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FRENCH 2011-2012
General information about the AS/A2 course
Four-unit structure: The specification has a four-unit structure: AS Units FN1 and FN2 representing typically 1 year post-GCSE study and A2 Units FN3 and FN4 representing
typically a further year post-AS study. Subject to the availability of the units (see page 2) students may take the examination as follows:
- AS students must take Units 1,2: they may take all two units as a 100% end-of-course examination OR they may take one or two units during their course
and the remaining unit(s) at the end of their course.
- Advanced GCE students must take Units 1.4: they may take all four units as a 100% end-of-course examination OR they may take the AS units at the end
of one year and the A2 units at the end of the second year OR they may take the AS units and the A2 units at stages during the course.
Rationale of the specification: 1. Aims
This specification for AS and A level French is designed to encourage students to:
• Develop an interest in, and enthusiasm for, language learning
• Develop understanding of the language in a variety of contexts andgenres
• Communicate confidently, clearly and effectively in the language for arange of purposes
• Develop awareness and understanding of the contemporary society, cultural background and heritage of countries or communities wherethe language is
spoken
• Consider their study of the language in a broader context.
• Derive enjoyment and benefit from language learning
• Acquire knowledge, skills and understanding for practical use, furtherstudy and/or employment
• Communicate with speakers of the language
• Take their place in a multilingual global society.
• Provide a coherent, satisfying and worthwhile course of study forstudents who do not progress to further study in the subject.
• Provide a sufficient basis for the further study of languages at degree level or equivalent
2. Objectives
The broad objectives of the specification are to:
• Enable students to experience a variety of approaches to the teaching and learning of languages
• Foster the ability in students to use language for different purposes
• Enable students to carry out tasks, which integrate language skills and content
• Provide examinations of intellectual rigour which require a high degree of linguistic competence.
3. Progression
The specification is designed to:
• Promote progression through the AS and Advanced GCE and provide a suitable foundation for study of the subject or related courses in further and
higher education
• Provide a suitable foundation for direct progression into employment.
Successful completion of a course based on this specification should give both AS and Advanced GCE students a solid grounding in language skills and
knowledge of the culture and society of the target-language countries/communities.
The unit-based structure will:
• Provide for the changing needs and varying interests of 16.19 year olds and more mature students
• Allow flexibility in the organisation and duration of AS/Advanced GCE studies
• Offer opportunities for combining academic, professional, cultural and vocational aspects of the subject.
The specification is well suited to the adoption of strategies such as resource-based learning, supported self-study, extensive reading programmes, the
exploitation of new technology (eg. multimedia systems, CALL, interactive video, CD-Rom, satellite TV, email, the internet), workexperience schemes, and
links with vocational courses.
Specification summary:
AS students must take the AS Units FN1 and FN2
Advanced GCE students must take the AS Units 1 and 2, and the A2 Units Fn3 and FN4.
Units required for AS and Advanced GCE: weighting unit outline time:
AS (2 units)
FN1 20% 12-15 minutes 60 raw marks; 80 UMS marks
Oral
Examiner-led discussion of topics
General conversation
FN2 30% 21/2 hours 98 raw marks; 120 UMS marks
Listening, Reading and Writing
Listening and Responding
Reading and Responding
Grammar tasks
Translation Target Language - English
Essay
A Level (the above plus a further 2 units)
FN3 20% 15-20 minutes 60 raw marks; 80 UMS marks
Oral
Structured Discussion
Exposé
FN4 30% 3 hours 98 raw marks; 120 UMS marks
Listening Reading and Writing
Listening and Responding
Reading and Responding
Translation English - target language
Guided Studies Essay
Knowledge, understanding and skills:
AS candidates will be required to :
• Listen and respond to a variety of spoken sources, including authentic sources
• Read and respond to a variety of written texts, including authentic sources,covering different contexts, registers, styles and genres
• Adapt their spoken and written language appropriately for different situationsand purposes
• Use the language accurately to express facts and ideas, and to presentexplanations, opinions and information in both speech and writing
• Understand and apply the grammatical system and a range of structures asdetailed in the AS specification (See Appendix1)
• Transfer meaning from foreign language into English/Welsh.
