“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”

Nelson Mandela

Teacher in charge: Matt Davis

Email: mdavis@bohuntworthing.com

Curriculum

Y7

• We focus on the main ingredients of learning a language; phonics (sounds), vocabulary and grammar targeting core irregular verbs to have, to be, to do, to go and regular ER verbs in the present tense.
• We enable students to describe both themselves and others across a range of topics focussing on high frequency and practising the content through all four skills; listening, reading, speaking and writing.
• We study a variety of French themed game changers in areas such as history and sport, and take opportunities to discuss culture including our culture passport and MFL padlet.

Y8

• We continue to focus on the phonics, vocabulary and grammar, extending students to start talking about themselves and others using both the past and future tense enabling them to describe both past events and future intentions.
• We also practise important regularly used irregular verbs in French to improve the confidence of our students alongside embedding their listening, reading, speaking and writing skills.
• Students also find out about more French themed game changers alongside multi lingual English speakers.

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things”

Flora Lewis

Y9

• We revisit our core knowledge from KS3 while extending our subject knowledge depth across the 3 themes in the AQA GCSE increasing confidence and embedding skills and strategies in all four skills; listening, reading, speaking and writing.
• We focus on the topics of Town, local area and the environment, family and relationships, customs and traditions, and holidays.
• We practise and embed key skills in writing and speaking such as describing a photo and producing extended pieces of writing responding to target language bullet points.

Y10

• The students extend their knowledge further across all 3 themes while developing their skills and strategies to effectively respond to more challenging content; starting with the topics of Education as well as Healthy living.
• We learn and apply a wider variety of tenses including the conditional to express future intentions as well as the imperfect to describe past events. Students further embed their grammar knowledge across past, present and future tense verbs.
• Students develop the ability to use a wider variety of language including more complex items in both Speaking and Writing; tackling more higher themed content from the AQA GCSE.

Y11

• We focus on retrieving our knowledge across all topics embedding further higher themed and content
• We continue to develop and embed strategies across all four skills; listening, reading, speaking and Writing
• Students will have more GCSE exam style strategy and practice as they work through the year towards their final exams.