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At Greythorn Primary School our French programme focuses on the four basic communicative language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Students receive 1x one-hour French lesson per week

At these levels, the greater emphasis is on students being able to comprehend simple spoken French and/or provide their own response. To enhance their verbal skills, we use games, songs, poems and role-plays. In fact, all students in Grade 4 learn a short poem by heart and are encouraged to enter the Alliance Française de Melbourne poetry competition, held each year at GPS.

Topics covered over the two years include the following:

Grammar, as such, is treated more in depth by Grade 4, when the concept of gender (the masculine and feminine definite and indefinite articles), the consequences of changing from singular to plural and the placement of adjectives are considered.

As for culture, such an important component of any Language Other Than English course, we look at Festivals, the French Revolution, special holidays and introduce France, French customs and the French-speaking world in general. Grade 4 students take a virtual trip around Paris ( in the classroom). Every child in Grade 4 learns a short poem by heart and performs it as part of their assessment. They are encouraged to enter the Alliance Française de Melbourne competition.

All French classes are taught by Madame Sally Holt in the French Room, Room 50.

We encourage you to keep abreast of what the children are doing in class by asking them what they are learning and to show you their French scrapbook from time to time.