MFL KS3

Year 7 and Year 8 (these students are being prepared for the AQA GCSE examinations – (specification first examined in 2026)

Students will follow the NCELP (National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy) Schemes of Work throughout year 7. Language will be taught in word clusters, rather than within topics.

Y7 French

• Describing a person or a thing
• Saying what people have
• Describing what people have
• Distinguishing between having and being
• Talking about a thing or person
• Talking about doing and making things
• Saying what people do
• Saying what you do with other people
• Distinguishing between ‘you’ singular and ‘you’ plural
• Saying how many there are
• Describing people
• Saying what people have
• Saying what people do
• Talking about what belongs to you an what belongs to someone else
• Saying where people go
• Talk about yourself to and about someone else
• Asking questions
• Using questions words
• Saying people do not do something
• Describing things and people
• Saying what you want to do and what you must/have to do
• Saying what you can/can’t do and what you know how to/don’t know how to do

Y7 German

• Where is it? Location
• What is it? Existential
• What is it like? Describing attributes
• What is it (not) and what it is (not like)? Existential and attributes
• Who has what? Possession
• I have ‘the vs I have ‘a’. Possession of the only one or one of many
• Asking and answering questions about having
• Who does what? What someone else does in school?
• What you do and what someone else does in school and at home
• Asking and answering questions about activities at home
• Who does what? Manipulating infinitive verbs
• Narrating with nouns – using gender and words for ‘the’ correctly
• Number – Is there one or are there many? Describing Christmas
• Christmas – talking about presents you wish for
• Christmas – talking about what you and others have, and what it is like
• Number – one or many? Talking about more than one thing
• Do you like it?
• How do you find it or them? What do you think of? Asking for and providing views on school life
• Talking about yourself, to and about someone else
• Talking about what I do on my own and what we do together
• Saying what I and others can/cannot do
• Comparing lifestyles
• Asking and answering questions about out-of-school activities; saying what you do
• What is she doing? What are they doing? Narrating other people’s actions
• What do you do and when? What do others do and when?
• Talking about movement into and location in places, using prepositions ‘in’ and ‘auf’
• Showing interest in someone else’s family. Asking and answering questions
• A day in my life
• Talking bout what happens and what is happening now
• What people can/must/want to do to improve their lifestyle
• How do you play that? Explaining the rules of a game
• Comparing what you and your family usually do with your summer plans
• Talking about going to places

Y7 Spanish

• Describing places and locations
• Saying what someone is like (at the moment)
• Saying what someone is like (in general)
• Saying what people do
• What people do and don’t do
• Numbers and talking about more than one thing
• Saying what there is around you
• Saying what there is around you and describing it
• Talking about the location of things
• Describing a place
• Giving and wanting (Festive seasons and relations)
• Talking about family
• Describing what exists and what places have (Natural wonders of the Spanish-speaking world)
• Asking and answering questions
• Talking about what you do with other people (Rural life)
• Describing what people can/ are able to do
• Describing what people must (vs can or want to) do
• Places and locations
• Saying what people are like today vs in general
• Describing activities (Travel)
• Describing what people do
• Describing what people do (technology)
• Describing people and possessions
• Describing when and where people go
• Describing future plans

Year 8 students will follow the same Schemes of Work as year 7 and will also be taught the following:

Y8 French

• Asking how to say and write new words in French
• Distinguishing between being and having
• Talking about jobs
• Talking about what, when, where and why you celebrate
• Talking about how people celebrate
• What happens and doesn’t happen
• Talking about what you are doing today vs what you did yesterday
• Sharing past experiences
• People and places in the past
• Asking about what happened in the past
• Text exploitation
• Talking about what you do in your free time and where you do it
• Talking about parts and wholes
• Talking about nouns you can’t count
• What is it like?
• Saying what you do or did in a typical day
• Talking about what groups of people do
• Formal and informal situations: talking to people you do and don’t know

Y8 German

• Comparing usual and recent summer experiences
• Comparing owns nd another’s experience; asking nd answering questions. Use known verbs, both weak and strong
• Staying with a family in Germany
• Asking the meaning of unknown words
• Things I like and things that make me happy
• Describing others
• Explaining likes and dislikes
• The world in numbers
• Contrasting what you did with others and what you did alone
• Saying where you went, how you got there and what you did
• Talking about your and other people’s recent journeys
• Talking about how you do things and how well you enjoy them
• Talking about what, when and how you do things
• Preparing for a party
• Talking about exchanging gifts
• Saying what we think about things
• Talking about new experiences
• Comparing people and places now and then
• How things are and how they were. Saying what you did and what you used to do

Y8 Spanish

• Describing events in the present and past (travel)
• Comparing past experiences
• Talking about people and places now vs in general
• Comparing what you and someone else (we) do (News and media)
• Describing what people do (at home)
• Asking what people can and must do (in class)
• Describing what you and someone else (we) do (Parties/celebrations)
• Describing events in the present and past (At school)
• Describing events in the present and past (Free time activities)
• Describing how people feel in the present
• Describing where people go and why
• Describing what people do (work)
• Describing what people do (Technology and social networks)
• Describing travel in the present and past
• Describing what different people did in the past
• Describing friendship and relationships
• Talking about daily life

Year 9 (Students are being prepared for the AQA GCSE examinations (specification first examined in June 2018)

Students are taught in topics.

French/German/Spanish

• Questions words
• Customs and Festivals
• Food and drink
• TV and cinema
• Music
• Technology and young people in society