SCHEME OF WORK FOR YEAR 7

The main resource used for teaching Year 7 is Équipe Nouvelle 1, published by Oxford.

Teaching methods include: audio recordings related to the textbook; video recordingfor cultural information and reinforcement of learning; flashcards; role-play activities; recordings of songs for pupils to sing; various language games

(including French bingo) on board or with partner or in groups.

TERM TOPICS & GRAMMAR

A U T U M NLanguage awareness: understanding about different languages in the

world; French numbers up to 69; learning classroom language; greetings; French alphabet; where you live; age, months & birthdays; pets; French plurals and gender; family members; personal qualities;

physical descriptionsTEST FOR UNITS 1 & 2

S P R I N G School bag items; school subjects; expressing likes and dislikes; telling the time; days of the week; introduction to verbs; sports and leisure

activities; going to places in town; using verb tablesTEST FOR UNITS 3 & 4

S U M M E R Food and drinks: ordering them in a café; meals; quantities and prices of food; near future tense; numbers to 100; weather and climate;

French-speaking countries; home area, type of house where you live; rooms in a house; objects in bedroom & colours

TEST FOR UNITS 5 & 6