CANHEROON GENERAL CERTIFICATE UF EDUCATION BOARD General Certificate of Education Examination JU. ADVANCED LEVE! | FRENCH | | | ONE HOUR TRAREY MINUTES STLUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES che fonowing nste ct carefully before answering the questions. 1 Bo not apen this question paper until you afe told to do so. 1D not tke the question paper out of the examination room after the examination. 3. Soswer ALL the 100 questions in this booklet Use only a soft HIB pencil in answering the questions, i question shall have FOUR (4) alternative answers, [A], (BJ, [C], [PD] carefully the letter corresnonding to the correct gnswer like this, for example if ‘BY is the cozrect canwer [A], BBA, [C], [D]. Wycu make a mistak answer, erase the penciling carefully, then pencil th new answer. Do not pencil more than one letter for one question, Do not waste any time on any question you consider difficult. Go ahead and come back to such jucstions later, Check that you have filled all the necessary information on your answer shect before it is collected. question paper is the property of the Cameroon GCE Board:and should vot be taker out of tion room.3.6 ‘The candidates’ ability in transposition, interpretation and translation {fom and into cither of the official languages of Cameroon THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXAMINATION umber of papers STS aa eae eae a Types of questions | Multiple choice Essay-type questions Practical questions questions MCQs ere er eee Duration of the 1% hours 3 hours 2h 30mins examination a : eee Marks allocation 100 marks [100 marks 100 marks oy Remarks These quesiions cover the whole AIL Syllabus: Literature (40) - Grammar (20) ~ Translation (20) - Vocabulary (10) = Expressions (10) Has two parts Part 1: Essay, Four topics to choose ONE. } Part 2: Literature Section A: Drama has two texts, Section B: Prose has two texts, two questions to be answered; one from each | section, “Two questions. QI. Translation into | French. Text of 250 words, Q2. Comprehension passage in French of 350 words. Twenty Qs ~ on facts, lexis and semantics, syntax, and deduction (cognitive, psychomoto) Pedayogic objectives Recall | | | | affective and | | | | | Recall Recall Tested. Application | Application Application Syheses | Symheses Spates | Analyses Analyses Analyses | Evaluation Evaluation Evaluation SYLLABUS CONTENT Paper ONE: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS - ih 30n ins (one hour thirty mins) This paper shall consist of one hundred questions, covering the whole syllabus as indicated in 4. above. Each question shall propose four alternative answers or istractors from which candidates shall choose the correct one, The manner of choosing shall be explained in the candidates answer sheet during the examination . Paper TWO: ESSAY WRITING AND LITERATURE - 3 Hours ‘This paper shall have two part 5.2.0 Part One: Essay writing ~ 1h 30mins The candidate will be required to write an essay in French of about 350 words on any ONE of the four topics given. The essay should give evidence of accurate yrammar and syntex, apt and varied vocabulary and appropriate French idiom. The content must be relevant to the topic chosen, and the argument should be logically planned, properly developed and illustrated. The domains to be studied should include: 5.21 General Knowledge. 3.2.1.1 Education, 5.2.1.1.1. Non-Formal: churches, ete (,. 52.1.2 Society 5.2.1.2.1 Marriage and familyEconomy and poverty Violence, delinquency and drug abuse Fraud and corruption ‘Women and modernism Basic utilities Feasts and celebrations. reas 5.2.1.3 Polities 5.2.13.1 National and regional institutions 5.2.1.3.2. Cinema, sports and the youth, 2.1.3.3 Traditional authorities. 152.14 Sports and leisure. 5.2.1.4.1 Cinema, sports and the youth, 52.142 National and international sporting activities, 5.2.1.5. Health and Science 5.2.1.5.1 Public health — hygiene and sanitation, 5.2.1,5.2. Traditional medicine, 5.2.1.6 Culture. 5.2.1.6.1 Music and songs, 5.2.1.6.2 Way of building houses, 5.2.1.6.3 Beliefs and manners 45.2.1.7 Pressantrinformation and communication. 5.2.1.7.1 Radio and television, $2.17.2 Print media and written press, 5.2.1.73 The e-mail, the internet and telephone 5), 5.2.1.8 The environment 5.2.1.8.1 Geographical ~ including ecology, 5.2.1.8.2 Socio-political, 5.2.1.8.3 Health and sanitation 5.2.1.9 Religion 5.2.1.9.1 Beliefs and practices 5.2.1.10 Generations and gender. '5.2.1.10.1 ‘The young and their worries, 5.2.1.10.2 Women and gender issues, 5.2.1.10.3 The old, 5.2.2 Language $.2.2.1 Parts of a speech: $.2.2.1.1 L'article (defini, indéfini, partitif) 5.2212 Lenom (commun, proper, abstrait, concret) ~~ 5.22.13 Le-verbe (le temps, les participles, les voix, le mode) 5.22.14 Le pronom (relatife, indéfini, personnel, possessif, COD, CON) S22.15 L’adjectif (imerrogative, demonstratife, possessif, indéfini, qualificatif et numéral) 5.22.16 L'adverbe (de maniére, de cause, de fréquence, de but, de moyen, de circonstance)6 5.2.2.1.7 Les conjonctions 5.2.2.1.8 Les interjections 5.2.2.1.9 Les prépositions Sentence and sentence structure, 3 Vocabulary 4 Idiomatic expressions 5.2.3. METHODOLOGY OF ESSAY WRITING. 