IGCSE – French Language Tuition Online Classes

This syllabus is designed for students who are learning French as a foreign language via live instructor led online class. The aim is to develop an ability to use the language effectively for practical communication. The course is based on the linked language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing, and these are built on as learners progress through their studies.

Course Content: Everyday activities • Time expressions (e.g. telling the time, days, days of the week, months, seasons) • Food and drink (e.g. meals, fruit and vegetables, meat, fish and seafood, snacks, drinks, cutlery and utensils) • The human body and health (e.g. parts of the body, health and illness) • Travel and transport

Personal and social life • Self, family and friends • In the home (e.g. rooms, living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, furniture and furnishings, garden, household appliances) • Colours • Clothes and accessories • Leisure time (e.g. things to do, hobbies, sport)

The world around us • People and places (e.g. continents, countries and nationalities, compass points) • The natural world, the environment, the climate and the weather • Communications and technology (e.g. the digital world, documents and texts) • The built environment (e.g. buildings and services, urban areas, shopping) • Measurements (e.g. size, shape) • Materials

The world of work • Education (e.g. learning institutions, education and training, the classroom, learning tools, subjects, studying) • Work (e.g. jobs and careers, the workplace)

The international world • Countries, nationalities and languages • Culture, customs, faiths and celebrations

Details of the assessment All questions requiring written responses are to be answered in French. Dictionaries are not allowed in the examination. Paper 1 – Listening Approximately 50 minutes, including 6 minutes’ transfer time, 40 marks This paper consists of 37 multiple-choice and matching questions. Candidates answer all questions by selecting the correct option or options. Each question tests comprehension of recorded texts (e.g. dialogues, announcements,conversations).  Candidates hear each recorded text twice. At the end of the test candidates will be asked to transfer their answers onto the separate answer sheet.

Paper 2 – Reading Written paper, 1 hour, 45 marks This paper consists of six groups of questions, each comprising a number of multiple-choice and matching questions, as well as questions requiring short answers in French. The number of questions in each group may vary in each examination session.

Paper 3 – Speaking Approximately 10 minutes (plus 10 minutes of preparation time), 40 marks Each speaking test lasts approximately 10 minutes, and is structured as follows: • a warm-up section which is not assessed (approximately 30 seconds) • one role play – candidates respond to five transactional questions to, for example, accomplish a task or obtain goods or services (approximately two minutes) • two topic conversations – candidates respond to questions on each topic to share views, opinions and experiences (four minutes per topic conversation).