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VCE French Tutoring

Expertise

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At Atelier, we pride ourselves in our knowledge and expertise with the help and support we can offer to students preparing for VCE French. 

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Dean is an experienced French teacher who has been teaching and assessing VCE students, designing comprehensive and engaging units of work and resources for VCE classes in secondary schools. He can also guide you to a wide range of online resources for your exam preparation.  

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In addition to support around general French grammar, writing or speaking abilities, we can support your VCE French experience through a focus on important aspects of the preparation of the exam: 

  • Text types

  • Genres of writing

  • Note-taking skills

  • How to tackle the listening section

  • Developing your answers for general conversation

  • Making your discussion engaging

  • Grammatical errors to avoid

  • Understanding requirements of SAC and/or sections of the examination

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Features Of VCE French Lessons

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  • 55-minute online one-on-one lessons via Google Meet. 

  • Each lesson is tailored around specific skills, abilities or objectives for the French VCE level.

  • The teacher and the student share an online notebook to share resources, engage in language activities and submit/mark work.

  • French language is used for the whole duration of the lesson.

  • The learning does not stop after 55 minutes: the student is encouraged to ask questions and seek clarifications as often as they wish between lessons.

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Please contact us to discuss how we can best support your preparation of the VCE examination with our online lessons. 

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Sample of Weekly Activities

Topic: School life

Week 1

Learning objective: Introducing your school and school life in Australia

Linguistic focus

  • General vocabulary of school, education, co-curricular activities

  • The comparative and the superlative

  • Conjugations of present tense verbs (irregular and semi-regular verbs)  

Activities

  • Discussion: comparing features of French and Australian schools (timetables, pathways, teacher-student relationships, etc.).

  • Reading comprehension: A journal entry of the typical day of a French high school student + diagrams to understand the French school system.

  • Revision of the present tense with drilling (oral and written).  

Week 2

Learning objective: Talking about courses, school subjects and pathways 

Linguistic focus

  • Specific vocabulary of courses, subjects

  • Understanding and using the future tenses (le futur proche & le futur simple) at the sentence level and in context

  • Text type: the school newsletter. Understanding the features and the progression of the newsletter. 

Activities

  • Reading and discussing a school newsletter/website. Looking at the language used for this text type. 

  • Listing your resolutions for the school year using the future tenses. 

  • Discussing pathways offered by French and Australian universities. 

Week 3

Learning objective: Specificities of the French education system - REP schools 

Linguistic focus

  • Informative text: the newspaper article

  • The use of adverbs of frequency 

  • The conditional mood for journalism

Activities

  • Watching extracts of the film Entre les murs and understanding issues faced by the students and their teachers. Creating a Venn diagram to highlight the issues. 

  • Reading of article and analysis of statistics related to education in France. 

  • Writing: student to write an article about an incident that happened in the film. 

  • Writing 2: student to write a newsletter article about an exchange to a French school. 

Resources

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Details Of Resources

Grammar

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  • Schaum's Outline of French Grammar, 7th Edition: a classic grammar book used by VCE students across Victoria. The book offers clear explanations as well as plenty of drilling activities. Schaum's also offers an exhaustive list of expressions relevant to each grammar point. 

  • Practice Makes Perfect, Complete French Grammar: another reference used by many VCE students. Clarity of explanations and drilling activities allow for good acquisition of grammar. 

  • Grammaire progressive du français, niveau intermédiaire: this book is not specifically for English-speakers, but we highly recommend this book for its format (concise and precise explanations on one page + associated activities on the opposite page) and the quality of its engaging activities. 

  • English Grammar For French Students: whilst this book does not offer drilling activities, it is an excellent supplementary resource. The author uses examples of the English language to explain grammatical points that can be tricky for English-speakers. 

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Methods/VCE Exam Preparation

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  • A+ French VCE Study Notes and Practice Exams: a must-have for VCE students. A+ covers everything you need to know about the features of the VCE examination, how to prepare, common errors to avoid, etc. The newest edition covers the viewing aspect of the exam as well. 

  • Edito (niveau B1): a great book that includes many authentic French resources (art pieces, magazine articles, illustrations, etc.). Current issues are discussed. Stimuli encourage discussions and confrontation of ideas. 

  • Discovering French Rouge: a comprehensive French method created by two Canadian authors, Jean-Paul & Rebecca Valette. The rouge level includes situations, language explanations and texts which can be relevant and useful resources for VCE students. 

  • Podcast Français Facile: if you are looking for topic-based audio texts to prepare the comprehension (especially listening) section of the VCE, this website is for you. Created by a passionate French teacher living in Tokyo, Vincent Durrenberger. 

About Our French Lessons

Days and times of lessons:

  • Monday to Friday: 6pm to 10pm

  • Saturday: 7am to 12:30pm

 

Advantages:

  • Possibility to organise mini-speaking sessions throughout the week

  • Personalised lessons via Google Meet

  • Maximisation of student speaking time during lessons

  • Access to a variety of recorded and shared resources

  • Possibility to contact teacher between lessons for clarification and correction of written/oral work

  • Advice and strategies on how to approach SAC and the VCE examination

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Contact us with the button below to enquire about our lesson fees.

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