditional tense) 8. Saying what you take on holiday (Reflexive verbs) 9. Describing what happened on holiday (Combining different tenses) 10. Visiting a tourist attraction 1. Discussing what you are allowed to do 2. Explaining what is important to you (Direct object pronouns) 3. Talking about things you buy 4. Describing what makes you happy
Year 8c (4 lessons per week) 1. Present tense 2. Past tense 3. Future tense 4. Imperfect tense 5. Preparation for oral exam (Topics 1 and 2) 6. Preparation for the writing exam 7. Mock exam 8. Review of mock exam 9. Further oral exam preparation (Topics 3 and 4) 10. Revision of CE topics 1. Past exam paper practice 2. Mock exam and review 3. Revision of CE topics 1. Final oral exam preparation including role plays 2. Past exam paper practice 3. Revision of CE topics
Year 8x (4 lessons per week) 1. Present tense 2. Past tense 3. Future tense 4. Imperfect and conditional tenses 5. Preparation for oral exam (Topics 1 and 2) 6. Preparation for the writing exam 7. Mock exam 8. Review of mock exam 9. Further oral exam preparation (Topics 3 and 4) 10. Revision of CE and scholarship topics 1. Past exam paper practice 2. Mock exam and review 3. Revision of CE and scholarship topics 1. Final oral exam preparation including role plays 2. Past exam paper practice 3. Revision of CE and scholarship topics