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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! Talking about the summer holidays; activities, countries and transport 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! Learning about festivals and celebrations in the Francophone world. Learning about traditional French cuisine. Developing what you can say about your lives and their likes/dislikes. Expand transactional language in context of buying food at a market using vouloir Revising the present and near future tenses. |
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 Understanding and using the present tense of vouloir to make invitations. Using transactional transactional language (in a café) |
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 |