SECTION I
(Reading Aloud)
PASSAGE A
15 minutes
Dans Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984), la jeune Louise, qui veut garder à la fois son amoureux à Marne-la-Vallée et sa vie nocturne à Paris, décide d’habiter un peu d’un côté et un peu de l’autre, et finit par tout perdre. Le film d’Eric Rohmer se voulait une illustration d’un adage inventé par le réalisateur : « Qui a deux maisons perd sa raison. »
Il semble que le vent a tourné. C’est justement pour garder la raison que certains décident aujourd’hui de vivre dans deux maisons. Certains, parmi les plus chanceux, ont réussi à le faire. Dès le 16 mars 2020, un million de Franciliens ont quitté la région capitale pour s’établir à la campagne. Mais beaucoup de ces candidats au départ, qui ont pris goût à l’ubiquité, ne peuvent ou ne veulent plus couper les ponts avec la vie citadine. Donc, ils s’installent dans une routine, un pied en ville et un pied au vert, dans une résidence de moins en moins secondaire. On les appelle les « bi-résidentiels ».
(Reading Aloud)
PASSAGE B
« Beaucoup d’anciens collègues de mon mari ont, une fois retraités, vendu leur logement parisien pour aller vivre dans le Sud où ils s’ennuient. Pas nous ! », exclame Sabine, 68 ans, avocate aujourd’hui à la retraite.
Avec son mari, 73 ans, ancien expert-comptable, ils possèdent, depuis une trentaine d’années, une maison de vacances près de Quimper, au bord de la mer. Leur domicile parisien est passé de 95 à 75 mètres carrés, largement suffisant pour deux.
« Nous avons donc vécu notre premier hiver à la campagne. A part le jardinage, nos activités ne sont pas très différentes d’avant. »
Les deux voitures sont immatriculées dans le Finistère et le courrier y est réexpédié, mais Sabine et son mari ne veulent surtout pas couper les ponts avec la capitale où ils ont leurs enfants et petits-enfants.
Section II
Exposé
Instructions to candidates
- You will talk on the topic given overleaf.
- You will have ten minutes to prepare the tasks.
- You will have two minutes to talk about the topic.
CARD A
Le président du pays rend visite à votre école. Accueillez – le à votre école.
CARD B
« Les sports sont également important que les études à l’école ? » Qu’en pensez- vous ?
CARD C
« Avoir une famille c’est plus important qu’avoir une carrière. Quelle est votre opinion ?
CARD D
Votre camarde est très stressé(e). Donnez-lui les conseils.
MARKING SCHEME
SECTION I
Reading Aloud Passage A
CARDS
- Section I of this examination will test Reading aloud skills. Candidates should study the passage for 5 minutes before entering the examination room.
- Section II will be an Exposé based on the situation outlined on the examination card. Candidates should study the situation for 10 minutes and then be prepared to talk on topic assigned to them. Exposé should last 2 minutes.
- Section III will test the candidate’s conversational skills of a general nature. It should last 5-7 minutes. All three sections of the examination should be marked according to the marking scheme provided.
5 Will be given for a pleasing approximation to a native French speaker, concincingly sustained through the passage 4 ( to be considered as 'down from 5') will be given to the 'Frenchness' is not sustained throughout 3 (to be considered as 'up from 2') where there is a significant amount of pleasing rhythm and intonation 2 (the pass/fail line) will be given where there are signs of correct stress and intonation but a lot of distortion 1 Will be given for the laboured and inaccurate 0 Will be given for almost incomprehensible
Note: It should be suggested that by the end of the first quarter of the passage, Examiners should have formed a clear idea of their 'starting point':
Down form 5?
Up or down form 2?
Up from 0?
SECTION II
Exposé
- The cards provided contain one situation each. The candidates will pick a card by drawing lots from the set cards provided. The candidates should not be made aware of the content of cards prior to making their choice.
