KS3 & KS4 French curriculum

This unit builds upon knowledge of the near future, taught at KS3, and introduces the simple future tense, enabling pupils to talk about immediate and distant future plans. Within this grammatical context, pupils learn to express plans for study and travel, and plan a trip to Marche des Fiertés; here pupils are able to explore the subject of identity within the context of a cultural event. Pupils extend their knowledge of negative structures to express negative statements with far more subtlety, distinguishing between not, never, nothing, no longer and not yet, and apply these in all tenses.

1. Au lycée : future plans with 'aller + infinitive'
2. Mes études : aller + infinitive, future tense singular -er verbs
3. Étudier à Paris : aller + infinitive, future tense -er verbs
4. Les événements culturels : aller + infinitive, future tense plural -er verbs
5. Cet été à Paris : aller + infinitive, future tense -er verbs
6. On va fêter : extended writing and speaking, picture task
7. On y va : present and future tense of 'aller' and 'faire'
8. J'aurai bientôt faim : present and future tense of avoir and être
9. Un tour en France : present and future tense of aller, avoir, faire and être
10. Recherches en ligne : negation with 'ne...pas', 'ne...jamais' and 'ne...rien'
11. Faire mes valises : negation with ne ... plus and ne ... pas encore
12. J'ai acheté : negation

• Pupils know the verb 'aller' in the present tense in all persons of the verb.
• Pupils know how to use aller + infinitive to express the near future.
• Pupils know the present tense of the verbs avoir, être and faire in all persons.
• Pupils know that 'avoir + noun' can be used to express the English 'Be+ adjective' e.g. j'ai faim.
• Pupils know how to use ne...pas and ne...jamais to negate sentences in all tenses.