The French curriculum in 5e
Now more accustomed to the new working methods and the collège environment, 5e students can deepen their knowledge and acquire new skills: teaching of the major subjects is more balanced, with 4h30 weekly of science & technology, 4h30 for French, 3h30 of mathematics, 3h of history-geography and 5h30 for the 2 modern languages.
French in detail
The main objective of the 5e French class is mastering increasingly complex forms of discourse. To achieve this, teaching in this subject is organised around 4 key areas:
- Spoken language: describing a person, object or place in an organised way using precise and varied vocabulary, dialoguing between students and with the teacher (role play), reading aloud and reciting while bringing out the text…
- Reading and understanding text and image: reading works related to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, adventure stories, poetry and drama, studying pictorial representations of the medieval and classical periods, establishing a relationship between text and image…
- Writing: producing a variety of written work (accounts of personal experience, descriptions, portraits, fictional or real dialogues, drama scenes, poetic texts…)
- Language study: working on grammar (sentence analysis, word classes, functions, conjugation…), spelling (grammatical, lexical colour spelling, homonyms and homophones), and vocabulary (lexical domains and lexical concepts).
End-of-year expectations for 5e in French
By the end of the 5e year, orally in French, students must be able to speak to an audience, be active in a spoken exchange and understand complex spoken discourse. In reading comprehension, they must be an independent reader, able to read and interpret different media (images, documents, literary texts…).
In writing, they must express themselves fluently, with varied and rich language. They will have begun practising argumentation, which is required for the brevet. Finally, in terms of language study, they must know the differences between spoken and written language, analyse how simple and complex sentences work, consolidate their spelling, and then enrich and structure their vocabulary.
To find out more about the end-of-5e expectations in French, click here!
