Aims and Objectives

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Subject Aims:

• to introduce students to Francophone countries, the French language, Francophone civilisation and culture

• to prepare students for the exams, at Leaving Certificate & Junior Certificate levels.

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Subject Objectives:

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Reading: to help students successfully read and comprehend a range of texts in French.

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Writing: to have students produce a range of written pieces in French ranging from diary entries, blogs to emails and opinion pieces.

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Listening: to help students develop an ear for the intonation of the language and to understand different situations provided in an aural context.

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Speaking: at Junior Cycle level to enable students to present a Classroom Based Assessment. At Leaving Cert level, to enable students to speak fluently on a variety of topics from the concrete, relating to themselves and their own lives, to more abstract current affairs topics.

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Teaching Methodologies:

Pair work

Groupwork

Project work

Teacher instruction

Peer instruction

Self-directed research

Language-learning apps

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French and the State Exams:

Junior Cycle

French is taught at common level. The focus is on reading, writing, listening and speaking.

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Leaving Certificate

French is taught to Higher and Ordinary level. The emphasis continues on the three skills of reading, writing and listening there is now greater emphasis on speaking.

Inver College Initiatives:

As part of an Erasmus project we have fostered links with a school in south-east France and engage in student correspondence and exchanges with this school.

 

We have regular TY trips to Paris and other cultural outings.

  

Reasons for studying a language: 

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A modern foreign language is a requirement for certain courses at university level.

Learning a modern foreign language enriches your life.

Travel broadens the mind and languages help understand it.

Being able to talk to someone in their own language leads to a deeper mutual  understanding.

It can make you more employable.