Rosmini College
NCEA Level 1 French
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr �. Elgoyhen.
The French course at this level builds on the foundations laid in Year 10.
Students work with Education Perfect and departmental resources covering the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. These skills are practised using the vocabulary and grammar prescribed for Year 11 French.
Year 11 students will be working at level 6 of the National Curriculum covered by the following functions:
- Communicate in French in everyday contexts
- Engage with, and make meaning of, a variety of short texts
- Explore language used to express personal information, ideas, and opinions
- Develop communicative skills to share simple information, ideas, and opinions with others in a range of predictable situations
- Develop a foundational awareness of and use key linguistic building blocks and patterns of language
- Acquire simple linguistic strategies and basic knowledge of how to use resources to make meaning from unfamiliar language
- Recognise the values and practices of French-speaking cultures and the values and practices of their own cultures and communities.
This will be done through the following topics:
- Me and my people (Who am I and who are the people around me?)
- My habits and routines (How do I engage with the people around me?)
- My social life (What do I do together with my people?)
- Exploring familiar places
- My home (Where do I and others live? What will my world look like in the future?)
- My past discoveries (What did I discover in the world around me?)
- Hauora – a concept of holistic wellbeing (How can I look after myself and others? Exploring and discussing wellbeing in everyday contexts as a lens to explore the importance of hauora.)
- Whakanui – Celebrations (in the context of everyday life) (What do I and others celebrate, and how? Exploration of whakanui as a lens that can be used to learn about personal celebrations and identity. Celebrations in everyday contexts may include birthdays, end-of-term celebrations, and shared lunches.)
Along with the following suggested language learning::
- Explore the use of vocabulary around family including adjectives (comparative, and superlative), possessive adjectives (tutoyer and vouvoyer), expression of opinion, and justification.
- Explore the use of vocabulary in relation to daily routines (duties, time telling), using reflexive verbs, modal verbs, expressions of frequency, expression of opinion, and justification.
- Description of past routine events (imperfect).
- Explore the use of vocabulary for social activities, leisure, entertainment, near future (futur proche).
- Accept and decline suggestions, and modal verbs in the conditional (vouloir, pouvoir).
- Identify and understand patterns in language (for example revise avoir forms to build the futur simple).
- Explore the use of vocabulary in relation to places, for example, geography, weather, numbers, relative pronouns, imperative verbs, direct object pronouns, y and en.
- Give and understand directions and instructions for getting around town/school/the house.
- Explore the use of vocabulary (rooms in the house, colours, prepositions of location, furniture), aller/devoir/pouvoir + infinitive.
- Practise use of Passé composé with avoir and être and simple connectives (mais, pourtant, parce que) to develop narration.
- Grammar-focussed activities to understand language patterns (for example rules for passé composé with avoir versus être) and compare the use of tenses with languages students are familiar with.
- Explore the use of vocabulary (body parts, activities, food, sport), and structures around giving advice and instructions.
- Explore and practise the use of vocabulary celebrations, habitual past tense (imparfait), and comparative structures.
Recommended Prior Learning
Students should have completed Year 10 French.
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
French 1.1 - Interact in spoken French to share and respond to information, ideas, and opinions
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French 1.2 - Communicate in French for a chosen purpose
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French 1.3 - Demonstrate understanding of written French related to everyday contexts
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French 1.4 - Demonstrate understanding of spoken French related to everyday contexts
Disclaimer
Rosmini College's timetable is student-driven and a new timetable is generated each year based on student subject selection. Unfortunately, while we do our best to avoid them, timetabling clashes may still occur and a few students may be required to choose an alternative subject option.
The 2025 timetable, including the number of classes in each subject and staffing allocations, is created based on student selections made in 2024. Because of this, changing subjects at the beginning of 2025 may not be possible. Please, make your subject choices carefully.
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