New Zealand Curriculum

  Levels 7 and 8 Documents 

Curriculum Guidelines: specific detail for teachers to plan and implement quality teaching and learning programmes to support the New Zealand curriculum.

Learning Languages Achievement Objectives for Levels 7 and 8.

Levels 7 and 8 AOs related Resources

Editions Didier - Exercices autocorrectifs

The Editions Didier have published a plethora of online activities, based on 4 main contexts: the World around Us, Well Being, Communication and Society.  Those contexts form the 4 parts of their Accord textbook.  Each context is subdivided in 3 or 4 topics which are relevant to the L7 and 8 suggested topics of the NZC.  The online activities can be used independently from the textbook and include vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing resources.

En Calédonie -  by Gayleen Mackereth

Looking for senior resources? Teaching a combined 12/13 class next year?  Look no further!

This lively wiki-based offering for years 12/13 incorporating almost all set vocabulary and structures for NCEA and going a little further for Cambridge is now available.   It is proposed to offer it electronically to begin with so students can access it from home or school, and teachers can give feedback to students online.( No need to get the technician to load it!)

Here is a sample of the story which incorporates a lot of modern vocabulary as well as a wealth of photos of New Caledonia. Each of the 19 chapters link with a theme such as "la Technologie", "la Santé" or "l' Environnement" etc for teachers to plan their year's work. 

SAMPLE "« Formidable! » s'exclama Janelle.  Mme Barnard  venait d'annoncer à la classe la possibilité d'un voyage à Nouméa pendant les vacances de juillet. Sans écouter les détails Janelle sortit sournoisement son portable de sa poche et commença à composer un message à sa mère. Le cours continuait quand il y eut un Beep sonore issu de son portable! Mme Barnard se retourna, fâchée. "

Throughout the resource, Level 2 vocabulary and structures are written in blue and Level 3 in red to draw students' attention to the necessary words and to assist visual learners. The vocabulary is given in colour only on the first occurrence in the text as from that point on, the student is expected to recognize recurring words so that by the end of the text almost all required vocabulary has been absorbed. Words not in the syllabus have been glossed.

If you would like to see a sample please go to Gayleen's website www.eduvite.pbwiki.com and follow the links to “En Calédonie”.  Once paid up you will be redirected to the full site (already in use by a number of schools throughout NZ)

Subscription cost $85 per senior class. If you are interested in obtaining more details and subscribing to this resource, as part of next year’s budget please inquire to Gayleen Mackereth at jumac@actrix.co.nz

Le Professeur de Français

Radu Iliescu, a teacher of French in Romania, has compiled excellent webpages to facilitate the learning of French. Go to Le professeur de français to find the "Fiches de Communication" he has loaded.  They are very useful for all AO from level 6 of the Curriculum and up. There is plenty there you may wish to explore (Conjugaisons, grammar, civilisation etc)

Example of "Fiche de Communication" 7.3 "express and respond to approval and disapproval, agreement and disagreement: Comment exprimer l'accord/le désaccord.

Aiming for Personal Independence in French

In this text in French, adapted by Pascale Hyboud-Peron (french.ac.nz Administrator), based on the extraordinary life of a "more than" famous New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hilary, you can invite your students to identify the Level 8 Achievement Objectives they should be able to have acquired at that level.  The text can be used also as a reading comprehension, language analysis exercise or anything you deem useful to benefit your classes!

Level 7 Prescribed Vocabulary organised alphabetically in Suggested Topic

Level 8 Prescribed Vocabulary organised alphabetically in Suggested Topic

You might want to use the following course outline to give your students an overview of what they are about to learn in this subject this year.

All you need to do is insert your school course code (eg: 10FRE) instead of the level