Year+10+Course+outline

**__BIENVENUE À LA CLASSE DE TROISIÈME DE L’ANNÉE 2010__**
Year 10 French is a 19- weeks course(Term 1 and 2). Your learning will be assisted by Kevin, one of the French Language Assistants in New Zealand, who will be working for one day a week at Massey High School this year. This is the sixth year that Massey High School has been fortunate to secure the services of a French Language Assistant.

During the course you will learn to:
 * SPEAK ** French on a number of topics in class, with your partner or in small groups with Kevin.


 * LISTEN ** to and understand spoken French by listening to your teacher, Kevin, other students in class and tapes or CDs.


 * READ ** and understand written French. You will be able to answer questions about a passage you have read in French or do an activity that shows you have understood what you have read.


 * WRITE ** in French about yourself and some of the topics covered in class. You will answer questions in French, write letters, create posters, interviews and dialogues.

We will use our contacts to a school in Bretagne/France and will exchange letters with students at your age who are studying English.
 * UNDERSTAND ** other cultures and traditions. You will learn about France and some other French-speaking countries and the way of life there.

=__ TOPICS STUDIED IN YEAR 10 __=
 * __ UNIT 1: Le collège __**
 * talking about school, teachers, subjects and school friends
 * spelling words
 * __ UNIT 2: Tu es comment? __**
 * describing what you and others look like and wear and give an opinion
 * describing someone’s character or personality
 * __ UNIT 3: La famille, les copains __**
 * talking about your family and friends and how you get on with them
 * talking about your pets
 * __ UNIT 4: De jour en jour __**
 * telling the time
 * describing your house and the rooms
 * talking about your daily routine
 * __ UNIT 5: Chez moi, chez toi __**
 * saying where you live, what there is to do and how you like it
 * asking for and giving directions

__UNIT 6: Au college__
 § talking about what you and others like to do after school  § accepting and refusing invitations  § talking about the weather  § saying what kind of food you have  § saying what kind of food you like in France and at home  § talking about festivals and celebrations  § talking about clothes  § buying clothes, souvenirs and snacks  § saying why you like or don’t like clothes
 * talking about your timetable, your subjects and your way to school
 * saying your age and birthday
 * __ UNIT 7: L’école est finie __**
 * __ UNIT 8: On mange bien? __**
 * __ UNIT 9: Faire des courses __**

__MATERIALS__
You will use a textbook **Fusée 1,** an **exercise book 1B5** (which you buy yourself) and an **assessment booklet** and a **workbook** which both are available from your French teacher once you have paid the **$10 subject fees**. . We will also be using video and audio tapes, CD's, interactive exercises on the Smart Board and the internet.

__EXERCISE BOOK, WORKBOOK AND HOMEWORK__
Your exercise book and workbook are to be kept neat and up to date. They will be checked several times during the course. If you do not buy a workbook you can have one to use in class but you must not write in it. You will have to do your homework using one of the Year 10 French workbooks held in the Library in that case. Homework is given to help you learn what has been introduced in class and to give you extra practice at the skills you need to learn a language. Failure to do your homework will earn you a ‘catch-up’ session at lunchtime and not doing your homework on a regular basis will earn you a Dean’s detention.
 * If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and to catch up. **

__ASSESSMENTS__
You will have an **assessment booklet** in which you, you with your partner and your teacher can check your progress. The end-of-course assessments will be a speaking, listening, reading and writing assessments. You will do a project as your cultural assessment (see workbook). During the course, short tests will be done on certain topics.

__OTHER CONTACT WITH THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD__
* We should see whether we can organize a trip to a French restaurant at the end of the course * In Term 3 we have International Languages Week and our Department will organize activities for the whole school. Each language will have a set day for offering food and activities. *There are some eating places where French food is available for you to try. They are: Bouchon in Kingsland, Villa d’Vine in Jervois Road and St Tropez in Parnell Road and Torchon French Crèperie in Elliot Stables in Elliot Street. You will find French-speaking staff in all of them. Perhaps we manage to have an outing to one of them towards the end of the course. *There are lots of Web sites with interesting information, vocabulary and grammar, tourist information, recipes, etc. Your teacher will give you a list of them during the course.
 * You will be given your password to access the MHS French Wiki Page where you will find the week´s homework, extra activities and useful resources. There is a page where you can paste work for comment and where you can comment on the work of others in the class. Keep up to date with what is happening in the Languages Department by checking the Wiki regularly.