Lady Lumley’s School MFL DEPARTMENT: Year 8 Medium term Scheme of Learning

KS3 FRENCH / TOPIC: 3-2-1 Partez ( Studio 1 Module 5)
Autumn term – September-October 7 x 100 minutes / YEAR 8
Prior learning / Students should be familiar with structure ‘je vais’ from year 7
Lesson number & title / Learning outcomes / Timing / Specific resourcesand suggested Kagan structures
  1. Les vacances,moded’emploi
/ Give out overview and vocab sheets for topic
To be able to talk and write about where you go on holiday normally
Grammar – nous form of key verbs in the present tense
Au, en, aux with countries
Skills: Phonics: focus on phoneme ‘gn’ – montagne / campagne
Home learning: Write a paragraph on where you normally go on holiday
(Level this to check against end of Y7 level.) / 200 / Studio 1 p90 -91
Vacances – feuille de vocabulaire
Quiz, quiz, trade cards
Rally coach
Grammar support grid for en, au, aux
Writing frame for assessed paragraph
Extension sheet on improving written work
  1. Je me prépare
/ To be able to talk about what you do to get ready to go out
Grammar - To be able to use reflexive verbsin the I and **he/she forms
Home learning: reinforcement and extension work on reflexive verbs / prepare a vocab /spelling test for partner on reflexive verbs / 200 / Studio 1 p92 -93
Rally coach cards to say what you do / don’t do
Quiz quiz on what you do to get ready
Numbered heads together – multiple choice on reflexive verbs
HL reinforcement sheet
Extra grammar sheet for HL
Alternative reading sheet
Language deduction grid
Differentiated grammar sheet
  1. Je vaisencolo
/ To be able to talk about future holiday plans, say where you are going to go, who with and what you are going to do
Grammar – Using the near future tense
Skills – Use a range of structures to give your opinion. Group Talk on a range of fashions describing what you think of it
Home learning: Sentence translation practice / 100 / Studio 1 p 96 -97
-Rally robin – dice activity for speaking
-Rally coach translation activity
  1. Les vacances: passé et present
/ Comparing present and future holidays: READING ASSESSMENT / LISTENING ASSESSMENT
Grammar: Compare present and future tense
Skills: Recognise and apply patterns for different tenses
Home learning: / 100 / Reading based on p.97 ex4 Studio 1
Writing frame and checklist for written HL task
-QQT present and future sentence on holidays
-Categorising activity on tenses – rally coach
  1. Mesrêves
/ To be able to say what you would like to do in the future
Grammar – je voudrais + infinitive
Skills: Ranking what you would most / least like to do
Home learning: WRITTEN ASSESSMENT: Write a paragraph to say what you normally do on holiday and what you are going to do on holiday this year. / 100 / Studio 1 p.98-99
-Rally Robin – categorising activities
-Rally Robin – dice activity for speaking
  1. REVIEW
/ Review of language taught in topic, improvements on written piece, record levels in progress trackers, complete ‘Bilan’ : self and peer assessment / 100 / ‘Bilan’ stuck in book at beginning of topic.