In addition, A level candidates will be required to:
• Use the language to present viewpoints, develop arguments, analyse and evaluate, in speech and writing
• Understand and apply the grammatical system and a range of structures asdetailed in the A level specification (See Appendix 1)
• Study aspects of the contemporary society, cultural background and heritageof one or more of the countries or communities whose language is beingstudied
• Transfer meaning from English/Welsh into the foreign language.
General topic areas*:
The following topics will be studied with reference to target language countries aswell as in a wider, global context as appropriate.
AS
(a) Leisure and Lifestyles, including travel and tourism, sport, hobbies, entertainment, customs, traditions, healthy living - health and nutrition, diet and
exercise; unhealthy living - drugs, aids, smoking, alcohol, etc
(b) The Individual and Society, including relationships and responsibilities, gender issues, youth culture (values, peer groups, fashions and trends etc.),
education, vocational training and future careers.
Advanced
(c) Environmental Issues, including technology, pollution, global warming, transport, energy, nuclear energy, renewable energies, conservation, recycling,
sustainability.
(d) Social and Political Issues, including the role of the media, racism, immigration social exclusion and integration, terrorism, world of work (employment,
commerce, globalization, etc.),
(e) Guided studied options
Part of the A2 course of study will involve choosing one or two of the following options:
Either: A The World of Cinema Or: B The World of Literature Or: C The Regions of France
Candidates must undertake 2 studies: Either: both from the same option (e.g. 2 books; 2 films; 2 regions)
Or: one from each of 2 options (e.g. 1 book plus 1 film or 1 film plus 1 region or 1 book plus 1 region)
The essay will be based on the prescribed list of books, films and regions (seeAppendices).
Candidates may choose to base their oral exposé (Unit 3) on the prescribed list of books, films and regions (see Appendices) or on a book, film or region of
their choice (i.e. any French / Spanish or Spanish-American film or any French/ Spanish Spanish or Spanish-American work of literature or any region in a
country where French/ Spanish is spoken).
During their preparation time for the Guided Studies, candidates will be expected to study and respond to spoken and written sources, regardless of option
choice, e.g.studying written materials about the films; listening to news items about the regions or viewing filmed versions of the books.
A. The World of Cinema
Le Boucher: Claude Chabrol
Au revoir les enfants: Louis Malle
Le dernier métro: Francois Truffaut
La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz
Amélie: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Le grand voyage: Ismael Farroukhi
Les choristes: Christophe Barratier
Merci pour le chocolat: Claude Chabrol
Pedro Almodóvar, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Carlos Saura, ¡Ay, Carmela!
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, La mitad del cielo
Antonio Mercero, Planta 4ª
Helena Taberna, Yoyes
Montxo Armendáriz, Secretos del corazón
Guillermo del Toro, El Laberinto del fauno
Joshua Marston, María llena eres de gracia
Fernando Trueba, La Belle Epoque
Emilio Martínez - Lāzaro, Las trece rosas
Achero Mañas, El Bola
B. The World of Literature
L'Etranger: Camus
Les Mains Sales: Sartre
Manon des Sources: Pagnol
La Place: Ernaux
Le Silence de la Mer: Vercors
Le Blé en herbe: Colette
325.000 francs: Vailland
Boule de Suif et autres contes de guerre: Maupassant (selected stories)
Federico García Lorca: La casa de Bernarda Alba
Mariano Azuela: Los de abajo
Luis de Castresana: El otro árbol de Guernica
Fernando Fernán Gómez: Las bicicletas son para el verano
Ramón Sender: Réquiem por un campesino español
Ernesto Sábato: El túnel
Gabriel García Márquez: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Laura Esquivel: Como agua para chocolate.
C. Regions of France and Francophone Countries Regions of Spain
La Provence/Côte d'Azur Un Dom/Tom
Rhône – Alpes Guadeloupe
La Bretagne Martinique
L'Alsace Guyane
L'Ile de France La Réunion
Pays de la Loire
Le Québec
Andalucia
Asturias y Cantabria
Castilla-La Mancha
Cataluña
La Comunidad de Madrid
La Comunidad Valenciana
Galicia
El País Vasco y Navarra
Grammar : AS and Advanced GCE students will be expected to have studied closely the grammatical system and structures of the French language during their course.
In the examination they will be required to use actively and accurately grammar and structures appropriate to the tasks set, drawn from the following list. The
grammar listed here is that which is prescribed by the QCA subject criteria for Modern Foreign Languages.
