Level: JHS, Basic 7 | Subject: French | Strand: Mon environnement | Topic: L’itinéraire
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Part A has 20 tick-box questions. Part B has 5 essay questions with a marking guide at the bottom.
Essay Questions
- A visitor asks you the way from your school to the market. Write six French sentences to give the directions. (6 marks)
- Complete with the right form of the verb: (a) ___ à gauche, s’il vous plaît. (tourner, vous) (b) ___ tout droit. (aller, tu) (c) ___ la rue. (traverser, vous) (d) ___ jusqu’au carrefour. (continuer, tu) (e) ___ la deuxième rue à droite. (prendre, vous) (f) ___ à droite. (tourner, tu) (6 marks)
- Write a dialogue of four lines in which a tourist asks you where the post office is and you answer. (5 marks)
- Write five French sentences to say where five places are in your town, using en face de, à côté de, au coin de, près de or loin de. (5 marks)
- Explain the difference between the commands Tourne and Tournez. (3 marks)
Essay Questions: Marking Guide for Teachers and Parents
- One mark for each correct sentence. Expect: Sortez de l’école. Allez tout droit. Tournez à gauche au carrefour. Continuez jusqu’au feu rouge. Le marché est en face de la banque. C’est à dix minutes à pied.
- (a) Tournez (b) Va (c) Traversez (d) Continue (e) Prenez (f) Tourne (1 mark each). Note: with tu, aller becomes va, and the s of the tu form drops for -er verbs.
- Four correct lines. Expect: Excusez-moi, où est la poste, s’il vous plaît ? Allez tout droit, puis tournez à droite. C’est loin ? Non, c’est à cinq minutes. (1 mark each) plus one mark for politeness.
- One mark for each correct sentence with a suitable expression and correct contraction (en face du marché, à côté de la banque).
- Tourne is the tu form (to a friend, a child, a person you know well) (1.5 marks). Tournez is the vous form (to a stranger, an elder, or several people) (1.5 marks).
Education Always (education.inspiringalways.com). Original practice questions, not official WAEC or BECE questions.