You can download the mp3 files for exam practice purposes below.
The original files were very large. Their format had to be edited to be available for download for your convenience here. The largest ones had to be uploaded in two parts: Q1 and Q2. The NZAFT was given the permission to upload these files here via email by the National Assessment Facilitator "The copyright law means it’s OK to use them for exams" on May 16th 2011.
Sue Pommarède (Rosehill College) is kindly sharing here a sample 1.4 paper she has put together from old School Cert papers about New Zealand (1987, 1988) and a 2004 paper about the Loire and a Canal trip that she has been reworked to suit the new format for AS90881. Sue has included her marking schedule.
This sample paper was put together and shared by Patsy Hall and Ronja Skandera (Hamilton High School for Girls). "It is made from old School Cert papers and we haven't done anything about the copyright. We have followed the exemplar for the Level 1 exam but have added an extra question and included one with pictures because it's called "Demonstrate understanding of a variety of written/visual French texts relating to areas of most immediate relevance." Teachers should feel free to adapt as they see fit, and we have a gradescore marking schedule coming soon."
About the Marking Schedule: We have attached an assessment schedule and this is an attempt at a gradescore marking schedule. We read the information about GSM put out by NZQA but we have huge doubts about what we have done. If there is anyone out there who can shed some light about how to make GSMs for languages in particular, we would love to hear from you. This GSM has not been checked or moderated and may even be completely on the wrong track. Please feel free to use (with caution!) and adapt.
Julia Brown (Dilworth College) has shared a possible 1.4 practice paper. Julia has used some old SC translations and SC papers. There is future tense in the first document, as she has taught her students that. People may want to play around with schedule - and/or questions. She adds she's " figured that any practice is good practice"! Thanks for sharing!
First Document Topics: Pétanque, Astérix & Obelix, Dogs
Second Document Topics: School, Penfriends Picture by Mszklanny via Wikimedia Commons
Pauline Kotze (Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt) has adapted a 1.1 Practice paper, initially written by Frédéric Dichtel, with his permission. Pauline is kindly contributed this paper for you to use, and she has included the questions, transcripts and marking scheme.
Picture by Jazzmanian [public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
Sue Pommarède (Rosehill College) kickstarts the 2010 collection of exam practice papers with this contribution! Sue has adapted the Question 1 of the 2006 Paper (Letter to a French Teacher) and designed Question 2 (Last Week End) and she has included the marking schedule.
Dawn Jarbeau (Team Solutions Auckland) has sent on to share the listening and reading exams which were written by French teachers at a workshop held in Auckland. 1.1 Listening includes:
1. Teacher's Instructions & Script
2. Evidence statement/ assessment schedule
3. Student's booklet
- All words and verb tenses proofed against the levels vocabulary and grammar (vary this according to the needs of you students)
- Spell check only with French and English but not full editing.
"These exams have been written by teachers as practice activities in order to help student familiarise themselves with the new exam format. They are not meant to be be an exact replication of the NZQA publish exam. We have endeavoured to edit and proof them but errors may still occur. It's important that you read through the exam and check its suitability for your students. Please feel free to alter the exams to suit your needs".
If you have any editing recommendations, please feel free to contact Dawn Jarbeau.
Patsy Hall (Hamilton High School for Girls) "took a guess" (sic) at what the 2009 exam papers are going to look like. The NZQA site gives only the questions, but not a whole paper. Patsy has done more that just cut and paste from the 2007 paper which provides the base for the new 1.1 and 1.4 format. She has formatted the paper by putting together 2 whole assessment booklets, including assessment schedules and evidence statements that you might want to look at and trial with your students, while of course letting them know that these are samples only.
Julia Brown (Dilworth College) has kindly shared these 1.4 practice papers and assessment schedule. The first one (1-) has been created by Julia and based on a Bonjour magazine article. Based on the topic Food and Obesity, Julia adds that although "it is probably not as an examiner would make it, (yet) anyone would be welcome to use it if you deem it suitable". The second one (2-) is the adaptation into 2009 style of the 2007 1.4 paper, and its marking schedule follows in a separate document.
Philippa Kruger (St Hilda's Collegiate School) has adaptedwith Frédéric Dichtel's (Aquinas College) permission, the 1.1 Practice Paper he created last year as a mock exam. The revised transcript and marking schedule are also included. Philippa has shared a number of practice papers at all three levels, and she will be grateful for your feedback, so that she can work towards providing a better version still. Please email her direct with your suggestions at pkruger@shcs.school.nz
Philippa Kruger (St Hilda's Collegiate School) has adapted, with the author's permission, a 1.4 practice paper previously published by Ali Rennie (Renash Resources) The revised transcript and marking schedule are also included. Philippa has shared a number of practice papers at all three levels, and she will be grateful for your feedback, so that she can work towards providing a better version still. Please email her direct with your suggestions atpkruger@shcs.school.nz
The following document suggests answers to the four tasks set in the 2007 Assessment paper. Pascale Hyboud-Peron (french.ac.nz Administrator) wrote possible answers to these tasks using a wide variety of vocabulary and structures including some from Curriculum Level 6. While expressing and responding to personal ideas and opinions, Pascale communicates information, ideas and opinions through different text types. Evidence of Level 6 vocabulary and structures are highlighted. These possible answers can be used in the classroom with students who can self evaluate their language knowledge prior to the external assessment. They can study these short responses to understand the ways in which the target language is organised, as well as the different text types and their different purposes. The texts can be used for dictation, fill in the gaps exercise, vocabulary search etc. Pascale welcomes your feedback on these, which you can send using the contact form of the website.
Based on a possible answer she wrote for a 2006 1.5 task, Pascale Hyboud-Peron (french.ac.nz Administrator) has developed a revision activity for students preparing the assessment. By initially sharing the task only with the students, you get student to understand the task then to think about how they are going to tackle it, which words and structures they can use, to show evidence of Level 6. They can revise L6 vocabulary by completing the word list. You may want to spend some time on particular conjugation or word combination before moving on to the gap filling exercise. Upon completion, they can look at the text to find evidence of L6 vocabulary and structures.
