WASSCE SHS
The oral paper tests listening, reading a passage aloud, and a conversation. A single word is hard to credit. Answer in a sentence, then add one fact.
Listening asks for facts in the passage the examiner reads. You do not see that passage for long, so listen for who, where, when and why. The same habit you use for a written comprehension serves here: the answer is in the passage, not in a guess. Reading aloud is a short text at a steady pace. Do not race. Sound the endings you can see, including the plural and the feminine, when the word asks for it. A pause at a comma helps the listener.
The conversation has a dialogue and a short talk on a topic you are given. Answer in full sentences. If you do not know a word, say the idea with words you do know. Vocabulary to have ready includes school, family, the town, health, food, travel and work, plus sports, leisure, education and culture. Learn each noun with its article, le or la, so the gender travels with it. For Ghana, part of the dialogue can draw on selected literature texts. This page does not publish that list. Confirm the texts with your school or with WAEC Ghana. Practise speaking in the weeks before the paper, not only on the morning.
The French tips guide sets out the oral paper, the vocabulary to revise, and the mistakes that cost marks. WASSCE French tips
A one word answer in the conversation is thin. The marker needs a sentence. A listening answer that was not in the passage does not score, even if it is true in real life. Gender is part of the vocabulary mark: la table, not le table. If you are asked to introduce a topic, give two or three sentences that stay on that topic. A memorised talk on a different subject does not answer the one you were given.
These are practice questions in the style of the paper, with a model answer and a mark scheme. They are not a promise of what your paper will ask.
2 marks
On te demande de dire ce que tu fais le samedi. Réponds en deux phrases complètes, en français. (2 marks)
Le samedi, j'aide ma mère au marché. Ensuite, je fais mes devoirs et je lis.
4 marks
(a) Donne l'article qui convient : table, marché, écoles. (3 marks)
(b) Utilise un de ces mots dans une phrase. (1 mark)
(a) la table, le marché, les écoles.
(b) Je vais au marché avec ma tante.
2 marks
Pendant l'écoute, le texte dit que le train part à huit heures. Un candidat écrit « à neuf heures » parce que son train habituel part à neuf heures. Pourquoi perd il le point? (2 marks)
La réponse doit venir du passage écouté. Son habitude personnelle n'est pas dans le texte. Le texte dit huit heures.
More questions on this topic are inside glearn, marked as you answer, with the reason written out. The first ones need no account.
Practise French freeListening comprehension, reading a passage aloud, and a conversation made of a dialogue and a short talk. Answer in full sentences. Practise speaking in the weeks before the paper.
Learn each noun with le or la, and one sentence that uses it. School, family, the town, health, food, travel and work are a useful start. Cover the list and write the words again. All WASSCE French past questions