Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: La vie quotidienne, Talking about what you read

Key ideas: Using subject pronouns to mean 'it' and 'they'

Grammar: subject pronouns il/elle meaning 'it' and ils/elles meaning 'they', verbs like prendre and lire , (present) (all persons), faire (all persons), verbs with direct objects

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: La vie quotidienne, Helping each other at school

Key ideas: Using object pronouns meaning 'me' and 'you'

Grammar: direct object pronouns , (me, te) (preverbal position), with -ER verbs (present) , contraction of pronouns (me ➜ m’, te ➜ t’) before a vowel or h muet

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: La vie quotidienne, Shopping

Key ideas: Using object pronouns meaning 'it'

Grammar: direct object pronouns , (me, te, le, la, l' (preverbal position) , with -ER verbs (present), contraction of pronouns (me ➜ m’, te ➜ t’, le/la ➜ l’) before a vowel or h muet

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Le futur et le passé, Making decisions about the future

Key ideas: Using 2-verb structures

Grammar: verbs with à and de before an infinitive, quel, quels, quelle, quelles, ce, cet, cette, ces

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Le futur et le passé, Talking about universal experiences: La pandémie de Covid-19

Key ideas: Using 2-verb structures

Grammar: impersonal verbs with adjectives + de, impersonal pronoun 'on', verbs with à and de before an infinitive, impersonal phrases: il (n)'y a (pas), il (n)'y avait (pas), il (ne) faut (pas), weather expressions

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Le futur et le passé, Avion supersonique: L'histoire de Concorde

Interactions:

Key ideas: Using prepositions of place and movement (revisited)

Grammar: verbs like sortir, choisir and venir (present) (all persons), prepositions of place and movement + noun/place name, à and en with proper nouns for places, contraction of à definite article when used with a to agree with the gender and number, adding -ion or -ation to the verb stem, only where the English equivalent is -ion or -ation

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Dans le passé, Periods in history: Introduction à, la France occupée et le Régime de Vichy

Key ideas: Talking about past events

Grammar: present vs perfect (with past simple and present perfect equivalent in English) with verbs taking avoir and verbs taking être (all persons), past participle formation: verbs like sortir and choisir

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Dans le passé, Periods in history: Introduction à l'Empire colonial français

Key ideas: Talking about past events

Grammar: present vs perfect (with past simple and present perfect equivalent in English) with verbs taking avoir and verbs taking être (all persons), past participle formation: verbs like venir and entendre (including mettre), inversion (VS) questions with and without question words (perfect)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Refugiés en France, Talking about what you do to yourself

Key ideas: Using verbs reflexively

Grammar: direct object pronouns , (me, te) (preverbal position), with -ER verbs (present), reflexive use of verbs (present) , (je, tu) , preverbal position of singular reflexive pronouns (me, te)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Refugiés en France, Talking about what someone else does to themselves

Key ideas: Using verbs reflexively

Grammar: direct object pronouns , (le, la, l' (preverbal position) , with -ER verbs (present), reflexive use of verbs (je, tu, il/elle) (present), preverbal position of singular reflexive pronouns (me, te, se)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Describing historical figures

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about what and how things used to be

Grammar: être in the imperfect (with‘was' + adjectival complement equivalent in English) (je, tu, il/elle/on), avoir in the imperfect (with ‘had’ and 'was' equivalents in English) (je, tu, il/elle/on), aller and faire in the imperfect (habitual events with 'used to' equivalent in English) (je, il/elle/on), il (n')y a (pas de) vs il (n') y avait (pas de), inversion (VS) questions with question words (single-verb structures)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about things that happened at the same time

Key ideas: Talking about what was happening

Grammar: imperfect vs perfect , (ongoing events with 'BE + -ing' equivalent in English vs specific events), est-ce que questions with and without question words (perfect and imperfect), voir (1st, 2nd, 3rd singular)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Extended reading, Perspectives of Paris in literary texts

Key ideas: Text exploitation 3:, Excerpts from Kiffe Kiffe Demain

Grammar: indefinite adjectives: chaque, plusieurs, même(s), tout(e)(s)/tous, autre(s), agreement patterns for indefinite adjectives: quelque(s)