French

1.1.2 Languages beyond the classroom; 4.1 Aims and learning outcomes

• Cultural knowledge of French-speaking countries and communitiesFoundation

3.1 Themes

• Theme 1: People and lifestyle
• Theme 2: Popular culture
• Theme 3: Communication and the world around us

3.1.1 Theme 1

• Education and work
• Equality and gender roles
• Family
• Food and drink
• Friends
• Future plans
• Healthy eating and exercise
• Healthy living and lifestyle
• Identity
• Identity and relationships with others
• Jobs and careers
• Mental wellbeing
• Part-time work
• Physical wellbeing
• Post-16 education
• Relationships
• School day and school life
• School rules and uniform
• School subjects
• Sports

3.1.2 Theme 2

• Celebrities and fame
• Celebrity culture
• Cinema and TV
• Customs, festivals and celebrations
• Family celebrations
• Free-time activities
• Gaming
• Hobbies
• Music
• National festivals (French-speaking countries)
• Reading
• Religious festivals
• Role models
• Social media influencers
• Traditions

3.1.3 Theme 3

• Climate change
• Environment and pollution
• Holidays
• Home town
• Hotels and accommodation
• Internet
• Local area description
• Media and technology
• Online safety
• Places of interest in French-speaking countries
• Pros and cons of technology
• Recycling and sustainability
• Smartphones and mobile phones
• Social media
• The environment and where people live
• Transport
• Travel and tourism, including places of interest
• Travel problems
• Types of holiday
• Weather
• Where I live (region or country)

3.2.1 Foundation

• Adjective agreement — gender (F)Foundation
• Adjective agreement — number and position (F)Foundation
• Adverbs and adverbial comparison (F)Foundation
• Comparative adjectives (F)Foundation
• Definite and indefinite articles (F)Foundation
• Demonstrative, possessive, interrogative and indefinite adjectives (F)Foundation
• Derivational morphology — ordinal numbers and prefixes/suffixes (F, Reading only)
• Formation of feminine person nouns (F)Foundation
• Formation of plural nouns (F)Foundation
• Imperative — 2nd person singular and plural (F)Foundation
• Imperfect tense — 1st/2nd/3rd person singular (F)Foundation
• Impersonal verbs (F)Foundation
• Infinitive used as a noun (F)Foundation
• Interrogatives (F)Foundation
• Modal verbs and conditional voudrais/voudrait (F)Foundation
• Negation: ne…pas / jamais / rien / personne (F)Foundation
• Other irregular present indicative verbs (F)Foundation
• Partitive articles and de in negatives / quantities (F)Foundation
• Perfect tense (F)Foundation
• Periphrastic future: aller + infinitive (F)Foundation
• Prepositions — places, possession, pour/sans + infinitive (F)Foundation
• Prepositions — verb + à/de + infinitive/noun (F)Foundation
• Present tense — regular -er, -ir and -re patterns plus aller/avoir/être/faire (F)Foundation
• Pronoun contraction and emphatic pronouns moi/toi (F)Foundation
• Reflexive use of verbs — singular (F)Foundation
• Relative pronoun qui in subject relative clauses (F)Foundation
• Singular direct, indirect and reflexive object pronouns (F)Foundation
• Subject pronouns (F)Foundation
• Verb stem spelling changes (F)Foundation

3.2.2 Higher

• Conditional (H)Higher
• Derivational morphology — agent nouns -eur/-ateur (H, Reading only)
• Imperfect plural and 1st-person plural imperative (H)Higher
• Impersonal verbs with adjectives + de and impersonal phrases (H)Higher
• Inflectional simple future (H)Higher
• Negation extensions ne…plus / ni…ni / pas encore / ne…que (H)Higher
• Negative determiner aucun(e) (H)Higher
• Negative subject pronouns personne ne / rien ne (H)Higher
• Partitive articles and use with dans/en (H)Higher
• Passive voice in the present (H)Higher
• Perfect tense of modals (H)Higher
• Periphrastic time expressions être en train de / venir de (H)Higher
• Plural object pronouns and emphatic pronouns (H)Higher
• Plural reflexive and reciprocal verbs (H)Higher
• Prepositions avant de + infinitive / après avoir + past participle (H)Higher
• Present participle with en (H)Higher
• Present tense with depuis (H)Higher
• Pronouns y and en (H)Higher
• Relative pronouns où, quand, que (H)Higher
• Superlative adjectives (H)Higher
• Superlative adverbs (H)Higher
• Two additional anchor verb clusters: connaître and écrire (H)Higher

Connectives across topics

• Connectives and discourse markersHigher

Tense usage

• Time phrases (past, present, future)

Across all topics

• Opinions and reasons (giving and justifying)

French sound-symbol correspondences

• Sound-symbol correspondences — vowels group

4.4 Paper 1: Listening

• Listening — comprehension (Section A)
• Listening — dictation (Section B)

4.5 Paper 2: Speaking

• Speaking — Photo card discussion and unprepared conversation
• Speaking — Reading aloud and short conversation
• Speaking — Role-play

4.6 Paper 3: Reading

• Reading — comprehension (Section A)
• Reading — translation French into English (Section B)

4.7 Paper 4 Writing

• Integrated writing tasks: 40/90/150-word answers

4.7 Paper 4: Writing

• Writing — extended writing (Foundation Q5 / Higher Q2 & Q3)Foundation+Higher
• Writing — short controlled tasks (F)Foundation
• Writing — translation English into FrenchFoundation+Higher

French sound-symbol correspondences

• Sound-symbol correspondences — consonants and digraphs
• Sound-symbol correspondences — liaisons
• Sound-symbol correspondences — nasal vowels group