S2 Languages: Reporting Window 2

French S2 Term 2

Topic:  At the Doctor

Aim 1: to learn how to describe an illness or injury and use transactional language to get by in an appointment with a doctor or chemist in France.

Aim 2: to write, rehearse and learn a short dialogue, based in doctor’s surgery or hospital, in small groups to present to the class.

Vocab covered:

• Body parts

• Illnesses

• Cures

• Transactional, polite language                                                                          -

Skills:

• literacy skills

• confidence

• communication

Grammar: 

• Partitives

• Using ‘vous’ instead of ‘tu’

• Imperative

French S2 Term 3

Topic:  Food / Cafe

Aim 1: to learn about different foods and meals in French with a Reading and Listening assessment in February.

Aim 2: to learn lots of restaurant and café vocab in French and to write, rehearse and learn a short dialogue, set in a cafe, in small groups to present to the class by the Easter holidays.

Vocab covered:

• meals

• foods

• drinks

• Transactional, polite language for use in cafes

• How to complain in a cafe                                                                                -

Skills:

• literacy skills

• confidence

• communication

Grammar:

• Partitives

• Using ‘vous’ instead of ‘tu’

• Imperative

• Conditional tense in set phrases

French S2 Term 4

Topic:  House and Home

Aim 1: to learn vocabulary to do with descriptions of houses, rooms and gardens.  Pupils design, describe and advertise a house for sale.

Vocab covered:

• Types of house

• Rooms

• Adjectives to describe houses and rooms

• Descriptive language                                                                          -

Skills: 

• literacy skills

• confidence

• communication

Grammar: 

• possessive adjectives

• prepositions

• using ‘on’

• revision of regular verbs

• revision of ‘avoir’ and ‘être’

The majority of work covered in S2 French is based around CfE Level 3 outcomes with scope to progress into Level 4 as the year goes on. Most pupils at this stage of S2 are working at Third level C or above. This does not mean that pupils performing below this level are not making progress - all pupils are making progress, but some require more support with CfE Level 3 content than others. 

 Working Level and Working Grade descriptions for S2 Languages:

Fourth D: Making outstanding progress with the Level 3 outcomes in all 4 skill areas. Confident grasp of new concepts and vocabulary.  Accurate in written and spoken work and excellent understanding in reading and listening activities.  When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, copes very well with the increased challenge. 

Third A: Making excellent progress with the Level 3 outcomes in all 4 skill areas. Confident grasp of new concepts and vocabulary.  Accurate in written and spoken work and excellent understanding in reading and listening activities.  When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, copes very well with the increased challenge. 

Third B: Making good progress with the Level 3 outcomes in all 4 skill areas or excellent progress in certain skill areas but not so confident with others. Good grasp of new concepts and vocabulary.  Mostly accurate in written and spoken work and good understanding in reading and listening activities. When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, copes well with the increased challenge. 

Third C: Making reasonable progress with the Level 3 outcomes in all 4 skill areas or good progress in certain skill areas but not so confident with others. Good grasp of new concepts and vocabulary with practice, although may find some of the concepts challenging.  Fairly accurate in written and spoken work and shows some understanding in reading and listening activities. When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, finds the increased difficulty challenging but manageable with support. 

Third D: Some progress with the Level 3 outcomes in all 4 skill areas or more progress in certain skill areas but not so confident with others. Some grasp of new concepts and vocabulary, although may find a lot of this challenging, especially some of the grammatical concepts.  Some accuracy in written and spoken work but mainly in simple, familiar phrases.  Limited understanding in reading and listening activities, needs more support to understand texts. When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, finds the increased challenge tricky. 

Second A-D: While still working on Level 3 work in class, extra support is usually provided to build confidence and skills.  Grading of A-D reflects where a pupil sits within this group.