Subject: French Year 9
Key topics/skills this half-term: Autumn 1
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Who am I?
Revising family and revising people
The present tense of Avoir and Etre
Adjectival agreement
Revising places in town, activities and
times
Definite
and
indefinite
articles
/prepositions , including à
Talking about friends and what makes a
good friend
The present tense of regular ER verbs
Adjectival
agreement
of
irregular
adjectives
Talking about family relationships
The present tense of reflexive verbs
Possessive adjectives
Making arrangements to go out
The near future tense
Asking questions
Describing a day out
The perfect tense (regular ER verbs and
aller)
Translating sentences into French
Talking about role models
Using the present and perfect tenses
together
Translating sentences into English
Assessment Task:
Test of reading, listening, writing and speaking
skills on above topics and incorporating
previous language covered
3. Key topics/skills this half-term: Spring 1
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Daily life
Talking about food and meals
Saying ‘some’
The irregular verbs boire and prendre
Discussing clothes and what to wear
Adjectives of colour
Describing your daily life
The modal verbs devoir and pouvoir
Shopping for clothes
Quel/quelle/quells/quelles
Ce/cet/cette/ces
Describing festivals and tradition
Asking questions using est-ce que…?
Talking about shopping for a special meal
The present and near future tenses
Assessment Task:
Test of reading, listening, writing and speaking
skills on above topics and incorporating previous
language covered
5. Key topics/skills this half-term: Summer 1
Holidays
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Talking about what you normally do on holiday
Saying ‘in’ or ‘to’ with countries
Questions with inversion
Staying in a hotel
The nous form of the present tense
Notre/nos-votre/ vos
Talking about travelling
The comparative
The pronoun y
Saying what you do and did on holiday
Reflexive verbs in the present tense
Recognising reflexive verbs in the perfect tense
Ordering in a restaurant
The pronoun ‘en’
Expressions with avoir
Talking about holiday disasters
Past, present and future timeframes
Assessment Task:
Test of reading, listening, writing and speaking Skills
on above topics and incorporating previous language
covered
2. Key topics/skills this half-term: Autumn 2
Cultural life
 Revising leisure activities
 When to use jouer à and when to use
jouer de, aimer, adorer, préférer and
detester + noun /+ the infinitive of
another verb
 Revising films and going to the cinema
 The verb vouloir and asking questions
 Talking about sport
 The present tense of faire
 Depuis + the present tense
 Translating sentences into French
 Talking about using technology
 The present tense of the irregular
verbs lire, écrire, prendre and mettre
 Discussing reading habits and music
 Negatives
 Talking about television programmes
 The comparative
 Talking about a night out with friends
 The perfect tense (irregular verbs and
verbs that take Etre)
4. Key topics/skills this half-term: Spring 2
Town, region and country
 Talking about where you live and what
you can do there
 On peut +infinitive
 Describing a town and asking the way
 The imperative
 Describing a region
 The irregular adjectives beau and vieux
 The superlative
 Finding out tourist information
 Asking questions
 Discussing plans and the weather
 Si clauses
 Talking about your town, village or
neighbourhood
 Negatives
 The present and imperfect tenses
Assessment Task:
Assessment Task:
Test of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills Test of reading, listening, writing and speaking
skills on above topics and incorporating previous
on above topics and incorporating previous
language covered
language covered
6. Key topics/skills this half-term: Summer 2
School
 Revising school subjects and talking about your
timetable
 The definite article with school subjects
 The 12-hour clock
 Giving opinions about school subjects and
facilities
 Direct object pronouns
 Talking about your school and school in France
 The third person singular of the present tense
 Discussing rules and regulations
 Using il faut and il est interdit de
 Talking about school activities
 Understanding the imperfect tense
 Talking about successes at school
 Past, present and future timeframes
Assessment Task:
Test of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills on
above topics and incorporating previous language
covered