5th yr Revision Higher Level
5th year French Revision List (Higher Level)
Your exam consists of the following parts:
1. Oral exam
2. Listening exam
3. Reading comprehensions
4. Writing in French
Revise Units 1-5 Tout Va Bien textbook, handouts, hard backed notebook, notes, CDs.
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1. FOR THE ORAL Higher LEVEL You can go back through your oral notes/handouts and say out loud your answers to all the questions. Try to anticipate what you may be asked and prepare for it. Revise chapters 1-5 of Tout Va Bien ( pages 11, 44-45, 80-81, 90-91, 122-123, 160-161) 339-343 is useful, also any oral notes/ carnet d'oral
. The following topics in particular will be tested in the Oral exam:
1. Presenting yourself
2. Family
3. House
4. Town/ area
5. Weekend
6. School
7. Newpark
8. Holidays
9. France
10. Housework/helping at home
12. Description of self/friends
13. Daily routine
14 Pastimes
15. Future after Leaving Cert/career/college
16. Pocket money
17. Part time work, jobs
18. What would you do if ….
19. LE DOCUMENT
NOTE: The Oral exam by its nature follows the flow of the conversation and therefore may lead to other areas of discussion in addition.
2. For the listening:Higher
Read page 344-345 of textbook
Go through the vocab sections of units 1-5 of Tout Va Bien
Go through the vocab in your hardbacks/hand outs
Listen to aural extracts from the textbook/ French radio/ watch a French film/ listen to French music/ tune in radio app/ listen or watch something from my website/ listenlive.eu (live streaming of radio on line)
3. For the reading comprehension HIGHER
Units 1-5 boxes for vocab and grammar from textbook
Hardbacks / handouts
Questions and question words words in French page 52-53
Technique for reading comprehension. page 346-349
French magazines/newspapers. Read French material of interest from the internet. Read articles from my website.
4. For the writing: HIGHER
Revise the different types of writing: message, email, postcard, fax, diary, letter, opinion piece, reaction writing, récit. (Revise chapters 1-5 Tout Va Bien
Revise the different types of writing: message, email, diary, letter, opinion piece, reaction writing/opinion piece, récit. (Revise chapters 1-9 Tout Va Bien
Opinion piece: page 350-353; 16-17
Récit:354-355
Informal letter: 356-357
Email:358-361
Diary: 362-365
Formal letter: 366-372
Message: 376-378
Learn useful phrases for each type of writing
Revise all the grammar we have done and how to use it in context.
Practise planning written pieces making sure they are well structured with a beginning, middle and end.
Remember to work out your own weak and strong points and use whatever techniques work for your particular learning style- everybody’s different!
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REVISION LIST Full itemised list with page numbers for Tout Va Bien HIGHER LEVEL
Unit 1 “Tout Va Bien”. INTRODUCE YOURSELF.
Introduce yourself page 2
Physical description page 4
Personality 5
Dates/days/ months 7
Numbers 8
Signs of the zodiac 9
ORAL questions 11
Gapped exercise 12
Form 13
Opinion pieces 16-17
Present tense 18-19
Reflexive verbs 19
Present tense (slightly irreg) 21-22
Unit 2 FAMILY
Family 34-35
Relationships 36-37
Conflict of the generations 39
Household tasks 41
ORAL questions 44-45
Equality of the sexes 46
Opinion pieces 39,46-47
Adjectives 48-49
Negatives 50- 51
Questions 52-53
Unit 3 HOUSE/ HOME/ AREA
Types of house 62
Rooms and furniture 62-63
Describing your room 64
Your area 68-69
Problems in your area 69
Country and town 71-72
Countries 75
Feminine / masculine countries 76
French speaking countries 77-78
ORAL questions 80-81
Opinion piece (Town v country) 82-83
Past tense 84-86
Imperfect tense 87-88
Unit 4 FRIENDS
Best friends/friendship 100-101
Weekend 103-105
Clothes/ fashion/shopping 108-109
Pocket money 115
Part-time jobs 116-117
Advantages/disadvantages of a job 119
Transition Year placements 120
ORAL questions 122-123
Opinion piece (life of young people) 124
venir de 126
Near future tense 127
Future tense 128-129
Unit 5 SCHOOL
Schools in France 140
My school 142
School subjects 144
Daily routine 146
School uniform 147
School rules 150
New technology 151
The importance of languages 153
Future plans 156
ORAL questions 160-161
opinion piece (importance of education) 162
Conditional tense 164-165
Si construction 166
Adverbs 167-168
Unit 6 PASTIMES only in brief overview for Oral
Pastimes
Your exam consists of the following parts:
1. Oral exam
2. Listening exam
3. Reading comprehensions
4. Writing in French
Revise Units 1-5 Tout Va Bien textbook, handouts, hard backed notebook, notes, CDs.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
1. FOR THE ORAL Higher LEVEL You can go back through your oral notes/handouts and say out loud your answers to all the questions. Try to anticipate what you may be asked and prepare for it. Revise chapters 1-5 of Tout Va Bien ( pages 11, 44-45, 80-81, 90-91, 122-123, 160-161) 339-343 is useful, also any oral notes/ carnet d'oral
. The following topics in particular will be tested in the Oral exam:
