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Unit 1:
Numbers

Pupils will learn basic greetings and gain an understanding of the numbers 1-10, so they can use them in a context. They will take part in role-playing activities and a number of games such as bingo.

Unit 2:
Colours

Pupils will continue to practice greetings and numbers and begin to learn the names of colours. They will be able to combine the use of numbers and colours.

Unit 3:
Animals

Pupils will learn the names of some animals.  They will play games such as memory and bingo to practise these words and reinforce their learning. They will also begin to combine the use of animals, numbers and colours.

Unit 4:
Fruit

Pupils will learn the names of some fruit. They will play games such as memory and bingo to practise these words and reinforce their learning.  They will also begin to combine the use of fruit, numbers and colours.

Unit 5:
I Like and I Don’t Like

Pupils will start to give their opinions on the vocabulary that we have already learnt, namely animals and fruit, and they will also be introduced to new food vocabulary. They will practise using what they’ve learnt in real-life, role-play situations.

Unit 6:
My Body

Pupils will learn the names of some body parts. They will play games such as memory and bingo to practise these words and reinforce their learning. They will also begin to combine the use of body parts and colours.

Key Stage 1 - Level 1

Unit 1Lite:
Greetings & Numbers

Pupils will be introduced to the French language by learning basic greetings and gaining an understanding of the numbers 1-10, so they can use them in a range of contexts.

Unit 2Lite:
Colours & Animals

Pupils will continue to practise greetings and numbers and begin to learn the names of colours and the names of some animals. They will be able to match the numbers and colours to their written words and learn to recognise and answer some question words.

Unit 3Lite:
Days of the Week, Months, Seasons & Fruit

Pupils will be able to identify the days of the week, months, seasons and names of fruit. They will be introduced to how sentences are arranged and be encouraged to recall single words from memory. There will be a focus on story reading and playing games to reinforce what they are learning.

Unit 4Lite:
Food, Drink and Giving Preferences

Pupils will start to give their opinions on different food and drinks. They will learn additional vocabulary and practise using what they have learnt in a real-life, role-play situation.

Unit 5Lite:
Family, Stories and Conversation

Pupils will be learning about the family and how to introduce members of their family, then they will watch several French/Spanish stories. The pupils will also listen to native speakers and work in pairs to ask each other questions, thus practising having conversations in French/Spanish.

Unit 6Lite:
Cultural Diversity and Revision

Pupils will learn about French/Spanish culture and life in France/Spain. They will also continue to practise numbers and colours, whilst revising everything that they have learnt so far this year.

Key Stage 2 - Level 1

Key Stage 1 - Level 2

Unit 1Lite:
Revising Numbers & Telling the Time

Pupils will revise numbers 1 to 20 and tens and expand their knowledge by learning numbers from 21 to 31. They will also review the days of the week and months. With this knowledge, pupils will be able to ask and answer questions about the date and discuss their birthdays. Additionally, they will practise telling the time to the hour. 

Unit 2Lite:
Parts of the Body & Feeling Unwell

Pupils will learn vocabulary related to different parts of the body through engaging games and songs. They will also practise using the conjugation for "I have" in the context of discussing body parts. Additionally, students will learn how to express specific body parts that are hurting, using the appropriate sentence structure based on the number of body parts involved. This lesson will also provide an opportunity for students to review and apply previously learned vocabulary, such as numbers and colours. 

Unit 3Lite:
Food, Opinions and Shopping

Pupils will revise previously learnt food vocabulary and expand their knowledge with new food items. Additionally, they will revise and learn new opinion phrases to express their food preferences. To enhance their speaking abilities, pupils will engage in role-playing scenarios such as ordering at a restaurant and buying food at a market. Moreover, they will be taught how to ask for different food items using the phrase "I would like”. 

Unit 4Lite:
Weather and Clothes

Pupils will learn vocabulary for weather conditions and items of clothing. Pupils will also engage in conversations to practise how to ask and answer questions related to the topic of weather and clothing. 

Unit 5Lite:
Town and Transport

Pupils will learn vocabulary related to town locations and types of transportation. Pupils will review and learn essential questions and answers used to ask and provide personal information. They will also acquire the ability to express the presence and absence of various places in their town. Additionally, they will revisit expressing opinions in the context of using various modes of travel.

