👋🏽 Hi, I'm Saf! I teach French at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for your final exams. Or maybe you're not studying for an exam at all and just want to learn French — you're welcome here too! ☺️ In this lesson, you'll learn how to tackle French Directed Situations: how to break down the question, identify exactly what you need to communicate, and turn those instructions into a short, accurate response in French.
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Directed Situations are a key section in your CSEC French exam. You'll be given a short situation in English and asked to write an appropriate response in French. Usually, you only get one sentence to do it.
That might sound simple. But these questions aren't only testing your French. They're testing whether you understand the situation before you answer. Who is speaking? Who are they speaking to? What has happened? What exactly needs to be said? Get one of those things wrong and you can write a perfectly good French sentence that still doesn't answer the question. So before we worry about the French, we're going to learn how to decode the situation properly.
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
identify who is writing and who will read the message, even when the writer isn't you;
choose tu or vous based on who you're addressing;
include every detail the situation asks for;
keep your answer to one sentence, or just a few words when a sign or a card is enough;
tackle five new situations on your own, covering school, home, shopping and sport.
In the full lesson, we go through real situations together, one at a time, and you'll hear me say every answer. Then you'll try five new ones and check your answers against mine.
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Grab a pen. Allons-y ! Here are the instructions. ✍🏽