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 Summative Reading and Grammar	Formative Writing and Summative Reading and Grammar	Formative speaking and Summative 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: Music, TV, cinema, Intro perfect tense with just “regarder” Move onto AVOIR perfect regular, irregular and in the negative. Transactional language in cinema. Knowledge Organisers: (to be updated Sept 23)
Assessment	Summative Writing and Grammar + Formative speaking	Summative Writing and Grammar. Formative speaking	Reading and 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?	*Healthy Lifestyle* Diet, exercise, physical wellbeing and mental wellbeing. Retrieval of 3 tenses Transactional language in doctor’s surgery / chemists. Knowledge Organisers: to be updated Sept 23

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	Positive aspects of a diverse society; Life for marginalised groups and “La Haine”
Term 2	How criminals are treated ; Voting right; demonstrations and strikes
Assessment	Trial exams – speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Term 3	Politics and immigration; IRP launched; cinema. REVISION FOR Y13
Assessment	Assessment week – speaking, listening, reading, and writing.