What is it and why should I do it?
Year 10 French is all about continuing on your great journey to becoming a proficient French speaker! Along the way you will also further explore French culture, lifestyle, traditions and learn more about the Francophone world.
What will I do in class?
Through a variety of text types you will explore the following:
Term 1:
Unit 1: Les jeunes Francophones (Young Francophones)
- Find out about the French speaking world, exchange personal information
- Revise the present tense of regular verbs
- Talk about technology and the Internet
- Cognates
- Use of some irregular verbs
- Talk about/describe friends and family
- Use adjectives with the correct agreement
- Discuss relationships, talk about aspects of daily life
- Use of reflexive verbs
Unit 2: Bienvenue a Paris (Welcome to Paris!)
- Find out about some Paris sights, describe places if interest
- Find out about places to visit in Paris, understand tourist information
- Talk about what you have done
- Use the perfect tense of avoir
- Say what has happened and what you have done
- Use the perfect tense with Etre
- Find out about the Paris metro, understand information about travel
- Describe a recent events, give opinions
Term 2:
Unit 3: Ca me passione (My passions)
- Talk about leisure activities, use some expressions of time
- Talk about when you were younger
- Recognise and use the Imperfect tense
- Use the imperfect to compare past and present
- Say how life has changed
- Use comparitives of adjectives
- Talk about TV, cinema and books
- Learn about some famous French people
Unit 6: Bonjour le Quebec (Hello Quebec!)
- Find out about Quebec in Canada
- Use superlative adjectives
- Find out about Montreal, talk about your town and region
- Object pronouns me, te, nous, vous
- Asking for information at a tourist office, recommend places to see and things to do
- Use of the verb devoir
- Say what can and should be done to protect the environment
- Use il faut and il ne faut pas
Unit 4 : Au travail (At work)
- Understand information about school life in France, describe your school and typical school day
- Discuss school subjects, say what is (not) going to happen
- Use aller + infinitive
- Discuss plans for the next school year
- Discuss aspects of school life
- Use different forms of the negative
- Talk about different careers
- Talk about jobs (masculine/feminine versions)
- Talk about the past, the present and the future
Term 3:
Unit 7: En Forme (Fitness)
- Discuss healthy lifestyles and fitness
- Use adverbs
- Talk about healthy eating
- Use the imperative
- Talk about problems
- Use reflexives in the perfect tense
- Identify parts of the body, discuss problems
- Use expressions with avoir
- Use depuis in the present tense
- Asking for advice at the Chemist, talk about going to the Doctor
- Working out the gender of a noun
Unit 8: Vive les vacances (Long live the holidays!)
- Understand holiday information
- Use relative pronouns qui and que
- Talk about holiday plans, revise countries
- Talk about holiday accommodation, enquire about campsites and youth hostels
- Discuss what to take on holiday
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
How will I be assessed?
Classroom participation, completion of classroom activities and satisfactory completion of unit assessment tasks (listening, speaking, reading and writing skills)
Class time
4 periods per week
Course books and subscription
- Tricolore 3 (5th Ed) Oxford University Press purchased through Campion booksellers (PHSC booklisting) prior to the beginning of the school year.
- A renewed subscription to the online educational platform Education Perfect, purchased through Campion booksellers (PHSC booklisting) prior to the beginning of the school year.
- Complete French Grammar (4th Ed) Mcgraw Hill Publishers (PHSC booklisting)
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Class time: 4 periods per week.