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Subject Issue in 2017 Recommendations
FRENCH UNIT 1, PAPER 1 Audio recording: avoid
Audio recording: male speaker distorting language by
spoke extremely slowly and extreme, unnaturally slow
distorted the language, making speaking.
some words difficult to understand.
CXC should identify the
UNIT 1, PAPER 2 competency required for the
Both passages seemed to target a candidate at this level
higher language competency than a following International
Cape Unit 1 level: complex norms as in ACTFL
structures and vocabulary (American Council for the
teaching of Foreign
languages) or CECR
(Common European
Framework of Reference for
Section A, Passage 1 extract, Languages).
Contrefaçon: Alertes aux
médicaments, doesn’t appear to be
consistent with any of the topics Section A: should be related
cited under Module 1 of Unit 1. to the correct module for the
examination.
Question 1 (f): asked the candidates
to provide multiple answers
(indicated by the use of the Question 1(f) should read
expression “les raisons” when “la raison”. Candidates
there appears to be just a single should NOT be penalized if
answer to the respective question provided only one answer.
(un marché juteux…) can in fact
lead to much confusion and even
doubt in the candidates’ mind.
Section A, Passage 2 (i),
Section A, Passage 2 (i), (j): also (j): respect the
contained some deviation from the chronological flow of
norm, the chronological order of questions for Reading
answers, which is consistent with Comprehension.
typical Reading Comprehension
exercises was not respected. Item
(i) required students to find the
synonym for the word “cause”. The
answer, “entraîne”, appears in line
6 of the paragraph while the
synonym for (j) “de plus”, appears

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