1. AS level
Nouns: gender singular and plural forms
Articles: definite, indefinite and partitive
Adjectives: Agreement position
Comparative and superlative
Demonstrative (ce, cet, cette, ces)
Indefinite (chaque, quelque)
Possessive
Interrogative (quel, quelle)
Adverbs: comparative and superlative
Interrogative (comment, quand)
Quantifiers/intensifiers (très, assez, beaucoup)
Pronouns: personal reflexive relative disjunctive/emphatic demonstrative (celui) indefinite (quelqu.un) possessive (le mien) interrogative (qui, que)
Use of y, en
Verbs: Regular and irregular forms of verbs, including Reflexive verbs
Modes of address (tu, vous)
Impersonal forms
Verbs followed by an infinitive (with or without a preposition)
Dependent infinitives (faire r?parer)
Perfect infinitive
Negative forms
Interrogative forms
tenses: Present
Perfect (including agreement of past participle)
Imperfect
Future
Conditional
Future perfect (R)
Conditional perfect (R)
Pluperfect
Past historic (R)
Passive voice: present tense other tenses (R)
Imperative
Present participle
Subjunctive mood present perfect
Indirect speech
Inversion after speech
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Number, quantity and time (including use of depuis, venir de)
2. Advanced GCE
All the above, plus:
Verbs: future perfect tense
conditional perfect tense
passive voice: all tenses
subjunctive mood: imperfect (R)
Inversion after adverbs
Year 12 scheme of work (FRENCH)
Leisure and lifestyle
Leisure and Lifestyles includes travel and tourism, sport, hobbies, entertainment, customs, traditions, healthy living - health and nutrition, diet and exercise;
unhealthy living - drugs, aids, smoking, alcohol, etc
Topic
Learning Objectives Material & Resources
Teacher Activities/ ICT
1 –Entertainment
Television Language – talk about Tv viewing habits
Grammar - use present tense of regular verbs
Skills – tackle longer listening and reading
AQA French p 10
Kerboodl
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story tellling
http://www.france2.fr/ TV5 monde
http://www.lesclesjunior.com/
Languagesonline.org.uk
New technologie/
Language – Talk about the popularity and personal use of internet
Grammar - use reflexive verbs in the present tense
Skills – scan for details
AQA French p 26
Kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story tellling
http://www.france2.fr/ TV5 monde
www.lesclesjuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
internet Language - discuss current and potential use of internet
Grammar - use irregular verbs in the present tense
Skills – use of dictioanary
AQA French p 28 Kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
dictioanaries
SM
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story tellling
http://wwwdailymotion.com
http://www.lesclesjunior.com/
TV5 monde
Languagesonline.org.uk
2 – Hobbies
Hobbies in France and great Britain
Language - discuss you do in your spare time
Grammar - use the infinitive je viens de+ Inf
Skills – understanding statistics
Website zut unit 3
Elan p 38-39
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Quiz/ Role plays, vocabulary builder, story tellling
www.lesclesjuniors.com
TV5 monde / loisirs
Languagesonline.org.uk
Cinema Language – talk about different types of films and express preferences about the cinema.
Grammar - use present tense of regullar and irregular verb revisited
Skills – tackle listening activities
AQA French p 34
Kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
French film/ DVD’s
TV5 monde /cinema
http://www.lesclesjunior.com/
Languagesonline.org.uk
Music Language – understand and give short descriptions and opinions of different kind of
AQA French p 52
Kerboodle
SM
Studying songs/ role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presenation Fill gap exercices..
music
Grammar – form and use adverbs
Skills – give and justify opinions
Elan grammar workbook
http://www.dailymotion.net
TV5 monde / mondomix
Languagesonline.org.uk
3 - Sport
Les sports traditionnels et nouveaux
Language - talk about the different sports and preferences
Grammar – questions
Skills - debate controversial issues
Elan p40
AQA French p 60 + kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices..
www.lequipe.fr
TV5 monde / sport
Languagesonline.org.uk
Pourquoi fait-on du sport?
Language - discuss the reason for taking pat in sport
Gramar – preposition depuis pendant il y a
Skills – recognise faux amis
AQA French p 60
Kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices..
www.lequipe.fr
TV5 monde / sport
Languagesonline.org.uk
Le sport en France
Language - discuss famous sport people
Grammar – subjonctive present
Skills – tackle listening and reading exercise
Website zut unit 3
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 3
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices..
www.lequipe.fr
coupe du monde de rugby
Languagesonline.org.uk
4- Travel and Tourism
Tourism Language - talk about holiday destinations and examine impact on tourism
Grammar - use prepositions
Skills - formulate questions
Elan p 42
AQA French p 74m + kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 3
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices..
