Who learned French decades ago?
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Mar 2023
9:23am, 8 Mar 2023
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ChrisHB
It was a staple of my O-levels that we would be presented with six drawings telling a simple story. We then had to write that story in our best French. We were told it was a genuine part of education in France; the way French was taught in France. I thought it was an excellent approach as everyone could write at their own level. You could play safe, or you could demonstrate your imperfect understanding of unlikely tenses. But what was it called, please? Why did it go out of fashion? Is it really not a good idea, or it just that language teaching in this country doesn't aspire to such levels of competence until students mentally are well past the stage of simple stories? |
Mar 2023
9:50am, 8 Mar 2023
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I did London board 0-level French in 1972 Chris. I don't recall anything like that. My exam was mainly dictation and translation, not much free text beyond a sentence or two in answers, or the oral exam.
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Mar 2023
9:53am, 8 Mar 2023
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jacdaw
Did it involve Xavier and a canne a peche?
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Mar 2023
9:54am, 8 Mar 2023
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Derby Tup
Moi
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9:56am, 8 Mar 2023
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Winniefree
O level French in 1980 but I don’t remember that approach Chris
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Mar 2023
9:58am, 8 Mar 2023
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Welshpoppy
0 level French in 1979/1980 and that was the way our exam was.
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Mar 2023
10:00am, 8 Mar 2023
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Diogenes
Non, je ne m'en souviens pas (O level 1983) |
Mar 2023
10:06am, 8 Mar 2023
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Mushroom
I seem to remember my learning involved lots of pictures of 'la famille Lafayette' doing various activities.
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Mar 2023
10:11am, 8 Mar 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
I did Oxford & Cambridge in 1978 and this rings a bell. Maybe pictures of a child walking a dog and the dog escaping onto the road and causing two cars to crash into each other - for some reason that comes into my mind as the kind of scenario that we had to describe. If you could track down a school textbook used for the course, you'd probably find clues there.
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Mar 2023
10:14am, 8 Mar 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Here you go, ChrisHB - these question papers contain exactly what you are looking for! cambridgeassessment.org.uk |
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