Modern Foreign Languages
The Languages Department at Ridgeway offers both French and Spanish taught by 4 enthusiastic linguists who want to pass onto their students a love of languages and an understanding of their importance in today’s society.
We aim to equip our students with the skills necessary for an increasingly competitive job market where we believe it is no longer acceptable or practical to be monolingual. Our students enjoy stimulating and challenging lessons delivered through a variety of teaching styles. We have the following ambitions for our students:
Welcome to the Modern Foreign Languages Department – Subject Leader: Ms M Lewin
Key Stage 3
Year 7 French
Family and opinions: Greetings, brothers and sisters, opinions, descriptions of yourself and others.
Life at school: School subjects, school day, uniform and opinions.
Free time: Your favourite sports and activities, weather, describing what you do at the weekend and what you like to do.
Family life: Describing family members, and where you live.
In town: Describing WGC, what you are going to do over the summer.
Year 7 Spanish
My Life: Describing yourself- name, age, birthdays, pets.
Free Time: Free time activities, weather.
My School: Saying what subjects you do and describing your school day.
My Town: Describing your town and what you can do there.
Year 8 French
Holidays: Where you went on holiday and what you did. Describing a disastrous holiday.
Leisure: Which TV programmes you like and don’t like, which activities you like to do in your spare time, digital technology and how you use it.
At home: Describing where you live and what you can do there, what you do to help at home, daily routine and weather.
Sport: Importance of sport, giving opinions about sport, taking part in sport, what sport you are going to do this summer.
Year 8 Spanish
My Holidays: Where you went on holiday, what you did, giving your opinion.
My Life: Describing your favourite music and TV programmes and saying what you did yesterday. How you use technology.
Food: What you like to eat, preparing for a party, describing mealtimes.
Going Out: Arranging to go out and what you are going to wear, making excuses.
Summer camp: What can you do at a summer camp, what are you going to do this summer.
Year 9 French
My life: What you do/did at the weekend, what you wore, a recent birthday celebration, giving opinions.
The World of work: What you can do to earn pocket money, what job would you like to do in the future, describing what somebody did yesterday in work.
Memorable Day: Describing a day at a music concert, which types of music are better and why.
Eating: Looking at different types of diet, and how to be healthy.
The Environment: Looking after the planet and natural world – what do we need to do?
Holidays: Where would you like to go on holiday and why? What attractions would you like to see and why.
Year 9 Spanish
My Life: What you do, have done and are going to do during the week, describing a recent birthday celebration.
Work: What kind of job would you like to do, what people did at work yesterday, describing tasks people do at work.
Healthy Eating: Describing a healthy lifestyle.
My rights: Children’s rights, fair trade and recycling, describing a day out.