Modern Foreign Languages Curriculum

Intent

The faculty aims to produce confident and articulate linguists who can work independently with a range of vocabulary, tenses and structures. We aim to celebrate diversity through learning about the culture of German speaking and French speaking countries and via extra-curricular activities such as the Year 8 French trip and European Day of Languages events. In November 2023 we will be holding a KS4/5 trip to Berlin for German and History, we are hoping that this will become a yearly trip. Ultimately, we want our pupils to have a love of languages and aim to achieve this by nurturing a linguistic curiosity and an intrinsic motivation to explore and respect other cultures and people.

Aims for Key Stage 3

• Speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
• Write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
• Use and manipulate a variety of key grammatical structures and patterns.
• Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.

In Key Stage 3 pupils study 1 or 2 hours a week, pupils study French in Year 7 and in Year 8 and Year 9 a number of pupils additionally study German.

French

Year 7:

• Introductory module – introducing yourself
• Describing yourself and other people
• School
• Free time
• Where I live
• Literature and culture of French speaking countries

Year 8:

• Holidays
• Festivals / Celebrations
• Leisure (TV/Cinema/Reading)
• Describing where you live and discovering towns in French speaking countries

Year 9:

• Extra-curricular activities, discussing friendships
• Sport and Music
• Food, Healthy Eating, Environmental Issues
• The French speaking world

German

Year 8:

• Personal Information, greetings
• Family and pets
• Free time
  
• School
• Fashion

Year 9:

• Holidays and Tourist Attractions
• Leisure time (films, reading, TV
• Healthy living
• Arranging to go out
• Childhood and school

Aims for Key Stage 4

• Express and develop ideas clearly and with increasing accuracy, both orally and in writing.
• Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information.
• Initiate and develop conversations, coping with unfamiliar language, making use of social conventions such as formal modes of address.
• Read literary texts (such as stories, songs, poems and letters)
• Understand different types of written language, including relevant personal communication, public information and factual texts.
• Write prose using an increasingly wide range of grammar and vocabulary.

In Key Stage 4 pupils are able to study French and/or German (AQA) for 3 hours per week, the topics studied are:

GCSE French (Spec 8658):

• Theme One – Identity and Culture
• Theme Two – Local, national, international and global areas of interest
• Theme Three – Current and future study and employment

GCSE German (Spec 8668):

• Theme One – Identity and Culture
• Theme Two – Local, national, international and global areas of interest
• Theme Three – Current and future study and employment

MFL PoS.pdf