AQA GCSE French Syllabus 8658
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/gcse/french-8658
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What students will learn |
How it builds on learning |
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Qui suis-je? – family relationships; imperfect tense; describing role models |
Consolidation and completion of work from Key Stage 3; revision of past, present, future including common present tense irregulars |
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Le temps des loisirs – sports and pastimes; film, TV, cinema, reading; depuis + present tense; direct objects; comparative and superlative adjectives |
Builds on and practises the tenses introduced previously; the pastimes topic areas build on material from KS3; the comparative and superlative adjectives build on adjectives covered previously |
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Jours ordinaires, jours de fête – daily routine and reflexive verbs; tu vs. vous; en; venir de |
Combination of tenses; food topic and du/de la /des from KS3; pouvoir and devoir from KS3 |
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De la ville à la campagne – simple future tense; negatives |
Combination of tenses; negatives from KS3; asking questions |
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Le grand large – conditional mood; hotel bookings |
Building on tenses work and asking/answering questions |
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11 |
What students will learn |
How it builds on learning |
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Le grand large continued – restaurants, shopping, holiday problems; present participles, avant de; demonstrative adjectives |
Revision of gender with demonstratives; revision of reflexive verbs; topic work builds on KS3 work on holidays and on food |
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Au collège – life at school; misc. advanced grammar points; unhealthy and healthy lifestyles |
Combination of tenses, revision of negatives, pronouns and adjectives |
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Bon travail! – career wishes, applying for jobs, describing job roles |
Finding new ways of expressing the future; using and understanding a wider range of verbs; practising questions and answers; practice of object pronouns |
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Un œil sur le monde – environmental and social issues; arguing for and against |
Giving opinions; extended reading; combination of tenses |
Pupils will be assessed on two skills at the end of each module except where this occurs near the time of the Year 10 summer exams or the Year 11 mock exams.
Encourage them to use their Quizlet.com class and the textbook vocab pages to review vocabulary and grammar regularly;
Encourage them to read aloud – to practise French in a low-stakes way; they could use their end of module questions
Test them with vocabulary learning;
Listen to French language music/radio using e.g. the radio.garden app
Keep an eye out for films, documentaries, travelogues etc featuring the French-speaking world
Pupils will be typically be set homework on their last French lesson of the week due for the last lesson of the following week.
All lessons are available on the CATalogue; you will particularly note the revision resources in the Year 11 section
BBC Bitesize Key Stage 3 and GCSE French
Oak National Academy French Key Stage 4
CGP Revision Guide and Workbook if you buy it or a similar book
www.pearsonactivelearn.com – pupils provided with a log-in and password at the start of the year
www.quizlet.com - pupils create a log-in and password when they start languages at CamVC
www.linguascope.com - pupils provided with a log-in and password at the start of the year
ww.digitaldialects.com/French.htm (online games)​
www.apprendre.tv5monde.com​
Exchange visit to Paris
Cambourne Village College
Sheepfold Lane, Cambourne
Cambridge CB23 6FR
Tel: 01954 284000
Email: thecollege@cambournevc.org
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