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Competitions for Primary and Secondary School students

The Alliance Française de Sydney offers students the opportunity to demonstrate their flair for French through fun competitions. Suitable for students in Year 5 – 12, the competitions incorporate various units studied as part of the NSW Board of Studies syllabuses. A star grading system of language difficulty indicates the level of French required for each competition. Registration entitles NSW students to enter their work in our 2010 competitions; they will go into the running to receive great prizes at our annual Remise des Prix held in November. Teachers will receive a resource dossier with every competition they register their students for; the dossier contains competition instructions as well as language activities that can be used in class to help equip students with the language skills they will exercise as part of the competition(s).

 

How to integrate our competitions into your teaching: Some examples …

‘Bon Appétit’ is recommended for students who have studied at least 80 hours of French (corresponding to Stage 5 of the NSW Board of Studies Syllabus). ‘Bon Appétit’ would serve as a revision or extension for students studying the topic of food and recipes. It incorporates the following language outcomes:

• Objective 5.UL.1: Listening and responding: Students select, summarise and analyse information and ideas in spoken texts and respond appropriately.

• Objective 5.UL.2: Reading and Responding: Students select, summarise and analyse information and ideas in written texts and respond appropriately

• Objective 4.UL.3: Speaking: Students use French by incorporating diverse structures and features to express own ideas

• Objective 4.UL.4 : Writing : Students experiment with linguistic patterns and structures in French to convey information and to express own ideas

• Objective 5.MLC.1 : Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of languages as systems by describing and comparing linguistic features across languages

This competition also reinforces the use of partitives (du, de la, de l’, des), which students are expected to recognise and employ by the end of Stage 5.

 

Other examples include:

 

Competition	Star rating	Language level	Unit(s) of study in class
Voici ma famille	1 (less than 20 hrs French)	Stage 3-4 / Year 5+	Family
Mon quartier	2 (40+ hrs French)	Stage 4	Neighbourhood, ‘En ville’
Lettre d’amour	4 (100+ hrs French)	Stage 6	Relationships

 

À vos stylos… et soyez créatifs !

                                                         

• Voici ma famille ! 
  Create a photo story to introduce your relatives to an imaginary French family you may visit one day.

• Mon quartier 
  Reveal the spirit of your town / suburb through 10 personal photos captioned with 10 emotional keywords in French.

• Au fil des saisons 
  Create an A3 poster depicting the 4 seasons in France through the eyes of a teenager who loves sport, nature or fashion. 

• Les mots "croisières" 
  Help others develop their knowledge of New Caledonia by creating a crossword in French.

• Salut les copains! 
  Create a page for the “Je kiffe pour eux” section of a French teenage magazine. Profile four of your friends and yourself.

• Soirée Ciné 
  Create a short film on a given topic (2-3 mins.) Choose the genre eg. comedy, drama, crime... Finalists will be shown at the 2008 « Festiv-Alliance » !

• Bon appétit ! 
  Promote Australian cuisine by creating an illustrated booklet of five typical Australian recipes in French.

• La lettre d'amour 
  Write a love letter in French from your own perspective or that of an imaginary person.

• En ce temps là... il n'y a pas si longtemps. 
  Interview someone born before 1945 about their past and give an account of their experiences.

Please contact Finola Methven or (02) 9292 5712