Learning French at the Rural Enterprise Academy
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Learning French at The Rural Enterprise Academy
The AQA specification is used for French GCSE.
There are four tested skill areas in the GCSE syllabus with their weighting:
Listening 20% (Two tier exam, Higher or Foundation) Speaking 30% (One tier exam - Controlled Assessment. 2 pieces each worth 15%) Reading 20% (Two tier exam, Higher or Foundation) Writing 30% (One tier exam – Controlled Assessment.2 pieces each worth 15%) Controlled Assessments are carried out during class time and two are submitted for marking/moderation.
Content There are four main "Contexts" which are spread over Years 10 and 11: 1. Lifestyle and Relationships/Choices 2. Leisure and Holidays 3. Home and Environment 4. Work and Education
The context of the course leads neatly into the AQA AS Modern Languages.
Students are expected to understand the meaning of the vocabulary included in the specification. This is the vocabulary they will be tested on across all 4 forms of assessment. Students will be given a hardcopy of this at the start of year 10.
P 20-46 from the link below: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-4655-W-SP-14.PDF 1a) Lifestyle • Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their consequences Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills
1 Intro to GCSE, How are we alphabet and Pronunciation how it is expanding our numbers General revision assessed; basic vocab from KS3? revision
2 Food + Healthy Can we use a -er verbs and tackling reading Eating range of verbs boire , some and varied vocab to talk about our eating preferences?
3 Sports Are we becoming jouer, faire, learning speaking aware of how to adverbs of use different frequency verbs and adverbs when talking about sport?
4 Alcohol, smoking, How do we negative giving opinions drugs formulate a sentences, avoir, negative être sentence?
5 Describing a Are we able to faire and dormir using context in healthy lifestyle confidently use reading Il faut… the new vocab from this unit into our written work?
6 Future plans for Can we use the je vais + inf, memory and a healthy future tense in adverbs for speaking lifestyle our work to future enhance the vocab expressions in our work? question words answering unexpected q’s
1b) Relationships and choices • Relationships with family and friends • Future plans regarding: marriage/partnership • Social issues and equality
Week Content Progress Grammar Skills question
1 Family members Are we able to Possessive pronouns Working out the and descriptions give details of meanings of Recap avoir/être our family and words Page 32-33 and what they look P33 vocab page 44- like? 45
2 Character Can we use a Adjectives and their Spelling descriptions wide range of use strategies adjectives to Page 32-33 and P42, p161 and 162 describe vocab page 44- personalities of 45 family members?
3 Relationships Do you feel reflexive verbs Silent endings with others confident in (pronunciation) p35 describing your Page 34-35 and relationship with vocab page 44- others? Best 45 friends, boy/girlfriend
4 Relationship Can we put our Modal verbs Learning advice modal verbs into speaking P43 sentences to talk about the –ir and –re verbs future? Page 39
5 The future Can you convey Je Asking questions P36-37 your plans for voudrais/j’aimerais/j’ai the future l’intention de/j’espère fluently? + infinitive
p42
2a) Leisure • Free Time and the Media • Free time activities • Shopping, money, fashion and trends • Advantages and disadvantages of new technology
Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills
1 Revise sport and Have you Prepositions with Extending leisure identified how to jouer and faire sentences use jouer and Page 52 Page 52 Page 55 ASTUCE faire + du/de la/de l’/des correctly?
2 Hobbies at home Can you make Perfect tense Recognising time complex with avoir expressions Page 54-55 sentences to Page 55 Page 54 Vocab page 68- describe what we 69 do at home? Page 57 ASTUCE
3 Hobbies outside Are you able to Perfect tense Using use different with être connectives Page 56-57 tenses in the same Page 57 Vocab page 68- sentences when 69 talking about your hobbies?
4 Money and Can you now try to Perfect tense of Using more than shopping use all 3 time irregular verbs just one time frames when frame Page 58-59 Page 59 answering a Vocab page 68- question? Page 59 - 69 stratégie
5 Revise clothes Are you able to Agreement of Full descriptions describe what you adjectives Page 52 Vocab grid page wear and give Page 61 61 Exercise 5 page details of colour, 61 material etc?
6 Fashion Are you beginning Verbs for Tackling a to use a wider opinions, difficult reading Page 60-61 range of vocab to adjectives before text Vocab page 68- give your opinion? nouns Page 60 bottom 69 Page 67 ex. 4, right page 69 ex.2
Page 61 top right
7 New technologies Are you able to Comparative Justifying say what you adjectives, use of opinions Page 62-63 gadgets you have ‘on’ P63 stratégie and can you say Page 63 top right that something is better/worse Page 67 and p164 than something else?
