Modern Foreign Languages > French
Theme 3 – Work and Lifestyle

• Travel, Transport and Finding the Way
• Tourism
• Accommodation
• Holiday Activities
• Services

Travel, Transport and Finding the Way

Time allocation – 3 weeks

• Attract the attention of a passerby.
• Exchange information about the location of a place.
• Exchange information about the location of bus stops, platforms, toilets etc.
• Understand signs, notices and announcements in the street, shops etc.
• Obtain information from maps, street plans and timetables.
• Buy tickets, books of tickets.
• Specify destination, single/return, class, date.
• Exchange information about a journey – transport, directions, times of departure and arrival, cost, travel conditions, problems etc.

Grammar

• Revise relevant grammar from previous units.
• Adverbs of time and place (aujourd’hui, demain, ici, là-bas)
• Common adverbial phrases.

Higher Level

• As above.
• Pluperfect tense.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students' Guide on pages 21/22 and 30/31.

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Interests and Hobbies

To be added.

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Accommodation

Time allocation – 3 weeks

• Describe and ask about facilities in a house or a hotel.
• Exchange information re availability, length of stay, dates, requirements, cost, acceptability, mealtimes, rules and regulations.
• Make and understand complaints.

Grammar

• Revise relevant points from previous units – prepositions, interrogatives.
• Negatives in the imperfect tense – ce n’était pas, il n’y avait pas

Higher Level

• As above.
• Negatives in the perfect tense.
• Formal letter writing.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students' Guide22/23 and 31.

Holiday Activities

Time Allocation – 3 weeks

• Accept and decline offers of food and drink.
• Understand signs and announcements in cafés and restaurants.
• Understand and give opinions about food, drink, restaurants.
• Reserve a table, order a meal and pay for it.
• Make a complaint in a restaurant.
• Exchange information and opinions about holiday activities and interests.
• Discuss tourist attractions and entertainment.

Grammar

• Use of perfect and imperfect tenses to describe a holiday (je, il, elle, on, nous forms of the verb.

Higher Level

• Thorough revision of all tenses – present, perfect, imperfect, pluperfect, future, conditional.

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the Students' Guide on pages 23 and 31.

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Services

Time allocation – 4 weeks

• Ask about and understand postal services – letters, faxes, email, phone calls.
• Ask about and understand changing money at a bank.
• Exchange information about hiring bikes, boats, sleeping bags etc.
• Report a loss or theft, describing the object – size, shape, colour, material, contents.
• Say where and when the object was lost.
• Ask about and understand how someone feels – ill, well, better, hot, cold, tired etc.
• Exchange information about consulting a doctor, dentist, chemist.
• Discuss common ailments and treatment.
• Exchange information about location and details of a accident, calling the emergency services.

Grammar

• Revise relevant points from previous units.
• Avoir malà
• The passive voice (Present tense)

Higher Level

• As above.
• “En” + present participle
• Se faire mal à etc. in Perfect tense.
• The passive voice (all tenses)

Vocabulary

Foundation level vocabulary is listed in the AQA Students' Guide on pages 23/24 and 31/32.

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