Year 9 French SoW 2016 forwards – Term 3
Week Topics
Language/Grammar
For all sets
Extension language
For both set 1 & 2 unless
otherwise specified
AQA suggested related
activities – access via Teachit –
likely to need adaption for Year
9 students
Free-time activities, Food and eating out, Sport
1
2
3
Food likes and
dislikes/
buying food
and drink

Mealtime staple foods

Verbs and nouns of meals
Talking about
eating
out/French
world
foods/dietary
requirements

Common eat-out foods and drinks

Two - three tenses together – present, future and conditional for
ordering food (je voudrais/j’aimerais/je prends/je prendrai)

Ordering courses – en l’entrée, pour le plat principal, comme dessert

use of tu and vous in informal/formal exchanges (G3)

Dietary requirements and reasons for them (je suis musulmane donc
je ne peux pas manger de porc, je ne peux pas manger de viande
parce que je suis végétarien, etc)
Sports with jouer au: golf, le foot, rugby, cricket, le beach volley,
basketball, tenis, le hockey, etc
Do you do
sport?/What
sport have you
done lately?


Sports with faire de l’/du/de la: cheval, cyclisme, escalade, jogging,
natation, patinage (sur glace), la plongée, athlétisme, vélo, ski, danse,
etc

perfect tense with avoir using regular (G5) and common irregular

As with Set 3&4 with
tense work
Au restaurant et au snack:
pair work
verbs (G5) with common perfect tense time expressions (G5) (ce que
j’ai fait hier soir/le weekend dernier)
4
5
Extreme
sports with
tenses
Assessment

Les sports extrêmes

simple opinion statements to express how it was (illustration of the
imperfect) (G5 – the imperfect tense of common verbs)


Food and eating out, Sport
Above language
The imperfect tense of
common verbs (G7) or full
paradigm of the imperfect
(G8)

Above language

Contrasting French
holidays with British
ones (with emphasis
on mealtimes?
comparatives plus
que/moins que (G5)
Un portrait de Didier Drogba
Alain Robert
HALF-TERM
Identity and Culture: Customs and festivals in French-speaking countries/ communities
6
Talking about
 Les fêtes (Nöel, Pâques/le Premier Mai/1er avril/ la fête des Mères
how we
celebrate in
 Typical activities: faire un fête, faire des blagues, faire des cadeaux, se
France
retrouver entre copains/en famille, manger, préparer un festin
7
8
Last Christmas
Les fêtes
around the
French
speaking

Opinions about what traditional celebrations mean to you/favourite
fête of the year

perfect of verbs with être + agreement rules (G6)

describing a past event/festival; actions and opinions (is that
imperfect? G5 for imperfect tense of common verbs?)

Vocabulary of regional customs

Describing a past event/festival you went to with what happened and
your opinions (perfect tense (G5) and imperfect



Further imperfect
tense of common
verbs (G7) or full
paradigm of the
imperfect (G8)
Reflexive verbs in
perfect (G10); perfect
and imperfect tenses
together (?)
Les festivités
Perfect tense (être)-revision:
Worksheet
Le Festival de Sakifo:
Worksheet and Teaching
notes)
Les festivités
A tradition in Guadaloupe
world
9
Grammar
workshop
Food in Guadeloupe and
England

Using en, au/aux/à + countries and towns


Rules of agreement with the perfect

Deciding between the perfect and imperfect tenses

Clinic – chance to do further grammar or content work on any item
covered so far this term as per students’ needs
10
Subsidiary
grammar
11
Customs and festivals in French-speaking countries/ communities - assessment
The perfect infinitive
& agreement
CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT WEEK AND SUMMER HOLIDAYS