Modern Foreign Languages > French
Theme 1 – My World

• Self, Family and Friends
• Interests and Hobbies
• Home and Local Environment
• Daily Routine
• School and Future Plans

Self, Family and Friends

Time allocation – 3 weeks

• Exchange information about self, family, friends and pets.
• Give name, age, birthday, nationality.
• Discuss likes and dislikes.
• Describe physical appearance.
  
• Give information about parents’ jobs.
  
• Spell name, street name, town.
• Greet someone and respond to greetings.
• Ask and respond to “how are you?”
• Make and understand introductions.
• Welcome a visitor.
• Thank someone for hospitality.
• Exchange information about gender and marital status.
• Express opinions and feelings about members of the family.

Grammar

• Nouns
• Articles
• Adjectives – agreement, position, possessives.
• Avoir and Etre – full present tense.
• ER verbs – present tense.
• All personal pronouns (including “on”)
• Modes of address.
• Negatives.
• Numbers and dates.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students' Guide on page 18 and 29.

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Interests and Hobbies

Time allocation – 4 weeks

• Describe how you spend free time in the evenings and at weekends.
• Exchange information about hobbies and interests – when, where, how often, with whom.
• Give opinions on activities and support with reasons.
• State preferences.
• Understand and respond to an opinion to participate.

Grammar

• Infinitives
• Aller and Faire – present tense.
• Present tense – je, il, elle, on, nous forms of all verbs.
• Depuis and the present tense.
• Perfect tense – je, il, elle, on, nous forms of common verbs.
• Imperfect tense – il y avait , c’était.
• Imperfect tense – je, il, elle, on, nous forms of common verbs.
• Conditional tense – Je voudrais, j’aimerais.

Higher Level – all of the above and:

• All parts of the verb in perfect and imperfect tenses.
• Direct object pronouns.

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students Guide on pages 19 and 29

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Home and Local Environment

Time allocation – 3 weeks

• Give address.
• Give information about house/flat – location, number of rooms, colour, size, contents, outside.
• Describe bedroom – furniture, own or shared.
• Give information about travel routes into town and length of journey.
• Describe your area/region – location, character, amenities, interest.
• Ask someone about their area.
• Compare home country and French speaking country – towns, regions, climate, geographical features.
• Give opinions about where you and others live.
• Discuss advantages/disadvantages of local environment.

Grammar

• Revise and consolidate from previous units.
• Comparatives and superlatives.
• Prepositions.

Higher Level

• As above but include meilleur and pire.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students Guide on pages 19/20 and 29/30.

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Daily Routine

Time Allocation – 3 weeks

• Give details about daily routine on weekdays and at weekends.
• Exchange information and opinions about meals at home and at school.

Grammar

• Revise and consolidate relevant points from previous units.
• Reflexive verbs in the present tense – je, il, elle, on, nous forms.
• The time (conversational and 24 hour clock)

Higher Level

• As above – but all parts of the reflexive verb.
• Reflexive verbs in the perfect and imperfect tenses.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students' Guide on pages 20/21 and 30.

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School and Future Plans (up to age 18)

Time allocation – 4 weeks

• Understand instructions in the classroom.
• Make requests in the classroom.
• Give details about school routine – times, number of lessons etc.
• Describe travel to and from school.
• Discuss extra-curricular activities.
• Give information about school subjects (including likes, dislikes preferences and reasons), timetables, length of terms and holidays.
• Discuss future plans for the coming months.

Grammar

• Imperatives.
• Interrogatives.
• Immediate future (with Aller)

Higher Level

• As above.
• Future tense of regular verbs.
• Future tense of Aller, Avoir, Etre, Faire.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students' Guide on pages 21 and 30.

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