{"id":822,"date":"2024-03-02T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/?page_id=822"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:53:57","slug":"french-n4-n5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/curriculum\/language-and-communication\/language-and-communication-n4-n5\/french-n4-n5\/","title":{"rendered":"French N4\/N5"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/brechinhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/2628\/2024\/03\/02174014\/Languages-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/brechinhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/2628\/2024\/03\/02174014\/Languages-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/brechinhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/2628\/2024\/03\/02174014\/Languages-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/brechinhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/2628\/2024\/03\/02174014\/Languages-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/brechinhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/2628\/2024\/03\/02174014\/Languages-800x1131.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/public\/brechinhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/2628\/2024\/03\/02174014\/Languages.jpg 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h1>French: National 4\/ 5<\/h1>\r\n<p><strong>Recommended Entry Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Pupils working within level 4 at the end of the Broad General Education can choose to study either one or two languages in S4 .<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_EtE8cwRbYgQQ\"><strong>Course Content:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>In both National 4 and National 5 you will continue to develop and work on the skills of Talking, Reading, Listening and Writing. You will learn French through a variety of activities such as ICT games and activities, videos, role plays and conversations as well as written texts.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The courses focus on the topic areas of society, learning, employability and culture and the learning is linked to the pupils&#8217; own interests in real life situations in order to encourage purposeful conversation, personal involvement and genuine exchanges of information. Pupils are encouraged to communicate about things which interest them.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_npC4IdQ-cJjz\">The following provides details of skills, knowledge and understanding sampled in the <strong>National 5<\/strong> course assessment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Reading and Writing; Listening<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_zp4UXVAKcJj1\">Candidates will be assessed on all four contexts: society, learning, employability, and culture.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Assignment \u2013 writing<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_FkVTSMmacJj3\">Candidates will be assessed on one of three contexts: society, learning or culture.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Performance \u2013 talking<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_L2bCVu59cJj5\">Candidates will be assessed on at least two of these four contexts: society, learning, employability, and culture.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_lYsdjZySCZfZ\"><strong>Assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>National 4 is internally assessed and pupils will be awarded a pass or fail based upon their performance throughout the year and their completion of internally assessed units.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>National 5 is assessed via a combination of an internal talking assessment and an externally assessed exam and writing assignment.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p id=\"h.p_RoRrOUghCBw3\"><strong>Progression Pathway:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>National 4 Pass allows pupils to study National 5 French<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/curriculum\/language-and-communication\/language-and-communication\/french-higher\/\">National 5 A\/B\/C* allows pupils to study Higher French<\/a><\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>National 5 C* &#8211; Subject to consideration of personal circumstances, including a view of faculty staff, alternative progression routes and the individual\u2019s learner journey<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7553,"featured_media":0,"parent":809,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-822","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/822\/revisions\/1703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/an\/brechinhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}