--- title: "MFL" url: "https://www.st-wilfrids.org/curriculum/subjects/mfl" school: "St. Wilfrid's R.C. College, South Shields" --- # MFL ![Modern Foreign Languages banner](https://www.st-wilfrids.org/images/gallery/IMG_9496.JPG) # Modern Foreign Languages Curriculum Opening doors to the world through languages ![Languages](https://www.st-wilfrids.org/images/lo.png) ## Why study a language? ### What languages develop - Communication skills - Transferable skills like problem solving - A better understanding of the world around us - Cultural understanding ### Student voice “French is one of my favourite lessons- the hour passes so quickly with all of the different activities we do. I love learning about French phonics!” **Jane, Year 7** - KS3 French and Spanish (Y7–9) - KS4 Languages - KS5 Languages Key Stage 3 French– Cycle Overview Cycle 1 #### Year 7 #### Knowledge focus - Present tense verbs - Adjectives - m/f definite + indefinite articles + plurals - Asking questions - Connecting sentences #### Key skills - Describing yourself and your family - Talking about your role models - Understanding a French poem #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in French #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 8 #### Knowledge focus - Expressing future events - Using the negative - Making irregular adjectives agree with the noun they describe #### Key skills - Describing what you do to be healthy - Talking about your future plans #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in French #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 9 #### Knowledge focus - Using three different tenses - Making comparisons - Using modal verbs - Expressing opinions #### Key skills - Talking about your sense of personal identity - Talking about the importance of being healthy - Discussing school #### Assessment - Reading activities - Dictation - Extended writing and translation #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary Cycle 2 #### Year 7 #### Knowledge focus - Present tense verbs - Tu / Vous - Using il y a - Using question words - Adjectives #### Key skills - Talking about your hobbies - Describing your school #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 8 #### Knowledge focus - Describing celebrations - Different ways of forming questions - Using possessive adjectives #### Key skills - Understanding an extended poem about diversity - Talking about jobs #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 9 #### Knowledge focus - Describing events in three tenses - Using infinitives - Understanding French music and celebrities #### Key skills - Describing your favourite singers and celebrities - Describing holiday preferences in three tenses #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary Cycle 3 #### Year 7 #### Knowledge focus - Present tense – aller + ‘re’ ‘ir’ - Asking questions - Using ‘in’ - Using negatives #### Key skills - Describing a holiday - Describing what you do to be healthy - Understanding a French poem #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening activities to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in French #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 8 #### Knowledge focus - Describing events in the past and the future - Using ‘je vais aller’ + infinitive to discuss future plans - Changing ‘er’ verbs into the past tense #### Key skills - Talking about past, present and future celebrations - Planning a future party #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening activities to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in French #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 9 #### Knowledge focus - Describing your interests in sport, technology and cinema - Using three tenses - Extending opinions and reasons #### Key skills - Describing a photocard and developing spontaneous speaking - Describing outings in extended writing #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening activities to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in French #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary Key Stage 3 Spanish– Cycle Overview Cycle 1 #### Year 7 #### Knowledge focus - Using verbs: estar, ser and tener - Asking questions - Talking about what people do using ‘ar’ verbs #### Key skills - Describing who you are - Talking about your friends and family #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in Spanish #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 8 #### Knowledge focus - Using ‘deber’ to describe school and rules - Using ‘hay’ to describe your family and your town - ‘er’ and ‘ir’ verbs #### Key skills - Describing what you like to eat and drink - Talking about technology #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in Spanish #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 9 #### Knowledge focus - Describing feelings ‘dar’ and ‘querer’ - Using the verb ‘ir’ - Understanding challenging texts - How people use technology and social media #### Key skills - Discussing past and future holidays - Describing Spanish food - Discussing the pros / cons of technology #### Assessment - Reading activities - Dictation - Extended writing and translation #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary Cycle 2 #### Year 7 #### Knowledge focus - Using plurals - Talking about what there is using ‘hay’ - Talking about location and describing that place - Giving and wanting - Natural wonders of the Spanish-speaking world #### Key skills - Expressing and developing opinions - Describing a photo - Talking about your favourite place in detail - Talking about your family #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 8 #### Knowledge focus - Present tense verbs - Possessive pronouns - The verb ‘ir’ - Future tense - Past tense #### Key skills - Talking about places you’ll visit and future plans - Describing past events - Writing in three different tenses #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 9 #### Knowledge focus - Reflexive verbs - Narrating events - Describing birthdays - Developing complex opinions #### Key skills - Describing your daily routine - Describing music events in three tenses #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening to test vocabulary and grammar #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary Cycle 3 #### Year 7 #### Knowledge focus - Asking and answering questions - Saying what people can, must and want do ‘poder, querer, deber’ - Use prepositions to describe locations - Understanding the differences between traits and moods #### Key skills - Talk about your hobbies and express opinions - Describing the different seasons and what you do during them - Describing travel preferences #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening activities to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in Spanish #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 8 #### Knowledge focus - Making comparisons in the present tense - Using ‘hacer’ to describe what you do at home - Describing present and past events #### Key skills - Describing your interests - Writing in three tenses #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening activities to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in Spanish #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary #### Year 9 #### Knowledge focus - Present tense - Para and infinitive - Possessive adjectives - Demonstrative pronouns - Making comparisons - Past tense - Adverbs #### Key skills - Talking about your future - Developing writing using three tenses - Talking about your role models and inspirations #### Assessment - Phonics test - Reading and Listening activities to test vocabulary and grammar - Translation - Writing in Spanish #### Key Vocabulary - 10-12 words per week of high frequency vocabulary Key Stage 4 French Cycle 1 #### Year 10 #### Knowledge focus - Talking about yourself, your friends and family and marriage - Healthy living #### Key skills - Describing a photo and being able to take part in a role play - Extended pieces of writing expressing opinions and using a range of complex language #### Assessment - Extended writing - Reading and Listening past paper questions - Regular vocabulary tests #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Year 11 #### Knowledge focus - Travel and tourism - Town and environment #### Key skills - Spontaneous speaking - Writing under controlled conditions - Reading and listening for gist, detail and inference #### Assessment - Writing paper - Listening paper - Reading paper #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Cycle 2 #### Year 10 #### Knowledge focus - The world of work and education - Customs and traditions #### Key skills - Reading for inference - Dictation - Spontaneous speaking - Developing writing skills #### Assessment - Extended writing - Reading and Listening past paper questions - Regular vocabulary tests #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Year 11 #### Knowledge focus - The world of technology #### Key skills - Spontaneous speaking - Writing under controlled conditions - Reading + listening for gist, detail and inference #### Assessment - Writing paper - Listening paper - Reading paper - Speaking exam #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Cycle 3 #### Year 10 #### Knowledge focus - Celebrity culture - Free time #### Key skills - Describing a photo and being able to take part in a role play - Extended pieces of writing expressing opinions and using a range of complex language #### Assessment - Writing paper - Listening paper - Reading paper - Speaking exam #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Year 11 #### Knowledge focus - Revision and preparation for exams #### Key skills - Past paper practice - Spontaneous speaking - Writing under controlled conditions - Reading and listening for gist, detail and inference #### Assessment - GCSE examinations #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary Key Stage 4 Spanish Cycle 1 #### Year 10 #### Knowledge focus - Talking about yourself, your friends and family and marriage - Healthy living #### Key skills - Describing a photo and being able to take part in a role play - Extended pieces of writing expressing opinions and using a range of complex language #### Assessment - Extended writing - Reading and Listening past paper questions - Regular vocabulary tests #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Year 11 #### Knowledge focus - Travel and tourism - Town and environment #### Key skills - Spontaneous speaking - Writing under controlled conditions - Reading and listening for gist, detail and inference #### Assessment - Writing paper - Listening paper - Reading paper #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Cycle 2 #### Year 10 #### Knowledge focus - The world of work and education - Customs and traditions #### Key skills - Reading for inference - Dictation - Spontaneous speaking - Developing writing skills #### Assessment - Extended writing - Reading and Listening past paper questions - Regular vocabulary tests #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Year 11 #### Knowledge focus - The world of technology #### Key skills - Spontaneous speaking - Writing under controlled conditions - Reading + listening for gist, detail and inference #### Assessment - Writing paper - Listening paper - Reading paper - Speaking exam #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Cycle 3 #### Year 10 #### Knowledge focus - Celebrity culture - Free time #### Key skills - Describing a photo and being able to take part in a role play - Extended pieces of writing expressing opinions and using a range of complex language #### Assessment - Writing paper - Listening paper - Reading paper - Speaking exam #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary #### Year 11 #### Knowledge focus - Revision and preparation for exams #### Key skills - Past paper practice - Spontaneous speaking - Writing under controlled conditions - Reading and listening for gist, detail and inference #### Assessment - GCSE examinations #### Key Vocabulary - High frequency from KS3 is revisited - AQA spec vocabulary Key Stage 5 French Cycle 1 #### Year 12 #### Knowledge focus - Learning about the changing face of family life in French and Francophone countries - Learning about the importance of heritage, both physical and cultural, in French and Francophone countries. #### Key Skills - Use of present/ perfect/imperfect tenses. - Introduction of subjunctive. - Adjectival agreement. - Using sentences with si. **Assessment** - Grammar short assessment - End of topic assessment in all four skills for both topics #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics #### Year 13 #### Knowledge focus - Diversity within French and Francophone society - Political engagement within French and Francophone countries - How to develop IRP topics - Continue working on La Haine - Start topics on the marginalised in French/Francophone societies and strikes and demonstrations in the French speaking world. #### Key skills - Embedding key grammar structures: present/future/ conditional - Use of passive voice - Develop knowledge of subjunctive mood to talk about data/trends and doubt. #### Assessment - Prelims - End of topic assessments covering all four skills over the two topics studied #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics Cycle 2 #### Year 12 #### Knowledge focus - Cyber-society and how technology impacts on daily life in France and Francophone countries - Contemporary French music and its influences - Start studying the book ‘Un sac de billes’ and looking at the context (2nd World War experience for the French Jewish community). #### Key skills - Use of infinitive constructions - Using object pronouns - Continue to look at present tense - Using questions and imperative forms - Continue to look at subjunctive. Conditional tense - Analysing text in French. #### Assessment - End of topic assessment in all four skills for both topics - Essay for text #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics - Glossary provided to support reading of text. #### Year 13 #### Knowledge focus - Continue topics on the marginalised in French and Francophone societies. - Strikes and demonstrations within the French speaking world. - Review of text and film. - Criminality and immigration in France. - Complete work on IRP. #### Key skills - Recognising past historic tense. Using wider range of complex tenses with confidence - Future perfect/conditional perfect. Exam skills - Deeper analysis of text/film. #### Assessment - Prelims. End of topic assessments for all topics covering the four skills (one per topic). #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics. - Glossary for text/film. Cycle 3 #### Year 12 #### Knowledge focus - The role of volunteers in French and Francophone society - The importance of film and cinema in French and Francophone culture. - Continue with ‘Un sac de billes’ - Begin studying set film ‘La haine’ #### Key skills - Conditional tense with ‘si’ - Form and use future tense - Extended tenses – pluperfect and past conditional with si - Connectives – extended and with subjunctive - Analysis of film/text - Introduction of IRP #### Assessment - End of year assessment – full AS paper including speaking. #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics - Key vocab list for analysis. #### Year 13 #### Knowledge focus - Embedding knowledge from year 12 and 13 – review of topics/film/text. #### Key skills - Review/revision of key grammar terms and exam skills #### Assessment - Final A-level exam, including speaking exam #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics - Key vocab list for analysis. Key Stage 5 Spanish Cycle 1 #### Year 12 #### Knowledge focus - Traditional and modern family life in Spain and Hispanic societies - The influence of celebrities on young people in Spanish speaking cultures. #### Key Skills - Imperfect and preterite tenses - Use of passive voice - Direct and indirect object pronouns **Assessment** - End of topic assessments in all four skills for both topics. #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics #### Year 13 #### Knowledge focus - Multiculturalism within Hispanic society: focus on immigration and racism in Spain and the wider Spanish speaking world - Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world: young people and politics in the Spanish speaking world - Continue work on IRP - Continue working on film. #### Key skills - Embedding key grammar structures: present/ preterit/future/ conditional - Develop knowledge of subjunctive mood to use with different tenses. #### Assessment - Prelims - End of topic assessments covering all four skills over the two topics studied #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics Cycle 2 #### Year 12 #### Knowledge focus - Learning about the influence of technology on everyday life - Regional identity in Spain - Introduce film and analysis - Introduce IRP #### Key skills - Review of present and present continuous tenses - Using future and conditional - Introducing the subjunctive tense. #### Assessment - End of topic assessments for both topics covering all skills - Essay writing #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics - Phrases to support analysis of film. #### Year 13 #### Knowledge focus - Multiculturalism within Hispanic society: focus on integration in society within Spanish speaking countries - Aspects of political life in the Hispanic world: looking at Monarchies and Dictatorships and popular political movements in Spain and other Spanish speaking communities - Revision of text and film - Continue to develop IRP #### Key skills - Use of more complex tenses and extended language - Developing exam skills. #### Assessment - Prelims. End of topic assessments for all topics covering the four skills #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics. - Glossary for text/film. Essay writing key phrases. Cycle 3 #### Year 12 #### Knowledge focus - Equality in the Hispanic world - Cultural heritage in Spain and Spanish speaking countries - Continue studying film - Start studying text - IRP skills #### Key skills - Speaking/presentation skills (IRP) - Consolidating tenses and using more complex structures - Exam skills – translation/summaries #### Assessment - End of year exam covering full AS paper (speaking, essay writing, reading, writing and listening) #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics - Key vocab list for analysis. #### Year 13 #### Knowledge focus - Embedding knowledge from year 12 and 13 – review of topics/film/text. #### Key skills - Review/revision of key grammar terms and exam skills #### Assessment - Final A-level exam, including speaking exam #### Key Vocabulary - AQA A-level specification vocab lists for both topics - Key vocab list for analysis. **[For Key Stage 5 Curriculum information please click link here to our Sixth Form Curriculum ](https://st-wilfrid-s-rc-college-south-shields.schudio.com/sixth-form)** ![St. Wilfrid's R.C. 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