- Each candidate should be given a maximum of ten minutes to prepare for the topic on the card that he/she has picked.
- Each candidate should be given a maximum of 2 minutes to present the exposé.
- The examiner may not interrupt the candidate before the expiry of the two minutes.
- Only verbal communication will be assessed: marks will not be awarded for gestures, facial expressions of any other non-verbal forms of communication.
Marks will be awarded using the following scale.
SKILL MAXIMUM MARKS Fluency 5 Relevance 2 Articulation 3 Intonation 3 Coherence 2 Total 15
The exposé will be marked out of 15 marks based on the scale above. The total marks for the exposé being 5 marks, the examiner should scale down the candidate’s total marks by dividing it by 3 to get the right score out of 5 marks.
SECTION III
Conversation Total 15 marks. About 5 minutes. It should be a conversation of a general nature related to the candidate’s experience and the content on pages 448-450 of the KCSE Regulations and Syllabuses, 2012-2013, of KNEC. The examiner is expected to ask specific questions on related topics and just concentrate on one topic:
- You should allow the stipulated length of time each candidate.
- You should start out from any point of interest noted earlier or ask a few general questions relating to everyday life such as school, family, and etc. Not more than four (4) topics from the list on pages 448-450(KCSE Regulations and Syllabuses, 2012-2013) should be examined.
- Precise factual knowledge or information is not necessary.
- Candidates should be expected to respond naturally to questions; their answers need not therefore be in the form of complete sentences.You should take care to avoid questions inviting simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ by using a variety of interrogatives (see list next page). The examiners should use ‘vous’ when addressing the candidates during the examination.
- Questions should be adjusted to the candidate’s ability. Candidates should be prompted and encouraged where necessary.
- Long periods of silence should be avoided.
- Do not interrupt the candidate unless you are sure he/she cannot complete the answer.
- Incorrect answers should neither be corrected, nor answers supplied when none is given.
- Questions should either be rephrased or allowed to go unanswered rather than be repeated. —The use of English vocabulary should be avoided. List of Questions. (Guidelines)
- Quels sont les avantages/inconvenient/problems.........................?
- Qu’est-ceq’u vous aimez/préférez? Pourquoi?
- Qu’est-ce qui vous intéresse? —Comment trouvez-vous..........................?
- Comment trouvez-vous..........................? —Que pensez-vous de...............................?
- Quelle est ľimportance de......................?
- Qu’aimerez-vous faire/devenir?
- Quelle sorte de.................................?
- Pouvez-vous donner des exemples?
- Qu’est-cequi se passé.......................?
- Que peut-on faire.............................?
- Comment est-ce qu’on......................? —Que feriez-vous si............................? 3
- Parlez-moi un peu de.........................? —Comparez...........................................
SECTION IV
Conversation Marking Scheme. Total=15MARKS NOTE: No half marks should be awarded. The objective here is to induce a spontaneous fluent conversation in which the candidate speaks more than the examiner.
0 | -will be given to the 'Oui/Non' followed by silence or where there is no real communication between the examiner and the candidate. |
1-3 Very poor | -will be given to the candidate who responds after a lot of effort from the examiner and whose responses are often inappropriate and contain many senous errors. |
4-5 Poor |
-will be given to the candidate who constantly requests for repetition of examiner's question and yet sometimes responds inappropriately, making many errors. |
6-7 Pass |
-will be given to the candidate who responds to questions but whose responses are limited, hesitant and contain many errors. |
8-9 Quite good | -will be given to the fairly forthcoming candidate whose answers contain quite a number of errors. |
10-11 Good | -will be given to the candidate whose responses are good, and fairly fluent but he/she is rather hesitant and makes a few errors. |
12-14 Very good | -will be given to the candidate whose responses are confident, spontaneous idiomatic and fluent but with a few errors. |
15 Excellent |
-should be given to a really outstanding candidate whose French IS Perfect. |
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