Modern Foreign Languages
We strive to enable students to achieve the highest standards of which they are capable.
As well as skills in learning vocabulary, using dictionaries and other resources, students are provided with a solid grounding in the structures and patterns of the language through a range of contexts.
Our aim is to develop language learners who are enthusiastic about their learning; able to communicate in another language, and capable of working independently.
FRENCH
| YEAR 7 |
YEAR 8 |
YEAR 9 |
Autumn Term
- Greetings
- Using classroom target language
- Give and ask for name, age and birthday
- Understand and give physical descriptions
- Give and understand personality descriptions
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Autumn Term
A visit to Paris:
- Activities in Paris
- What you did using a range of connectives and opinions
- How you travelled using time
- Where you stayed
- Asking questions
- Understanding a tourist leaflet
- The Perfect Tense
- Producing an extended piece of writing
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Autumn Term
My Future:
- Family member jobs
- Childhood ambitions
- Hopes for the future – professional and personal
- Justified opinions of jobs
- Languages for careers
The Imperfect Tense
The Future Tense
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Spring Term
- Differences between French and English schools
- Formulate questions
- Justified opinions on subjects
- Tell the time
- Describe school day
- Conjugate regular verbs
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Spring Term
Talent:
- Describing a talent and ambitions
- Persuasive language
- Giving opinions of who is the best and worst
- Preferences on TV shows
- Modal verbs
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Spring Term
Health:
- Parts of the body
- Healthy/unhealthy food
- Living a healthy life
- New Year resolutions
The Imperative
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Summer Term
- Free time activities with frequencies and opinions
- Sporting habits and preferences
- Places to visit in town
- Other people’s hobbies
- Conjugate irregular verbs
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Summer Term
Media:
- A visit to the cinema
- Film review of Les Choristes
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Summer Term
Illness:
- Problems with health
- Going to the doctor/chemist
- Role Plays
- The imperative
- Preparation for GCSE
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GERMAN
| YEAR 7 |
YEAR 8 |
YEAR 9 |
Autumn Term
- Greetings/Introductions
- The Alphabet
- Numbers 1-31
- Birthdays
- Sports and Free-time
- Opinions about leisure activities
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Autumn Term
Holidays:
- Where you went
- Where you stayed
- What you did
- How you travelled
- Weather
- Problems on holiday
- The Perfect Tense
- Producing a coherent piece of writing Holidays
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Autumn Term
My ambitions:
- Personal Characteristics
- Part-time jobs
- Careers
- Ambitions for the future
- Job advertisements and applications
- Languages for careers
- Saying “in order to”
- The Conditional Form
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Spring Term
- Pets
- My Family
- Physical description
- The Present Tense
- Using a range of connectives
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Spring Term
Fashion:
- What you wear
- Colours and styles
- Uniform and opinions about uniform
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Spring Term
My childhood:
- Childhood experience and capabilities
- Comparing childhood with now
- Comparing primary and secondary school
- Fairy Tales
The Perfect and Imperfect Tenses
- Recognising different tenses
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Summer Term
- School Subjects
- Opinions about school subjects
- Time
- The School Day
- Describing Teachers
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Summer Term
Media:
- Music
- Films including study of a German film (Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer)
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Summer Term
Health and Welfare:
- Parts of the body
- Going to the doctors
- Healthy/unhealthy food
- Living a healthy life
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SPANISH
| YEAR 7 |
YEAR 8 |
YEAR 9 |
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Autumn Term
- Greetings
- Using classroom target language
- Give and ask for name, age and birthday
- Understand and give physical descriptions
- Give and understand personality descriptions
- Talking about where you live and who with
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Media and Free Time:
- Opinions on music and film types
- Revision of time and frequencies of time
- The comparative
- Review of the present tense
- Conjugating regular preterit tense verbs
- Producing a coherent piece of writing
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Jobs and my future plans:
- Describing details of current jobs
- Describe what you would do in the future, personal and professional life
- Discuss the importance of languages
The Imperfect Tense
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- School subjects
- Opinions about school subjects
- The School day
- Describing teachers
- Conjugating present tense regular verbs
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Spring Term
Holidays:
- Present tense review – describing a normal holiday and what you would normally eat whilst away
- Where you went
- Where you stayed
- What you did
- How you travelled
- Expressing opinions in the past
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Spring Term
Health:
- Describe your diet
- New Year Resolutions for healthy living
- Describe sports you do
- Daily Routine
Reflexive and root changing verbs
- Using a variety of tenses
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Summer Term
- Free time activities with expressions of frequency
- Conjugate common irregular verbs
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Summer Term
Media:
- Use of mobile phones
- A film review of Carlitos
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Summer Term
Illness:
- Problems with health
- Going to the doctor/chemist
- Role Plays
The imperative
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Staff Contacts
Mr S Willard - swillard@oxtedschool.co.uk (Head of Faculty)
Mrs L Witty – lwitty@oxtedschool.co.uk (French)
Mr A Younas - ayounas@oxtedschool.co.uk (German)
Ms C Beaumont - cbeaumont@oxtedschool.co.uk (German)
Mrs S Ellis – sellis@oxtedschool.co.uk (Spanish)
