<p>Learning French at The Rural Enterprise Academy</p><p>The AQA specification is used for French GCSE.</p><p>There are four tested skill areas in the GCSE syllabus with their weighting:</p><p>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.</p><p>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 </p><p>The context of the course leads neatly into the AQA AS Modern Languages.</p><p>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><p>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</p><p>1 Intro to GCSE, How are we alphabet and Pronunciation how it is expanding our numbers General revision assessed; basic vocab from KS3? revision</p><p>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?</p><p>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? </p><p>4 Alcohol, smoking, How do we negative giving opinions drugs formulate a sentences, avoir, negative être sentence?</p><p>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?</p><p>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</p><p>1b) Relationships and choices • Relationships with family and friends • Future plans regarding: marriage/partnership • Social issues and equality</p><p>Week Content Progress Grammar Skills question</p><p>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</p><p>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?</p><p>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</p><p>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 </p><p>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</p><p> p42</p><p>2a) Leisure • Free Time and the Media • Free time activities • Shopping, money, fashion and trends • Advantages and disadvantages of new technology</p><p>Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills</p><p>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?</p><p>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</p><p>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?</p><p>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</p><p>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?</p><p>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</p><p>Page 61 top right</p><p>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? </p><p>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</p><p>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?</p><p>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?</p><p>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</p><p>5 Past – opinions Can you give Agreement of and reasons opinions and adjectives Full descriptions reasons of past holidays?</p><p>6 Future holiday Verbs for Justifying plans opinions; opinions adjectives before 72-73 nouns</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>3b) Environment</p><p>• local environmental problems and your contribution • future problems of the environment on a larger scale</p><p>Week Content Progress question Grammar</p><p>1 Environmental What are the Superlatives problems environmental problems in your P 106-107 area?</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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?</p><p>4a) Education • School/College and Future Plans • What school/college is like • Pressures and problems Week Content Progress question Grammar Skills</p><p>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 …)</p><p>P129</p><p>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><p>P 124-127</p><p>3 School What are the problems It/them ; Cognates and problems at your school? false friends Opinions P128-129 P 129</p><p>4 Trips Perfect tense Listening for revision detail</p><p>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</p><p>4b) Work • Current and Future Jobs • Looking for and getting a job • Advantages and disadvantages of different jobs</p><p>Week Content Progress Grammar Skills question</p><p>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?</p><p>2 Work experience Where have you Forming adverbs Recognising done work tenses P 136 - 137 P137/163 experience?</p><p>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?</p><p>4 Job adverts Can you answer Vous form of verbs Asking questions some job P 138 -139 P139/ 164 interview style questions?</p><p>5 Future career What are your Future and Future time wishes future job plans conditional phrases and dreams? P 140-141 P141</p><p>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</p>