Module 1 “Media, Technology”
Students consolidate their use of three tenses with high frequency verbs to discuss sports, online activities, TV/films and arranging to go out. They use their ability to formulate questions and practise GCSE role play and carry out an interview in French. Students have to learn between 10-20 words from the GCSE vocab list every week and they are tested on these in class every week. They also get a GCSE-specific homework task such as listening, reading or writing, to prepare them effectively. By the end of the first module, students have been assessed in listening, reading, dictation and speaking (role play task).
Module 2 “My personal world”
Students learn to discuss relationships in their family, by using reflexive verbs. They also develop their describing skills in order to define what makes a good friend and a role model. They are introduced to the imperfect tense to narrate their life as a child. They apply their skills onto the photo-based conversation GCSE speaking task in French. Students have to learn between 10-20 words from the GCSE vocab list every week and they are tested on these in class every week. They also get a GCSE-specific homework task such as listening, reading or writing, to prepare them effectively. By the end of the module about “My personal world”, students have been assessed in listening, reading and writing (photo-based description + 40-50-words task).
Module 3 “Studying and my future”
Students continue to improve expressing opinions when discussing school subjects, school rules and the school uniform. They learn about school life in a francophone country and they manipulate different types of past tenses to report what they have done in school and how it was in primary school. Students have to learn between 10-20 words from the GCSE vocab list every week and they are tested on these in class every week. They also get a GCSE-specific homework task such as listening, reading or writing, to prepare them effectively. By the end of the module about “Studying and my future”, students have been assessed in listening, reading and grammar.
Module 4 “Lifestyle and wellbeing
Students learn about the imperative mood to give advice on healthy diets. They use modal verbs to discuss mental health and reflexive verbs in the past tense to discuss what they have already done and and how they could improve further, by using the simple future. Students have to learn between 10-20 words from the GCSE vocab list every week and they are tested on these in class every week. They also get a GCSE-specific homework task such as listening, reading or writing, to prepare them effectively. By the end of the module “Lifestyle and wellbeing”, students have been assessed in listening, reading, speaking (reading aloud and role play tasks).
Module 5 “Travel and tourism”
Students develop their ability to use the conditional tense to discuss ideal holidays. They also learn to form questions and use modals to discuss what can be done on holiday and how to deal with booking a holiday in French. Students have to learn between 10-20 words from the GCSE vocab list every week and they are tested on these in class every week. They also get a GCSE-specific homework task such as listening, reading or writing, to prepare them effectively. By the end of the module “Travel and tourism”, students have sat their first trial examination in all 4 skills.