Children will review all previous achievements, fill gaps and extend learning in the four language areas (vocabulary, grammar, spelling, conjugation).

PREREQUISITES

• Excellent knowledge of oral French.
• Know tenses: present, French Compound Past, imperfect.
• Grammatical knowledge: subjects, verbs, adverbs, complement, adjectives.
• Excellent command of reading.
• Good spelling.
• Able to speak critically about a subject.

OBJECTIVES

• Main objective: complete the basic skills and achieve a very good command of oral French.
• Excellent reading skills:
  • Fluent at reading
  • Be able to understand the meaning of a text, to rephrase it and to answer questions about it.
• Oral command:
  • Able to speak critically about a subject and able to argue verbally (as in written).
  • Be able to comment on real events, to describe, to explain a process, to justify an answer, to invent and summarize stories, to write a poem.
  • Correct spelling (end of level CE2): grasp the grammar rule for special consonants (n becoming m when placed before m, b, p) and double consonants.
• Conjugation :
  • Revision of the present and past tenses,
  • Learning the following tenses: Future, imperfect, conditional, pluperfect, preterite.
• Grammar :
  • Recognize: subjects, verbs, adverbs, complements, Direct and Indirect objects, nominal groups, adjectives.
  • Knowledge and appropriate use of declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative sentenses, as well as the affirmative and negative forms.
  • Making the difference between active and passive modes.
  • Adequate use of punctuation.

METHODS AND BOOKS used

• Comme un livre, CE2, Hachette éducation
• Bescherelle, CE2 Exercices et dictées, Hatier
• Bled, CE2 Grammaire-Orthographe-Conjugaison, Hachette éducation