5.2.3.1 Introduction techniques, 5.2.3.2 Techniques of paragraph development 5.2.3.3. The drawing of conclusions 5.2.2 Part Two: Literature 1h 30mins There shall be two sections, of two texts each on which two alternative questions shall be asked. Candidates shall answer two questions choosing only ONE from Section A. Section A shall be Drama, while Section B shall be P1 Two of the texts, one from each genre shall be Negro-african literature, while the other two shall be francophone literature. 5.2.3. Paper 3: Translation and comprehension ~ 2h 30mins ‘This paper shall have two questions. Question one shall be translation into French of a text of two hundred and forty (240) words in English. The text shall bbe essentially narrative, descriptive, and including conversation. Candidates shall be expected to have a good knowledge of idiomatic expression . grammar es, (euses, vocabulary, sentence structures and cuitural, grammatical and structure transpositions. Question two shall be Reading Comprehension, Candidates will be given a passage in French of 350 words on which 20 questions shall be asked. Five (05) con syntax, five (05) on vocabulary and semantics, and ten (10) on comprehension ie. direct factual questions, deductions, insinuations and implication, The passage will be in modern French and may consist of narrative, description, dialogue or a mixture of any of these. nndidates shall be expected to cover skills in comprehension, inferences, scanning and imming, imagination and creativity. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SUBJECT, Candidates shall be expected to be aimed with the culture of extensive and intensive reading of magazines like: Cameioon Tribune, le messager and other journals in French, Should listen to racio programmes like: Dimanche Midi and Cameroon calling Parents should take responsibility in the learning of their children by planning language visits and holidays to Francophone Areas = Must do a lot of writing in French (Articles, short stories, Small poems) ~ Must also do a lot of Homework/Assignments, XT BOOKS AND REFERENCE MATERIAL - A.good French language dictionary ~ A good English language dictionary + A good Bilingual (French and English) dictionary A French Grammar ~ La grammaire frangaise contemporain ~ La grammaire frangaise de A - Z ~ Ltart de conjugaison de 12.000 verbes | WPH WHITMARSH . NEW Advanced French1. AIMS The aims of the syllabus are as follows A) To allow for a variety of approaches to learning and using French beyond the standard of proficiency associated with the Ordinary Level. 8) To encourage the development of linguistic and general study skills for purposes of personal, vocational and higher education. ©) To promote the acquisition of the following receptive and productive language skills ') The ability to understand spoken French; ii) ‘The ability to read and understand written French, iit) The ability to write French with accuracy and fluency, 1s) The ability to interpret and translate from and into the two official languages of Cameroon. D) To enrich pedagogically, morally and intellectually personality in Cameroonian and universal civilisations from literary works RAL OBJECTIVES, GE ‘The objectives of this subject shall be: 2.1 To promote Biliggualism as a constitutional option. * To facilitate and aciuate biculturalism and multiculturalism within the Francophonie as a factor of national and international integration, ‘To-expose and widen the reasoning scope of learners to Cameroonian and francophonie civilizations, To provide communicative competences in varying and various settings To instill a feeling of democratic culture,respect for human rights and self confidence mv the learners, © To provide appropriate linguistic and intellectual capacities necessary for university studies. ‘To develop creativity and a spirit of enterprise at vocational ow individual levels To cultivate acceptable values for good citizenship and harness leadership qualities in the learners, for the community. 3.0 ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES. The assessment objectives of this subject shall be to test: “The caudidates’ understanding of passages, set literary texts and their backgrounds; ‘The candidates’ ability 10 analyse 1 The styles of writers in set literary text, 2 The intrigue or action in set literary texts 3 Points of view in essay writing 4 The characters and their portraiture in set literary texts 5 The themes in set literary texts 1 32, ‘The candidates’ ability to assess 1 The roles of settings in literary texts 3.2 The roles of characters in literary texts 3.3 The validity of opinions in essay writing 4 The candidates’ ability to apply 3.4.1 The methodology of composition writing, 3.4.2 Grammar rules and structures 3.4.3 Vocabulary in good sentence structures S The candidates’ ability in’ 3.5.1 The imagination,tesourcefiulness and creativity