HEBRON SCHOOL

French

  Programme includes:
Std. 7 We follow the Encore Tricolore 1 textbook.
 
  • The French alphabet (spelling)
  • Numbers (1 – 1000)
  • Family and home (talk about your family, where your live, …)
  • Likes and dislikes: pets (description, size, colour); leisure activities / spare time
  • The weather
  • Days, months, seasons and celebrations (birthdays, Easter, Christmas, …)
  • A French town: ask for information, directions / give directions
  • Time
  • Food and drink
  • Clothes
Std. 8 We follow the Encore Tricolore 2 textbook.
The present and perfect tenses of verbs are used.
 
  • Holidays in France
  • Travelling
  • Train journeys
  • Families and family life
  • Schools
  • Towns
  • Medical matters
  • Cafés and restaurants
Std. 9 We follow the Encore Tricolore 3 textbook.
 
  • Tourism in Paris
  • Daily life of young people
  • Pocket money and part time work
  • Comparisons of past and present life
  • Preparing for a holiday
  • Youth hostelling in France
  • Future plans and careers
  • Leisure interests
  • Descriptions of towns
  • Directions
  • Staying in a hotel
  • Staying on a campsite
  • Eating in a restaurant.
Std.10 We follow the Encore Tricolore 4 course as preparation for Edexcel GCSE examinations.
 
  • Personal descriptions
  • Family and friends
  • Town and countryside
  • Transport and travel
  • Future plans
  • School life and daily routine
  • Food and drink
Std.11 We follow the Encore Tricolore 5 course as preparation for Edexcel GCSE examinations.
We have end of unit tests, and the final examination consists of four papers: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, we do not do coursework.
 
  • Holidays
  • Weather
  • Illness, injury and accident
  • Health issues
  • The future
  • Shopping
  • Lost property
Std.12 In Std. 12 French we prepare for the Edexcel AS examinations.
 
  • Day to day matters (health, travel and transport, current affairs)
  • Society (relationships and family, social issues, law, justice, leisure and the arts)
  • The working world (education, business and industry, information technology).
Std.13 In Std. 13 French we prepare for the Edexcel A2 examination which revises the topics covered at AS level and introduces:
 
  • Environment and citizenship (energy, pollution, politics, campaigning organisations)
  • International context (customs, traditions, beliefs, the European Union, world wide problems)

We also study two literature texts:

  • Boule de Suif et autres contes de guerre by Maupassant and,
  • Trérèse Desqueyroux by Mauriac.

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