French

Year 10 French

Period	Topics	Grammar
Sept- Oct	Etudes	Since, articles, time indicators, impersonal verbs, expressions of quantity, if
Nov – Dec	Chez moi	Possessive adjectives, avoir and être, adjectives, direct object pronouns
Jan – Feb	Temps libre	Comparitives, questions, modal verbs, y, perfect tense
Mar – Apr	Au boulot	Opinions, perfect tense with reflexive verbs, tu and vous, future tense, conditional tense, emphatic pronouns
May - June	Ma ville	Position of adjectives, on, comparisons, conditional tense, the passive

Year 11 French

Period	Topics	Grammar
Sept- Oct	Aux magasins	Quantities + de, future tense, direct object pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, indirect object pronouns
Nov – Dec	En vacances	En/au/aux+country, imperfect and perfect tenses.
Jan – Feb	Bienvenue en France	Near to, far from, since, qui
Mar – Apr	En bonne forme	Reflexive verbs in present and perfect tenses, negatives, pluperfect tense, avoir expressions, imperfect tense
May	Revision	All of the above

Revision will be past papers and revision guides. From February half term, revision lessons will take place after school.

We prepare students to take the AQA terminal exam which consists of the following:

Listening	25%
Reading	25%
Speaking	25% (a role-play, a prepared presentation and conversation questions)
Writing	25%

The exam is separated into two tiers – Foundation and Higher. Students are consulted with reference to exam entries. Students entered for

Foundations papers can not achieve higher than a grade C in that element of the exam.

The department provides revision classes for Year 11 students all year.