French

Year 12

Units taught in Year 12:

Theme 1 Social Issues and Trends
Family, digital world, youth culture.
Theme 2 Artistic Culture in the French-speaking world Festivals, traditions, art and architecture.
Grammar: Past, Present and Future tenses, adjective endings, prepositions and case system.
Weekly conversation classes building on GCSE knowledge and improving spontaneous speech and fluency.
Study of literature
Students must also study a book. They must know, understand and be able to respond critically in writing in French to the work they have studied. Their knowledge and understanding must include a critical response to aspects such as the structure of the plot, characterisation, and the use of imagery or other stylistic features as appropriate to the work
Grammar: The formation of imperatives, recognising and using the past historic, the imperfect, present and past participles.
Recognising and using the present subjunctive, understanding and using the conditional mood and using adverbs.
Study of Film
Study and show understanding including critical response to aspects such as the structure of the plot, characterisation, and the use of imagery or other stylistic features as appropriate to the work.
Unit 7 & IRP
How French society has become multicultural and how immigrants and their descendants live in France.
Exam Preparation : Looking at essay writing in German, style and exam-technique. Revision for rehearsal examinations held in the Summer term.
Speaking exam IRP project work.
Extra-curricular Opportunities:
After-school intervention, study support and KS3 French Trip.

SMSC & British Values:

What are British Values?
• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
• Enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
• Enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England
• Encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour and to understand how they can contribute positively to society generally.
• Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England
• Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions
• Encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour and to understand how they can contribute positively to society generally.
• Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England.
• Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions.
How parents/carers can help to support their child’s learning:
• Encourage the use of online vocab learning software.

Year 13

Units taught in Year 13:

Theme 3: Multiculturalism in French -speaking society – Immigration, integration and racism.
Theme 4: Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world
Judicial system, criminality and rehabilitation, young people and politics, future of the European Union
Grammar: Recognising the present and perfect subjunctive and past historic of regular and irregular verbs
Bi-weekly essays for film/literature.
Weekly 1:1 speaking intervention for IRP.
Revision of all themes, grammar and past papers.
Revision of all themes, grammar and past papers.
Bi-weekly essays for film/literature.
Weekly 1:1 speaking intervention for IRP.
Revision of Themes 1-3, IRP, film and literature – past papers, targeted intervention, 1:1 speaking practise.
Final A-Level examinations
Extra-curricular Opportunities:
After-school intervention, study support and conversational club.
SMSC & British Values:

What are British Values?
• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
• Enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
• Enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England
• Encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour and to understand how they can contribute positively to society generally
• Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England
• Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions
• Encourage respect for other people and encourage respect for democracy, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.

How parents/carers can help to support their child’s learning:

• Encourage the use of online vocab learning software:
, www.senecalearning.com, www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z426n39 (German) & www.languagesonline.org.uk in order to extend and improve knowledge of vocab.
• Encourage them not to use online translators for written homework, but instead to use an online dictionary (such as dict.cc ) or notes in their exercise book/Microsoft Teams.
• Students will be set weekly short homeworks of vocabulary learning, grammar learning from their Knowledge Organisers and assessment preparation tasks towards the end of each unit. Microsoft Teams are created for each class to enable students to communicate with teachers about homework and missed work.

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