Unit 6Lite:
Hobbies and Sport

Pupils will learn vocabulary related to hobbies and sports, and they will revisit expressing opinions on this topic. Additionally, they will review the days of the week and family members to discuss which sports they engage in with their family and when. Furthermore, pupils will revise essential sentences used to provide personal information. 

Key Stage 2 - Level 2

Unit 1:
Revising Numbers & Telling the Time

Pupils will learn how to tell the time. They will learn to tell the hour and minutes past the hour. Pupils will also revise numbers, days of the week, months and seasons. Pupils will use this information to ask and answer when their birthday is. Pupils will start to apply times to their daily activities by asking and answering at what time they get up.

Unit 2:
Parts of the Body & Feeling Unwell

Pupils will learn the vocabulary for different parts of the body through games and songs. Pupils will practise their speaking and writing when saying what is wrong with specific body parts and if they are feeling unwell as well as asking others if they are feeling unwell. Pupils will also revise and use previously learnt vocabulary such as numbers and colours.

Unit 3:
Food, Opinions and Shopping

Pupils will revise previously learnt food vocabulary as well as learning new foods and a range of flavours. Pupils will also revise giving preferences as well as practise their speaking through role playing, ordering in cafes and restaurants as well as buying food at a market. Pupils will also learn how to say, ‘I would like’ and improve their written language by completing language tasks.

Unit 4:
Weather and Clothes

Pupils will learn vocabulary for weather and different items of clothing. Pupils will build written sentences and present on what clothing is appropriate for what weather/season/temperature. Pupils will play a range of games and work through reading, writing, speaking, and listening tasks to consolidate their learning.

Unit 5:
Shops and Transport

Pupils will learn the names for different shops and practise writing and speaking skills in the context of asking and answering questions about where you can buy certain shopping items. Pupils will practise how to ask for and respond to directional instructions in Spanish/French. Pupils will also be introduced to different means of transport.

Unit 6:
Holidays and Activites

Pupils will learn how to ask and answer where they go during the holidays. This will include revising countries, seasons and months, family members, means of transport and the verb ‘to go’.  Pupils will also learn a range of holiday activities and say what activities they like and don’t like to do on holiday. Pupils will also revise items of clothing and colours in the context of travelling. 

Level 3

Unit 1:
Hobbies and Free Time

Pupils will learn a wide range of hobbies to talk about what they like or don’t like to do in their free time using different opinion phrases. They will also learn how to form the present tense and how to conjugate regular verbs in order to form simple sentences about what they do in their free time. Pupils will also revise the days of the week, seasons, and weather conditions. 

Unit 2:
Sports

Pupils will learn the vocabulary for a range of sports and the correct verb to use for the sports they play. Through engaging activities, pupils will practise this new vocabulary by talking about what sports they like and dislike and justify their opinions using a variety of adjectives. Pupils will reinforce their knowledge of the days of the week and learn different time and frequency phrases to express when or how often they do something in the context of sports. Pupils will revise the numbers up to 100 and how to ask and answer the question ‘How many?’.

Unit 3:
TV, Music and Movies

Pupils will learn the vocabulary for a range of film and music genres, as well as TV programmes. Through engaging activities, pupils  will practise this new vocabulary while discussing their preferences and justifying their opinions using a variety of adjectives. Pupils will also revise how to tell the time when discussing a TV schedule. Pupils will also review different grammatical concepts to reinforce their knowledge and improve their skills.

Unit 4:
Food and Eating Out

Pupils will enhance their current knowledge of food and drink vocabulary by reviewing and learning new terms, as well as discussing their food preferences using appropriate opinion phrases. Pupils will also acquire the skill to describe the food they consume during the three main meals of the day and mention the respective time. Additionally, they will also practise expressing the cost of different foods and drinks. Pupils will also practise asking and answering questions to engage in meaningful conversations about foods and drinks in the context of describing meals and asking for the price. They will further practise ordering food in a restaurant by using the vocabulary they have learnt and the sentence ‘I would like’. 

