Languages
Why should students study your subject?
Learning a language will help you to:
• learn enhanced adaptability and communication skills
• Deepen your cultural awareness
• Give you the edge in the jobs market
• Travel, study, work or live abroad
Students learning languages in both KS3 and 4 enjoy trips to theatre, cinema, universities and competitive language events around the County.
Students love the opportunity to go to France on our yearly, fun-packed trip to Northern France.
What skills does your subject teach?
Learning French helps your communication skills and helps with your verbal confidence. You will improve your listening skills, learn how to memorise and helps you to problem solve.
Why is your subject useful for the world of work, or future employment? What kind of jobs could someone do using your subject? How can students take your subject further, eg at college, university, the world of work etc
Most UK based companies are both international and global. These companies prefer to recruit candidates who can speak a second language as they are more valuable to them. You may want to work in; Export, Sales, Human resources, Marketing – if your company is global, you need to be global!
It goes without saying that your chances of success in the travel industry will be hugely improved by speaking a second language. It’s absolutely necessary for most; Pilots, cabin crew, check-in staff and holiday reps.
Want to work in the armed forces? They actively recruit candidates with a second language
What is your overall curriculum intent?
MFL at this school contributes to the whole school curriculum by producing coherent and sequenced schemes of work, providing the knowledge, understanding and skills to progress onto the next stage of education or work, irrespective of prior attainment, background or ethnicity.
The overarching intent of our curriculum for MFL is to:
• Nurture confident and capable linguists who can work independently in their speaking and writing by applying the rules of PHONICS in order to be able to decode language autonomously, work with a range of VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR and eventually complex structures within all four language learning skills.
• Our students will be able to express opinions and offer justifications.
• Learning is themed around contemporary real-world topics and issues which gradually introduces increasingly complex levels of language to stretch and challenge students.
Examination Information
FRENCH GCSE (3 YEARS) Exam Board - EDEXCEL
The examination consists of 4 separately examined skills; Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing – all equally weighted at 25% per skill. Students are entered at either Foundation or Higher level.
Five themes are studied over a course of 8 modules. The themes are as follows;
IDENTITY AND CULTURE
LOCAL AREA, HOLIDAY AND TRAVEL
SCHOOL
FUTURE ASPIRATIONS, STUDY AND WORK
GLOBAL DIMENSION
Please click on link below for further information about the GCSE French GCSE from the exam board
Pearson Edexcel GCSE French (2016) | Pearson qualifications
How can someone improve in your subject?
There is a wealth of Apps, help, and resources for language learning out there on the world wide web.
We highly recommend that every student learning a language sets themselves up with a Duolingo account. This is a fun, interactive language learning App that helps you with your French vocab from absolute beginner through to GCSE
All language students will have their own ‘Activelearn’ account and login. This provides online homework and access to the interactive textbook for independent work directly linked to the French curriculum.
Great websites for budding linguists:
How can students find out more?
For those students really looking to enhance their language learning journey, why not; listen to French radio, catch up on the French LFP Ligue de Football Professionnel (French premier league), read French magazines and celeb gossip, watch French films and programs on Netflix.
Here are a few ideas of where to look:
NRJ: Hit Music Only. Ecouter la radio en ligne, clips, actus, webradios... - NRJ.fr (similar to capital Radio, but French)
Ligue de Football Professionnel (lfp.fr)
Magazine féminin de mode et beauté - Marie Claire
People : toutes les actualités et news people ! (voici.fr)
Closer : les stars et les news people en live - Closer (closermag.fr)