NCEA Level 1 French (90881) 2017
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NCEA Level 1 French (90881) 2017 — page 1 of 8 Assessment Schedule – 2017 French: Demonstrate understanding of a variety of French texts on areas of most immediate relevance (90881) Assessment Criteria Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence Demonstrating understanding involves making Demonstrating clear understanding involves Demonstrating thorough understanding involves meaning of the relevant information, ideas, and / or selecting relevant information, ideas, and / or expanding on relevant information, ideas, and / or opinions in the texts. opinions from the texts and communicating them opinions from the texts with supporting detail. unambiguously. Evidence Not Achieved Achievement Merit Excellence Demonstrates limited or no Demonstrates understanding and makes Demonstrates clear understanding by Demonstrates thorough understanding understanding of the texts. meaning of the relevant information, selecting relevant information, ideas, of the implied meanings or ideas, and / or opinions from the texts. and / or opinions from the texts and conclusions within the texts. communicating them unambiguously. Some information is correct. The Information is largely correct. The Information correctly includes relevant Relevant information, ideas and candidate has not shown understanding candidate has shown understanding of detail from the texts. The candidate opinions, with supporting detail, are of the general meaning (gist) of the the general meaning of the texts. The attempts to communicate implied selected and expanded on. The texts. The response is logically response is consistent. meanings, and shows partial response shows understanding of inconsistent, indicating understanding of some nuances. nuance and meanings not obviously misunderstanding. stated in the texts. N1 N2 A3 A4 M5 M6 E7 E8 Shows very little Shows little Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates understanding understanding some understanding of clear clear thorough thorough and does not and does not understanding of the texts and understanding understanding understanding understanding convey the general convey the general the texts, and conveys the and and and of text and meaning of the meaning of the conveys some of general meaning. unambiguously unambiguously communicates nuances and texts. texts. the general communicates communicates some of the communicates meaning. some of the most of the implied meanings most of any meaning by meaning by by providing some implied selecting relevant selecting relevant supporting detail meanings by information, ideas, information, ideas, from the texts providing and / or opinions and / or opinions which justifies supporting detail from the texts. from the texts. conclusions. from the texts which fully justifies N0/ No response; no relevant evidence conclusions. NCEA Level 1 French (90881) 2017 — page 2 of 8 Question ONE Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence (a) (i) Possible evidence showing • Kids United is a French music group. • Kids United is a French band / music understanding of what Kids United is, and • There are five kids. group. It is made up of five children who who is involved. are between 10 and 17 years old. • Ages between 10 and 17. • They are all artists who are passionate • They are called Gabriel, Gloria, Erza, about / love singing, and they also play Nilusi, and Esteban. instruments. • They are artists, and they play instruments. (ii) Possible evidence showing • Kids United are successful. • Kids United are successful because • Kids United are a successful music understanding of how successful the • 100 million people watched their song they sing songs in French and group. This is due to the fact that group Kids United is. online, and 660 000 bought their English. they sing old and beautiful French album. • More than 100 million people watched and English songs that people have always liked. By singing in both • They also made another album, and their first song online and 660 000 languages / doing cover songs, gave concerts in Europe. bought their album. they have increased their potential • They also made a second album, and audience / fan base to be gave concerts in Europe. successful in several countries (or • The album is called Un Monde Meilleur. similar). • The impressive numbers of views and sales prove that they are successful. In 2015, more than 100 million people watched their first song online, and more than 660 000 bought their album which is called A Better World. • The fact that they have made a second album shows that they have had enough success / sales to continue making more music (or similar). • The fact that the group gives concerts in Europe (not just in France) shows that they must be successful as they are able to sell tickets and tour several countries (or similar). • UNICEF is a large / well-respected organisation so the fact that KU works with them shows the extent of their success (or similar). NCEA Level 1 French (90881) 2017 — page 3 of 8 (b) Possible evidence showing • Kids United work with UNICEF to help • Kids United work with UNICEF to help • Kids United give a Euro from every understanding of how the band helps children in the world. children in need everywhere in the album sold to UNICEF, so they help children. • Money from their albums goes to world. children by contributing UNICEF. • For every album sold they give one financially to UNICEF’s work. • UNICEF helps poor children. Euro to UNICEF. • Because they have sold 660 000 albums, that is at least 660 000 • They give them food to eat, clothes, • UNICEF is an organisation that works in euros donated so far (or similar). and also pens and books. 156 different countries. • They help poor children by giving them • UNICEF is an organisation that food to eat, clothes, and also pens and works in 156 different countries to books to go to school. give poor children in these countries better lives, giving them food to eat, • Kids United also include / carry the clothes, and also pens and exercise UNICEF message in their songs. books to go to school. • The fact that they include UNICEF’s message in their songs helps children by raising awareness. Thanks to Kids United, more people will be aware of the organisation, and what it stands for (or similar). NCEA Level 1 French (90881) 2017 — page 4 of 8 (c) Possible evidence showing • Carla was a member of the group. • Carla used to be a member of the • Carla was / used to be a member of understanding of the difficult decision • She had to travel a lot for Kids United, group. the group, so initially Kids United had Carla made. and it took up a lot of time. • She lives in the south of France, and for six members. • Decision was whether to be part of the production of their albums she • She called Kids United her ‘second Kids United, or go to school. always had to travel between her family’, so she must have been house and Paris, which takes about very close to the other band three hours on the train. members, which would have made • She missed a lot of lessons at school. the decision to leave them very difficult. • She had to decide if she wanted to be part of Kids United, or if she wanted to • She was happy about her work with do well at school. UNICEF to help other children. But she had to travel to Paris (three • She loves singing and what Kids United hours by train from her home in the does, so this was a hard decision. south of France) for the production of the albums, and so missed lessons at school. She had to choose between succeeding at school and following her passion, as she loves singing. • Finally she decided that her education was more important to her. Text in bold indicates the higher grade at each level (i.e. A4 in Achievement, M6 in Merit, E8 in Excellence). Possible evidence is not limited to these examples. Answers are judged holistically, not solely on the basis of evidence included in the schedule. Assessment judgements are based on the level of understanding shown rather than knowledge of individual lexical items. NCEA Level 1 French (90881) 2017 — page 5 of 8 Question TWO Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence (a) Possible evidence showing • Speaking French to his daughter. • That his daughter speaks both French • Since he is French, he speaks understanding of what Antoine thinks is • Speaking two languages. and Spanish. French to her, and his girlfriend / important, as a parent. • So she can understand her partner speaks Spanish, so that she grandparents. will be able to speak and understand both languages. • Although they live in Spain, his family is French and he wants her to be able to communicate with both sets of grandparents. • Important that his daughter understands both cultures to know her heritage / retain links to French culture since she doesn’t live there (or similar). • He thinks it is important for his daughter to be able to connect / bond with both of her parents and sets of grandparents in their own languages (or similar). (b) Possible evidence showing • He left France to play football in • He was born in Mâcon, France, and • He followed his passion of becoming understanding of how Antoine came to Spain. started to play football there at 6 years a professional footballer, and since live in Spain. old. this wasn’t possible in France, he left • A Spanish club / team gave him a contract. • He wanted to become a professional his family to live in Spain. His footballer. parents still live in France. • Everyone thought he was too small. • He had been playing football in France, his country of birth, from age • When he was 14, he was offered a 6 and wanted to play for a French contract to play for a Spanish club / professional club, but everyone team. thought he was too small.