Responding to the Prescribed Text
Close study of the prescribed novel, play or film: what it says, how it says it, and what it assumes the reader knows.
- Plot and Structure
- Characterisation
- Narrative Voice and Point of View
NSW French Extension Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did French Extension” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Close study of the prescribed novel, play or film: what it says, how it says it, and what it assumes the reader knows.
The themes the course reads the text through, and the positions a student can argue about them.
Producing a sustained response in the target language, and the register and structure that make it land.
A French Extension paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–6 |
| apply | Short answer | 4–6 |
| argue | Short answer | 3–5 |
| compare | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–5 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| improve | Short answer | 3–5 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–5 |
| plan | Short answer | 3–5 |
| summarise | Short answer | 3–5 |
| trace | Short answer | 3–5 |
| translate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| write | Short answer | 4–6 |
| write | Extended response | 8–10 |
HSC French Extension - Examination Shape — 50 marks, 90 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.