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Year 9
Curriculum Map
This curriculum map provides an overview of the languages journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of linguistic topics, cultural themes, and communicative contexts alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills appropriate to their age and stage. For detailed information about the specific knowledge and skills taught in each unit, please visit our Knowledge and Skills page.
| Half Term | Unit of Work | Key Assessments |
| Autumn 1 | Vive les vacances! To allow pupils to talk about their summer and to introduce them to the perfect tense. Knowledge of countries and transport Consolidating knowledge of avoir and être in the present tense Understanding and using the perfect tense of regular -er verbs including some irregular verbs Introduction to the perfect tense with être verbs Expressing opinions in the past tense using c’était/ce n’était pas + adjective |
Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Assessed writing assessment | ||
| Autumn 2 | J’adore les fêtes! Developing what pupils can say about their lives and their likes/dislikes. Expand transactional language in context of buying food at a market using vouloir Expressing quantities including use of partitive articles Revising the present and near future tenses. Learning about festivals and celebrations in the Francophone world and an introduction to traditional French cuisine. |
Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Speaking skill focus: Read aloud task | ||
| Spring 1 | Les ambitions Using and forming the near future tense to discuss future career plans. Understanding and using the conditional tense to express ambition. Recognising and expressing opinions about the advantages of language learning |
Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Assessed writing assessment | ||
| Spring 2 | Au restaurant Using three tenses to give information about meal times. Using transactional transactional language (in a restaurant) Using the past tense to give a restaurant review. |
Mixed skill assessment |
| Summer 1 | À loisir Expressing opinions around TV and digital technology Further developing transactional language in context of arranging to go to the cinema. Learning about leisure activities in different Francophone countries. |
Speaking skill focus: Conversation |
| Assessed writing assessment | ||
| Summer 2 | Le monde francophone Practicing and consolidating of key grammatical structures and tenses. Using three time frames in context of travel and popular culture in the Francophone world. Practicing transactional language in context of the tourist office. |
End of year Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Speaking skill focus: Q & A |