KS3 FRENCH / TOPIC: Un voyage à Paris
November - February / YEAR 8
Prior learning / Past tense is new but students will be familiar with some of the infinitive verbs
Lesson number & title / Learning outcomes / Timing / Specific resources
1.Bienvenue à Paris: introduction / Give out topic overview and vocab sheet
Learn some key information about sights, geography and key facts about Paris
Grammar:
Skills: Using scanning strategies to read for information. Group work
Home learning: Produce a poster to show what you have learned, and add 3 more pieces of information / 100 / Introduction ppt on shared area
Champs Elysées song
-Fact finding information about Paris – (running dictation)
-Continuous round robin – what know about Paris
2. Une semaine à Paris / Be able to say what you did in Paris
Say what you didn’t do
Grammar: Past tense: regular verbs –er/-re/-ir AVOIR ‘je’ ‘il’ ‘elle’ form, use negatives with past tense
Skills: Apply patterns to create past participles and negatives
Home learning: Create a gap fill test for partner on sentences using past participles / 200 / Studio 2 p.28-29
PPts on shared area
-Continuous round table writing – consequences
-Quiz quiz on sentences in past
-Numbered heads – multiple choice answers on past forms
3. Mon album photos / Be able to say when you did things on your trip
Grammar: Use irregular past participles and time phrases. Avoir ‘je’, il/elle/on’
Skills: Memorising techniques for learning irregular verbs
Home learning: Write a paragraph about a trip to Paris (using key word prompts as cues) / 100 / Studio 2 p.30-31
-Rally coach – test partner on past participles
-Trapdoor speaking
-QQT
4. C’était comment, les catacombes? / Be able to understand information about a tourist attraction and say what you thought of what you saw and did in Paris
Grammar: C’était / J’ai trouvé ça + adjectives
Skills: Giving opinions and ranking activities in terms of preference
Home learning: / 100 / Studio 2 p.32-33
-Round robin brainstorming adjectives
-Jot thoughts on adjectives
-Rally robin giving opinions
5. Past tense challenge ‘avoir’ verbs / Past tense Challenge
GRAMMAR ASSESSMENT: Passé composé (avoir and *être)
Be able to assess understanding of the passé composé with avoir verbs
Grammar: Passé composé with avoir: all forms
Skills: Group work
Home learning: Create a ‘crack the code’ test for your partner for next lesson / 200 / Past tense challenge cards on shared area
Grammar assessment on shared area (needs simplifying RWI)
-Past tense challenge group work
6. 24 heureschrono / Be able to say where you went in Paris and how you travelled
Grammar: Past tense using ‘être’ – with aller / partir / arriver /sortir / rentrer
Skills: Apply patterns to use ‘être verbs for masculine and feminine
Home learning: Write a diary entry of one day in Paris, saying what you did in the morning, afternoon and evening, and how you travelled to different places. / 100 / Studio 2 p.34-35
-Continuous round table – consequences activity
-Trapdoor speaking
-Jot thoughts – time phrases / activities / who with / how etc
  1. Preparation forspeakingassessment
/ Set up and prepare for speaking assessment on describing what you normally do on holiday and where you went last year. (prepare a mind map)
Grammar: Contrast present tense with past tense
Skills: Using more than one tense in speaking
Home learning: Revise for speaking test next lesson / 100 / Speaking assessment in assessment folder on shared area
  1. Speaking assessments and Review
/ READING ASSESSMENT: (check understanding first of difference between present and past verb forms)
Complete self and peer review (‘bilan’)
Create a teaching resource to help the next year 8 group learn / practise the past tense
Grammar: Using present and past tense
Skills: Using more complex sentences with opinion phrases and connectives
Home learning:
RECORD ALL LEVELS IN PROGRESS TRACKERS AND STUDENT COMMENT / 200 / Reading on shared area (Studio)
Review in book ‘bilan’
KS3 FRENCH / TOPIC: Mon identité (March – end May) / YEAR 8
Prior learning / Students should be familiar with some adjectives and principle of adjective agreement from Year 7
Lesson number & title / Learning outcomes / Timing / Specific resources
1.Mon caractère / Be able to describe yours and other people’s personality
Say what you / other people spend time doing in their free time
Grammar: Using adjectives in the correct form
Skills: Describing others
Home learning: Sell a sibling on E-bay – write a description of a sibling / family member / 200 / Studio 2 p.48-49
-Rally coach – identifying adjectives in sentences
-QQ – describing people
