Stage 4-5

French Year 10

NSW French Years 7-10 (Stage 5, Year 10) - the world of work, media and technology, the francophone world - expressed in Dux teaching language.

Modules
3
Dot points
24
Question types
5
Assessment
50 marks in 75 minutes
01Course content

Every module, and the dot points inside it

Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did French Year 10” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.

Work and Future Plans

Talking about jobs, ambitions and applications, with the future and conditional.

  • Jobs and workplaces
  • The futur simple and its irregular stems
  • The conditional for polite requests
All 8 dot points

Media and Technology

The language of screens: describing media use, opinions and their effects.

  • Media and technology vocabulary
  • The relative pronouns qui and que
  • Expressing and defending opinions
All 8 dot points

The Francophone World

French beyond France: cultures, varieties and the reasons it matters.

  • Countries and regions where French is spoken
  • French in Africa, Canada and the Pacific
  • Varieties of French and accent
All 8 dot points
02How you are asked

The command words this course marks on

A French Year 10 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.

Command wordQuestion typeMarks
applyShort answer3–4
composeShort answer3–5
composeExtended response4–6
identifyMultiple choice1
translateShort answer2–3
03Assessment

How a French Year 10 paper is built

Year 10 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.

  1. Section I: Knowledge and skills10 marks
  2. Section II: Written responses40 marks

Start with the French Year 10 dot points you have never been asked

Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.