KS3 French Topics

Asking and answering intonation questions about cultural events

• Talking about a French festival

Describing francophone musicians using être and adjectives

• Describing francophone musicians

Reading a short French poem — "Sept Couleurs Magiques"

• Reading a French poem

Reading a short text about the French Revolution using present and perfect tenses

• Reading about the French Revolution

Reading and describing life in Montreal — habitual vs one-off past

• Life in Montreal: perfect and imperfect

Talking about celebrations and festivals using 'on' in the present tense

• Festivals and celebrations

Talking about environmental problems and solutions

• Talking about the environment

Describing your family using avoir and être

• Talking about your family in French

Plural family — numbers, plural nouns, plural avoir and être

• Talking about a bigger family

Ordering food in a French restaurant or café

• Ordering food in a café

Reading a French menu

• Reading a French menu

Talking about food and drink you like

• Talking about food and drink

Giving opinions with reasons (parce que / car)

• Opinions with reasons

Plural present-tense verbs to talk about what people do

• Talking about what people do

Saying what you want, can and must do using modal verbs

• Modal verbs: vouloir, pouvoir, devoir

Sports and physical activities in French

• Sports in French

Talking about free time and hobbies you do regularly

• Free time in more detail

Talking about future plans using aller + infinitive

• Future plans with aller + infinitive

Talking about hobbies using faire

• Talking about what you do — faire

Talking about hobbies using regular present-tense verbs

• Hobbies using regular verbs

Talking about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles

• Healthy living in French

Talking about parts of the body and saying what hurts

• Parts of the body and aches

-RE verbs in the present + mettre / remettre

• -RE verbs and mettre

Perfect tense with être for verbs of movement

• Past tense with être: verbs of movement

Saying where you go using à and en with countries and places

• Going to countries: à and en

Saying you never do something — ne … jamais

• Negation: ne … jamais

Talking about a past holiday using the perfect tense

• Talking about a past holiday

Using connaître and savoir to talk about people and places you know

• Connaître vs savoir: knowing people and facts

Where you went on holiday — places and prepositions

• Where you went on holiday

Describing Paris and Nice — adjective placement

• Describing French cities — adjective placement

Describing your local area and what there is to do

• Describing your local area

Giving and asking for directions

• Asking for and giving directions

Saying where you and other people go using plural aller

• Going places with other people

Talking about places you go using aller

• Places you go in French

Using transport: trains, buses and the métro

• Getting around — transport in French

Talking about social media and technology in your life

• Social media and technology

Asking and answering inversion questions about school life

• Asking questions about school

Common -RE and -IR present-tense verbs at Y7 level

• -RE and -IR verbs in the present

Talking about your school day

• Talking about school in French

Asking questions using est-ce que and intonation

• Asking questions: est-ce que and intonation

Comparing things using plus / moins / aussi … que

• Comparatives in French

Conjugating regular -ER verbs in the present tense

• -ER verbs in the present (Y8 review)

Days of the week, months and dates in French

• Days, months and dates

Definite articles le, la, l', les

• Definite articles in French

Describing daily routines using the reflexive pronoun se

• Daily routines and reflexive pronoun se

Describing what something was like in the past with c'était / il y avait

• Describing the past with c'était and il y avait

Describing what you wear — clothes and colours

• Clothes in French

Describing yourself with adjectives that agree in gender and number

• Describing yourself in French

Forming the perfect tense of regular -ER verbs with avoir

• Past tense with avoir: -ER verbs

French phonics: silent letters, nasal sounds, accents

• French phonics: SSCs at KS3 level

Giving extended opinions with reasons and justifications

• Extended opinions with reasons

Giving simple opinions: j'aime / je n'aime pas / j'adore / je déteste

• Saying what you like and dislike

Greetings and saying hello in French

• Saying hello in French

Introducing yourself: name, age, where you live

• Introducing yourself in French

Listening to a short French conversation and answering questions

• Listening to short French conversations

Listening to authentic French audio and answering detailed questions

• Extended authentic listening

Listening to extended French passages and noting key information

• Extended listening practice

Numbers 0–60 in French

• Numbers in French

Numbers 60+ and dates in French

• Bigger numbers and dates

Recapping French phonics, alphabet, gender and noun rules from Y7

• Recapping Y7 French essentials

Saying what you don't do using ne … pas

• Negation with ne … pas

Talking about past habitual events using the imperfect tense

• The imperfect tense — habitual past

Talking about the weather in French

• Talking about the weather

Talking about your belongings using avoir and indefinite articles

• Talking about your belongings

Talking about your daily life as a refugee using reflexive pronouns me and te

• Daily life and reflexive pronouns me/te

Talking about your daily routine

• Your daily routine in French

The simple future tense of regular verbs

• The simple future tense

Translating short paragraphs between English and French

• Translating short paragraphs

Translating short paragraphs in both directions accurately

• Translating paragraphs both ways

Translating short sentences between English and French

• Translating short sentences

Using the perfect and imperfect tenses together

• Mixing perfect and imperfect

Using three tenses in a single piece of writing

• Writing using three tenses

Writing a postcard or short blog post from holiday

• Writing a holiday postcard

Writing a short personal description in French

• Writing about yourself

Future career plans using aller + infinitive and negation

• Talking about future careers

Talking about jobs using avoir and être, with feminine job nouns

• Talking about jobs in French

Talking about why you want a job using modals + infinitive and -ment adverbs

• Why I want a job: modals and -ment adverbs

Talking about work experience using plural modal verbs

• Work experience in French

Using il faut and il ne faut pas to say what you must and must not do

• What you must and must not do: il faut