-Categorising positive / negative adjectives
-Jot thoughts on adjectives
-Trapdoor speaking
2. On se dittout / Be able to say how you get on with people in your family
SPEAKING ASSESSMENT – task set in class using reference materials: Write a script about 2 people in your family and say how you get on with them – prepare in class (20 mins) then read from script – level this
Grammar: Using reflexive verbs in the ‘je’ and ‘on’ form
Skills: Giving reasons and using connectives
Home learning: / 200 / Studio 2 p.50-51
Thinking skills task on table plan
PPt on shared area
-Rally robin – say who get on with in family
-Rally coach – thinking skills activity on family dinner table setting
3. Quellemusiqueécoutes-tu? / Be able to say what music you like and give your opinions on different types of music and musicians
Grammar: ça me donne envie de + infinitive (pleurer / danser / chanter / vomir / dormir)
Skills: Agreeing, disagreeing and giving reasons. Group talk task on music
Home learning: Write a paragraph giving your opinions about music / 100 / Studio 2 p.52-53
-Rally robin – dice activity to give basic opinions on music types
-Timed pair share – opinions on different singers / groups
-Trapdoor speaking – opinions on music
4. Mon style / Be able to say what you normally wear / like to wear to go out
Be able to say what you are going to wear next weekend
Grammar: Present tense and near future tense
Skills: Categorising vocabulary
Home learning: Learn clothes vocab for a test in second lesson (put on Fronter) / Write a dialogue between two celebrities asking and answering what they are doing at the weekend and what they are going to wear
READING ASSESSMENT (Studio assessment pack) / 200 / Studio 2 p.54-55
Reading assessment (Stdio)
-Jot thoughts – clothes and categorise if top / bottom / feet
-Rally robin – categorise vocabulary
-Numbered heads together: adjective rules
-Numbered pairs – multiple choice quiz on clothes
-Rally robin – dice activity speaking
5. De quoi es-tu fan? / Be able to say what you are a fan of and understand extended descriptions of people’s hobbies
Grammar: Understand and use present / past / future tenses
Skills: Recognise patterns to identify tenses
Home learning: prepare mind map to use in writing assessment / 100 / Studio 2 p.56-57
-Rally coach – identifying past present future tenses
-Quiz quiz on above
6. Prepare speakingassessment / WRITING ASSESSMENT
Task set in lesson – reference materials given / prepared mind map/ A* mats – possible level 6
Grammar: Use present, future and past tenses
Skills: Improve your work and add more complexity / detail
Home learning: / 100 / Assessment task sheet on shared area
KS3 FRENCH / TOPIC: Làouj’habite (mid-June – July) / YEAR 8
Prior learning / Students have done some work on places in town at end of Year 7
Lesson number & title / Learning outcomes / Timing / Specific resources
1.Là oùj’habite / Give out topic overview and vocab sheet for this topic
Be able to describe the house and the town where you live.
Grammar:Use regular and irregular adjectives both after and before nouns / use comparative phrases
Skills: Applying grammar patterns to new vocabulary
Home learning: Revise for grammar test next lesson / 200 / Studio 2 p.68-69
-Rally coach on adjective positions in a sentence
-QQT – write a sentence to describe your house/ town
2. Dansmonappart / Be able to say what rooms there are in your house ** use prepositions to say where the rooms are
Grammar: Using Il y a + noun / Il n’y a pas de + noun
Skills: Using sequencing words and connectives to make descriptions more complex
Home learning: Create a description of your house and local area to sell it / 100 / Studio 2 p.70-71
-Rally coach – sentence translations
-QQ – 3 sentences about your house – partner identifies the false one
3. Ma maisonidéale / Create a description of your dream house with a partner – sell this to other people in your class (use HL piece as a starting point for pair work) **Use extended sentences to say what you can do there
Grammar: Using adjectives / Il y a un jardin où on peut jouer au foot
Skills: Persuading others and creating detailed descriptions / Peer assess each other’s work
Home learning: Complete any plans / descriptions to present in second lesson
RECORD LEVELS IN PROGRESS TRACKERS / 200 / Book computers to do this as a brochure / sugar paper with plans and description
4. Review / Quiz / Be able to assess your learning on this topic: complete self assessment using ‘bilan’ in books and peer check / Quiz on topic
Grammar:
Skills: Self and peer assessment
Home learning: / 100

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