French and Spanish Overview

Year 7 Units

Term 1

Describing People

Names and ages, Birthdays – numbers 1-31, Personality, Connectives, Intensifiers

Assessment: Listening, reading, translation

Term 2

Family and Pets

Indefinite articles, describing personality and appearance, colours – plural agreement, opinions and desires, connectives. 

Assessment: Listening, reading, writing.

Term 3

School

School subjects, opinions and reasons, describing teachers, agreeing/disagreeing.

Assessment: Reading, grammar, translation, speaking.

Term 4

My Day

Describing when something is happening, high frequency verbs, uniform, school facilities, comparing things.

Assessment: Listening, reading, writing.

Term 5

Hobbies

Opinions and infinitives, places you do activities, weather.

Assessment: Listening, reading, translation.

Term 6

Food and Drink 

To eat/drink food items, negation, opinions, ordering food and drink, cultural input.

Assessment: Formative speaking

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Year 8 Units

Term 1

Rest and Relaxation

Description of people, verbs to be and to have, sports and activities, opinions, describing what you are going to do this weekend.

Assessment: Speaking.

Term 2

Holidays

Countries, destinations, transport, accommodation, weather, opinions.

Assessment: Writing, translation

Term 3

Eating and Drinking

Food and drink, quantities including high numbers, ordering food and drink, giving opinions and reasons.

Assessment: Reading.

Term 4

Pocket Money and Chores

Rooms in the house, routine verbs in rooms, chores, pocket money.

Assessment: Listening.

Term 5

Shopping

Clothes, colours, style of clothes, opinions on look and style, shopping role play.

Assessment: Reading.

Term 6

Broadening your Horizons

Revision numbers, days, months, seasons, festivals, celebrations, study of a film or song 

Assessment: Formative

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Year 9 Units

Term 1

Jobs and Future Plans

Revision school subjects and opinions, jobs and professions, places of work, job tasks, ambitions for the future

Assessment: Reading.

Term 2  

Film and TV

Types of TV programme, types of film, revision of opinions, simple narration of plots.

Assessment: Listening. 

Term 3

Music and Technology

Instruments, types and genres of music, opinions, technological devices, activities with tech, advantages and disadvantages of the internet.

Assessment: Writing.

Term 4

Healthy Living

Revision meals – key verbs and opinions, time phrases, sports and activities, healthy lifestyle, vices-smoking, alcohol, giving advice.

Assessment: Speaking.

Term 5

The Environment 

Revision counties, geographical features, francophone countries, environmental problems and solutions.

Assessment: Listening.

Term 6

Relationships

Revision of family members, extended families, descriptions, relationships – marriage, divorce and separation, problems at home, future dreams

Assessment: Formative speaking