HSC French Continuers study plan

Build a personal vocabulary bank of 120 words and phrases covering identity, family and daily routines, sorted into nouns, verbs and fixed expressions

Write eight short diary entries of 80–100 words describing your own day, family and friendships using the passé composé and présent

Record yourself speaking for two minutes on your family and daily life, then transcribe the recording and correct five errors

Draft ten sentences using reflexive verbs to describe routine, then check each against a grammar reference

Summarise the education and work systems in France in a 250-word French text using connectives such as d'abord, ensuite and en revanche

Practise the futur simple and conditionnel by writing ten predictions about your own career and ten polite requests

Role-play a job interview in French for eight minutes, recording it and noting three fluency problems to fix

Compare school life in France and Australia in a table of ten points, then turn five points into full French sentences

Map the francophone world by listing fifteen countries or regions with one cultural fact each, written in French

Read two short authentic articles on French regional traditions and write a 150-word summary of each without translating word for word

Explain three French customs or celebrations in French, using relative pronouns qui, que and dont at least once per paragraph

Learn and use fifteen expressions for describing cultural diversity, then apply ten of them in a written paragraph

Complete four timed reading tasks of 500 words each, answering comprehension questions in French within 20 minutes per text

Identify and practise five reading strategies: skimming for gist, scanning for detail, guessing meaning from context, spotting cognates and noting discourse markers

Analyse how a writer's tone is created in two opinion texts by underlining evaluative adjectives and writing a one-line justification for each

Answer ten inference questions in French, quoting the exact phrase from the text that supports each answer

Debate two global issues in French for ten minutes each, preparing five arguments for and five against before starting

Write a 250-word opinion piece on technology and young people using the subjonctif after expressions such as il faut que and bien que

Compile 100 words and collocations on environment, social change and technology, grouping them by theme

Listen to one French news bulletin and note the main idea plus four supporting details in French

Complete six listening tasks of three to five minutes each, answering in French under exam timing

Practise note-taking while listening, capturing keywords rather than full sentences, then reconstruct the message in five French sentences

Train recognition of numbers, dates, names and connected speech by transcribing two short audio clips verbatim and comparing with the script

Identify the speaker's purpose and audience in five different recordings and justify each judgement in one French sentence

Write four text types - a formal letter, an informal email, a blog post and a short article - each 200–250 words for a specified audience and purpose

Apply register control by rewriting one informal message as a formal one and listing the ten changes made

Self-edit each draft against a checklist covering tense consistency, agreement, connectives and range of vocabulary, then produce a clean second version

Memorise and use fifteen sentence frames suited to opening, developing and closing an argument in writing

Sit two full mock exams under strict timing, covering listening, reading and writing sections in one sitting each

Review every mock error and classify it as vocabulary, grammar, comprehension or timing, then write a corrective action for each category

Rehearse the weakest two domains with 90 minutes of targeted drills drawn from your own error log

Consolidate revision by re-reading all weekly deliverables and writing a one-page French summary of what you can now do