MFL – FRENCH

Long Term Plan: Single and Mixed Age Year Groups:

Structuring the MFL – French Curriculum:

The TVED Curriculum for MFL has two strands:

Speaking, Listening and Grammar:

In this strand, pupils progressively develop their ability to understand and use spoken French language with increasing accuracy, confidence, and spontaneity. Pupils begin by learning how to build and understand simple sentences, respond to questions, use appropriate verbs, and introduce themselves with accurate grammar. Over time, they expand their vocabulary and grammatical knowledge to include adjectives, nouns, pronouns, connectives, and expressions related to personal details, family, weather, and everyday topics. Through listening tasks, structured conversations, and role-play, they learn to ask and answer questions, express opinions, describe people, places, and routines, and engage in short conversations using language they have learned in previous units. By the end of the strand, pupils are able to formulate both simple and complex sentences, manipulate sentence structures, and communicate confidently in both informal and more formal spoken contexts such as ordering food, discussing likes and dislikes, or speaking about their local environment and the weather.

Reading and Writing:

In this strand, pupils develop early literacy skills in French through a structured progression. Pupils begin by learning key phonics to support accurate pronunciation and decoding, enabling them to read and write simple, familiar words such as their name or classroom labels. As they gain confidence, they progress to reading and understanding high-frequency words, numbers, months, and short phrases. Pupils begin to write simple sentences on familiar topics, incorporating correct use of gender and adjective agreement. They learn to identify key information in short texts and develop strategies to deduce meaning from unfamiliar words. Over time, pupils are able to read aloud with increasing fluency and accuracy and begin contributing to short written tasks such as weather reports and personal descriptions. By the end of this strand, they can read longer passages for key information and write more extended texts using familiar language, connectives, and accurate grammar to describe themselves and others.