The French curriculum in 4e
Just like science & technology, French takes up 4h30 of the timetable of a 4e student. Note that modern language lessons take 5h30, mathematics 3h30 and history-geography 3h. In the 4e class, the French teacher will build on the knowledge acquired in cycle 3 and use it to deepen the concepts covered in 5e.
French in detail
Since starting 6e, French has been organised around 4 key areas, with progressive and continuous expectations:
- Spoken language: practising explanatory or argumentative dialogues with a range of speaking partners, practising reading aloud, reciting in a way that brings out the text…
- Reading and understanding written text: reading letters, 19th-century narratives, poetry (lyricism) and drama, studying images and their relationship with text…
- Writing: producing work involving narratives with narrative constraints, drama scenes, working on argued answers to questions, justifying a point of view…
- Language study: grammar of the verb, of the text or of enunciation, grammatical and lexical spelling, homonyms and homophones, figures of speech, lexical fields…
End-of-year expectations for 4e in French
The general objectives in French at the end of the 4e class aim to prepare students for the 3e curriculum. From this point on, students must master the different forms of discourse, be able to formulate personal judgements, have the cultural knowledge needed to build their identity, enrich their imagination and begin to understand symbolic forms.
In written expression, a 4e student must be able to write a correct and coherent text of around forty lines, develop discourse skills and deepen the study of complex narratives. In doing so, they will discover reference French and European texts from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which will also enrich their personal culture.
To find out more about the end-of-4e expectations in French, click here!