2b)Holidays • Plans, preferences, experiences • What to see and getting around Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills 1 Revision of Can you say what Prepositions with Using what you countries, countries you have places (à/au/en) know weather, been to/will go, transport what the weather was/will be like P 53 and how you got/will get there
2 Holiday When/where do Recap verb Recognising time preferences you go on holiday? conjugations, frames Why do you like especially opinion P 70-71 it? Is a holiday in verbs the UK better than abroad? What do you pack in your suitcase? Documentation required? When do you book your holiday?
3 Past holidays – Can you give Perfect tense Using where and when details of a past connectives holiday- where,when and how you go there? Who with? Opinion?
4 Past holidays- Can you give Perfect tense of Using more than activities details of Past – opinions and one time frame activities you did? reasons irregular P74-77 verbs
5 Past – opinions Can you give Agreement of and reasons opinions and adjectives Full descriptions reasons of past holidays?
6 Future holiday Verbs for Justifying plans opinions; opinions adjectives before 72-73 nouns
3a) Home • Home and Local Area • Special occasions celebrated in the home • Home, town, neighbourhood and region, where it is and what it is like Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills
1 Revision of To be able to Use of Learning rooms, furniture identify different prepositions, meanings and prepositions names of house il y a P 90-91 types, describe your house and what there is inside it
2 Festivals Talk about your Perfect and Negative birthday – what imperfect use expressions P 94-95 you normally do for your birthday, what you did for your last birthday – perfect and imperfect tense, give details of your favourite festival and how you celebrate it
3 My house To be able to talk Habiter + depuis Qualifiers and about where you intensifiers P 96-97 live and for how long, describe the rooms in your house and what there is inside it, where did you live before, do you like your house
4 Daily routine and Describe what you Reflexive verbs Using times helping at home do to help at home and adverbs of and be able to frequency P 92-93 give details of your daily routine
5 My town To be able to On peut + Detailed describe what infinitive descriptions P 98-99 there is in your town e.g. for young people, tourists; say what there is on, weather and what you can or cannot do there
6 My area – Give your opinion Verbs for Giving balanced advantages and of why your local opinions; justified opinions disadvantages area is good as adjectives before well as giving nouns details of why it may not be good
3b) Environment
• local environmental problems and your contribution • future problems of the environment on a larger scale
Week Content Progress question Grammar
1 Environmental What are the Superlatives problems environmental problems in your P 106-107 area?
2 What What Pouvoir, devoir, should/could be should/could be falloir done for the done to help P103/169 town/area protect the environment? P109 P107, 108-109
3 What you do to What do you/and Present participle protect the your family do to P107/112/168 environment protect the environment? P 108-109
4 Future plans to What will you do Future tense be more in the future to P167-168 environmentally ensure you friendly continue to help protect the environment?
4a) Education • School/College and Future Plans • What school/college is like • Pressures and problems Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills
1 Introduction to Are you able to talk Negative + de, Pronunciation school and about the definite and work revision facilities/rooms in your indefinite (equipment, school? articles time etc) P 123/160 Subjects, Are you able to say what likes/dislikes subjects you study and and reasons Opinion verbs give an opinion? (Je pense que, P 122-123 Je crois que …)
P129
2 School routine Are you able to give Connectives Understanding – English vs details of your school in (especially for a difficult text French system the UK and compare it to comparisons) a school in France? What P127 are the School uniform differences/similiarities?
P 124-127
3 School What are the problems It/them ; Cognates and problems at your school? false friends Opinions P128-129 P 129
4 Trips Perfect tense Listening for revision detail
5 Future study What do you plan to do Future and Improving your plans once you leave school? conditional range of structures P130-133 P 167/168
4b) Work • Current and Future Jobs • Looking for and getting a job • Advantages and disadvantages of different jobs
Week Content Progress Grammar Skills question
1 Part time jobs Do you have a Recognising the Listening for P 136 - 137 part time job? passive form detail Where? Do you P144/168 enjoy it? How much do you earn? How many hours do you work?
2 Work experience Where have you Forming adverbs Recognising done work tenses P 136 - 137 P137/163 experience?
3 Jobs and places Are you able to Masculine/feminine Identifying of work link jobs with forms relevant details their correct in texts P138 place of work?
4 Job adverts Can you answer Vous form of verbs Asking questions some job P 138 -139 P139/ 164 interview style questions?
5 Future career What are your Future and Future time wishes future job plans conditional phrases and dreams? P 140-141 P141
Why pursue Languages? Better communication skills More cultural and linguistic knowledge Better CV for universities and work placements 75% of the world DO NOT speak English as a first language French is spoken in many countries throughout the world British Business has the poorest language skills in Europe - this would put you at the top of the "employable rank" Other European countries are aiming for employees with three languages 60% of British Trade is with non-English speaking countries British Trade loses millions of pounds each year because they are unable to communicate in another foreign language. Over 128 million French speakers throughout the world