YEAR 8 ASSESSMENT NOTIFICATION

FRENCH

Task and Assessment Task 1 – This assessment task is a SPEAKING task.

Weighting
Outcomes
Speaking (20%)
Outcome LFR4-1C
A student uses French to interact with others to exchange information,
ideas and opinions, and to participate in classroom activities.

Outcome LFR4-5U
A student applies French pronunciation and intonation patterns.

Speaking – Monday 21st March (Week 8) 8Fre2

Due Date
Tuesday 22st March 2022 (Week 8) 8FreA1

Instructions This is a PowerPoint task. You are to submit the written monologue on slides
and record yourself saying it.

Background to the task:

In French, you have been learning about the francophone countries, how to say where
you live and describing your house and your bedroom.

Description of the Speaking task:

Students are to present a monologue, giving a description of
the following:

- where you live (street address and suburb)

- the type of place you live in (eg. house, apartment)
- where it is located (close by or far away)
- how many rooms are in your house/apartment and what rooms they are (showing use of
adjectives-eg. a big, modern kitchen)
- your bedroom and the furniture/items in it

Students should also commence the monologue with a greeting and sign off at the end.
French – Year 8 SPEAKING MARKING GUIDELINES 20 marks

Outcomes Limited Developing Sound High Outstanding

1-5 6-9 10-13 14-17 18-20

Pronunciation Ability to Basic ability to Ability to High ability to Excellent ability to provide
provide limited provide information, provide provide information, ideas and
(Outcome LFR4-5U)
information, ideas and opinions information, information, opinions demonstrating
ideas and and pronounce ideas and ideas and pronunciation and
opinions and some words in opinions and opinions while intonation of all the text.
reproduce one French correctly pronounce most demonstrating
or two sounds words correctly some good
correctly in with good intonation of
French intonation of most of the text.
some of the
text.

Intonation Hesitation Hesitation Frequent Few hesitations - No or almost no

throughout throughout hesitations - Brief reference to hesitations - Memorises
(Outcome LFR4-5U)
- Reads the Demonstrates Demonstrat text but mostly text and demonstrates
whole text. ability to es ability to delivered without fluency.
deliver a little deliver reading it and
information some demonstrating
without information some fluency
reading it. without
reading it.

Interaction to communicate Limited ability to Partial ability to Sound ability to High ability to Excellent ability to select
select and select and select and select and and incorporate modelled
meaningfully
incorporate incorporate incorporate incorporate linguistic structures in own
(Outcome LFR4-1C) modelled modelled linguistic modelled modelled linguistic speaking
linguistic structures in own linguistic structures in own
structures in own speaking structures in speaking
speaking own speaking

Interaction to exchange Speaker correctly Speaker correctly Speaker Speaker Speaker correctly
identifies one identifies two pieces correctly correctly identifies five or more
information, ideas and
piece of of information identifies three identifies pieces of information:
opinions. information pieces of four pieces of 1- Where they live
(Outcome LFR4-1C) information information (address, country, city),
2- What kind of house they
live in (a big/small apart
/house)
3- Where the house is
located (close by/far
away)
4- How many rooms and
what rooms are in their
house
5- Describe their bedroom
(furniture/items)

Limited use of Developing use of Satisfactory use Good use of 6-Extensive use of adjectives
adjectives adjectives of adjectives adjectives