Speaking

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Communicate with others using simple words, phrases and short sentences.

• Use simple greetings e.g. bonjour, au revoir, ça va?, ça va ____ , merci.
• Ask and answer simple questions about themselves e.g. Comment t’appelle tu? Quelle âge as-tu?
• Express simple likes and dislikes e.g. food and drink.
• Explore the patterns and sounds of language to help develop accurate pronunciation and intonation.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

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• Communicate by asking and answering a wider range of questions and presenting short pieces of information.

• Use a wider range of familiar nouns and adjectives to talk about themselves, animals and story characters.
• Ask and answer a wider range of questions e.g. about the time, date, food, hobbies etc.
• Express preferences about what they like e.g. food, drink, animals, colours.
• Explore the patterns and sounds of language to help develop accurate pronunciation and intonation.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Take part in short conversations using familiar structures and vocabulary.

• Take part in conversations expressing likes/dislikes.
• Use simple conjunctions to build more complex sentences and present information to others.
• Give instructions and directions.
• Understand and express more complex opinions.
• Seek help and clarification in French.
• Understand and express future intentions.
• Explore the patterns and sounds of language to hep develop accurate pronunciation and intonation.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Use spoken language to initiate and sustain simple conversations on familiar topics and to describe incidents or tell stories from their own experience.

• Understand and use numbers in context.
• Understand and use transactional language.
• Give a description or a person or place.
• Seek clarification of meaning.
• Express and justify opinions.
• Understand and begin to use the past tense to describe events and the present tense to an audience e.g. through a presentation or role play.
• Talk about the past in simple terms.