“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
Nelson Mandela
INTENT
At Atlantic Academy, our aim is for all students to have the opportunity to learn a language as a form of liberation from insularity and to provide an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster students’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. We want our students to be able to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. More importantly, we want students to have the opportunity of communicating for practical purposes and to learn new ways of thinking. Language teaching should provide them with the foundation for learning further languages, and should equip them to study and work in other countries.
Our intent is to:
- foster the skills of the individual student to understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
- give students the opportunity to 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.
- enable students to write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
- encourage students to develop a love of languages
IMPLEMENTATION
Overview
| Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 | ||||
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Y3 | Phonetics
4 lessons 1 lesson 1 lesson |
I’m learning French
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Animals
6 lessons |
Fruits
6 lessons |
Vegetables
6 lessons |
I can
6 lessons |
| Y4 | Phonetics Lesson 2
6 lessons |
Family
6 lessons |
The Weather
6 lessons |
Habitats
6 lessons |
In the classroom
6 lessons |
My Home
6 lessons |
| Y5 | Phonetics Lesson 2
6 lessons |
Family
6 lessons |
The Weather
6 lessons |
In the classroom
6 lessons |
Habitats
6 lessons |
My Home
6 lessons |
| Y6 | Phonetics Lesson 2
6 lessons |
Family
6 lessons |
The Weather
6 lessons |
Habitats
6 lessons |
In the classroom
6 lessons |
My Home
6 lessons |
| Y7 | Greetings, birthdays, numbers, opinions, family, where you live, food and drink, countries and weather. | Likes and dislikes, talking about yourself and others, school.
Grammar Present tense – regular ‘er’ verbs ‘Avoir’ Adjective agreements Partitive article |
Hobbies, sports, where you live.
Grammar ‘Jouer à’ ‘Aimer’ + the infinitive ‘Je veux/tu veux’ ‘On peut’ Near future tense ‘Je voudrais’ |
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| Y8 | TV, cinema, internet, Paris.
Grammar Present tense – ‘er’, ‘ir’ and ‘re’ The present tense of ‘avoir’ and ‘être’
The perfect tense with ‘avoir’ – regular verbs |
Paris, personality, relationships, fashion, your passion.
Grammar The perfect tense with ‘être’ Reflexive verbs The near future tense |
Home, meals, events, talents and ambition.
Grammar Prepositions ‘Boire’ and ‘prendre’ ‘il faul’ Using three tenses ‘Vouloir’, ‘pouvoir’ and ‘devoir’ |
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| Y9 | Yourself and your family, relationships, house and home.
Grammar Using ‘avoir’ and ‘être’ Reflexive verbs Adjective agreement Comparative and superlatives The conditional tense |
School, TV, music and films, leisure activities, food and meals.
Grammar Possessive pronouns Revision of the perfect tense Question words Time phrases Quantities |
Sporting activities, celebrations and traditions.
Grammar The pronouns ‘en’ and ‘y’ Demonstrative pronouns Subordinating conjunctions Emphatic pronouns The imperfect tense |
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| Y10 | School life, holidays.
Grammar Revision of: ‘Vouloir’, ‘pouvoir’ and ‘devoir’ ‘Il faut’ The conditional tense ‘depuis’ + the present tense Using the imperfect and perfect tenses together |
Holidays, future options, healthy habits, relationships.
Grammar The immediate and future tense Direct and indirect object pronouns ‘Si’ + present tense Pluperfect tense |
Relationships, environmental issues, global issues, charities, inequality and poverty in the world.
Grammar the conditional of ‘vouloir’ and ‘aimer’ vouloir que + subjunctive The imperative The subjunctive |
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| Y11 | Jobs and work, social media, mobile technology
Grammar The passive voice in the present tense Revision of comparatives and superlative ‘Il est possible que’ + subjunctive |
Preparation for Speaking exams – Prep for 3 Themes –
Speaking exam booklet |
Exam practice, preparation for Writing, Reading and Listening exams | |||