Languagesonline.org.uk
Holiday activities
Language – discuss types of holiday and benefit
Grammar- perfect tense
Skills - express your own views
Elan p 42
AQA French p 74
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 3
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices../ Le guide du routard
Languagesonline.org.uk
Holiday trends Language - describe purpose and benefit of holiday
Grammar – perfect tense and agremant of past participle
Skills - present alternatives
Elan p 44
AQA French p 78 kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 3
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices.. / Film ‘camping’
Languagesonline.org.uk
5 – customs and tradition
Customs and traditions in Britain
Language – discuss the importance of traditions
Grammar - use conjunctions
Skills - essay technics
SM
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices..
Languagesonline.org.uk
Special festivals
Language – examine different ways to celebrate Christmas
Grammar - use present participle
Skills – give a presentation promote a cause
SM
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presenation Fill gap exercices..
Languagesonline.org
Customs and traditions in France
Language - discuss some of traditons in France
Grammar - use the immediate future and the future tense
Skills -
Mardis gras
La fete des rois
Le premier mai
Le 14 juillet
SM
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation Fill gap exercices..
Use of assistant
Languagesonline.org
6– healthy living
Healthy habits Language - describe habits good for health
Grammar – comparative and superlative
Skills – writing an essay
Elan p 48
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 1 l
Diet Language – discuss diet including eating disorder
Grammar - use the subjunctive (revisited)
Skills – tackle gap filled exercises
AQA French p 62
Kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Physical exercise
Language – examine the link between sport and health
Grammar - use the immediate future and the future tense
Skills - express awareness of positive and negative impact
AQA French p 66
Kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
7 – unhealthy living
Smoking Language – discuss danger to health posed by tobacco
Grammar – verb follow by infinitive
Skills – structure a debate ( arguments for and against)
Elan p 50
AQA French p 66 kerboodle
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 1 les drogues
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
drugs Language - discuss danger to health posed by alcool and drugs
Grammar – imperfect tense
Skills - use language to promote a cause
Elan p 52
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 1 les drogues
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Disease / aids Language – examine facts on aids and disease in general
Grammar - use the immediate future and the future tense
Skills - express awareness of positive and negative impact
Elan p 544
AQA French p 71 (stress)
Elan grammar workbook
SM
Website zut unit 1 les drogues/ le sida
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
The individual and the Society
The Individual and Society, including relationships and responsibilities, gender issues, youth culture (values, peer groups, fashions and trends etc.),
education, vocational training and future careers.
Topic
Learning Objectives Material & Resources
teacher Activities/ ICT
1- Relationship
Family Language - describe your family and how well you get on.
Grammar – possessve adjectives and gender of nouns
Skills - formulate questions
Elan p 16
AQA French p 82
KG Website zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ le fossé des generations
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling., Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Conflict in the family
Language – discuss conflict and attitude of young people towards family members
Grammar- modal verbs
Skills - express your own views
Elan p 18
AQA French p 84
kerboodle
KG zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ le fossé des generations
Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Marriage/ divorce
Language – express views on marriage
Grammar – gender and position of adjectives
Skills – make a presentation
Elan p 20
AQA French p 98-100
kerboodle
KG Website zut unit 1 les rapports entre les individus
Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
2- Responsabilities
Being a teenager Language – discuss the importance of freedom as a teenager
Grammar - verbs follow by infinitive
Skills – taking note when listening
Elan p 26
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presenation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Rights Language – examine the rights of the young people in France
Grammar- negatives
Skills – speaking from notes
Elan p 28
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
http://www.droitsdesjeunes.gouv.fr/ddj05/s_guide.html
responsabilities Language – discuss what is the role of a good citizen
Grammar – partiives articles
Skills writing a summary in English
Elan p 30
Website zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ l’argent de poche et les petits boulots
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
Languagesonline.org.uk
zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ l’argent de poche et les petits boulots
3 – Youth culture
Friendship Language – talk about roles / importance of friends Grammar - use relatives pronouns
Skills – avoid repetition of phrases and structures
AQA French p 90
kerboodle
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
zut unit 1 es jeunes et leur probleme/ le fossé des generations
Peer group Language – discuss importance of friends and pressure
