THE 10TH

INTERNATIONAL
FRENCH SPELL BEE
2022-23
FINAL ROUND RULES BOOKLET
FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

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 CONTENTS
SCHEDULE ; JUDGES & PANEL MEMBERS Page No. 1

FOREWARD Page No. 2

RULES and GUIDELINES (Part-1) Page No. 2

RULES and GUIDELINES (Part-2) Page No. 5

HELPDESK & CONTACTS Page No. 7

SCHEDULE
India International Centre (IIC)
Venue 
CD Deshmukh Auditorium

Landmark Behind Alliance Française de Delhi

Address  40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi-110003

Nearest Metro Station Jorbagh & Khan Market

Date & Day 28th Jan 2023, Saturday

Time (IST) 8:30am to 5:00pm

JUDGES & PANEL MEMBERS

 Madame Jaya Gadgil,
Pronouncer and Moderator  Ex HOD Fergusson College French Dept.
Professor, Alliance Française de Pune

 Madame Basabi Pal née Ghosh,

Judge No.1 Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques,
HOD French,Chandernagore College

 Madame Kiran Chaudhry,

Judge No.2 Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques
Senior Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 Monsieur Haru Mehra

Host and Panelist
President & CEO, Le Frehindi

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 Rules for the Final Rounds of the
10th International French Spell Bee 2022-23

We at Le Frehindi-Paris aim to promote fair practices in conducting the 10th Live

International French Spell Bee in New Delhi.

Participants must follow the given protocols else they will be eliminated from the
competition and the organization will forfeit all entrance fees and prizes. If at any
time, a participant does not abide by the following rules, he or she may be
disqualified from the competition.

RULES & GUIDELINES FOR THE FINAL DAY OF THE CONTEST

1. Reporting time at Registration Desk-8:30 am

Each participant will be given a unique number on a placard at the registration
counter outside the hall with the name of the speller and name of the school on it,
which he/she needs to wear till the end of the competition. Participants will make a
level wise line to get their placards starting from 8.30 am. All spellers (Level wise) will
be seated on the left side of the stage till the time they are in the contest. All those
who drop out of the contest will have to join the audience on the middle and right
side of the stage.

2. The contest will be conducted in 3 phases : Preliminary Round, Secondary Round

& Concluding Round.

I. Preliminary Round : 9am - 10:30am - Around 50percent of the participants

from each level will make it to the Secondary Round.
II. Secondary Round : 10:30am - 1:30pm - This phase will zero in on three
participants from each level, who will go to the Concluding Round.
III. Concluding Round : 3pm - 4:30pm - This phase will determine the first,
Second & Third position holders from each level.

3. Schedule for the Day :

8:30am-9am : Registration
9am-9:20am : Inauguration
9:20am-10am : Preliminary Round for Avancé Level (in 2 batches)
10am-10:45am : Preliminary Round for Intermédiaire Level (in 2 batches)
10:45am-11:30am : Preliminary Round for Débutant Level (in 2 batches)

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10am-11:15am : Secondary Round Avancé Level
11:15am-12:30pm : Secondary Round Intermédiaire Level
12:30pm-1:30pm : Tea & Snack Break
1:30pm-2:30pm : Secondary Round: Débutant Level
2:30pm-3pm : Break
3pm-4pm : Concluding Round for all 3 Levels
4pm-4:20pm : A Word by the Judges, Guest of Honour & Prounouncer.
4:20pm-4:50pm : Prize Distribution for Students & Teachers
4:50-5pm : Vote of Thanks by Abhishek Nandi
5pm-6pm : High Tea (Only for Judges, Dignitaries & the Employees)

NOTE - The Preliminary & Secondary Round will be conducted parallely in separate
halls

4. Preliminary Round
This round comprises the dictation. Participants of each level will enter the
conference room turn wise. They will listen to some recorded words/phrases which
they will write on the sheets provided by us. After submitting the paper, they will
leave the conference hall & wait in the auditorium for the names of the selected
participants for the next round to be announced. The eliminated participants can
either leave or stay back to watch the next rounds.

5. Secondary Round
There will be two Judges cum observers for the Finals who will have the complete
control of the Spell Bee. All questions will be referred to the Judges and in case of
any dispute or confusion the decision of the Judges will be final & binding. In case a
French teacher finds some discrepancy, the same may be brought to the notice of
the judges immediately while the student is on the stage. No objections or questions
will be entertained by the judges and the organizers once the participant is
eliminated from the contest and leaves the stage.

6. All words will be based on the guide book provided at the beginning of the
contest. However, no speller will be allowed to bring the guide book inside the
Auditorium or anywhere in the auditorium premises. Carrying the Guide book inside
the auditorium while the contest is on will call for immediate disqualification of the
speller. All participants will spell the alphabets in FRENCH Language only. For E.g. If
the word is "Vélo", the speller will spell it in Frenchlike "Way" "Uh" " Accent Aigu" "L"
"O" & not "We" "Eee" "L" "O".

