KS3 & KS4 French curriculum

Pupils will build on their already sound KS3 knowledge of adjectives across this unit, ensuring accuracy in both word order and gender and number agreements. Also refocusing on the use of articles and possessive adjectives, this unit enables pupils to apply the new adjectival rules alongside familiar language and in familiar contexts, talking about family relationships. This unit prepares pupils for following units which will focus on comparative and superlative use of these adjectives.

1. C'est de famille ! Gender and number agreement with nouns
2. L'arrivée d'un réfugié chez nous : articles and possessive adjectives
3. Un membre de la famille que j'admire : extended writing and speaking
4. La valeur de la famille : feminine adjective agreement
5. Un bon déjeuner familial : adjectives used as nouns and position of adjectives
6. Conflits et solutions en famille : extended writing and speaking

• Pupils know the definite articles le, la, les, the indefinite articles un, une, des and the partitive articles du, de la, des.
• Pupils know the possessive adjectives mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes, son/sa/ses.
• Pupils know that person nouns change according to gender and number.
• Pupils know that adjectives often have different masculine, feminine and plural forms.
• Pupils know that adjectives often come after the noun but that some are positioned before the noun.