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FRENCH

Year 7

Topics:

  • Presenting yourself and greetings
  • Talking about yourself/family and friends with someone else
  • Your life at school
  • Your hobbies and leisure activities
  • Your holidays
  • Your home (start)

    Grammar points:
    Numbers, dates, genders and number, nouns, subject pronouns, adjectives, possessive adjectives, asking questions, prepositions, verbs (regular and irregular verbs), present tense (regular verbs and main irregular verbs), near future.

    Skills:
    Listening: for gist/details
    Reading: skim and scan, make links with English, use a range of resources
    Writing: identify patterns, memorizing, apply grammar, reuse language they have met, sounds and writing
    Speaking: respond appropriately, communicate in pairs or groups, intonation and pronunciation, initiate/sustain conversations, ask and answer questions.

    Year 8

    Topics:
    Finish stage one: Home

  • Talking about yourself and someone else, saying what you did yesterday, talking about a special day out
  • Talking about your routine: daily routine, clubs and activities, going out
  • Personal and social life: friends and family, opinions, health
  • Food and drink, shopping, going out to eat, healthy eating
  • Holidays: accommodation, services, following instructions
  • Travel and tourism: arranging a visit (if time)
  • Grammar points:
    Verbs (regular and irregular verbs), perfect tense, present tense (regular verbs and irregular verbs): reflexive verbs, making suggestions, near future, direct object pronouns, expressing an opinion, quantities and numbers, adjectives: comparative and superlative, all possessive adjectives, question words

    Skills:
    Listening: for gist/details, work out meaning, deal with unfamiliar language
    Reading: skim and scan, make links with English, use a range of resources, use reference material, deal with unfamiliar language
    Writing: identify patterns, memorizing, apply grammar, reuse language they have met, adapt previously learnt language, use a range of vocabulary/structures
    Speaking: respond appropriately, communicate in pairs or groups, intonation and pronunciation, initiate/sustain conversations, ask and answer questions, use Target Language within the classroom, compare experiences.

    Year 9

    This year, Year 9 will be entered for the Foundation Certificate of Secondary Education for French.

    FCSE includes all four Language Skills (Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing). Some skills are tested externally by the AQA examination board, others internally by the school.
    There are three levels of award

  • Pass (level 4)
  • Merit (level 5)
  • Distinction (level 6)
  • Specifications Candidates must submit evidence from 3 units, each unit to be selected from a different theme.

  • Unit 1 - meeting people
  • Unit 2 – Home life
  • Unit 3 – Education and future plans
  • Unit 4 – Holidays
  • Unit 5 – Travel and Accommodation
  • Unit 6 – Leisure
  • Unit 7 – Celebrations
  • Unit 8 – Health and fitness
  • Unit 9 – Food and drink
  • Unit 10 – Region and environment
  • Unit 11 – Media
  • Unit 12 – Work and choices
  • This year girls will be assessed for: Unit 4: holidays, Unit 9: Food and drink, Unit 1: Meeting people, Unit 11: Media, Unit 3: Education and Future plans. There are 12 pieces of work to be assessed altogether (3 x 4 skills). The deadline for the portfolio to be sent is the 31st May 2010. Results will be published in August 2010.

    GCSE Modern Languages, AQA Full Course

    French, German and Spanish

    All pupils in Year 10 must choose one or two of the three Languages: French, German or Spanish.

    In our increasingly global environment, linguistically able girls will be encouraged to opt for two Languages. On mutual agreement, girls might be able to take GCSE French in Year 10.

    New specifications have been put into place for students being examined from June 2010 onwards. The subject content is now divided into four Units:

  • Unit 1: Listening (20%)
  • Unit 2: Reading (20%)
  • Unit 3: Speaking (30%)
  • Unit 4: Writing (30%)
  • They match the four assessment objectives, which are: understanding the spoken Language (Listening), communicating in speech (Speaking), understanding written language (Reading) and communicating in writing (Writing). The emphasis is on communication and this is reflected in the weighting of the 4 Units.

    For Units 1 and 2, girls can be entered for either Foundation or Higher Tier. Responses consist of non-verbal responses or questions and answers in English. Dictionaries are not allowed.

    Unit 3 is marked internally and moderated. It consists of two prepared tasks: an interview and a conversation, lasting between 4 to 6 minutes each. There are four criteria for marking: communication, range of Language and accuracy, pronunciation and intonation and interaction and fluency.

    Unit 4 is assessed externally and consists of two tasks. The girls will prepare for the final examination (60 minutes) in three stages:

  • General teaching and learning
  • Preparation of the two tasks under informal supervision
  • One hour writing under formal supervision
  • There are three criteria for marking, which are content, range of language and accuracy.

    Differentiation for both Units 3 and 4 is by outcome and there is no tier. Girls have been familiarized with these types of procedure, which is similar to the ones they have experienced with the FCSE French in Year 9.

    The four Units are studied into four contexts:

  • Lifestyle (Health, relationships, choices)
  • Leisure (Free time, media, holiday)
  • Home and environment (Home, local area, environment)
  • Work and Education (School, college, future plans, current and future jobs)
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