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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! Talking about the summer holidays; activities, countries and transport 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! Learning about festivals and celebrations in the Francophone world. Learning about traditional French cuisine. Developing what you can say about your lives and their likes/dislikes. Expand transactional language in context of buying food at a market using vouloir Revising the present and near future tenses. |
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 Consolidating knowledge of past tense to talk about free time activites. Learning about music in different Francophone countries and giving opinions |
Speaking skill focus: Conversation |
| Assessed writing assessment | ||
| Summer 2 | Le sport en direct Discussing role models and celebrities. Using three time frames in context of sport to describe your hobbies Developing past tense opinions when describing a film. |
End of year Mixed skill assessment: Reading, listening and Translation |
| Speaking skill focus: Q & A |