KS3 & KS4 French curriculum

This unit focuses on new knowledge of Francophone culture, exploring the city of Montréal, cultural diversity in Morocco, Francophone sports teams, art, and government. Grammatically this unit revisits much from KS3 and earlier in KS4, but also challenges pupils with the introduction of present participles and further imperative and word pattern rules. Pupils learn to describe, but also to express opinions on, a range of cultural and political topics, and further develop key skills essential at KS4 such as reading and responding to texts, describing photos, translation and extended writing.

1. Allons-y ! The imperative
2. Montréal, une ville francophone : the imperative
3. Une visite en ville : role-play
4. La diversité culturelle : regular present tense
5. Au Maroc : regular present tense verbs, present participle with 'en'
6. Au Maroc : read and respond to texts
7. Une équipe francophone : adjective agreement, making comparisons
8. Une équipe accomplie : present participle adjectives, comparatives, superlatives
9. Une sportive qui m'intéresse : extended writing
10. Une démocratie : creating nouns by adding -ion or -ation to the verb stem
11. Pourquoi voter ? Creating nouns by adding -teur or -ateur to the verb stem
12. Le conseil de la vie scolaire : extended speaking
13. Qu'en penses-tu ? Possessive adjectives, direct & indirect object pronouns
14. Un portrait francophone : possessive adjectives, emphatic pronouns
15. Un portrait coloré : extended speaking

• Pupils know all subject pronouns: je, tu, il(s), elle(s), on, nous and vous.
• Pupils know how to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense in all persons.
• Pupils know how to form the informal and formal imperative of regular verbs.
• Pupils know that adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they are describing.
• Pupils know how to form comparative adjectives and adverbs.
• Pupils know the possessive adjectives: mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes, son/sa/ses, notre/nos, votre/vos, and leur/leurs.
• Pupils know to position direct and indirect object pronouns before the verb.
• Pupils can recognise the emphatic pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles.