Students are taught the following topics and vocabulary content:
- Phonics and the alphabet
- Introductions and greetings
- Language for communication in the classroom
- Numbers
- Dates (days of the week, months, the dates of key festivals) and ages
- Classroom items
- Likes, dislikes and preferences
- Giving reasons for opinions and preferences
- Family, pets and descriptions of self and others (people, pets and things)
- Describing your personality and other people’s personality
- Describing your school, facilities, subjects, uniform, rules, routine/timetable, the canteen and giving reasoned opinions
- Food
- Making comparisons between school life in France and the UK
- Using larger numbers for telling the time
- Film types and preferences
- Description and review of a French language film (Le Petit Nicolas)
They will experience the following cultural topics:
- Christmas and New Year, La Chandeleur
- Easter in France and French-speaking countries
- Bastille day
They will also be taught the following grammar techniques:
- Gender of nouns and plural forms
- Negatives
- Possessive adjectives
- Present tense of ER/IR/RE verbs including subject pronouns
- Asking and answering questions (manipulation of verbs/structures)
- Key irregular verbs in present tense (avoir/être)
- Commonly used structures (il y a, c’est)
- Agreement of adjectives
- Use of connectives to develop sentences
- Key conditional forms
- Telling the time
- Modal verbs
- Partitive article
- Comparisons/superlatives
