CSEC French. Paper 02 Situations. Directed

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1 Section I CSEC French Directed Paper 2 Situations Write in FRENCH the information required for EACH of the situations given below. Do NOT write more than ONE sentence for EACH situation. For some situations, a complete sentence may NOT be necessary. Do NOT translate the situations given. Do NOT use abbreviations. 1. You meet a French boy/girl online. Tell him/her two things about yourself. 2. You have just attended a very enjoyable concert. What two things do you mention in your to your friend who could not attend? 3. Your French pen pal sends you an asking what two things you would like to do when you visit France. What do you reply? 4. Your classmate wants to know why the principal wanted to see you. Give him/her two details of the specific task the principal wants you to do. 5. In your school library there are a number of signs which inform the users of what they should not do. State two things that users should not do. 6. You visit an aunt whom you have not seen in years but she is not at home. You leave a note on her door expressing disappointment and saying how you plan to contact her again. What does the note say? 7. Before leaving for work on Sunday morning, your mother leaves a note asking you to do two things. What does her note say? 8. Your teacher is annoyed with you over something you did. Write an apology to your teacher explaining your behavior/action. 9. A newspaper has a column for students and gives two pieces of advice on preparing for exams. What advice is given? 1. You are travelling to Guadeloupe and you send an to give your friend two important details of your arrival. What details do you give? Total 3 marks

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4 the a Example of an excellent answer The responses of this candidate were succinct and to the point. The mastery/manipulation of language was very strong. For each item in this section, the candidate was able to correctly identify the essential elements to be addressed and did not include any superfluous element which could detract from the marks to he gained. Item I: The candidate used two hasic pieces of language. introduced to students in the first year of their language study. The candidate displayed knowledge and mastery of the concept of gender of nouns and of the necessity for agreement of the adjective with the subject. In the second part of the response. the use of the correct present tense form of the verb avoir to give someone s age was evident. Item 2: The use of the idiom ii y a in the imperfect tense showed sound manipulation of the verb avoir, The expression of quantity, which is always followed by the preposition de was correctly used, In ftilfilling the second essential element, the candidate used the passé compose correctly difficult tense to master by students at this level. In naming the two songs the candidate also used the direct object pronoun in its correct position in the French phrase. Item 3: The candidate displayed knowledge of another tense in this item conditional. The verb aimer was correctly rendered. and was followed by the infinitive of the second verb. The correct preposition was employed with the feminine noun. in the second part of the response there was a repetition of the infinitive with a new verb and the correct positioning of the adjective, botanique, in relation to its noun, jardin. Item 4: The candidate deftly avoided having to use the potentially more difficult subjunctive mood. The verbal phrase employed in its stead was correctly rendered with an infinitive verb after the preposition. The use of the uord devoir to mean a task is unusual hut accurate. In the second part of the response. the repetiflon of the preposition, the use of pour to mean on behalf of, was brilliant. kern 5: The interdiction was correctly and succinctly given. Item 6: Both essentials of the item were addressed and met. The sequence of tenses was flawless. Three tenses were correctly used. The candidate correctly used the unusual adiective form. decue with the ci re c r 1 r, k

5 Item 7: The candidate employed a less hackneyed way of forming a very polite request. The candidate used the conditional tense of the irregular verb pouvoir as a modal auxiliary with following infinitive verbs. Item 8: The candidate showcased mastery of the negative passé compose with the negative irregular verb pow.vir. and again in the second part of the response with irregular verb écrire, and this time with the addition of a preceding direct object pronoun in the correct position in the French phrase. One way that this might have been improved would have been with the introduction of the indirect object pronoun vans before the infinitive \erb donner. Item 9: The candidate used the familiar form of address where the polite/plural form would have been more appropriate. It is interesting to note that the more acceptable impersonal 11 font was crossed out and rejected in favour of the tu form, However, the remainder of the response was sound. [One minor error Item 1: In this item the verb was correctly rendered in the present tense. The two pieces of information, time of arrival and means of travel, were clearly given. One point to note is that avec I avion could have been better rendered as sur I avion.