MFL

Head of Department: Mrs R Fraser

Exam Board: AQA

French

At the start of the course pupils begin to build up their knowledge of the French language with a particular focus on phonics and pronunciation, the use of cognates, memory techniques and forming basic sentences. This lays the foundation on which pupils will develop the four key areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Pupils will cover a wide range of topics including – personal descriptions of themselves, family members, talking about where they live and giving opinions about free time activities. Grammar points covered this year include – using adjectives and adjectival agreements, forming the present tense, giving and justifying opinions and understanding definite and indefinite articles.

Spanish

At the start of the course pupils begin to build up their knowledge of the Spanish language with a particular focus on phonics and pronunciation, the use of cognates, memory techniques and forming basic sentences. This lays the foundation on which pupils will develop the four key areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Pupils will cover a wide range of topics including – personal descriptions of themselves, family members and pets, talking about where they live and giving opinions about school subjects. Grammar points covered this year include – using adjectives and adjectival agreements, forming the present tense, giving and justifying opinions, understanding definite and indefinite articles and using prepositions of place.