The Nat 5 French Exam

Hi, National five.

Miss got Larson here, and I am just wanting Teoh

tune in with you guys on Dhe tell you a

little bit more about the national five exam.

I know Mr On Drove has already put up some

information in her power points.

And But I thought I could maybe give you a

few more details, clarify some points on answer any questions

you might have.

So that your prepped for the for the exam?

You know what the course is gonna hold and it

looks at the moment, like Miss Johndroe and I are

going to be the two class teachers for the national

five classes next year.

And obviously everything else is a little bit up in

the air at the moment.

We're not to be sure, but we'll keep you posted.

And Miss Johndroe is going to be setting most of

the work on the Google Question page, and I will

be supporting where I can.

All right, So you guys are feel free toe messages

and ask any questions.

Okay, So the national five exam and is pretty simple,

straightforward and the example being normal next May has two

parts, so you'll have the listening exam and you will

have the reading and writing exam, the loss of the

course work that will do through the year and I'll

talk you through.

That's what.

So the listening exam is about 20 or 30 minutes,

and in the whole it is a monologue part on

the dialogues.

It's kind of two different parts.

The monologue is just one person speaking in a kind

of a paragraph, and you have some questions and it's

worth eight marks on.

Then you'll go straight into the conversation.

The dialogue.

So that's 12 marks with two people talking.

Some people find that the conversation part is easier because

you can follow along with the conversation more easily to

answer the questions and don't panic.

The listening is not bulat handle, and it is worth

25% off your overall great and and there's a multiple

choice questions in there, so it is pretty accessible for

the reading and directed writing.

You have an hour and 1/2 to do both papers.

The reading paper is three texts, so three kind of

articles with 10 marks each, and the directive writing is

what we call a job application So we've been kind

of setting up for this in 30 already, and you

will have a choice of two possible scenarios.

So you pick which one you want to do, and

they will have a short Dr Evert in French.

So usually something lines of we are looking for a

nanny or a receptionist or a waitress or something along

those lines.

And then it will ask you to do a cover

letter tonight with six addressing six points.

Those six points are what you're going to do your

writing about.

And four of the points are known already because they're

the same every single year.

So you will actually have prepared them before you even

go into the exam.

You'll have done job applications a 1,000,000 times and you

know, your your four points off by heart.

And it's things like no se way where you where

you're from and who you are and say what relevant

work experience would have accepted things like that so you

can have that really well prepared before you go into

the exam, then all you need to do in the

actual exam is right.

Stout tweak.

It says it makes sense for the job that you're

actually applying for, and then you're going to want to

address the last to what we call unpredictable bullet points.

So those bullet points are things you're supposed to talk

about in your letter that are, um, not the same

every year.

So you're going to have to kind of make it

up on the spot.

That said, they're pretty similar.

It's pretty easy to have some good guesses as to

the types of things that might come up when you

have practiced it a bunch of times.

So it's just going to be a few sentences that

you're writing on the day.

It's not.

It's not too big a deal, and you should feel

pretty confident with it by the time we get there,

this time next year.

So that's the exam.

Now the coursework and you have the writing assignment and

you have this speaking.

The writing assignment is half of your writing grade overall.

So and you've got the assignment.

You've got the job application that you do in the

exam on together, they make up the writings.

That's 25% of your grade for both, and the assignment

is done in cast time.

Some of the classes had a bit of a practice

with this before, before we were kind of relented, locked

down and squeeze coast.

And the format is pretty simple.

You will have a new opportunity to, um, practice, do

a draft direction in plants.

You'll know about the topic before you come into the

classroom. So you have a chance, toe you go and

do some memorize, going practice the vocab you know you're

gonna want to talk about and you come in on

the day, you'll have a few different options.

You'll pick which option you want to go for.

And you're right.

An essay about it and that s a is that

marked by your class teacher.

We use a correction.

Hope so weaken.

But when you can say things like overs a spelling

mistake year or there's an accent error thereof or something

grammatically incorrect here we can tell you what the problem

is, but we cannot tell you how to fix it.

So then in the next session, you'll get that paper

back. You'll conceive whether mistakes are what the problems are

on dhe.

You can spend some time writing out your final draft.

I'm trying to correct as many of the mistakes as

you can.

You will be able to correct all of them, and

that's OK.

It's kind of part off the exam.

And don't panic as well because you are allowed to

have a capital realist, Andi, and some grammar notes in

the exam as well.

So and you have quite a lot of support there

to write the fight best you possibly can.

That final piece that you that you produces and sent

off to the sq A to be marked.

The speaking performance is the final piece, of course work

and the speaking performance is done with your class teacher,

and you'll have a lot to not to preparation for

it. It is where 30 marks, which again is scaled.

So that's actually worth 25% of your little grade, and

it's ah, presentation.

So you have learned your presentation off my heart, and

that's nice and easy for you and then a conversation.

You have to cover a couple of different topics and

through your presentation and conversation, but your teacher will help

you guide you to make sure that that gets done

and the conversation, you will have practice and practice.

You will be asked some things you weren't totally expecting.

That's kind of part of the exam, but you should

feel pretty comfortable with the whole idea by the time

you get there.

And I could say this isn't something that's going to

happen overnight.

You have done a lot of practice for it, so

you can feel pretty confident.

And also you are doing it with your class teacher

so it shouldn't be too scary.

Should know them pretty well at that point.

The National four And so some of you are down

to two national four of the National five, or might

find through the year that your levels for things change

and the national four rest assured during the same classes.

National five And it follows the same structure and you'll

just have some different units and things you have to

complete, and but it very much along the same lines

as national fight.

So either way, which have whatever when you're doing it,

is that you are kind of movable between two and

I will just do our best to make sure that

you're set for the right thing.

and on.

That may include your presentation for some of you.

So there's kind of a safety net there if we

really, really need it.

And nobody's going to be sitting an exam when they

should be doing a different one, that makes sense.

And we'll help guide you through it all.

All right, thanks very much.

I hope that was helpful.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment on.

I'll answer the second.

Thanks very much.

Goodbye, Mrs.

The Nat 5 French Exam

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