Curriculum Overview

 

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Sixth Form

Term 4: Revison and Recapping

Revision and recapping for all 4 skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

Final GCSE exams

Speaking Assessment in April/May

Listening/Reading/Writing Assessments in May/June

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Create a supportive community:

Term 1: School

What school is like?

School activities

– third person singular and plural forms of verbs in the present tense

– il faut and il est interdit de + infinitive

– consolidation of the imperative

– using a combination of tenses

Writing and Reading

Il est interdit de
It is forbidden to

Il ne faut pas
You must not

Le redoublement
Repeating the year

On étudie
We study

Une matière
A subject

Un cours
A lesson

S'améliorer
To improve

Participer
To take part in

les devoirs
homework

Emploi du temps
timetable

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students will learn about education and expand their abilities to speak about their own surroundings and life.

Create a supportive community:
An intercultural understanding will be fostered and developed.

Term 2: Future aspirations, study and work

Using languages beyond the classroom.

Ambitions

Work

– the subjunctive (vouloir que, il faut que)

– verbs that are followed by de or à (e.g. décider de, apprendre à)

– consolidation of negatives

– consolidation of the conditional

– consolidation of the simple future

– si clauses

– ce qui… and ce que…

– adverbs

– using a combination of tenses

GCSE Mock in all 4 skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing based upon all modules studied so far. Students will complete GCSE past-papers.

Je voudrais être/devenir
I would like to be/become

Mon rêve
My dream

J'espère
I hope

J'ai l'intention de
I want to

J'apprends
I am learning

Travailler
To work

Un travail bien payé
A well-paid job

Un travail mal payé
A badly paid job

Le mieux
The best

Le pire
The worse

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students learn about the importance of languages and begin to think practically about their future careers and aspirations.

Create a supportive community:
Students learn about the world outside of education and how speaking different languages can open doors both career-wise and socially.

Term 3: International and Global Dimension

Bringing the world together.

Environmental issues

– consolidation of modal verbs

– consolidation of the comparative

– the passive voice

– the conditional of modal verbs

– using a combination of tenses

Mock Assessments in all 4 skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing based upon the entire GCSE course. Students will be completing GCSE past-papers.

Ce qui me préoccupe
What worries me

Je pourrais
I could

Je devrais
I should

Eviter
To avoid

Faire plus
Do more

Le bénévolat
Volunteering

Les travailleurs/ouvriers
Workers

Le covoiturage
Car sharing

Le déboisement
Deforestation

La guerre
War

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students learn about environmental and social issues and reflect on how these could be resolved.

Create a supportive community:
Students consider their place in the world and consider strategies to improve the world for everyone.