Year 9 · French · beta

Historical events: perfect tense

In this unit, pupils consolidate the perfect tense with a range of known grammar and vocabulary. A key focus is revisiting prepositions of place and movement, consolidating past participle knowledge and contrasting present and perfect tenses.Inversion questions are also practised.

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Prior knowledge

  • Pupils know all persons of verbs like ‘sortir’, ‘choisir’ and ‘venir’ in the present tense.
  • Pupils can use the perfect tense with verbs taking ‘avoir’ and ‘être’.
  • Pupils can form inversion questions without question words in the perfect tense.
  • Pupils know how to combine prepositions of place and movement with nouns and proper nouns for places.
  • Pupils are familiar with the non-nasal vowels a, e, i, o, u, ai and the nasal vowels em, am, en, an, aim, im, ain, in, on, om and um, un.

Source curriculum references

  • Develop and use a wide-ranging and deepening vocabulary that goes beyond their immediate needs and interests, allowing them to give and justify opinions and take part in discussion about wider issues.
  • Write prose using an increasingly wide range of grammar and vocabulary, write creatively to express their own ideas and opinions, and translate short written text accurately into the foreign language.
  • Read and show comprehension of original and adapted materials from a range of different sources, understanding the purpose, important ideas and details.
  • Identify and use tenses or other structures which convey the present, past, and future as appropriate to the language being studied.
  • Use and manipulate a variety of key grammatical structures and patterns, including voices and moods, as appropriate.
  • Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information and respond appropriately.
  • Express and develop ideas clearly and with increasing accuracy, both orally and in writing.
  • Speak coherently and confidently, with increasingly accurate pronunciation and intonation.
  • Use accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation.

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