In Year 7 students will study French with 5 lessons per fortnight. Students should be able to use the regular present tense in singular paradigms, describe themselves and elements of their lives using adjectives and giving opinions.
In Year 8 students will study 3 lessons of French per fortnight. Students should be able to use reflexive verbs and some modal verbs in at least the singular paradigm, as well as give opinions on further topics, building upon what they have learned in Year 7.
In Year 9 of students will either study 3 lessons of French per fortnight if they continue with both languages, or 6 hours per fortnight if they are studying a single language. The work in Year 9 builds on what they'v developed in Year 7 and 8. Students should now be able to use 3 tenses to ask and answer questions on a range of topics. They should be able to recognise and use some irregular and reflexive verbs in the past and present tenses.
In Year 10 and Year 11 students will study 5 lessons per fortnight. Students should be working towards confidence in their exam techniques and consolidating the grammar learnt throughout Key Stage 3. They should be able to use 3 tenses to narrate and give opinions (negative and positive with justifications) on key themes in spoken and written language, as well as recognise tense indicators when completing listening and reading comprehension.
A Level French (Year 12 & 13)
In Year 12 students will study 8 lessons per fortnight. They should be able to give a range of opinions on a range of different aspects of the German-speaking world (such as art and cinema). They should be building upon the grammar studied through KS3 and KS4 to help deepen their responses in spoken and written language. They should be able to recognise and use more complex grammatical structures, such as understanding when the case system is used.
In Year 13 students will study 8 lessons per fortnight. They should be able to give a range of opinions on a range of different aspects of the French-speaking world (such as immigration and politics). They should be building upon the grammar studied through KS3 and KS4 to help deepen their responses in spoken and written language. They should be able to write exam-style essays on the chosen literature and film studied, analysing different key themes and aspects of these works.
By Year 12 and Year 13, students will have studied in-depth grammatical structures, increasing in complexity and ensuring accuracy in spoken and written language, for example, students start learning key verbs in a range of tenses in KS3 and KS4 and then these are developed at KS5, and continue to learn and practise this for accuracy throughout KS4 and KS5.