Form 4 French Advanced

Overview of the programme objectives and contents

Our main objective this year is to prepare for the IGCSE French Foreign Language
Exam, and to start working for the IGCSE French First Language Exam that you will
be taking at the end of Form 5.

Main objectives of the course
You will continue to consolidate your vocabulary, spelling, grammar, speaking and
writing skills, whilst beginning to reflect on and analyse ideas and contemporary topics
and issues in view of the IGCSE French First Language in Form 5.
You will reinforce your written and spoken language, work on improving how you
express yourselves and how you organise your ideas logically. You will start exploring
argumentative/discursive and narrative/descriptive essays.
You will be encouraged to read and analyse classical and contemporary texts/complete
works and will study some in class.


Our weekly lessons will be divided in 4 areas
Writing
You will continue to consolidate your vocabulary, spelling, grammar through regular
exercices and dictations, and identification and recognition of most common mistakes
(group work).
You will study and develop different styles of expression through the analysis of various
written documents.
You will improve your written expression by studying a variety of texts and articles.
General comprehension questions will lead on reflection tasks (critical thinking) and
argumentative pieces of writing. In some cases, you will work on developing your
creativity. You will work on acquiring the tools (connectors, expressions, organisation of
ideas, etc) allowing you to develop clear and constructed ananlytical skills.
We will devote one to two lessons per week to the practise and reinforcement of writing
sklills as specified above.

Reading
You will study a variety of complete works in class throughout the year (please refer to
list handed out) and be also encouraged to read more independently (you will find some
reading suggestions on the list youve been given). The aim of this is to help you discover
different styles and literary periods, and develop literary analysis. We will devote one
lesson per week to the study of complete works.

Speaking
You will practise your speaking skills in your every day lessons, but you will also be
assigned presentations on specific topics to hold in front of the class. You will need to
focus on clarity, organisation and accuracy, whilst keeping them interactive. You will be
given a timetable with dates and topics to prepare for.

IGCSE French Foreign Language
Preparation for this examination will take place continuously, with paper-based
activities/exercises to cover the 4 skills and papers you will take (listening, reading,
speaking and writing).
We will devote one to two lessons per week to the practise of IGCSE papers.

Assessment at a glance :




Form 4 French Advanced



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