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Programme includes: |
| Std. 7 |
We follow the Encore Tricolore 1 textbook. |
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- 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
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| Std. 8 |
We follow the Encore Tricolore 2 textbook.
The present and perfect tenses of verbs are used. |
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- Holidays in France
- Travelling
- Train journeys
- Families and family life
- Schools
- Towns
- Medical matters
- Cafés and restaurants
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| Std. 9 |
We follow the Encore Tricolore 3 textbook. |
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- 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.
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| Std.10 |
We follow the Encore Tricolore 4 course as preparation for Edexcel
GCSE examinations. |
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- Personal descriptions
- Family and friends
- Town and countryside
- Transport and travel
- Future plans
- School life and daily routine
- Food and drink
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| 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. |
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- Holidays
- Weather
- Illness, injury and accident
- Health issues
- The future
- Shopping
- Lost property
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| Std.12 |
In Std. 12 French we prepare for the Edexcel AS examinations. |
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- 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).
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| Std.13 |
In Std. 13 French we prepare for the Edexcel A2 examination which
revises the topics covered at AS level and introduces: |
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- 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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