Curriculum: Year 8
Please note, the following curriculum outlines are subject to slight changes.
Autumn
- Revision of Passé Composé – holiday writing / postcard, story, etc
- Personal description (revision + extension)
- Household tasks + frequency adverbs (revision + extension)
- Family + jobs (revision + extension)
- Negatives (ne...pas/jamais/plus/rien/personne/ ni...ni) – all tenses
- Imperfect : formation + 'used to' (revision present tense)
- Trip to the South of France
- Imperfect – description + was '–ing' & were '–ing'
- Imperfect vs perfect
- Writing exam technique / oral preparation / actual oral & listening exams
- School practice CE exam
- Adjectives (revision)
- Adverbs + set up holiday work (Practice exams + info gap/role play/ topic preparation for orals)
Spring
- Revision / CE exam practice paper / Write about holidays
- 'Vacances de neige' + 'après avoir' (+ past participle) expression
- Camping holidays + relative pronoun revision
- Auberge de jeunesse – activities (revision) + 'me,te,nous,vous'
- Gîte (including equipment for activities) & hotels
- Oral / listening exam preparation (role–plays...)
- Last year's writing / reading papers + oral mock exams
- Setting up groups to prepate for Paper 1, Paper 2 or Scholarship level:
- "8 alpha": Consolidate grammar structures, vocabulary and skills practice. CE exam practice.revise all learn so far - especially: modals, tenses + vocab/structure sets
- "8A': Extend grammar, structures vocabulary and skills practice. Scholarship exam practice.
Summer
- Revision: Partly at request after 'Easter Holiday revision packs' – esp : Present, Dops, Prepositions, Timing, Adjectives, 'Tout', 'Quel', 'Il faut', 'Venir de' + Adverbs
- General vocab revision ('Vous êtes en scène' pack)
- Oral preparation + listening practice
- Actual orals
- Tense revision
- Proof reading + reading & writing practice
- 7 & 8. Actual CE exams
- 9 & 10 Either : Spanish / German taster classes OR Working on French News letter (IT : articles, games, cartoons...)