Scotch College

LOTE – FRENCH Year 9 — 2012

Course Content

Semester 1:

Topics Describing personalities, interacting with others, features of country life, advantages, 

disadvantages, personal preferences, leisure activities, film genres. 

Grammar Inverted questions, irregular feminine adjectives, object pronouns, semi-regular verbs, passé compose with avoir and être , irregular noun plurals, expressions with avoir, jouer à/de , position of adjectives, superlative, irregular verbs.

Culture Quebec city and province, its history, landmarks, shopping, foods, festivities, train travel, French and Canadian linguistic differences, French-speaking heritage of Vietnam. 

Semester 2: 

Topics Holiday aims and destinations, parts of the body, illnesses and symptoms, organising a party, end of year in France. 

Grammar Il y a , to mean, ago , depuis and present tense, avoir besoin de , negative and 

infinitive forms of reflexive verbs, future simple, negatives, c’était, il y avait.  

Culture French-speaking heritage of Morocco, festivals, New Caledonia, French national day, symbols of the French Revolution, holidays Christmas and New Year.