The Clever Checklist for Essays in French

Subject: French
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 16 - 18
Order Number: 9028

The ability to write an essay is one of the most important indicators of language proficiency at A and IB level. This resource, which is the result of several years of collation of mistakes noticed in students' essays at A and IB level, is designed to help students to become adept essay writers and to express their ideas, opinions and concepts clearly. It identifies the most recurrent errors and gives explanations and examples which will help students to develop their learning independence. Furthermore, it uses only the target language in order that students will be encouraged to think in French when they write their essays.

Key features and aims:

• The pack will help students to master sentence structure in French
• The two characters (Robert and Sophie) who feature in the pack will enable students to get closer to real situations and thus have a better understanding of the words.
• The grammatical definitions (e.g. adjective, noun) will help to develop a command of morphology in French as well as in the mother tongue.
• Definitions and examples are the result of the most frequent mistakes met, therefore the explanations are not exhaustive.
• The verb translation is given according to the context and situation of the mistakes.
• The explanations are attached only to the identified problem and are expressed as simply as possible in order to ease the use of the target language.
• The Alphabetical Index makes the search quick and easy.