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French
Upon entry in Year 7, pupils are assigned to a teaching group according to their previous experience of learning French, with one or two groups reserved for children who have studied little or no French before. The aim is that all groups will follow a common course based on Tricolore Total Book 1 and will take a common examination at the end of the year.
Pupils in Year 8 are set according to ability and follow Tricolore Total Book 2.
All groups are timetabled for one lesson per cycle in an ICT room where they will have access to the Sony Soloist software and to a wide range of soundfiles and interactive websites to practise vocabulary and grammar.
What will your child study?
In Year 7, we aim to take advantage of their enthusiasm and confidence and introduce them to a variety of topic and grammatical areas, largely through oral interactive work in class backed up by written exercises and worksheets. By the end of the year, they will have been introduced to vocabulary and structures to enable them to talk and write about themselves and their family, their home, their likes and dislikes, leisure and sporting activities, the weather, daily routine and school life. They will be able to express themselves using both present and past (perfect) tenses and will be familiar with other grammatical concepts such as gender and adjective agreement.
In Year 8, some of the topics previously covered will be developed further and new ones – such as shopping, holidays and travel, staying with a French family, eating and drinking, illness – added. By the end of the year pupils should be able to use past, present and future confidently in both oral and written work and will also have covered other grammatical topics such as use of object pronouns and negation.
How will they be assessed?
Pupils will be assessed through marked homework, regular vocabulary tests and end of unit assessments which take the form of a written test covering the three skills of Listening, Reading and Writing. Oral proficiency is continually assessed through performance in class.