Grammar - use perfect and imperfect tenses
Skills - use different writing styles
AQA French p 90
kerboodle
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ la pression des autres
zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ l’argent de poche
fashion
Language – talk about fashion and its influences discuss change of image
Grammar - use the imperfect
Skills – give and justify opinions/ plan essays
AQA French p 50
kerboodle
Website zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ anorexie et boulimie
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
zut unit 1 les jeunes et leur probleme/ anorexie et boulimie
Film coco Chanel
4 – Education
Education system
Language – Discuss the role of the education
Grammar – direct indirect pronouns
Skills - recommend future measures
Website zut unit 2 education
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 education
Education in france
Language - examine the differences between French and British education
Grammar – pronoun y and en
Skills - use language to promote a cause
Elan p 60
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk Website zut unit 2 education
Film Etre et avoir
Personal education
Language - preparing our future
Grammar - use the immediate future and the future tense
Skills – tackle an oral presentation
Elan p62
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 education
Mixity and equality
Language - discussing single sex schools and the benefits
Grammar - relatives pronouns
Skills – using conjunctions
Elan p64-66
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 education
5 – Vocational training and future carreer
Professions
Language – examine different job opportunities
Grammar - use interrogative pronouns
Skills - structuring an oral presentation
Elan p70-71
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 la formation et les carrieres
Languages and work
Language – discuss importance oflanguages in work
Grammar - use interrogative pronouns
Skills - structuring an oral presentation
Website zut unit 2 la formation et les carrieres/ les matieres
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 la formation et les carrieres/ les matieres
Hunting for job
Language – discussing the world of work
Grammar – use conditional
Skills - developing reading skills
Elan p72-73
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 la formation et les carrieres
interviewing
Language – examine the effect of a job interview
Grammar – use of plus que perfect
Skills - reported speech
Elan p74-75
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presenation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 2 la formation et les carrieres
6 – gender issues
Equal opportunities in school
Language – examine differences between girls and boys education.
Grammar – demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
Skills – improving writing skills
Elan p66-67
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Women at home
Language - discuss the role of the women at home
Grammar - imperfect
Skills – how to answer questions
Elan p 20
AQA French p 98-100
kerboodle
KG Role-plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 1 la parité homme/femme
Women at work
Language - discuss the role of the women at work
Grammar - prepositions
Skills - evaluate lifestyle using alternative forms of energy
Elan p 76
KG Role plays, vocabulary builder, story telling. Presentation , Fill gap exercices..
www.lesclejuniors.com
Languagesonline.org.uk
Website zut unit 1 la parité homme/femme
Year 13 scheme of work
Environmental issues
technology, pollution, global warming, transport, energy, nuclear energy, renewable energies, conservation, recycling, sustainability.
Topic
Learning Objectives Reading text(s)
Page Number
Electronic Resources
(NB. see introductory note above for full details of online content)
1 - La pollution
La pollution: fléau de la planète
Language - talk about different types, causes and effects of pollution
Grammar - use present and past tenses of the passive voice
Skills - formulate questions
AQA p 10-11
Droit au but p44-45
Elan unit 8
KG ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
Comment réduire la pollution?
Language - explore measures to reduce pollution; discuss individual and collective action
Grammar- use modal verbs
Skills - express your own views
AQA p 12-13
Droit au but p46-47
Elan unit 8
KG Aqa video on pollution
ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
Le transport Language - describe transport issues related to pollution
Grammar - use the present subjunctive
Skills - present alternatives
AQA p 14-15
Droit au but p 48 55
Elan unit 8
KG Aqa audio roleplay on transport
ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
2 - L’énergie
Les énergies non renouvelables
Language - talk about the different sources of fossil fuels; discuss the role of nuclear energy in France
Grammar - revise present tense endings
Skills - debate controversial issues
AQA p 18-19
Elan unit 8
KG ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
Les énergies renouvelables
Language - discuss the need for renewable energy sources
Grammar - revise present
AQA p 20-21
Elan unit 8
KG ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
and conditional forms (to express necessity)
Skills - express necessity, consequence and contrast
Les attitudes changeantes
Language - explore changing attitudes to energy consumption
Grammar - use verbs followed by an infi nitive
Skills - evaluate lifestyle using alternative forms of energy
AQA p 22-23
Elan unit 8
KG An audio roleplay on energy and conservation
ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
3 - Protection de la planète
Comment minimiser les dangers?