1. Presenting yourself
2. Family
3. House
4. Town/ area
5. Weekend
6. School
7. Newpark
8. Holidays
9. France
10. Housework/helping at home
12. Description of self/friends
13. Daily routine
14 Pastimes
15. Future after Leaving Cert/career/college
16. Pocket money
17. Part time work, jobs
18. What would you do if ….
19. LE DOCUMENT
NOTE: The Oral exam by its nature follows the flow of the conversation and therefore may lead to other areas of discussion in addition.
2. For the listening:Higher
Read page 344-345 of textbook
Go through the vocab sections of units 1-5 of Tout Va Bien
Go through the vocab in your hardbacks/hand outs
Listen to aural extracts from the textbook/ French radio/ watch a French film/ listen to French music/ tune in radio app/ listen or watch something from my website/ listenlive.eu (live streaming of radio on line)
3. For the reading comprehension HIGHER
Units 1-5 boxes for vocab and grammar from textbook
Hardbacks / handouts
Questions and question words words in French page 52-53
Technique for reading comprehension. page 346-349
French magazines/newspapers. Read French material of interest from the internet. Read articles from my website.
4. For the writing: HIGHER
Revise the different types of writing: message, email, postcard, fax, diary, letter, opinion piece, reaction writing, récit. (Revise chapters 1-5 Tout Va Bien
Revise the different types of writing: message, email, diary, letter, opinion piece, reaction writing/opinion piece, récit. (Revise chapters 1-9 Tout Va Bien
Opinion piece: page 350-353; 16-17
Récit:354-355
Informal letter: 356-357
Email:358-361
Diary: 362-365
Formal letter: 366-372
Message: 376-378
Learn useful phrases for each type of writing
Revise all the grammar we have done and how to use it in context.
Practise planning written pieces making sure they are well structured with a beginning, middle and end.
Remember to work out your own weak and strong points and use whatever techniques work for your particular learning style- everybody’s different!
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
REVISION LIST Full itemised list with page numbers for Tout Va Bien HIGHER LEVEL
Unit 1 “Tout Va Bien”. INTRODUCE YOURSELF.
Introduce yourself page 2
Physical description page 4
Personality 5
Dates/days/ months 7
Numbers 8
Signs of the zodiac 9
ORAL questions 11
Gapped exercise 12
Form 13
Opinion pieces 16-17
Present tense 18-19
Reflexive verbs 19
Present tense (slightly irreg) 21-22
Unit 2 FAMILY
Family 34-35
Relationships 36-37
Conflict of the generations 39
Household tasks 41
ORAL questions 44-45
Equality of the sexes 46
Opinion pieces 39,46-47
Adjectives 48-49
Negatives 50- 51
Questions 52-53
Unit 3 HOUSE/ HOME/ AREA
Types of house 62
Rooms and furniture 62-63
Describing your room 64
Your area 68-69
Problems in your area 69
Country and town 71-72
Countries 75
Feminine / masculine countries 76
French speaking countries 77-78
ORAL questions 80-81
Opinion piece (Town v country) 82-83
Past tense 84-86
Imperfect tense 87-88
Unit 4 FRIENDS
Best friends/friendship 100-101
Weekend 103-105
Clothes/ fashion/shopping 108-109
Pocket money 115
Part-time jobs 116-117
Advantages/disadvantages of a job 119
Transition Year placements 120
ORAL questions 122-123
Opinion piece (life of young people) 124
venir de 126
Near future tense 127
Future tense 128-129
Unit 5 SCHOOL
Schools in France 140
My school 142
School subjects 144
Daily routine 146
School uniform 147
School rules 150
New technology 151
The importance of languages 153
Future plans 156
ORAL questions 160-161
opinion piece (importance of education) 162
Conditional tense 164-165
Si construction 166
Adverbs 167-168
Unit 6 PASTIMES only in brief overview for Oral
Pastimes