All students, other than those entitled to EAL or Learning Support lessons, must study a main modern foreign language, and there is a choice between French or Spanish, taught for a total of five lessons per fortnight.
Advanced and authentic themes are studied, whilst maintaining a sense of fun for young people. There are opportunities to create and perform short sketches on a small stage, which is a feature of all three language classrooms.
The course is taught through electronic media and is based on engaging and authentic material, including great video clips and real French text. It is supplemented by Scaffolding for Productive Language, which is unique to Farlington and our colourful content is uploaded to The Learning Platform, so that students can enjoy it again at home.
Asking for and understanding diretions
Places to go in town
Shops and retail therapy
Clothes and fashion
Cool destinations
Pleaces to saty
Getting aorund
Don't forget your umbrella!
visiting the medical centre
going to the chemist
healthy eating
keeping fit
French-speaking countries throughout the world
Global differences in the French language
France’s overseas territories
The province of Québec, Canada
Colloquialisms
Youth language
Regional expressions
Regional accents
How to sound French
You will always get plenty of feedback from your teacher as you go along, but there are also 4 assessment points as we progress through the seasons.
Autumn
We start off just before half term with an eChallenge. This is 20 multiple choice questions that you complete in controlled conditions on your Chromebook.
Then after half term, you will have eAssessments in all four language skills. eListening, eReading and eWriting are all computer-based testing and your eSpeaking will be based on a role play card and describing a photo.
Winter
We follow the same model in January, i.e. an eChallenge one week followed by eListening, eReading, eWriting and eSpeaking but this time there will be 6 out of 9 Personal Response Questions plus a question to the teacher via a video link.
Spring
In March, we follow the same testing model as the Autumn.
Summer
Because of our modular approach to assessment, there is no end of year summer exam as such, but you will have the usual eChallenge and eAssessments on the most recent material you have learnt.
Note the eSpeaking (following the Winter model) and eWriting will be before half term, and eListening and eReading in exam week after half term.
If you have any queries about this curriculum, please contact: M Josselin Guédes-Wright, Head of French, on jgw@farlingtonschool.com