Language - describe the impact of consumerism on the environment and explore how to change behaviour
Grammar - use interrogative pronouns
Skills - recommend future measures
AQA p26-27
Droit au but p 55-57
Elan unit 8
KG ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
Les groupes de pression
Language - examine the role of pressure groups and their initiatives to promote awareness
Grammar - use the subjunctive (revisited)
Skills - use language to promote a cause
AQA p28-29
Elan unit 8
Elan unit 8
KG ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
Notre responsabilité envers les autres pays
Language - discuss the need for collaboration and cooperation
Grammar - use the immediate future and the future tense
Skills - express awareness of positive and negative impact
AQA p 30-31
Elan unit 8
KG AQA audio roleplay on the environment
ZUT / year 13/ environment
RFI.fr
4 - Sciences et technologie: avances ou régression?
Diagnostic: informatique
Language - discuss advantages and drawbacks of ICT at home and at work
Grammar - use present participles
Skills - summarise opposing views and draw balanced
AQA p74-75
KG Zut
Rfi.fr
conclusions
On va où exactement?
Language - consider pros and cons of space and satellite technology
Grammar - use interrogative pronouns (revisited)
Skills - make and counter controversial statements about contentious issues
AQA p76-77 KG Zut
Rfi.fr
Science ne rime pas toujours avec conscience
Language - discuss ethical issues relating to scientific, technological and medical progress and research
Grammar - invert verb and subject after direct speech and adverbs
Skills - use anticipation and nuance to advance debates
AQA p78-79
KG Aqa audio roleplay on science and ethics
Zut
Rfi.fr
Social and political issues
role of the media, racism, immigration social exclusion and integration, terrorism, world of work (employment, commerce, globalization, etc.),
Topic
Learning Objectives Reading text(s)
Page Number
Electronic Resources
1- L’immigration
La France, terre d’accueil?
Language - explore the reasons for immigration
Grammar - revise numbers
Skills - express proportions and statistics
AQA p 34-35
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
AS An audio roleplay on immigration
Immigration choisie
Language - talk about government policy to curb immigration; discuss the benefits and problems of immigration
Grammar - use the future perfect tense
Skills - defend a viewpoint
AQAp 36-37
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
AS
Immigration au Language - talk about Aqa P38-39 AS
sein de l’Union européenne
immigration within the enlarged European community
Grammar - use indirect speech
Skills - present oral analysis of advantages and disadvantages of immigration
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
2 - L’intégration
Multiculturalisme Language - talk about factors facilitating integration; discuss which culture immigrants should show loyalty to
Grammar - use conjunctions
Skills - express well-informed and sophisticated opinions in a debate
AQA p 42-43
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
AS
La désintégration de la France
Language - consider factors making integration difficult
Grammar - use demonstrative pronouns: celui, celle, ceux, celles
Skills - give precise descriptions using complex sentences
AQA p44-45
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
AS An audio roleplay on the riots
L’intégration des jeunes
Language - talk about the experiences of individual immigrants
Grammar - use relative pronouns with prepositions: dans lequel, auquel, duquel, dont
Skills - express obligation and support someone’s rights
Aqa p46-47
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
AS An audio roleplay on integration
3 - Le racisme
Raciste, moi? Language - discuss the reasons for racism
Grammar - use possessive pronouns
Skills - express clear ideas about important issues
AQA p 50-51
Elan p115
AS A video on racism
Discrimination Language - talk about discrimination in employment and education
Grammar – use of present
AQA p 52-53
Elan p117
AS
participle
Skills - discuss anti-racism initiatives
Victimes Language - talk about the victims of racism
Grammar - revise present and past tenses of the passive voice
Skills - develop a personal explanation
AQA p 54-55
Elan unit 9
Droit aubut unit 4
AS An audio roleplay on racism
4- Le terrorisme
Regner sous la terreur
Language - talk about terrorism
Grammar - revise indicative mode
Skills – oral presentation
AS Internet article
Les clés juniors
Nice matin
Le parisien
Ouest france
authentic
Terrorisme religieux ou politiques
Language – discuss reason of terrorism
