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: will be updated each term from Sept 2022	Relationships with family and friends; and home. Consolidation of adjectives, negatives, prepositions, AVOIR and ETRE, reflexive verbs in present, near future. Introduce full form of conditional Knowledge Organisers: Relationships with family and friends Marriage and Partnership À la maison
Assessment	Vocabulary tests. Formative Writing and Reading	Formative Writing and Summative Reading and Grammar	Listening and reading
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: will be updated each term from Sept 2022	Music, TV, cinema. Intro perfect tense with just “regarder” Move onto AVOIR perfect regular , irregular and in the negative. Food – consolidate perfect tense. Transactional language in restaurants/cafés. Knowledge Organisers: Free time Sport Food and Eating out
Assessment	Summative listening + Formative speaking	Summative Writing and Grammar. Formative speaking	Reading
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: will be updated each term from Sept 2022	Festivals. Retrieval of perfect + intro perfect tense with être. Intro imperfect (with key phrases – see Foundation spec) Knowledge Organisers: Festivals.

Key stage 4 (10-11)

	Year 10	Year 11
Term 1	Technology and Social Media; School Life. Technology; School subjects and School Life	Environment; Future plans/education Environment higher education
Assessment	Writing	Trial exams – speaking, listening, reading, and writing
Term 2	Holidays and Tourism; Healthy and unhealthy living Holidays and Tourism; Healthy and unhealthy living	Poverty and homelessness; and choice of career Poverty and homelessness; and choice of career
Assessment	Reading	GCSE Speaking Exam
Term 3	Retrieval of units 1 – 5 with focus on transactional language and Exam Skills.	Exam practice. WPALM revision resource GCSE 90 word writing mat GCSE 150 word writing mat
Assessment	Trial exams – speaking, listening, reading, and writing	N/A

Key stage 5 (12-13)

	Year 12 + 13
Term 1	The changing family; the digital world; and “Un sac de Billes”
Term 2	Volunteering; music; “Un sac de Billes”; and Cultural Heritage
Assessment	Trial exams – speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Term 3	Cinema; IRP launched; multicultural society. REVISION FOR Y13
Assessment	Assessment week – speaking, listening, reading, and writing.