Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Comparing things, Out and about

Key ideas: Comparing with adjectives

Grammar: feminine adjective agreement rules 1, 2, 3, 4: -l ➜ -lle and, 5: -n ➜ -nne, comparative forms of adjectives, adjectives in comparative structures

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Comparing experiences, Family life

Key ideas: Comparing with adjectives and adverbs

Grammar: comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs, adjectives and adverbs in comparative structures

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Comparing experiences

Key ideas: Using -RE verbs like prendre for present actions

Grammar: verbs like prendre (present), (je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles)

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Communicating in other languages

Key ideas: Using -RE verbs like entendre for present actions

Grammar: verbs like entendre (present), (je, tu, il/elle), contraction of definite article after à and de, verbs with à and de before a noun

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Communicating in other languages

Key ideas: Using -RE verbs like lire & écrire for present actions

Grammar: verbs like lire (present), (je, tu, il/elle), verbs like écrire (present), (je, tu, il/elle), tout(e)(s), tous

Year 8 Term 3.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Communicating in other languages

Key ideas: Using -RE verbs like entendre for present actions

Grammar: verbs like entendre (present), (nous, vous, ils/elles), intonation (SV) questions with and without question words

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Communicating in other languages, Describing language learning experiences

Key ideas: Using -RE verbs like lire & écrire for present actions

Grammar: verbs like lire (present), (nous, vous, ils/elles), verbs like écrire (present), (nous, vous, ils/elles), faire with weather expressions, inversion (VS) questions with and without question words

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about the environment

Key ideas: Using -RE verbs for present actions,

Grammar: revision of grammar from terms 2.2 and 3.1 for assessment (adjective agreement (gender patterns 1-3, 4, 5 and irregular forms; number patterns 1, 2 and 3); adjective positioning (pre- and post-nominal; multiple adjectives); même(s), autre(s), plusieurs; verbs like entendre, prendre, lire, écrire, choisir, sortir, venir and choisir (present) (je, tu, il/elle/on, nous, vous, ils/elles); comparative structures with adjectives and adverbs

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 3

Assessment week

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Past events

Key ideas: Asking inversion questions in the past (perfect) tense

Grammar: present vs perfect (with past simple equivalent in English), (je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles), inversion (VS) questions (perfect)

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Past events, School holidays

Key ideas: Talking about what you did and have done

Grammar; perfect (with past simple and present perfect equivalent in English) (je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles), specified vs unspecified times in the past, adverb placement (present vs perfect)

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Past events, An accident,

Key ideas: Asking about what you did and have done

Grammar: present vs perfect (with past simple and present perfect equivalent in English), past participle formation: verbs like prendre, dit, fait, bu, eu, intonation (SV) and est-ce que questions in the perfect, (did? vs have/has?)

Year 8 Term 3.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Past events, Extended reading, Déjeuner du matin

Key ideas: Asking about what you did and have done, Text exploitation 2, Déjeuner du matin

Grammar: perfect (with past simple and present perfect equivalent in English) (all persons), past participle formation: -ER verbs, verbs like prendre, dit, fait, bu, eu, intonation (SV) questions with question words (perfect)