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KS3 & KS4 French curriculum

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Year 9

Ongoing past events: imperfect tense

4 lessons

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  • Cultural spotlight
  • The past

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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.

In this units, pupils revisit known vocabulary and grammar whilst applying être and avoir in the imperfect tense. Aller and faire are also practised to discuss habitual events which 'used to' happen. When narrating what happened pupils enrich their conversations and written production through use of imperfect for ongoing events vs perfect tense for specific events. Question words with est-ce que and the imperfect tense are practised.

  1. Historical figures: 'avoir' and être' imperfect
  2. Historical figures: imperfect tense
  3. Simultaneous events: perfect and imperfect tenses together
  4. A mystery: perfect and imperfect tenses together

  • Pupils know how to form singular persons of the imperfect tense of regular verbs.
  • Pupils know to use the imperfect tense to talk about what and how things used to be.
  • Pupils can ask ‘est-ce que’ questions with and without questions words in the perfect tense.
  • Pupils are familiar with the sound-symbol correspondences open and closed eu, œu, and r.

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