MoreYear 11
Curriculum Map
This curriculum map provides an overview of the languages journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of linguistic topics, cultural themes, and communicative contexts alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills appropriate to their age and stage.
| Half Term | Unit(s) of Work | Key Assessments |
| Autumn 1 | Module 5 Numéro vacances Vocabulary: Talking about holidays, accommodation, holiday activities, dream holidays, festivals, travel plans, opinions, and describing holiday experiences. Grammar: Pour + infinitive, je voudrais + infinitive, conditional of vouloir, il faut/on doit/on peut for advice, forming questions, perfect and imperfect tenses together, relative pronoun qui, negatives (ne… pas, rien, jamais, personne), and si + present + near future. Phonics: au/eau/ô, h, gn, on, om, un, en, an, em, am. Culture: French holiday destinations, départements in France, and regional festivals in the French-speaking world. Skills: Expressing preferences and reasons, giving advice, forming different types of questions, using a range of tenses, combining tenses, creating complex sentences with qui, and identifying positive and negative opinions. |
Mixed Skill Assessment |
| Autumn 2 | Module 6: Notre planète Vocabulary: Descriptions of the world around us, environmental issues, planet protection, small and big actions to help the environment, green innovation. Grammar: Present tense revision, il faut / on peut + infinitive for advice and obligation, comparatives, superlatives, modal verbs for necessity and possibility, simple future tense. Phonics: Focus on nasal sounds on, an, en, and pronunciation of environmental vocabulary. Culture: Madagascar: Miroir du monde — exploring the environment and sustainable innovation in French-speaking areas. Skills: Describing places and environmental issues, giving advice and making suggestions, expressing future intentions, developing reading and listening skills around environmental texts |
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| Spring 1 | Module 7: Mon petit monde à moi Vocabulary: Describing where you live, transport, shopping and fashion, ideal homes, famous places in France, visiting Paris. Grammar: Present tense revision, comparatives and superlatives, modal verbs for permission and obligation, near future tense (aller + infinitive), perfect tense for describing past visits. Phonics: Emphasis on oi, oy, and town/place-related vocabulary. Culture: C’est combien? — customs, celebrations and famous locations in France and French-speaking countries. Skills: Describing towns and houses, discussing shopping preferences, recounting visits and holidays, giving and justifying opinions, asking for and understanding prices, combining present, future, and past tenses. |
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| Spring 2 | Module 8: Mes projets d’avenir Vocabulary: Future plans, passions, education and work ambitions, job skills, celebrity culture, media and technology. Grammar: Future tense (simple and near future), je voudrais / j’aimerais + infinitive for expressing ambitions, conditional tense, using quand/lorsque for future time frames, comparatives and superlatives revision. Phonics: Focus on future tense endings and pronunciation of job and career vocabulary. Culture: Mon été de rêve — holidays, work, and education experiences in French-speaking countries, media habits and celebrity culture. Skills: Talking about future plans and hopes, describing job skills, making predictions, understanding media preferences, combining time frames, and expressing dreams and ambitions. |