JAMB French Syllabus 2024/2025: Topics & Focus Areas

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Welcome SAVANT! to another exciting episode of “JAMB Doctor Series“, in this episode we will provide you with the official topics recognize by JAMB, which Board expects you are a guru in before entering the hall to sit for your JAMB French Exam. STAY TUNED!

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What Is JAMB French Syllabus?

JAMB Syllabus for French is a collection of topics the board expects you to be well grounded in before the exam.

If French is one of the subjects you will sit for in JAMB, then you need this syllabus, these were actually compiled by JAMB, so it is something you can rely on.

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JAMB Syllabus For French

JAMB French syllabus is designed to evaluate your ability to:

• Assess written comprehension in French;
• Apply the principles governing the structure and use of written French;
• Identify how French sounds work in speech production;
• Examine the culture of Francophone West Africa and France in relation (where possible) to home country.

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1. Written Comprehension in French: –

• Topics of general and emergent interest e.g. love, life, death, politics, marriage, HIV/AIDS, communication, child trafficking, cultism, travel, corruption, money- laundering, etc.

2. Principles Governing the Structure and Use of Written French:

Topics:

• Identification of basic form classes:
  • Nouns: simple/compound, Singular/plural, masculine/feminine.
  • Pronouns: personal, impersonal, demonstrative, possessive and relative.
  • Verbs: reflexive and non-reflexive, their moods and tenses.
  • Adjectives: qualifying, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite (e.g. nul), numeral (e.g. dix), and ordinal (e.g. dixième.)
  • Adverbs: – common forms
    • with-ment (e.g. lentement)
    • with préposition + noun (e.g. par avion, à cheval, en voiture, par bateau.) – special forms (e.g. bien, vite, mal, mieux, le mieux, pire, le pis, ne…que.)
      – types
      – manner (e.g. debout, facilement.)
      – purpose (e.g. pour + Infinitive, afin de + infinitive.)
      – cause and consequence (e.g. pour+ infinitive perfect, à cause de + noun.)
      – concession (e.g. malgré +noun.)
      – place (e.g. y, en, ici, là, là-haut, partout.)
      – time (e.g. hier, aujourd’hui, avant-hier, après, demain, la veille, le matin, dans un mois.)
  • Prépositions:
    – simple (e.g. à, de, avec, avant, sur, dans.)
    – compound (e.g. à côté de, au milieu de.)
  • Conjunctions:
    – of co-ordination (e.g. mais, ou, et, donc, car, cependant, ne…ni.) -of subordination (e.g. afin que, quoique, à condition que, pour que, parce que.)
  • Articles:
     – definite, indefinite and partitive.
• Assessment of vocabulary span: (words in contemporary contexts – meaning, use, opposites, Synonyms)
• Importance of word order in:
  • affirmative sentences
  • interrogative sentences
  • imperative sentences
  • passive voice formation
• Identification and application of basic processes in language structure, e.g.
  • conjugation – in all tenses except l’imparfait du subjonctif, le passé composé du subjonctif, et…le plus-que-parfait dusubjonctif.
  • negation (e.g. ne…pas, ne…plus, ne…rien, nul ne, ne…ni..ni, ne…personne, personne…ne, aucun….ne, rien ne….etc.)
  • agreement (e.g. les beaux arts, il les a vues les photos.)
  • pluralisation (e.g. as in cheval/chevaux, beau/beaux.)
  • derivation: -from adj, to adv – e.g. lent-lentement, -from adj. to adj. e.g. un – premier, -from adj. to noun – e.g. bon-bonté, riche-richesse etc -from one degree of comparison to another (using plus…que, moins….que, aussi….que e.g. plus grand que.) NB –special forms- (e.g. bon, meilleur, le meilleur, la meilleure, mauvais, pire, le pire.)
• Use of French in set expressions such as in proverbs, idioms and conventional structures as provided for in common speech acts:
  • (proverbs (e.g. tel père tel fils, petit à petit l’oiseau fait son nid.)
  • idioms (e.g. avoir une faim de loup, crier sur le toit, mourir de peur.)
  • conventional stretches (e.g. enchanté, c’est dommage, c’est formidable, stationnement interdit, etc.)
  • speech acts (e.g. proposer, conseiller, regretter, admirer, espérer, interroger, reprocher, s’accorder, etc.)

3. Workings of French sounds via:

Topics:

• sound discrimination (e.g. tout/tu), (fais/fée.)
• letter-sound correspondence (e.g. ai-/e/, eau/o/.)
• syllabification (e.g. con/tente/ment.)
• liaison (e.g. trois animaux, des enfants.)
• sense groups in reading e.g. J’ai mal à la tête. J’ai mal/pas à la tête / mais au dos/. Comment vas-tu, Carol?// Comment vas- tu demain?
• faux amis(e.g.librairie/library, rester/to rest, blesser/to bless.)
• identification of sounds to determine similarity (e.g. maison/saison, dents/don,fond/ fonde.)

4. Culture and Civilization:

• Characteristics (aspects, similarities and differences) of the educational system, socio-economic life, political organization and cultural life of Francophone Africa and France, with reference (where possible) to home country i.e. Nigeria.

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In Conclusion

It is advisable you go through these topics listed here, as they would help you have a more directed preparation and reading for JAMB French.

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