ST ANDREW’S COLLEGE
YEAR 12 FRENCH 2013
NCEA LEVEL 2
OVERALL COURSE AIMS
to develop students’ competence in French in a wide range of situations
to help students experience the pleasure inherent in being able to communicate in French
to foster an interest in France, the French people and in the language
to foster an interest in different cultures and an awareness that each culture has its own way of living and thinking
to develop a tolerance and understanding of another culture
to encourage better and more confident use of the students’ own language
to encourage the development and growth of communication skills, both spoken and written
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OVERALL FRENCH CURRICULUM-RELATED TARGET FOR YOUR LEARNING
Students begin to engage in sustained interactions and produce increasingly extended texts, in which they explore the views
of others, develop and share personal perspectives and justify, support or challenge ideas and opinions in different situations.
Students are expected to begin responding critically to more extended and varied text types on familiar matters.
To do this, you will
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Communicate information and justify your own ideas and opinions.
Support and challenge the ideas and opinions of others.
Develop and share personal perspectives.
Respond critically to more extended and varied text types on familiar matters.
Engage in sustained interaction and produce extended text.
Be exposed to increasingly complex and varied texts.
Key Tools in your learning
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Course text, ‘Tapis Volant Senior’.
Vocabulary acquisition and testing – tested through Language Perfect of the ‘advised’ list
Grammar acquisition and understanding – referring to the ‘advised’ list
You learn to incorporate these ‘tools’ in the language you produce in spoken and written contexts. You also improve your
understanding of what you hear and read in a range of text types by knowing the course vocabulary and language structures and
by understanding the issues that are presented. These Standards will be assessed:
Listen and
Respond
Speak, Present
Interact
5 credits
4 credits
5 credits
2.1 AS91118
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View and
Respond
5 credits
Write
5 credits
2.2 AS91120
2.1
2.3 91119
2.2
2.4 AS91121
2.3
2.5 AS91122
2.4
Demonstrate
understanding of
a variety of
spoken French
texts on familiar
matters.
Give a spoken
presentation in
French that
communicates
information, ideas
and opinions.
Interact using
spoken French to
share information
and justify ideas
and opinions in
different situations
Write a variety of
text types in
French to convey
information, ideas,
and opinions in
genuine contexts.
External
Internal
Internal
Demonstrate
understanding of
a variety of
written and/or
visual French
text(s) on familiar
matters.
External
Internal
2.5
Year 12 French – Year Outline 2013
Timing
Theme
Language Focus
Term 1
Unit 1
(Wks 2-7)
Issues faced by young
people: self identity,
relationships, lifestyle,
family/school problems
Descriptions,
Adjectives colloquial
language, eg’s of
figures of speech,
imperatives, order of
pronouns
Unit 2
(Wks 8-11)
Family
issues/problems, role
of family in France,
changing family
structures, names,
births, deaths,
marriage
Colloquialisms, past
events, negative
feelings, formal lang.,
range of tenses,
informative style lang.
Term 2
Unit 6
(Wks 1-5)
Tourism, travel in
France, overseas
travelling experiences,
holidays (real and
imagined), seasonal
work in tourist sites,
advertising tourism
Unit 4
(Wks 6-10)
The Immigrant
experience in
francophone countries,
multicultural France
Vocabulary of tourism
Vocabulary of
holiday/leisure
activities, Economics of
work and working
conditions, Vocabulary
of the hotel industry,
Description and
analysis
Descriptions and
analysis
Vocabulary of racism
Summary – dates,
events, statistics
Description, statistics,
diagrams
Newspaper reporting
using the present tense
for a narrative
Dialogue, Physical
descriptions, Future
tense description,
Future perfect tense,
narrative tense,
conversational style
Term 3
Unit 3
Wks 1-3, 6-8
(+ possibly early
Term 4)
Term4
(Wks 1-3)
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The future: predictions,
future technology,
social life and issues,
personal projects and
plans for the future,
science fiction
Exam revision and
review
Grammar
Present tense forms of
the 3 French verb
groups, the present
participle, negative
verb structures, the
conditional tense and
past conditional tense
Perfect tense,
agreement of past
participle, imperfect
tense, Pluperfect
Assessment
Wk 10
Practice assessments in
Listening, reading
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First writing
submission for AS2.5
by end of term
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First conversation
submission for AS2.3
by end of term
Direct and indirect
speech, Sequence of
tenses, Verb + infinitive
structures, The past
infinitive
Week 6
2.2 Speech – Region of
France
The conditional tense
The pluperfect tense
The past conditional
tense
“If” clauses introducing
hypothesis
Week 9
Practice assessments in
Listening, reading
 Second writing
submission for
AS2.5 by end of
term
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The simple future
tense, The simple
future tense as a form
of imperative, The
future perfect tense,
agreement of the
pastparticiple, ‘If’
clauses introducing
hypotheses
Second conversation
submission for AS2.3
by end of term
School Exam
Wks 4/5 Formal
Practice Assessment of
Listening and Reading
 Third writing
submission for
AS2.5 by end of
term
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Third conversation
submission by
Labour Weekend
NCEA Level 2 French Structures To Be Learnt This Year
The vocabulary and structures lists are to be considered as lists of those words and grammatical structures which students are
expected to recognise and be able to use at this level. The lists build on the vocabulary and structures covered at NCEA Level 1.
