Level: JHS, Basic 8 | Subject: French | Strand: Voyager | Topic: Les moyens de transport et les horaires
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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
- Say how you come to school and how four other people in your family travel to work or school. Write five French sentences. (5 marks)
- Compare three means of transport (for example the plane, the bus and the tro-tro) in three French sentences. Use plus … que, moins … que and aussi … que. (6 marks)
- Write these times in French words: 7 h 15, 9 h 30, 12 h 00, 15 h 45. (4 marks)
- Write a short dialogue of six lines at the station. You buy a return ticket and ask the departure time. (6 marks)
- Write three sentences with être en train de to say what three people are doing now. (3 marks)
Essay Questions: Marking Guide for Teachers and Parents
- One mark for each correct sentence. Expect: Je vais à l’école à pied. Mon père va au travail en voiture. Ma mère voyage en tro-tro. Mon frère va à l’école à vélo. Ma sœur prend le bus. Check en for closed vehicles and à for pied and vélo.
- Two marks for each correct comparison. Expect: L’avion est plus rapide que le bus. Le tro-tro est moins cher que le taxi. Le bus est aussi confortable que le train. Check that que follows the adjective and that the adjective agrees.
- sept heures et quart (1), neuf heures et demie (1), midi (1), quatre heures moins le quart or quinze heures quarante-cinq (1). Accept the official 24-hour reading as well.
- One mark for each correct line. Expect: Bonjour, je voudrais un billet aller-retour pour Kumasi. C’est combien ? Voici le billet. À quelle heure part le bus ? Il part à huit heures. Merci, au revoir.
- One mark for each correct sentence. Expect: Je suis en train de manger. Ma mère est en train de cuisiner. Les élèves sont en train d’étudier. Check the form of être and de or d’.
Education Always (education.inspiringalways.com). Original practice questions, not official WAEC or BECE questions.