Year 9 French and Spanish Module 1- Home and Daily Life This is the first unit in the Year 9 French and Spanish courses. This unit aims to review the work they did in Year 8. It aims to challenge the students by adding more details and complexity to what they have already covered. It is designed to promote confidence in their language of study and to keep it relevant and useful. New language content • • • • • •
new vocabulary for character and physical description grammar rules for adjectival agreement irregular verbs (I, you, he/she forms) – être/avoir / ser, tener daily routine reflexive verbs house chores
French and Spanish Module 2 - Arranging a date This is the second unit in the Year 9 course. New language content • sequencing • • • •
making invitations making excuses sharing problems giving advice – verb devoir / tener que and poder
French and Spanish Module 3 - Holidays This is the third unit in the Year 9 course. New language content • • • • • •
past tense future tense conditional (je voudrais / me gustaríá) transport hotel descriptions comparatives
French and Spanish Module 4 - Food This is the fourth unit in the Year 9 course. New language content and contexts • • • • • • •
meal times describing food shopping at the market (whole class role play) ordering food in a restaurant (date) cooking a French recipe (cross-curricular) opinions in the past tense on food meal times in the past tense
French and Spanish Module 5 - Fashion This is the fifth unit in the Year 9 course. New language content • • • •
vocabulary for clothes adjectives for clothes superlatives imperfect tense
French and Spanish Module 6 - Paris / Barcelona This is the final unit in the Year 9 course. This unit aims to review the work they did in Year 9 by learning a little more about French and Spanish culture. New language content and contexts • impersonal sentences • creative writing • documentary film