This Thursday, June 30, third graders tried their hand at the French test for the Diplôme National du Brevet (DNB).
This is composed in particular of a dictation exercise, sometimes dreaded by students who must put their grammatical and lexical skills into practice.
For the students on the general track, it was the fable
The mosquito and the lion
, by Aesop, while the students on the vocational track came across an extract from
Number Six
(2002) by Véronique Olmi.
Difficult texts?
Bénédicte Le Doré, professor at Charles-Le-Goffic College (Lannion), editor and author of French textbooks and notebooks at Bordas, discusses the choice of these dictations.
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THE FIGARO
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- What do you think of the two dictations given to pupils from third to patent?
BENEDICTE LE DORÉ.
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The dictations were not difficult.
They take up the most general spelling points, such as nominal group and verb agreements or even homophones, and this, without falling into delicate matters as was the case a few years ago, where imperfect subjunctive had crept into the dictation.
What competencies, on the part of the students, were verified?
The dictations are actually in line with what we teach every day since sixth grade to students.
They indeed needed to remember certain rules learned at the beginning of the college, for example that of the homophones, which shows them that the training is a long-term work, of construction, and not only an examination occurring at the end of the third.
This perspective is therefore interesting, I think, and the choice of dictations reflects the training received by the college students.
Is an ancient text, chosen for general education pupils, less accessible than a contemporary text?
No, I don't see any particular sign there.
The period of the text, whether it comes from the ancient period or from the contemporary period, does not underline any difference in level.
The difficulty, whether from a lexical or grammatical point of view, does not depend on the register or the period of writing of a text.
