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Two musicians: singular 'être', singular adjectives

Rock en Seine : plural 'être', plural adjectives

Dieppe festival: singular -er verbs, 'pour' and 'sans', intonation questions

Dieppe festival: plural -er verbs, 'est-ce que' questions

In this unit, pupils reactivate their knowledge of être and -er verbs in all forms in the present tense. Previously learnt vocabulary is revisited along with 'ne...pas', adjective agreement and number patterns and pour and sans with an infinitive.

Music and other cultural events: être, adjectives, -ER verbs, questions

Future goals - Taïs Vinolo: 'aller' + infinitive, negation

Future goals - Eduardo Camavinga: modals + infinitive, '-ment' adverbs

Work experience: modals 1st and 2nd persons plural

Work experience: modals 3rd person plural

Instructions at work: 'il faut' + infinitive

In this unit, pupils talk about future intentions using aller with infinitive. They also practise this two-verb structure with  modal verbs in all persons, as well as intonation, est-ce que questions and negation with two-verb structures. Pupils also use 'il faut,il ne faut pas' with infinitive.

Future plans and work experience: 2-verb phrases with 'aller', modals, 'il faut'

Countries and states: 'à' and 'en'

Quebec: 'connaitre' and 'savoir'

Canada: verbs like 'entendre'; 'mettre' and 'remettre'

Canada: negation with 'ne … jamais'

This unit consolidates -re verbs like entendre, and introduces 'connaître in singular forms. The use of à (meaning to) for masculine countries in introduced, building on existing knowledge of à and en meaning to for cities and feminine countries.The negative 'ne...jamais' is introduced.

Canada: verbs in the present, negation

Travel in France: infinitive used as a noun

Travel in France: more infinitive uses

Religion in Francophonie: singular 'croire', adjectives used as nouns

Religion in Francophonie: feminine and plural nouns

At a hotel: possessives 'votre', 'vos'

At a restaurant: possessives 'leur', 'leurs'

Senegal: perfect tense, inversion questions, negation 'ne... pas', 'ne … jamais'

Senegal: modals, 'il faut', possessive adjectives

Pupils revisit present and perfect tenses, two verb structures after aller, aimer and modal verbs and inversion questions in single and two-verb structures. The verb croire is introduced in singular persons, and feminine and plural noun formation and possessive adjectives are revised and extended.

People and places: present and perfect tense

My everyday: numbers 32-69, time

My everyday: 'avoir' and 'être' for feelings and states

In this unit, pupils consolidate and extend their knowledge of numbers from 32-69 and use the impersonal verb 'il est' to tell the time. Avoir and être are revisited to talk about feelings and states. Knowledge of question forms and present and perfect tenses is deepened in writing and speaking.

Routines: numbers 32-69, time

Christmas around the world: adjectives, comparatives

Winter celebrations: partitive articles

In this unit, based mainly on the present tense, pupils refresh their knowledge of adjective positioning, comparatives, and the use of de as partitive article and after expressions of quantity.

Winter celebrations: present tense, adjectives, comparatives, partitive

The French revolution: perfect tense, questions, 'ne … pas'

The French Revolution: present and perfect tenses, 'ne…jamais'

New Year: -er verbs in the perfect tense with 'être'

New Year in Algeria: -er verbs in the perfect tense with 'être'

Accidents and emergencies: -er verbs in the perfect tense with 'être'

Emergency services: -er verbs in the perfect tense with 'être'

Song: J'ai cherché

Free time: verbs + 'de' or 'à' + noun

Free time: relative pronoun 'qui'

A theft: emphatic pronouns 'moi' and 'toi' after prepositions

A theft: verbs with 'à' and 'de' before the noun

Pupils deepen their knowledge of the perfect tense, question forms and negation.   '-er verbs taking être in the perfect and the negative 'ne...jamais' are introduced . Pupils apply changes in register (tu vs vous, on vs nous), use emphatic pronouns 'moi' and 'toi' and the relative pronoun 'qui'.

Past and present events: perfect tense, negation, questions

School in France - then and now: -er verbs imperfect tense

Primary and secondary school: -er verbs imperfect tense, ordinal numbers

Childhood: then and now: key - RE and -IR verbs in the imperfect tense

Childhood: present and imperfect tenses, 'il y a' meaning 'ago'

Montreal - a diverse city: imperfect tense singular

Montreal - habitual and one-off past events: imperfect and perfect

Spring holidays: perfect tense with 'être', pronouns 'moi', 'toi', 'qui'

Celebrities: perfect and imperfect

Pupils are introduced firstly to -er verbs in the imperfect tense to describe habitual events in the past. The imperfect of common irregular verbs is added,  before pupils then contrast one-off and habitual events with the perfect vs imperfect tenses, practising this with known and new vocabulary.

How things used to be: imperfect tense, ordinal numbers

Reading habits: pronouns 'il(s)' and 'elle(s)' meaning 'it' and 'they', 'faire'

Reading habits: verbs like 'prendre' and 'lire', direct objects

Helping others at school: direct object pronouns 'me' and 'te'

At school and university: direct object pronouns 'me' and 'te'

Shopping: direct object pronouns 'le' and 'la', numbers 70-99

Shopping: direct object pronoun contraction 'l''

In this unit, pupils revisit  subject and object pronouns, practising them with present and perfect tenses. Subject pronouns are used to mean 'it' and 'they, and object pronouns to mean 'me' 'you' and 'him, her and it' placed before the verb.

Everyday life: subject and object pronouns, present tense

Everyday activities: verbs with 'à' before the infinitive

Decisions for the future: verbs with 'à' and 'de' before the infinitive

Pandemic in France: impersonal expression 'il est + adjective + de'

Pandemic in France: impersonal expressions including weather

Pupils revisit two-verb structures in the present tense as they talk of decisions for their future. They apply verbs with à and de before an infinitive, the question word quel and demonstrative adjective ce,cet,cette,ces. Impersonal verbs with adjectives + de, and weather expressions are practised.

Future and past events: 2-verb structures with prepositions

Concorde the history: prepositions of place and movement

Concorde the history: 'sortir', 'choisir', 'venir' verbs, -ion/-ation nouns

Occupied France: perfect tense with verbs like 'sortir' and 'choisir'

The French Resistance: perfect tense with verbs like 'sortir' and 'choisir'

The French colonial empire: perfect tense with verbs like 'venir' and 'entendre'

The French colonial empire: more practice of verbs like 'entendre' and 'venir'

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.

Historical events: perfect tense

Refugees in France: reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te'

Life in Paris: reflexive pronouns 'me' and 'te'

New daily routines: reflexive pronoun 'se'

Helping others: reflexive pronoun 'se'

In this unit, reflexive -er verbs and pronouns are introduced in singular forms, and direct object pronouns revisited. New high frequency verbs are introduced to support discussion refugees in France.

Refugees in France: reflexive verbs

Historical figures: 'avoir' and 'être' imperfect

Historical figures: imperfect tense

Simultaneous events: perfect and imperfect tenses together

A mystery: perfect and imperfect tenses together

Paris-Kiffe kiffe demain: indefinite adjectives

In this unit, pupils re-examine être and avoir in the imperfect tense in singular form, and add aller and faire in the imperfect what people used to do. The imperfect is then contrasted with the perfect tense to distinguish between ongoing vs specific events. The verb 'voir' is introduced.

Ongoing past events: imperfect tense

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