Modern Foreign Languages Department- Fishguard High School - Pembrokeshire.

YRS 7/11 FRENCH

The calendar
Directions and places
Family and myself
Food and drinks
Numbers
School and time
Shopping
World of work
Further Education
The GCSE exam

GRAMMAR:

Why bother?
Tenses
The infinitive
The present
The past
The future tense
The negative
Personal pronouns
To be
/ to have (present)

Grammar:
Why bother?

Grammar (learning rules about words) is probably the most boring thing there is to do when learning a language.  It is also the most important thing if you want to reach a high level (grade C or above at GCSE).

Once you know that you could use 30 verbs (doing words), that each one could be written in six different ways for each tense… and that there are 4 basic tenses (at least for GCSE) you will have to learn by heart some 720 different endings!

To make life easier, you can groups a lot of different words in the same categories.  Once you know how one category works, you know how all the words in this category behave. 

In other words, learning grammar offers you a key a the language.  It enables you to make huge short cuts and will make speaking the language, eventually, much easier!