Languages
The North Walsham High School MFL department is committed to broadening pupils’ cultural capital, understanding and appreciation of the world and developing strong, long-life linguistic skills and knowledge. Along with learning new topics, reinforcing knowledge in every lesson is the key to successfully learning an additional language: we give pupils plenty of opportunity to practice and therefore remember key vocabulary and grammar structures. This is the first step towards our ultimate aim - becoming independent as a language learner and creative and confident with the target language.
Year 7
| Term | French Curriculum Overview |
| Half term 1 (7 weeks) |
Establishing routines, introductions, numbers, days of the week, birthdays, opinions, hobbies, animals, colours |
| Half term 2 (7.5 weeks) |
Family Opinions, describing yourself and others - looks and personality, celebrations (Xmas) |
| Half term 3 (6 weeks) |
Sports/activities, hobbies including technology, food and opinions |
| Half term 4 (5.5 weeks) |
Where you live (local area), countries and nationalities, weather, food and drink |
| Half term 5 (5 weeks) |
Places in town, asking for directions, activities in town, arranging to meet someone |
| Half term 6 (7.5 weeks) |
School subjects, how to agree/disagree when giving opinions, telling the time, school routines and timetables |
Year 8
| Term | French Curriculum Overview |
| Half term 1 (7 weeks) |
TV programmes/films and opinions, books, online activities |
| Half term 2 (7.5 weeks) | Relationships with others, recent activities (in the past), clothing |
| Half term 3 (6 weeks) | Paris - landmarks (cultural knowledge), activities, past activities in Paris, transport |
| Half term 4 (5.5 weeks) | Daily routine, holidays |
| Half term 5 (5 weeks) | Where I live, description of houses (rooms etc), food, celebrations (carnivals in France, Easter etc) |
| Half term 6 (7.5 weeks) | Future aspirations and plans |
Year 9
| Term | French Curriculum Overview |
| Half term 1 (7 weeks) | Revision of relationships and description of people, revision of perfect and future tenses |
| Half term 2 (7.5 weeks) | Injuries, healthy lifestyles, future resolutions to become/stay healthy |
| Half term 3 (6 weeks) | Holidays - where you go, with whom, activities, past holidays, dream holidays |
| Half term 4 (5.5 weeks) | Personal values, international issues, climate change |
| Half term 5 (5 weeks) | Revision of school, opinions on subjects, school buildings, uniform etc |
| Half term 6 (7.5 weeks) | Jobs and using languages in the future |
Year 10
| Term | French Curriculum Overview |
| Half term 1 (7 weeks) | Revision of relationships and friendships, revision of perfect, imperfect and future tenses |
| Half term 2 (7.5 weeks) | Revision of local area, weather, understanding information about tourist attractions, future living plans |
| Half term 3 (6 weeks) | Revision of school subjects, comparison of UK and French school systems, school rules, future study plans |
| Half term 4 (5.5 weeks) | Careers, part-time jobs, work experience |
| Half term 5 (5 weeks) | Environmental issues, volunteer and charity work |
| Half term 6 (7.5 weeks) | Grammar revision, introduction of literary texts, negatives, tenses, listening skills |
Year 11
| Term | French Curriculum Overview |
| Half term 1 (7 weeks) | Daily routine, visiting a restaurant, customs and festivals, traditions (English and French) |
| Half term 2 (7.5 weeks) | Revision of holidays in all tenses studied so far, locations, activities, booking hotels and transport, ordering food |
| Half term 3 (6 weeks) | Leisure and free time - revision of sports, television, reading, films, books in all tenses covered so far |
| Half term 4 (5.5 weeks) | Revision of vocabulary for all themes; preparation and undertaking of speaking assessment |
| Half term 5 (5 weeks) | Past paper practice and grammar revision |
| Half term 6 (7.5 weeks) | Past paper practice and grammar revision |