French
Bienvenue sur le site web du département de français à Saint Patrick's.
Avoir une autre langue, c'est de posséder une autre âme.
Charlemagne
At St. Patrick's, there are currently three members of the Modern Foreign Languages Department who teach French.
Our language classrooms are vibrant, welcoming learning environments equipped with Interactive White Boards to integrate ICT to enhance teaching and learning.
Staffing
Mr Michael Burns
Mrs Gráinne Mc Caul
Mr Vincent Toner
Key Stage Three
At St. Patrick's, all students study French in Year 8. At the end of Year 8, students choose two languages from French, Irish and Spanish which they will continue to study up to the end of Year 10. In the Junior School, all students are allocated three periods of French language per week. We currently use the Expo series to deliver French at Key Stage 3 as well as blended learning resources to teach grammar and structures.
What will I learn?
En Sixième
(Year 8)
- Greetings & Introductions
- Numbers 1-31
- Days of the Week
- Months of the Year
- Classroom objects
- Colours
- Family and Friends
- Descriptions
- Pets
- Adjectives
- Where I live
- Rooms in the house
- Furniture
- Time
- The Verbs avoir and être
- The regular present tense
En Cinquième
(Year 9)
- Places in town
- Directions
- Prepositions
- Opinions and justifications
- Food and drink
- Prices
- Ordering at the café
- Daily routine
- School Subjects
- School day and Timetable
- Time
- Hobbies and Interests
- Sports
- Instruments
- The Present Tense
- The Near Future Tense
En Quatrième
(Year 10)
- Family and Relationships
- Jobs and Professions
- Countries and Cardinal Points
- Weather
- Free time
- Describing last weekend
- TV Programmes and Opinions
- Arranging to go out
- Clothing
- Prices
- Irregular verbs in the present tense
- The Perfect Tense
- Modal verbs
- Question forms
Resources
Students currently follow the Heinemann Expo 1 and Expo 2 Rouge textbooks and workbooks and will use the CGP KS3 French Revision Guide.