By the end of Year 6, children will have revisited the different themes in French culture and built on them in greater depth, learning more about French life. Pupils speak with improved fluency and ease using full sentences on a wider variety of topics. Pupils engage in longer conversations on a much wider range of topics. They will be able to accurately and easily use transferable language along with the new vocabulary they learn in the progressive units of Language Angels. They will be able to recall key regular and irregular verbs, adjectives and conjunctions and use them accurately in different Progressive units including: ‘At School’, ‘The Weekend’, ‘Me in the World’, ‘Healthy Lifestyles’, ‘The Planets’, ‘WWII’, ‘Habitats’. Pupils are exposed to much more authentic foreign language material to listen to. This material is delivered at near native speed and covers a much wider range of topics. They will also read longer, more authentic passages of text. Pupils are taught how to make their written work more interesting, authentic and sophisticated by using a greater variety of conjunctions, opinions and justifications.
Cross-curricular links are particularly interwoven between art, music and history which can involve children creating a French play set in a Monet art exhibition where they perform their own songs on ukuleles. French history includes such diverse subjects as: the caves at Lascaux, ancient Gaul and the development of French from Latin, the Norman Conquest and the Armistice. Learning about different aspects of France and her culture brings the study of the language alive for the children and results in more interest and engagement in learning the language.