5th yr Revision list Ordinary Level
5th year revision list Ordinary level
Your exam will contain:
1.Oral exam,
2.Listening exam,
3.Reading comprehension,
4. Writing in French
1. FOR THE ORAL ORDINARY 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, 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..Housework/helping at home
5 Town/ area
6.Description of self/friends
7. Weekend
8 Pocket money
9. Part time work, jobs
10 School
13. Daily routine
14. After Leaving Cert / after 5th yr
17. What would you do if ….
18. 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.
LISTENING, READING COMPREHENSION, WRITING IN FRENCH (ORDINARY LEVEL)
What to revise?
Chapters 1-5 “Tout Va Bien” textbook, particularly sections of vocab.
Notes/ handouts/ hard backed notebook/ CDS/ website. Listen to French on radio, Spotify, on line, TV etc. Read a little French every day.
Listening: page: 344-345
Reading comp: 346-349, 52-53
Writing:
gapped :14
Form: 15
Letter: 356-357
Email: 358-361
Diary: 362-365
Formal letter: 366-372
Postcard: 373-375
Message: 376-378
ORDINARY 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 14
Form 15
Present tense 18-19
Reflexive verbs 19
Unit 2 FAMILY
Family 34, 36,37
Household tasks 41
ORAL questions about family 44-45
Adjectives 48-49
Negatives 50-51
Questions 52-53
Unit 3 HOUSE/ HOME/ AREA
Types of house 62-63
Rooms and furniture 63
Describing your room 64
Your area 68-69
Country and town 71
Countries 75
French speaking countries 78
ORAL questions 80-81
Past tense 84-86
Imperfect tense 87
Unit 4 FRIENDS
Weekend 105
Clothes and fashion 108
Pocket money 115
Part-time jobs 116
Transition Year placements 120
ORAL questions 122-23
Near Future 127
Future tense 128-129
Unit 5 SCHOOL
Schools in France 140
School subjects 144
Daily routine 146
School uniform 147
school rules 150
Technology 151
Plans for future 156
ORAL questions 160-161
Conditional tense 164-165
Si + construction 166
Adverbs 167-168
Your exam will contain:
1.Oral exam,
2.Listening exam,
3.Reading comprehension,
4. Writing in French
1. FOR THE ORAL ORDINARY 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, 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..Housework/helping at home
5 Town/ area
6.Description of self/friends
7. Weekend
8 Pocket money
9. Part time work, jobs
10 School
13. Daily routine
14. After Leaving Cert / after 5th yr
17. What would you do if ….
18. 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.
LISTENING, READING COMPREHENSION, WRITING IN FRENCH (ORDINARY LEVEL)
What to revise?
Chapters 1-5 “Tout Va Bien” textbook, particularly sections of vocab.
Notes/ handouts/ hard backed notebook/ CDS/ website. Listen to French on radio, Spotify, on line, TV etc. Read a little French every day.
Listening: page: 344-345
Reading comp: 346-349, 52-53
Writing:
gapped :14
Form: 15
Letter: 356-357
Email: 358-361
Diary: 362-365
Formal letter: 366-372
Postcard: 373-375
Message: 376-378
ORDINARY 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 14
Form 15
Present tense 18-19
Reflexive verbs 19
Unit 2 FAMILY
Family 34, 36,37
Household tasks 41
ORAL questions about family 44-45
Adjectives 48-49
Negatives 50-51
Questions 52-53
Unit 3 HOUSE/ HOME/ AREA
Types of house 62-63
Rooms and furniture 63
Describing your room 64
Your area 68-69
Country and town 71
Countries 75
French speaking countries 78
ORAL questions 80-81
Past tense 84-86
Imperfect tense 87
Unit 4 FRIENDS
Weekend 105
Clothes and fashion 108
Pocket money 115
Part-time jobs 116
Transition Year placements 120
ORAL questions 122-23
Near Future 127
Future tense 128-129
Unit 5 SCHOOL
Schools in France 140
School subjects 144
Daily routine 146
School uniform 147
school rules 150
Technology 151
Plans for future 156
ORAL questions 160-161
Conditional tense 164-165
Si + construction 166
Adverbs 167-168