Level: JHS, Basic 7 | Subject: French | Strand: Ma famille et mon environnement | Topic: La maison
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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
- Describe your house or your home in six French sentences. Say where you live, how many rooms there are and what you like in it. (6 marks)
- Look at your bedroom. Write five French sentences to say where five objects are, using sur, sous, devant, derrière, à côté de or entre. (6 marks)
- Translate into French: (a) There is a garden behind the house. (b) There is no television in my room. (c) The cat is under the bed. (d) My kitchen is big. (e) We eat in the dining room. (5 marks)
- Name in French four rooms of a house and one thing you do in each room. (5 marks)
- Explain what happens to un, une and des after il n’y a pas. Give two examples. (3 marks)
Essay Questions: Marking Guide for Teachers and Parents
- One mark for each correct sentence. Expect: J’habite à… Ma maison a… chambres. Il y a un salon, une cuisine… J’aime ma chambre. Accept any correct and meaningful sentences with correct articles.
- One mark for each correct sentence with a suitable preposition and correct articles, e.g. Le livre est sur la table. Mes chaussures sont sous le lit. Accept the contraction à côté du lit (de + le = du) as correct.
- (a) Il y a un jardin derrière la maison. (b) Il n’y a pas de télévision dans ma chambre. (c) Le chat est sous le lit. (d) Ma cuisine est grande. (e) Nous mangeons dans la salle à manger. (1 mark each)
- Four correct room names with the article (la cuisine, le salon, la chambre, la salle de bain, la salle à manger, le garage), 0.5 mark each, and four activities, 0.5 mark each, e.g. Je dors dans la chambre.
- After a negative, un, une and des change to de or d’ (1 mark). Examples: Il y a un lit. Il n’y a pas de lit. Il y a des chaises. Il n’y a pas de chaises. (1 mark each)
Education Always (education.inspiringalways.com). Original practice questions, not official WAEC or BECE questions.