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Year 8
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. For detailed information about the specific knowledge and skills taught in each unit, please visit our Knowledge and Skills page.
| Half Term | Unit(s) of Work | Key Assessments |
| Autumn 1 | Vive les vacances! To allow pupils to talk about their summer and to introduce them to the perfect tense. Knowledge of countries and transport Consolidating knowledge of avoir and être in the present tense Understanding and using the perfect tense of regular -er verbs including some irregular verbs Introduction to the perfect tense with être verbs Expressing opinions in the past tense using c’était/ce n’était pas + adjective |
Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Assessed writing assessment | ||
| Autumn 2 | J’adore les fêtes! Developing what pupils can say about their lives and their likes/dislikes. Expand transactional language in context of buying food at a market using vouloir Expressing quantities including use of partitive articles To allow them to revise the present and near future tenses. Learning about festivals and celebrations in the Francophone world and an introduction to traditional French cuisine. |
Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Speaking skill focus: Read aloud task | ||
| Spring 1 | En ville Giving information about our town consolidating il y a/il n’y a pas de Understanding and using the present tense of aller to say where we go in town. Learning about la fête du Citron in Menton |
Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Assessed writing assessment | ||
| Spring 2 | Tu veux sortir? Understanding and using the present tense of vouloir to make invitations. Using transactional transactional language (in a café) |
Mixed skill assessment |
| Summer 1 | On va aller à Paris Exploring Paris, the capital city of France. Understanding and using the near future tense Discovering la fête de la musique in France |
Speaking skill focus: Conversation Assessed writing assessment |
| Summer 2 | Film Study: Une vie de chat Studying the French film Une vie de chat such as analysing the poster and trailer. Developing opinions of films in French. Revisiting personal descriptions to be able to describe characters. Using past tense opinions with adjectives to give a film review. |
End of year Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Speaking skill focus: Q & A |