7. All words are to be spelled in singular form only, unless specified.

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8.
 In this round of the competition the pronouncer will give a word & will define
it or use it in a sentence.
 The contestants will have to pronounce the word. The contestant may ask to
give the word again or define it again.
 When a Speller is spelling the word; he/she may stop & start over but cannot
change the letters or its sequence from those 1st pronounced & doing so will
call for disqualification from the round.
 If there is some confusion in the mind of the speller, the pronouncer may ask
the speller to spell the word again.
 In case a speller fails to spell the word correctly, he/she will be eliminated
from the contest & the contest will proceed ahead with rest of the spellers till
the time we get the last three qualifiers for the Concluding Round.

9. In case a speller fails to spell the word correctly, the speller will be eliminated &
must sit in the audiences after which the pronouncer will give the correct spelling &
move to the next word on the pronouncer’s list which will be given to the next speller
who is in the competition.

10. Spellers will be called one by one on the stage & will be given a word by the
pronouncer for which the speller will get 30 seconds to spell the word. If the speller
takes more than 30 seconds, the speller will be automatically eliminated. A time
keeper on the stage will keep an eye on time to help the speller & judges.

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 If even after the stipulated time we do not get the clear three toppers for each
level the judges will decide to proceed for a Tie Breaker round having
maximum 3 rounds where the spellers remaining in the contest will have to
“Guess the Right Word”.
 In this, the pronouncer will describe a word in French without pronouncing
the same and the speller will have to guess it, pronounce it and then spell it
correctly.
 In this format the pronunciation is as important as spelling the word.
 A speller has to get both things right to proceed and win the tie breaker
round. Hence; the word needs to be pronounced correctly 1st and then spelt &
not vice versa.

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  This process will be followed till the time we have our three finalists.

For. E.g. if the pronouncer has the word “Crayon” in her list she might describe it as:
C'est quelque chose avec lequel un étudiant écrit et dessine.
Il se réduit entaille lorsque vous l’utilisez. La gomme est son ami.

12. In case the speller fails to pronounce & spell the word then the pronouncer will
ask the speller to leave the stage & take his/her place in audience & then give the
answer by pronouncing the correct word & spelling the same. The pronouncer may
throw the word open to the students in the audience & in case some student
pronounces & spells the same correctly he/she may get a surprise gift from the
pronouncer. The pronouncer will now use an entirely different word for the
remaining contestants till the time we get our finalists.

13. The event will be a live event with parents and teachers & other students
watching the contestants live. At no time anyone from audience including parents or
teachers or fellow students will be allowed to help in any way to any of the spellers.
Doing so will call for immediate elimination of the candidate who has been helped in
such process. The audience is expected to remain silent & enjoy the live contest.

RULES & GUIDELINES FOR CONCLUDING ROUND

Once a speller reaches the Concluding Round he/she is sure of a prize. This roundwill
be deciding one of the 10th International French Spell Bee winners that is 1st, 2nd & 3rd
positions for each of the three levels.

The rules for this round remain the same as above including the tie breaker round.
However, Concluding Round will be conducted in the following way:

 Here the speller will be asked to spell the word in French given by the pronouncer as
explained in the earlier round.

The following will be the rules in case the following scenario plays out:

 In the 1st sub-round the 1st speller and 2nd speller fail to answer correctly (any two
spellers) but the 3rd one spells correctly:

Both wrong answering spellers will remain in contest and the one who spells
correctly comes 1st and the rest two will fight for the 2nd & 3rd positions.

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 In the 1st sub-round the 1st speller and 2nd speller answers correctly (any two
spellers) but the 3rd one spells incorrectly:

The one spelling incorrectly takes the 3rd position & the contest moves to the 2nd sub
round with the two remaining spellers & this process continues till we have clear
winner.

 In case we do not get clear positions assuming that all words given by the
pronouncer are spelt correctly by all three spellers or none of them spelt them
correctly, we will move to the next phase.

NEXT Phase (Max up to three sub rounds) :

Here the pronouncer will describe words in a 3 round contest as explained in the
Secondary Round to try arriving at 1st, 2nd, 3rd positions.

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 CONTACT - HELPDESK
In case participants and teachers face any issues before or
during the competition they can contact the following people.

COORDINATORS FOR FINALS

SHILPA JAIN +91-9811237050

SIDDHARTH SINGH +91-9811237080
ABHISHEK NANDI +91-9811237067
AKANKSHA PRIYA +91-9811237063
KANAV SODHI +91-9811237045

For any other query write to us at frenchspellbee@lefrehindi.com

or visit www.frenchspellbee.org

For French Spell bee inquiries WhatsApp or call us at +91-9811237080

For General inquiries WhatsApp or call us at +91-9811237971

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