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