French
Year 10 Elective
*Year long study
Semester 1
The focus of this unit is to learn the fundamental skills to write, listen and speak in French. The themes centre on emotions, the classroom environment, francophone countries, and physical descriptions. The students learn how to introduce themselves, their family and friends and discuss popular pastimes. Students are required to control the past, present and future tenses in a variety of text types and respond to a range of oral and written material. Students participate in oral presentations, guided listening and writing tasks, and complete a variety of grammar and vocabulary tests.
Learning a language offers students the opportunity to:
Use the language to communicate with its speakers
Understand how language operates as a system and, through comparison, how other languages, including English, are structured and function.
Gain direct insights into the culture or cultures of countries and communities where the language is spoken
Enhance their vocational prospects
Outcomes - On completion of this unit students will be able to:
Apply knowledge of vocabulary and grammatical structures related to topics studied.
Establish and maintain a spoken exchange
Listen to, read and obtain information from spoken and written texts
Assessment Tasks
Compilation of vocabulary and grammar tests
Role play/Oral presentation
Read written texts to obtain information to complete notes and tables in French.
Listen to spoken texts to obtain information to complete notes and tables in French
Exam
Pathways into VCE
French Unit 1 & 2
Semester 2
The focus of this subject is to learn the fundamental skills to write and speak in French. The themes center on dining at a restaurant, travelling to a francophone city and influential French people. The students learn expressions related to eating, ordering food and travelling. Students are required to control the past and present verb tenses in a variety of text types and respond to a range of oral and written material. Students participate in oral presentations, guided writing tasks, and complete a variety of grammar and vocabulary tests.
Outcomes - On completion of this unit students will be able to:
Apply knowledge of vocabulary and grammatical structures related to topics studied
Establish and maintain a spoken exchange
Listen to, read and obtain information from spoken and written texts
Assessment Tasks
Compilation of vocabulary and grammar tests
Role play/Oral presentation
Read written texts to obtain information to complete notes and tables in French.
Listen to spoken texts to obtain information to complete notes and tables in French
Exam
Pathways into VCE
French Unit 1 & 2
Booklist requirements:
None
Resources/Requirements:
Notebook
Cost
None
Additional Information
Student Work Samples/Images
Career Pathways
Languages may lead to jobs such as:
Interpreter, Linguist, Speech Pathologist, Translator, Archaeologist, Historian, Border Officer, Hotel & Motel Manager, Captioner, Tour Guide, Flight Attendant, Travel Consultant, Importer and Exporter