Year 6 – French

Articles

1a)       Use gender and articles (singular and plural), showing knowledge of the patterns learnt, but still frequent errors and omissions in independent use. 

Adjectives 

2a)       Agree adjectives for number and gender after ils/elles 

2b)       Understand word order and agreements:  nouns, adjectives, verbs

Verbs

3a)       Use the full conjugation of the verbs être and avoir in several different contexts, still with some errors. 

3b)       Use the perfect tense with auxiliary avoir and or être with regular verbs in the 1st person.

3c)       Imperfect phrases;e.g. c’était., j’étais, j’avais

3d)       Introduction to reflexive verbs in the 1st person relating to daily routine. 

3e)       Modal verb; je peux + infinitive (I can …)

3f)        Use near future with aller + infinitive using various subject pronouns 

3g)       Focus on verb + partitive

3h)       Use the proper future in the 3rd person singular to add reasons. 

Negatives

4a)       Use of different negative structures (ne… pas, ne… plus, ne… que, ne…rien) with variety of high frequency verbs. 

Prepositions

4b)       Prepositions of direction relating to location in towns/rooms (près de, loin de, à guache, à droite)

Adverbs

5a)       Adverbs of time, sequence) (analogue times), (après, ensuite, le soir)

More Complex Language

6a)       Use comparative language (plus/ moins que and mieux/pire).

6b)       Use subordinating connectives si (if) and some may be able to use que (which).

6c) Form question words.