SUBJECTSModern Foreign Languages

Year 4 children will already advance to more elaborate ways of conversing in French. They will begin to understand how to express an opinion and what an adjective agreement is. During their second year of learning a new language, the children will begin to go deeper into grammatical structures but the playful part of learning will still be at the forefront in acting out stories, role-play etc. Some topics that we cover in Year 4 that are of particular interest to children include ‘At School’, ‘My Home’ and ‘Sports’.

In Year 5 our children are going to look at topics, such as ‘Eating Out’, which lends itself typically to great role play opportunities. However, to the end of the year, they will be looking at deeper topics, such as ‘The Environment’ and will learn how to express some opinions about the damage of smaller environmental areas such as a pond. Furthermore, whilst Year 5 children will also recap previously learned content, they will also look into more complicated sentence structure, e.g. how to form negative sentences, ask questions in different ways.

At the end of year 6, our children will now be confident speakers and are hopefully well equipped for their transition into secondary school. During the autumn term, they will be looking at France as a country and researching some cities and sights. Towards the end of the year, one of the topics will be ‘The Future’ and the children will acquire a new tense to their grammatical repertoire: the future tense, which will be a great prerequisite for their Secondary MFL subject.