French Curriculum overview

Year 9: A one semester course of introductory French enabling you to talk
about yourself and your immediate environment. '

We cover

• Greetings, farewells and other polite conventions
• Introductions of self and others
• School objects
• Saying where things are
• The alphabet and spelling
• Numbers up to 20
• Ages
• Nationalities and addresses
• Days and Dates
• Colours
• Classroom instructions
• Talking about brothers and sisters
• Talking about pets
• Talking about what you look like
• Talking about school subjects and activities
• Telling time
• Identifying clothes

Year 10: a full year course enabling the student to talk more fully about his own Iife. This course is a preparation for NCEA and Cambridge in year 11.

We cover

• Revision from year 9
• Weather /seasons
• Describing people
• Hobbies and past times
• Giving directions
• Habits and daily routines
• Food items
• Household activities
• Things you have to do
• Asking permission
• Buying things in shops - discussing quatities and quality
• Describing a town
• Giving opinions about school
• Buying food at a cafe
• Talking about how people travel
• Discussing clothes
• Talking about likes and dislikes and giving reasons
• Basic verb forms – including introducing the past and future tenses.
• Working with adjectives

Year 11: A full year course which takes the work from year 10 and develops it further using the past tenses and the future tenses. This course prepares students for both NCEA and IGCSE. In special circumstances there is a further opportunity to sit the CIE exam in the middle of the following year 12, however these students will sit all NCEA standards in year 11.

IGCSE candidates who are doing NCEA subjects as well may have their IGCSE orals credited to their NCEA record of learning.

We cover

• Revision and extension of year 10 work
• Extended descriptions of yourself and your immediate environment
• Understanding tourist information
• Talking about a wide selection of leisure activities
• Discussing plans for your work future
• Staying at hotels and camping grounds
• Discussing healthy living
• Visiting the doctor/pharmacist
• Giving details of an accident
• Talking about holidays
• Talking about countries of the world
• Talking about your own country and town.
• Most verb forms – future, past tenses, conditional, pluperfect
• Working with adjectives and adverbs
• Using pronouns
• Comparing and contrasting
• Problems and solutions
• Future hopes and plans

Years 12 and 13: Full year courses that run concurrently using the same material adapted to suit the different student levels. The course follows the prescribed topics for A levels for the relevant year. The NCEA achievement objectives are taught within this framework. A level students must study 3 texts from a prescribed list.

Achievement Objectives NCEA level 2:

• Communicate about Future Plans,
• Give and respond to warnings and advice.
• Express and respond to approval and disapproval, agreement and disagreement.
• Express and respond to information and opinions, giving reasons.
• Read about and recount actual or imagined events in the past

Achievement Objectives NCEA level 3:

• Communicate about certainty and uncertainty possibility and probability.
• Develop and argument or point of view, with reasons.
• Recount a series of events to inform, persuade or entertain.
• Communicate the same information in different ways in different contexts.
• Respond to selected and adapted texts from French speaking cultures.

Prescribed topics 2007:

1. Family (relationships within, changes in, reasons for changes, role of members)
2. Healthy Living (diet, health issues, exercise, reasons for poor health, scientific developments)
3. War and Peace (reasons for conflicts- ethnic, religious, world resources)
4. World of work (future plans, preparation for work, migrant workers, racism/sexism, unemployment)
5. Conservation (of animals and landscapes, environmental issues.)

In addition NCEA 3 will study the short story Le Petit Murphy and both NCEA level 2 and 3 will do a film

study.

Prescribes texts for A levels 2007 Madame Bovary, Les Femmes Savantes, Becket