Upper Sixth
French
Topics
Term 1 HISTOIRE, ARTS ET LITTÉRATURE
Introduction to 20th century history and
the arts, Cinema, Literature, Theatre,
Art, Lyon, Architecture.
QUESTIONS DE SOCIÉTÉ, QUESTIONS
D’ACTUALITÉ
Money, Job insecurity, Juvenile
delinquency, Riots in the suburbs,
Multicultural France, Racism,
Immigration and integration, Drugs,
Prisons
RESEARCH BASED ESSAY PREPARATION
Camus: L’Étranger
UNIT 3 SPEAKING EXAM PREPARATION
Term 2 QUESTIONS MONDIALES
World poverty, Aids, World conflict, the
French Resistance, Genocide,
Immigration and illegal immigrants,
Drugs in sport, Technology and the
future
TRADITIONS, CROYANCES ET
CONVICTIONS
Cloning, Genetic modification,
Euthanasia, Spirituality and religion,
Festivals, Women’s rights, Humanitarian
workers, Anti-globalisation
RESEARCH BASED ESSAY PREPARATION
Camus: L’Étranger
UNIT 3 SPEAKING EXAM PREPARATION
Term 3 Revision, exam practice
Main Structures
Independent Study Resources
Present tense, Demonstrative pronouns,
Possessive pronouns, Past tenses,
Relative pronouns, Interrogative
pronouns, Future tense, This and that.
Negatives, Checking agreement of verbs
and adjectives with subject, Infinitive,
Past participle agreement, Inversion after
direct speech and certain adverbs, Future
perfect tense, Bon/bien, mauvais/mal
etc., Pluperfect tense, Conditional tense.
Text book
Each student is issued with Edexcel A2 French textbook and Edexcel A
Level French Grammar. This comprehensive course has much scope
for independent study and extension work. Students have their own
CD Rom with extra listening practice and excellent accompanying
worksheets with answers. Some sections of the grammar book are
used as set homework, but further independent use is also
recommended as answers are provided. At the end of each module
of the textbook there is a summary of the vocabulary covered and
there is a comprehensive grammar section with explanation in
English in the back of the book.
Further resources
Students are encouraged to develop their own language learning at
their own pace. They need to do extensive independent research for
their chosen speaking exam topic. For the Camus text, the Visconti
film of L’ Étranger is available on Youtube and other background
research on Algeria is expected.
Students subscribe to Authentik magazine and use the CD and
www.authentik.com/downloads/ website. They are encouraged to
read around topics using www.wikipedia.fr and to read the news
headlines of a quality daily paper such as www.lemonde.fr or
www.lefigaro.fr
Impersonal verbs, Reported speech,
Devoir, Idiomatic expressions with avoir,
Conditional perfect tense, Passive,
Position of adjectives, Indefinite
pronouns.
Subjunctive, Perfect subjunctive,
Imperfect subjunctive, Verbs followed by
the infinitive, Perfect infinitive, Avoiding
the subjunctive, Si clauses.
www.zut.org.uk The Year 12 and 13 areas have some useful
materials, including a selection of videos of French news over the
past 4 years – no password needed but only available after 4pm and
before 9am
In addition to regular homework and occasional vocabulary/grammar tests, Upper Sixth have a mock A2 examination in January. The Unit 3 and Unit 4 exams are taken in
May/June.