Year 11

NCEA LEVEL:  1

Curriculum Level:  5/6

Course Length: One Year

Total Credits:  24 (Achievement Standards)

Special Costs:       Tapis Volant Work book $20

                                AME Level 1 French Work Book (Term 3) $16

                                Vocabulary CD and Booklet (optional) $17

                                Trip to Dunedin for orals competition (optional) $32

                                Food Costs (Term 3) $3.50

                                2 x 2B8 Ex Books

Entry Requirements and Prerequisites: 

The course builds on the skills developed in Year 9 and 10. Students must have completed Year 10 and shown that they have a genuine interest in and commitment to French.

Course Outline:

Students will learn to communicate about past events and routines, and about problems and solutions.  They will learn to describe and compare people, places and things and to describe settings, feelings, and opinions.

Topics covered include daily routines, school life, holidays, leisure time, illness, house and family, town and country.

Students will be expected to participate fully in listening, speaking, reading and writing activities

Assessment Outline:

In French, the following Achievement Standards are available at Level 1.

                                                                                                        

Out of Class Expectations and Commitments

Students are expected to do a minimum of 20 minutes homework per day.  This is essential for both vocabulary learning and consolidation of the skills and topics covered in class.

Where Does it Lead?

Year 11 French leads on to Year 12 and 13 French.  Students with French language skills can anticipate interesting employment opportunities in education (in both New Zealand and French speaking countries around the world), trade (imports and exports), tourism (hotels, restaurants, ski fields, coach holiday couriers, etc), overseas sports coaching, musical training and performance, government departments (immigration, diplomacy), translation (locally or in the European Union) and Third World aid agencies.  Students who go on to attend Otago University may be able to spend a semester of their degree studying at Lyon University in France.  (Other universities have similar reciprocal arrangements).  In addition, there may be opportunities to be involved in a Tahiti exchange, and to create links with students in France, which may lead to exchange visits at the end of Year 12.

For Further Information See:

Mrs Morris