Grade 9French

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 9 French curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Listening and SpeakingSeven situations, heard and answered. This is where a language either works or does not: in real time, with somebody waiting.7 topics·198 questions

  • Greetings and introductions (Les salutations)

    4 skills

    Meeting someone for the first time and getting it right. Bonjour or bonsoir, the polite form, and saying who you are.

  • Family and jobs (La famille et les métiers)

    6 skills

    Who is who in a family, and what people do for a living. The largest topic in the subject.

  • Animals and the countryside (Les animaux et la campagne)

    4 skills

    Farm and wild animals, described well enough to work out which one is meant.

  • The time and the daily routine (L'heure et la journée)

    3 skills

    Telling the time in French and saying what happens when. Harder than it looks, because French counts half past and quarter to its own way.

  • Plans and free time (Les projets et les loisirs)

    3 skills

    Saying what you are going to do. The future tense, taught through weekends and plans rather than as a rule to recite.

  • Food and eating out (La nourriture et le restaurant)

    3 skills

    Ordering in a restaurant, reading a menu and working out what the bill comes to.

  • Directions and getting around (Les directions et les transports)

    4 skills

    Asking the way, and following the answer. The second half is the part most courses skip.

2ReadingThe same situations on the page: a dialogue, an email from a pen friend, a poster, a timetable, a map.7 topics·135 questions

  • Greetings and introductions (Les salutations)

    3 skills

    A dialogue at a school gate, read for who is who and what was actually said.

  • Family and jobs (La famille et les métiers)

    4 skills

    A longer text about a family, read for the detail inside it. The largest topic in the strand.

  • Animals and the countryside (Les animaux et la campagne)

    3 skills

    An email about the holidays, spent on grandparents' farm near Eldoret.

  • The time and the daily routine (L'heure et la journée)

    3 skills

    Reading a clock and a departure time out loud, correctly.

  • Plans and free time (Les projets et les loisirs)

    3 skills

    Messages and posters about the weekend. Who, where, and at what time.

  • Health and the body (La santé et le corps)

    3 skills

    An email explaining why someone cannot come to a party, because they are ill.

  • Directions and getting around (Les directions et les transports)

    3 skills

    A letter with directions in it, read against the map it describes.

3WritingNine themes, and the only strand that covers all of them. It runs from one word in a crossword to a whole short text of your child's own.9 topics·67 questions

  • Greetings and introductions (Les salutations)

    3 skills

    From a crossword clue to a short dialogue your child writes themselves.

  • Family and jobs (La famille et les métiers)

    3 skills

    Family words, job words and their feminine forms, ending in a piece about their own family.

  • Animals and the countryside (Les animaux et la campagne)

    3 skills

    Animal names, the spellings that catch people out, and a poster titled Mon animal préféré.

  • The time and the daily routine (L'heure et la journée)

    3 skills

    Reflexive verbs, the days of the week, and a full week's routine written out from lundi to dimanche.

  • Plans and free time (Les projets et les loisirs)

    3 skills

    Notices, dates and a programme. Writing meant for somebody else to read and act on.

  • Food and eating out (La nourriture et le restaurant)

    3 skills

    Food words, a cafe dialogue, and a menu written from nothing.

  • Health and the body (La santé et le corps)

    3 skills

    Parts of the body, saying what hurts, and a note to a teacher explaining an absence.

  • The weather and the environment (Le temps et l'environnement)

    2 skills

    Weather words, floods and the lake, ending in a short text written from four pictures.

  • Directions and getting around (Les directions et les transports)

    3 skills

    Direction words and ways of travelling, ending in written directions a visitor could actually follow.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 9 French curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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