FRENCH / ARABIC ABINITIO

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• FRENCH / ARABIC ABINITIO
• GRADE 11 / GRADE 12

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Introduction

• The ab initio programme is a foreign language
  learning programme designed to be studied over 2
  years at subsidiary level by students who have no
  previous experience of learning the target
  language.

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Objectives

• Candidates should be able to
• Understand and respond appropriately to the
  spoken language (for example, in announcements,
  instructions, requests, in the form of monologues
  or dialogues)
• Engage in conversation in order to deal with
  everyday situations

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• 3. Understand short written passages on the
  defined topics, recognize essential notices
  (timetables, menus, signs, advertisements) and be
  able to extract specific information from texts
  such as brochures, guides, letters
• 4. Carry out writing tasks such as short
  messages (postcards, lists, letters, e mail,
  short composition)
• 5. Show an awareness of the culture of the
  target language

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Syllabus Outline

• A - The Core syllabus
• Sets out the topics which are to be studied.
• Is the same for all ab initio languages.
• The core syllabus consists of seven topics

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• The Individual

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2. Education and the working world.
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3. Cities and services.
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4. Food and drink
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5. Leisure and tourism
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6. Environment
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7. Health and emergencies.
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B. The language specific syllabus

• This syllabus, which is different for each ab
  initio language, comprises the grammatical and
  lexical syllabus
• Most of the language used in the examination will
  be based on items listed in the language specific
  syllabus
• The core and the specific syllabuses are
  complementary and are to be integrated in order
  to form a coherent program

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Arabic

• We will start with Arabic grammar then we will
  study the core syllabus included in lessons that
  discuss certain topics.

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French

• Grammar will come together with vocabulary
  included in the lessons. We will use Le nouveau
  sans frontières.

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Teaching material

• Text books.
• Visual displays posters, advertisements etc.
• Correspondence letters, emails, post cards
  etc.

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ASSESSMENT OUTLINE
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External assessment 70

• Paper 1 40 1h30m
• Texts exercises based on a series of 4 written
  texts (32) 
• Candidate is required to write a short paragraph
  based on the 4th text (a minimum of 40 words)
  
  (8)
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• Paper 2 30 1h30m
• Section A
• Short writing task (a minimum of 60 words)
•  Section B
•  Long writing task (a minimum of 120 words)

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Internal assessment 30

• The oral component consists of a minimum of 4
  activities conducted during the final year of the
  course and assessed by the teacher
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• Only the last one is recorded and sent
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• The grade is divided as follows
• Individual oral (recorded in march )
• 15
• Interactive oral activity from the 3 activities
  done during the year.
• 15
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Examples of oral activities

• Role play
• Dialogues
• Class presentations
• Debate

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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
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• Paper 2
• 3 criterias have been identified
• Language
• communication (message)
• presentation
• Internal assessment
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• 3 criteria have been identified
• Language
• Communication
• Interaction
• Only whole numbers should be acceptable.

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• Internal assessment is conducted during the
  second year of the program. Dates are as follows

October Individual oral
December Role play
February Debate
March final, recorded, individual oral.