Faculty Information

Year 9
At year 9 level, the classes are divided into Advanced and Beginners, depending on the amount of prior knowledge a student has. While the basic topics are the same, advanced students are able to cover the topics in more depth, building on their prior knowledge. Main topics are:

• Personal information
• The alphabet
• Numbers up to 100
• Days of the week and months of the year
• Classroom objects and colours
• School
• Telling the time
• Food and drink
• Clothes
• Family
• Pets
• Describing people
• Sport and hobbies

Year 10

• Hobbies and Sport
• Your house (description, what you do, how you help)
• Holidays
• Finding your way around a city
• Ordering food and drink in restaurants and cafes
• Daily routines
• Friends and family
• Health

• Sport and Leisure
• Holidays and Travel
• Paris
• Eating and Drinking
• Shopping
• One’s country
• Communications

Year 12

• Family and Relationships
• Travel and Holidays
• Sport and Leisure
• Food
• Reading
• Future Plans

Year 13

• Youth
• Travel
• Urban Living
• The Environment
• Careers
• Literature (Short stories and Poetry)
• Multicultural France

Year 9
There are several formative assessments of vocabulary and grammar.
There are summative oral tests and summative unit tests at the end of each major topic.

Year 10
There are several formative assessments of vocabulary and grammar.
There is are summative oral tests and exams in terms 2 and 4 covering reading, writing and listening.

Year 11 There are several formative assessments of vocabulary and grammar.
Summative exams in terms 2 and 3 cover reading, writing and listening as internal practice for NCEA Level 1 external assessments.
Internally assessed NCEA Level 1 assessments are 1.2 (Speech) 1.3 (Conversation) and 1.6 (Writing).
External exams for NCEA Level 1 at the end of the year cover 1.1 (Listening), 1.4 (Reading) and 1.5 (Writing)

Year 12
There are several formative assessments of vocabulary and grammar.
Summative exams in terms 2 and 3 cover reading, writing and listening as internal practice for NCEA Level 2 external assessments.
Internally assessed NCEA Level 2 assessments are 2.2 (Speech) 2.3 (Conversation) and 2.6 (Writing).
External exams for NCEA Level 2 at the end of the year cover 2.1 (Listening), 2.4 (Reading) and 2.5 (Writing)

Year 13
There are several formative assessments of vocabulary and grammar.
Summative exams in terms 2 and 3 cover reading, writing and listening (as internal practice for University Bursary Exam in 2003 and NCEA Level 3 external assessments from 2004).

In 2003 internally assessed oral tests comprise 20% of the final Bursary mark. The external exam testing reading, writing and listening comprises 80%.

From 2004 Internally assessed NCEA Level 3 assessments are 3.2 (Speech) 3.3 (Conversation) and 3.6 (Writing).
From 2004 External exams for NCEA Level 3 at the end of the year cover 3.1 (Listening), 3.4 (Reading) and 3.5 (Writing)

Restaurant Trips
Senior classes usually visit a French restaurant or café during the year

International Languages Week
There are usually various competitions and activities around the theme of second languages, as well as French food.

Exchanges
The most popular is the Tahiti Exchange. This involves hosting a student from Tahiti during their summer holidays (July/August) and then going to Tahiti during our summer holidays. Students live with their host family, and attend school for some of the time. Depending on numbers, it is sometimes possible to go to Tahiti without having hosted a Tahitian student.

There are also various other international exchanges for differing periods of time.
Contact Mrs Harris if interested.