Key Stage 3

Curriculum Overview

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French

Spanish

GCSE skills:

Understand and respond to different types of written/ spoken language
Follow and understand clear standard texts/ speech using familiar language across a range of specified contexts
Demonstrate understanding by being able to scan for particular information, organise & present relevant details, draw inferences in context and recognise implicit meaning where appropriate
Identify the overall message, key points, details and opinions in a variety of short and longer passages, involving some more complex language, recognising the relationship between past, present & future events
Recognise and respond to key information, important themes and ideas in more extended spoken/ written text by being able to answer questions, extract information, evaluate & draw conclusions
Translate a short passage from French into English and from English to French
Convey information and narrate events coherently and confidently, using & adapting language for new purposes
Take part in a short conversation, asking and answering questions, and exchanging opinions & narrate events coherently and confidently
Use accurate pronunciation and intonation to be understood by a native speaker.
Manipulate the language, using and adapting a variety of structures and vocabulary with increasing accuracy and fluency for new purposes, including using appropriate style & register
Use of a variety of vocabulary & grammatical structures, including some more complex forms, with reference to past, present & future events
Use creative and more complex language to express & justify their own thoughts & points of view in order to interest, inform or convince
Speak spontaneously, responding to unexpected questions, points of view or situations, sustaining communication
Communicate and interact effectively in speech/ writing for a variety of purposes across a range of specified contexts

By the end of year 9, students should be able to:

Recognise and apply verbs in the present and past tense using both auxiliaries
Apply near future
Manipulate language to create more natural flows of language
Recognise and remember vocabulary of health and express opinions about healthy lifestyles
Revise and review simple structures using auxiliaries
Master adjective agreements
Apply a variety of sentence structures in different context
Ask and answer confidently questions about the studied topics by developing answers
Recognise other tenses even if not explicitly studied

By the end of year 8, students should be able to:

Produce complex sentences about activities they do or like doing
Use a variety of connectives and adverbs to enrich their productive skills
Manipulate the present tense with ER and IR verbs
Use the verb “aller” to form the near future
Start using past tense structures
Understand the structure of sentences using opinion verbs or action verbs
Using the appropriate preposition with different verbs and nouns
Ask and answer confidently questions about the studied topics

By the end of year 7, students should be able to:

Recognise some words to describe people
Use the auxiliary verbs être et avoir in the present tense
Use a variety of ER verbs in the present tense
Manipulate the language to use the same structures over different topics
Understand and manipulate some words such as adjectives to agree them to the nouns they describe
Produce sentences in writing and speaking
Extend their writing/ speaking using connectives and complex structures
Use the language to share ideas and opinions about family, friends and school
Ask and answer questions about the studied topics