French - Year 9
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| Knowledge | Le temps libre (GCSE theme 1) 1. Sport 2.Instruments 3. Your passions 4.Opinions on TV 5.Opinions on films and comparing film genres | Le temps libre (GCSE theme 1) 1.1-60 in French 2.Telling the time using the 24-hour clock 3.Making cinema plans 4.Recognising differences between present/past tense 5.Using the past tense to talk about last weekend 6.WW1 film study | Le présent 1.Using Avoir in the present tense to discuss family, pets, hair & eye colour 2.Etre in the present tense to discuss personality, nationality and emotions 3.Aller in the present tense to discuss places in town and holiday destinations 4.-Er verbs in the present 5.Negatives | Mon avenir (GCSE theme 3) 1.Why learn languages 2.Professions vocabulary 3. Opinions on jobs 4. What you want/would like to be in the future 5. Near future plans (e.g. college, apprenticeship, university, gap year) | Où j’habite (GCSE theme 2) 1.Where you live 2.Opinions on where you live 3.What’s in your town 4.What activities you can do 5.Directions 6.Weather 7.Activities you are going to do depending on the weather 8.Describing your town in the past | Mon collège (GCSE theme 2) 1.Opinions and reasons on school subjects 2.School timetable (days of the week, numbers and time) 3. School facilities 4. Rules 5. What you would like in your ideal school 6. School uniform 7. Film study – Les Choristes |
| Vocabulary, structures and grammar | 1.Recap – frequency phrases 2.New – Je trouve + adjectives 3.Recap- Je joue + au/à la/aux (for sports) 4. New – Je joue + du/de la/des (for instruments) 5.Recap- je voudrais jouer (conditional) 6.New - Quand j’étais petit(e),je jouais… (imperfect) 7.New – je joue… depuis (l’âge de) 8.Recap – opinion + definite article + noun 9.New - comparatives | 1.Recap -Numbers 1-60 2.New - 24hour clock 3.Recap- key question words – Tu veux, à quelle heure, combien 4.Recap- identifying differences between present/past tense 5.Recap – high frequency past tense verbs in 1st person e.g. j’ai joué, j’ai mangé… 6.New – sequencers – d’abord, ensuite/puis, après, finalement 7.Recap- The “on” form of past tense verbs 8.C’était + adjectives for past tense opinions | 1.Recap – j’ai, je n’ai pas de 2.Recap – conjugation of avoir in present tense 3.Recap – je suis, je ne suis pas 4.Recap – conjugation of être in the present tense 5.Recap – je vais, je ne vais pas 6.New –conjugation of aller in present tense 7.Recap - er verbs in the present tense 8.Recap – ne…jamais, ne...pas 9.New- Negative sentences in the past | 1.Recap - On peut + infinitive 2.New- Je suis + profession (+ no indefinite article) 3.New- Masculine/feminine endings for jobs 4.Recap- opinion + noun + parce que c’est +adjective 5.Recap – il/elle est, il/elle aime 6.New- son (his/her) 7.New – je veux + être (infinitive) 8.Recap- Je voudrais + infinitive 9.New- ce serait 10.New - Je vais + infinitive 11.Near future tense 12.Holi in Mauritius | 1.Recap – où 2.Recap - Prepositions for “in” 3.Recap – opinion + noun + reason 4.Recap – intensifiers 5.Recap – il y a + noun genders, il n’y a pas de 6.Recap – on peut + infinitives 7.Recap – imperative verbs 8.New – “Si” clauses – si + present + near future 9.Recap – c’était 10.New- imperfect tense verbs - J’habitais, il y avait, il n’y avait pas de | 1.Recap - Opinion + noun + because it’s + intensifier + reason 2.New- more complex reasons (moving away from it’s + adjective) 3.New – direct object pronouns 4.Recap – il y a, il n’y a pas de 5.Recap – adjective order and agreement 6.New connectives – par contre, malheureusement 7.Recap – avant il y avait (imperfect tense) 8.Recap – je voudrais + avoir (conditional tense) 9.New verbs- on porte, tout le monde porte, les filles portent, les garçons portent, il faut porter, je voudrais porter |
| Assessment | Formative writing assessment | End of term summative writing assessment | Formative grammar and translation assessment | End of term summative listening assessment | End of unit formative reading assessment from Exampro | End of year summative speaking assessment |
| Cultural Capital Careers Cross Curricular Links | Reading of a magazine article for homework about French athletics Learning about Francophone singers such as Stromae and Coeur de Pirates Watch a clip from a French film set in the Parisian banlieues where a student lists their likes/dislikes Watch a range of authentic French film trailers and express opinions on each | Watching clips from an authentic French film – Joyeux Noël Lille Christmas market trip Media studies (analysing a film) History (France’s context in WW1) School values (empathy shown in the film Joyeux Noël) | In 2024, plan to launch a language leaders programme across year 9 to develop students’ leadership skills – inspired by this project rachelhawkes.com - Language Leaders | This whole half term is centred around the topic of careers. Using the target language, we will discuss: The benefits of language learning Where languages can take you Study abroad options Different career options What students want to do in the future E&P - Holi in Mauritius (expending knowledge of francophone world and world celebrations) | A floating village of Vietnam Places to visit in Paris How Strasbourg has changed from before to now | Differences between French/English education systems e.g. no uniform in France, no school on a Wednesday afternoon Les Choristes authentic film study (which also ties in to the teaching of the school values in action – resilience, integrity, success and empathy) |