Unit 5:
Physical descriptions and Personality

Pupils will learn how to describe physical features, such as hair and eye colour, as well as character traits to describe personality. Pupils will practice conjugating familiar verbs in the present tense to describe themselves, their family, and friends. Additionally, pupils will practise Spanish/French word order to create more complex sentences, using appropriate words in the correct order within a sentence and comparing them to English sentence structures. Pupils will also review the grammar concept of adjectival agreement to ensure they use the correct gender when describing people. 

Unit 6:
At School

Pupils will have the opportunity to improve their communication skills by incorporating vocabulary related to school locations, school supplies, and subjects into their existing knowledge. They will also learn how to use this new vocabulary in various grammatical structures to answer questions such as ‘Where are you?/Where is he/she?’ or ‘What do you have in your backpack?’. Additionally, they will practise indefinite articles with the names of school supplies while revising colours to describe them. While reviewing school subjects, students will practise expressing opinions about them in both singular and plural forms, as well as justifying those opinions using appropriate adjectives. Pupils will also review the grammatical concept of adjectival agreement to ensure that they use the correct gender and number when describing school supplies and school subjects. 

Level 4

Unit 1:
Around the house

Pupils will practise how to ask and answer questions about where they live and who they live with. This will include revising types of homes and family members. They will also learn a broad range of vocabulary related to parts of a house and items commonly found in a bedroom. Additionally, they will learn how to apply this vocabulary to construct sentences using the verb ‘there is/there are’ and answer questions such as ‘What is there in your house?’ or ‘What is there in your bedroom?’. Students will also be taught some prepositions of place to describe the location of items in the bedroom. Pupils will review the grammatical concept of adjectival agreement, which involves using the correct gender and number when describing parts of a house and items in the bedroom. 

Unit 2:
Daily Routines

Pupils will be provided with the opportunity to improve their communication skills by incorporating vocabulary related to daily routines into their existing knowledge. They will learn a diverse range of sequence connectives to make their daily routine descriptions more complex. Pupils will also learn how to express time using phrases like ‘quarter to’, ‘half past’ and ‘quarter past’. While revising how to tell the time, students will practise how to describe when they perform a variety of daily routines using different times by asking and answering the question ‘What time + daily routine?’. Additionally, students will review hobbies to discuss what they do during their free time.

Unit 3:
My Town

Pupils will learn about the different places in a town and review vocabulary from previous units. They will also review how to use indefinite articles and make nouns plural. Additionally, they will learn how to construct sentences using the verb ‘there is/there are’ and answer the question ‘What is there in your city?’ while applying this vocabulary. Students will also review prepositions of location to describe where these places are located and directional instructions to answer the question ‘Where is...?’. The grammatical concept of adjectival agreement will also be reviewed to ensure students use the correct gender and number when describing towns or cities using different adjectives. In addition, they will learn how to compare towns or cities using the phrases ‘more...than’ and ‘less...than’. 

Unit 4:
Future Plans

Pupils will have the opportunity to practise expressing their preferences and opinions about what they enjoy doing during their free time. This will include reviewing various hobbies and places around town. Additionally, students will learn how to form the near future tense by using the present tense of the verb ‘to go’ and infinitive verbs. This new grammatical knowledge will enable them to express their future plans. To further reinforce their learning, students will also review a broad range of vocabulary from previous topics, such as family, countries, transport, and how to tell the time, among others. This will allow them to extend their sentences and make them more complex. 

Unit 5:
Jobs

Pupils will not only learn how to name various professions but also review vocabulary from previous topics, allowing them to expand their repertoire of job-related words. They will engage in meaningful practice of asking and answering questions about other people's professions, fostering discussions about their family members' jobs. Additionally, students will learn how to construct sentences using verbs in the future tense correctly. This will enable them to express their aspirations for future professions, using a range of adjectives to extend their sentences and articulate their reasons for being interested in those specific jobs

Unit 6:
Our World

Pupils will learn how to describe flags of Spanish/French-speaking countries using their previous knowledge of colours and the verb ‘to have’. These topics will introduce them to key vocabulary and provide an understanding of how these festivals are celebrated. Throughout this virtual trip, students will engage in several review tasks to reinforce vocabulary related to telling the time, items of clothing, food, weather, shops, and town shops. Finally, students will participate in an escape room to continue reviewing vocabulary.