NZQA Documents for Success Requirements in Scholarship (updated December 2009)
For Performance Standards, Assessment Specifications, all Exam materials (questions, resources etc) and Examples of Work.
Teaching Resources: Websites of Interest to prepare Scholarship Candidates
http://www.franc-parler.org/fiches.htm#ped: a wide range of skills and topics are covered on this French website designed to provide teaching resources to Teachers of French around the World.
The German Professor M. Overmann has created not just activities but full units of work on a range of topics. In need of fresh ideas for your Scholarship students?
Philipa Kruger outlines below some ideas to support the teaching of Scholarship candidates.
Philipa Kruger (Otago Girls High School) share her tips and, if she “definitely doesn't claim to be an expert in this area and would really appreciate if anyone has any other ideas as it does become a struggle to come up with things to do!” (sic), her ideas are great to get the motivation going.
• Also websites of the French press like Le monde. Go to the media in “c’est la vie” section of www.french.ac.nz to find a comprehensive list of newspapers and TV news shortcuts.
• Recently she has found the Dvds given out by the French Embassy useful. Contact Dominique Suquet dominique.suquet@diplomatie.gouv.fr for a catalogue and availability
• Philippa usually gets her students to listen to or read a text from one of these sources then complete tasks which are "scholarship style": either a piece of writing or record a speaking task. To download past papers, click on the NZQA link at the top of this page.
• She also give students lots of lists of idiomatic languague. See the Document below this.
• Another task she has picked up at a local pd session was to get the students to do an "issue log": students share are a current issue and read lots of texts about it in either English or French and then keep a log of it in French. She also tries to get them to do lots of reading in French (on line and from magazines etc) and to keep a log of it - although it can be hard to motivate them to do this! Any idea on encouraging Reading are welcome, please use the Contact or Contribute form to share your ideas.
• She has just set up a wiki (see tool box section) to try and encourage her scholarship students to contribute their extra work – she doesn't know if it will work!
