Year 9 is the awkward bridge year: still Key Stage 3 in school life, but already starting GCSE habits. This page gives free Year 9 French practice from GradeNinja's own bank - 70 auto-marked questions across 1 Year 9 topic set.
The aim is not to cram GCSE papers early. It is to make the first GCSE topics feel normal: short retrieval practice, clear corrections, and enough repetition that classwork sticks before Year 10 gets busy.
Use these as ten-minute checks after a lesson or before homework. If you miss one, read the explanation, then come back tomorrow and answer it cold.
Year 9 questions are pulled from late Key Stage 3 and foundation GCSE bridge material. They should feel harder than Year 8, but they are not meant to be full Year 11 exam questions.
Answer first, then reveal. The useful bit is the retrieval attempt, not reading the answer. If a topic keeps going wrong, paste the homework or Google Classroom text into GradeNinja's Classroom import tool and turn it into a focused pack.
Real questions from GradeNinja's own bank, with the answer and the explanation the app gives. Tap to reveal.
avoir
'J'ai' is the first person singular of 'avoir' (to have). 'Avoir' conjugates: j'ai, tu as, il/elle a, nous avons, vous avez, ils/elles ont.
mère
Mère = mother. Père = father. Frère = brother. Sœur = sister.
15-18
'Le lycée' covers ages 15-18 (Seconde, Première, Terminale), roughly equivalent to sixth form/upper secondary school.
to play football
'Jouer au football' means to play football. In French, 'jouer à' is used with sports: 'jouer au tennis', 'jouer au rugby', etc.
pollution
'La pollution' directly translates to 'pollution' — the contamination of air, water, or land.
Je vais étudier
'Je vais + infinitive' is the near future tense in French, equivalent to 'I am going to...'. 'Je vais étudier' = 'I am going to study'.
le pain
'Le pain' means bread. 'Le fromage' is cheese, 'le beurre' is butter, and 'le lait' is milk.
Secondary school
Le collège = secondary school (ages 11-15 in France). Le lycée = sixth form equivalent. L'école primaire = primary.
A full clause (subject + verb)
'Que' (that) introduces a subordinate clause with its own subject and verb. 'Je pense que + subject + verb' is the standard structure.
I get up at 7
Se lever = to get up (reflexive verb). Je me lève = I get up. À sept heures = at 7 o'clock.
qui
'Qui' is used because it is the subject of 's'appelle' - the relative pronoun replacing the subject of the next verb.
Elle lit un livre.
'Elle lit un livre' is correct. 'Elle' = she, 'lit' = reads (third person singular of 'lire'), 'un livre' = a book. 'Il' would be used for a male subject.
dix-sept
17 is 'dix-sept' (ten-seven) in French. 'Septante' is used in Belgium and Switzerland but not in France. 'Seize' is 16 and 'dix-neuf' is 19.
the environment
'L'environnement' = the environment. This is a key topic at GCSE and appears in reading and writing tasks about climate change, pollution, and sustainability.
-ons / -ez
Regular -er verbs: nous parlons (-ons), vous parlez (-ez). These endings are consistent across all regular -er verbs.
la
'Sœur' is feminine, so it takes 'la': la sœur. 'le' is for masculine nouns, 'les' is plural.
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Start revising free →They are bridge questions: harder than early Key Stage 3, but not pitched as full Year 11 GCSE exam papers. The point is to prepare the habits and core knowledge early.
Yes. Use Classroom import in the app: paste the Google Classroom post, homework email or assignment brief and it turns the topics into practice questions and flashcards.
Short and often. Ten minutes after a lesson or a few times a week is more useful than one long session before a test.
Yes, signing up is free. GradeNinja has Year 9 bridge content plus the wider question bank across 28 subjects.