Adjectives
Examples
Change of meaning
ancien(ne), certain(e),
according to position
prochain(e), propre
Interrogative
quel(le)
Adverbs
Examples
Position of adverbs
Elles ont beaucoup travaillé
Before or after past participles
Le film m’a beaucoup plu
Before infinitive
Il faut bientôt partir
After simple verb form
elle travaille beaucoup
Formation of adverbs from adjectives
douce, doucement
(normally adding –ment to feminine form)
Articles
Examples
Definite article with languages
le français
Omission of definite article before
languages
je parle français
Omission before nationality, religion and
Occupation
elle est étudiante
Partitive article (de) after negative
je n’ai pas de frère
Partitive article before plural nouns preceded
de hautes montagnes
by adjective
Conjunctions
Examples
Si + possible condition
S’il gagnait au Loto, il partirait
(imperfect…conditional)
en France
Continuing event with starting point
Ça fait…que, il y a…que, voilà…que,
Negation
Examples
Subject negation
personne ne, rien ne, aucun…ne, pas un(e) …ne
Restrictive negation
ne…que
Infinitive negation
ne pas sortir
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Negative imperative with object pronouns
Ne me le donne pas!
Negative reflexive imperative
Ne te lève pas!
Prepositions
Examples
After adjectives
content de
à, de and par (following associated verbs) +
Il a décidé d’aller en France
infinitive (see vocabulary list)
Some examples of verbs followed by prepositions:
Accepter de
Etre en train de
Arrêter de
Etre obligé de
Cesser de
Offrir de
Choisir de
Permettre de
Conseiller de
Promettre de
Empêcher de
S’agir de
Double prepositions where appropriate
Penser à
Recommencer à
Servir à
je conseille à Jean de voir un médecin
Après + infinitive form of avoir/être + past
Après avoir fait… Après être
participle
venu(e)
Pronouns
Examples
Demonstrative pronouns
celui, celui-ci, celui-là
Order of direct and indirect pronouns
je le lui donne
Emphatic pronouns with même(s)
moi-même, elles-mêmes
Interrogative
qui, que, lequel, laquelle
Qu’est-ce qui?
Qu’est-ce que?
Qui est-ce qui?
Qui est-ce que?
Imperative with object pronouns
Donne-le moi!
Interrogative following preposition
qui, quoi (avec qui…?; avec quoi…?)
Preceding direct object agreement
je les ai mangé (e) s
La jupe que j’ai achetée
Relative pronouns
où (in relative clauses of place and time)
dont, qui, que,
la boîte où j’ai mis mes clés
Verbs
Examples
Conditional tense
S’il gagnait au Loto, il ferait le tour du monde
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Future simple tense
Nous partirons demain
Past historic tense (for recognition only)
(common forms occurring in narrative and
literary texts)
il vécut…
il fut
Pluperfect tense
il avait voulu…; il était venu…
Imperfect use of venir de
Je venais de faire la vaisselle
Imperfect use of depuis
Je m’intéressais aux langues depuis quelques années
Present participle used as an adjective
Une langue vivante
Present participle used with en
en parlant
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