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Meadowhead School

Meadowhead SchoolAcademy Trust

French

Our Vision

Our MFL curriculum is designed to ensure that Meadowhead students:

  • Understand and respond to spoken and written language;
  • Speak and write with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say;
  • Recognise and use grammatical rules and a range of vocabulary to communicate effectively; and
  • Discover and develop an appreciation of foreign languages and other cultures.

We want every student at Meadowhead School to experience the fun and satisfaction of a foreign language. Being able to communicate in another language opens up doors to a wider range of better-paid jobs, new friends, and a more understanding world view. The future needs open-minded, forward-thinking, more tolerant linguists.

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” - Nelson Mandela, South African politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

“You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once” – Czech proverb

 Key stage 3 (7-9) 


Please click the hyperlinks to access the knowledge organisers
 
  Year 7 Year 8 Year 9
Term 1

All about me

Talking about my name + age

Talking about birthday

Talking about my appearance

All about my family

Saying who is in my family and their ages

Describing my family (physical description)

Describing my family (personality)

Knowledge Organisers:

Unit 1 All about me

Unit 2 All about family

My Town

Describing where I live

Asking for directions and saying where I’m going

Say what you can do in my town

Paris

Monuments in Paris

Things to do in Paris

Planning a visit

Knowledge Organisers:

HT1: What can you do in your town?
HT1:Where do you live?
HT1: Where is?

HT2: A visit to Paris
HT2: What are you going to do in Paris?
HT2: Where will you go in Paris?

Relationships

Describing your family

Expressing opinions about family

Explaining why you get along with family

Explaining why you don’t get along

Qualities of a good friend

Future plans

Describing a person whom you admire

Knowledge Organisers: 

HT1: How many people are in your family?

HT1: What do you think of your family?

HT1: Do you get on well with your family?

Assessment

Vocabulary tests.

Formative Listening and Writing

Formative Writing and Summative Reading and Grammar

Formative Writing

Term 2

All about my school

Talking about my subjects

Giving opinions about my subjects

Activities at school

What is in my pencil case

What I wear for school

Teacher language in the classroom.

 

Knowledge Organisers:

Unit 3 All about my school

Holidays

Saying where I will go and how long for

Weather and saying what I do

Using Present and Future tenses together

Research project on French or French speaking destination

Booking a hotel room

Describing my dream holiday

What will I put in my suitcase

Knowledge Organisers:

HT3: what are you doing/weather
HT3: what are you going to do?
HT3: where are you going on holiday?
HT4: at the hotel
HT4: dream holiday
HT4: what do you put in your suitcase?

Free Time:

Free time activities

On line activities

TV and film

Perfect tense to describe recent film. – regular er verbs

Watch Les Choristes and write a film review

 

Knowledge Organisers: 

Term 2 KO

Assessment Summative Reading and Grammar
+ Formative speaking
Formative speaking Summative Listening
Term 3

All about my house

Talking about rooms in my house

Describing what’s in my room

Saying where things are

All about my free time

Saying what sports I play

Saying what sports I do

Learning about the Tour de France

 

Knowledge Organisers:

Unit 4 About my home

Unit 5 About my free time

Food

Saying what I have for breakfast

Shopping for food at the market

Saying what I like to eat / drink

Saying what you should eat / drink to be healthy

French speciality foods

Ordering food in a restaurant

Knowledge Organisers:

HT5: buying icecream
HT5: fruit and veg at the market
HT5: what I eat for breakfast
HT6: at the restaurant
HT6: what do you like to eat?
HT6: what must you do to stay in shape?

School and future plans

Describing a photo.

School life in Francophone countries

Talking about school day

Discussing school rules

What you did at school yesterday-  Perfect tense with irregulars

Say what you will do in future to improve your French

Knowledge Organisers: 

Term 3 KO

Assessment Summative Writing Summative Writing and Grammar

Formative Speaking 
Summative Reading

 

Key stage 4 (10-11) 

  Year 10 Year 11
Term 1

My personal world

Lifestyle and wellbeing

My neighbourhood

HT1 Mon petit monde a moi

Assessment Listening and Reading Trial exams – speaking, listening, reading, and writing
Term 2

Lifestyle and wellbeing

Travel and tourism

Studying and my future

HT2 and HT3 Knowledge Organiser

Assessment Speaking GCSE Speaking Exam
Term 3

Travel and tourism

Environment

Exam practice.

WPALM revision resource

GCSE 90 word writing mat

GCSE 150 word writing mat
Assessment Trial exams – listening, reading, and writing N/A

 Key stage 5 (Y12-13)

  Year 12 + 13
Term 1 Positive aspects of a diverse society; Life for marginalised groups and “La Haine”
Assessment Paper 1
Term 2

How criminals are treated ; Voting rights; demonstrations and strikes

Trial exams – speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Assessment Papers 1 and 2 and 3
Term 3 Politics and immigration; IRP launched; cinema. REVISION FOR Y13
Assessment Assessment week – speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Useful websites

www.linguascope.com;

www.senacalearning.com

www.lyricstraining.com

www.quizlet.com

www.memrise.com

Tex's French Grammar (utexas.edu)

Extra-curricular / enrichment

Trips abroad

Access to Foreign Language Assistant,

KS4 weekly revision sessions

February and Easter holiday revision sessions

Food tasting lessons