Grammar - use the imperfect and past perfect
Skills – tackling translation
AS Internet article
Les clés juniors
Nice matin
Le parisien
Ouest france
authentic
Les influences Language - talk about the victims of terrorism
Grammar – recognise the simple past
Skills - develop journalistic reading comprehensin
Au point AS Internet article
Les clés juniors
Nice matin
Le parisien
Ouest france
authentic
5. Le role des médias
Le role de la radio Language - debate the relvance of radio today
Grammar – passive revisited. How to avoid passive
Skills - develop listening skills
Elan chapter 7
Au point
AS Zut/unit 2/les medias
La presse ecrite Language – discuss tabloid and French new paper
Grammar – use of imperative mode
Skills – researching topic on
Elan chapter 7
Au point
AS Zut/unit 2/les medias
internbet
La publicité Language - talk about advertising and its effects
Grammar – use of imperative mode
Skills – relate events using different register
Elan chapter 7
Au point
AS Zut/unit 2/les medias
La télevision Language – discuss role of television in young people’s life
Grammar – connectives and superlatives to reinfrvce opinions
Skills – pronounce words with silent consonants
Elan chapter 7
aupoint
AS Zut/unit 2/les medias
6 – Le monde du travail
Le monde du travail
Language - talk about positive and negative aspects of employment
Grammar – revisite future and conditional
Skills - adapt others’ opinions to express your own
AQA p58-59
Droit au but unit 6
aupoint
AS Zut /unit 1/ le monde du travail
La securité de l’emploi
Language - discuss the unemployemtn effects on people
Grammar - use of pronouns (revisited)
Skills - construct dialogues using various sources
AQA p58-59
Droit au but unit 6 p111-113
Au point
AS Zut /unit 1/ le monde du travail
La legislation du travail
Language – understand how trade unions work in France
Grammar - use of connectives ( revisited)
Skills – organising a debate
AQA p58-59
Droit au but unit 6
AS Zut /unit 1/ le monde du travail
7 - Richesse et pauvreté
L’embarras des riches
Language - talk about wealth and poverty, including links to health and social unrest
Grammar - use the conditional perfect
Skills - adapt others’ opinions to express your
AQA p58-59
Au point
AS
own
Les racines de la misère
Language - discuss the causes of poverty in Europe and developing countries
Grammar - use comparative and superlative adjectives
Skills - construct dialogues using various sources
AQA p58-59
aupoint
AS
Solidarité globale? Language - discuss debt and aid programmes in developing countries
Grammar - use dependent infinitives (revisited)
Skills - adapt online text and data for presentations
AQA p58-59
Au point
AS An audio roleplay on wealth and poverty
Guided studied options Part of the A2 course of study will involve choosing one or two of the following options:
Either: A The World of Cinema Or: B The World of Literature Or: C The Regions of France
Topic
Learning Objectives Reading text(s)
Page Number
Electronic Resources
1- Les choristes de Christophe Barratier ( essay)
Language - explore
Grammar - revise numbers
Skills - express proportions and statistics
KG
Language - talk about government policy to curb immigration; discuss the benefits and problems of immigration
Grammar - use the future perfect tense
Skills - defend a viewpoint
KG
Language - talk about KG
immigration within the enlarged European community
Grammar - use indirect speech
Skills - present oral analysis of advantages and disadvantages of immigration
Language - talk about immigration within the enlarged European community
Grammar - use indirect speech
Skills - present oral analysis of advantages and disadvantages of immigration
KG
Language - talk about immigration within the enlarged European community
Grammar - use indirect speech
Skills - present oral analysis of advantages and disadvantages of immigration
KG
2 – les Antilles ( oral exposé)
Un présent emprunt d’un passé
Language – discuss the influence on the history
Grammar – perfect and imperfect
Skills – use of a time scale
AS
Une île paradisiaque
Language – consider geographical factors of the island
Grammar -
Skills -
AS
Une économie incertaine
Language - talk about the economie of the islang and effects on population
Grammar -
Skills -
AS
Une empreinte culturelle
Language - discuss the west indies culture and its
AS A video on racism
influence in the world
Grammar -
Skills -
On apprend le créole
Language - talk abiout influence on languages
Grammar –
Skills -
AS
Une situation politique instatble
Language - understand reason of the 2009 strikes
Grammar -
Skills -
AS
Un future prometteur
Language - talk about future of the region
Grammar –
Skills -
AS