Level 3 French

Level 3 FRENCH IN UNFAMILIAR CONTEXTS
Le français dans des contextes inconnus.

Teacher in Charge:  Ms Isobel Davies
idavies@wdsg.school.nz

Course description:
In this course, you will continue to explore and develop the language skills you have been acquiring since beginning your studies in French. Your knowledge will be broadened as you learn to express your ideas about a range of complex issues, such as giving a presentation about a global issue. You will learn to use more grammar which will allow you to make much more in-depth and sophisticated observations about the world around us. This course will be useful if you are hoping to live for an extended period in a French-speaking country; if you need to be able to communicate in a second language for business purposes; if you wish to go on to study other languages at a tertiary level or if you want to work in international contexts.

Course of study:
As a Level 3 French student, you study the language within unfamiliar contexts. This means learning to communicate about real issues affecting the world, such as environmental and health issues. By the end of the year you can expect to be able to:

• communicate about certainty and uncertainty, possibility and probability.

• develop an 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 (for example, from literature, film, newspapers, magazines, television, video and radio) from French-speaking cultures.