French A2 Level Scheme of Work - Unit 3: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - impact and issues - Course Book: Élan 2 (Week 16)* Topics • Medical progress: development and change – impacts on health care, lifestyles, ethics and beliefs • Scientific advances: change and innovation – impacts and issues on society, knowledge, education • Technological developments: change and development – impacts on lifestyles, habits, work and education. Topic Resources Les technologies nouvelles Élan 2 p 59 Progrès et Peurs: Élan 2 pp 62-63 meditech Video: Le DNA Interactif (see web site) Extended reading: AP – 215 216 Z: L’éthique pp168-178 L’expérimentation animale Le clonage / modification génétique AP: Le clonage humain / glossaire génetique pp190-191 Les OGM: Élan 2 pp 64-65 Ma vision du futur Élan 2 pp 60-61 (Digitech) AP: Demain Déjà Vivre en internet p193 (ÉX: Les Technologies Nouvelles: pp47-56) AP: L’audiovisuel / télé numérique / internet pp79-81 (recap’ of AS material Les Medias and L’environnment overlap) Z: La révolution numérique & l’ère du multimedia pp 98-101 Grammar Future / Conditional perfect p66 Building sentences with multiple clauses p67 Preceding direct object agreement with que Inversion of subject AP : p 192 Adverbial clauses Reported speech Revision of passive voice Revision of subjunctive (Past historic : Reading page 216) Réalisations (older course book) p92 Donner des explications / exprimer la probabilité et l’improbabilité BLP Skills Assessment Self Managers Focus on preparatory skills for Oral Revision and self assessment of key grammar examination APSS: p33 ex 7-9 All ATs pp66-67 (In controlled Independent Enquirers conditions in class) Independent research on specific aspects of the subWriting topics Past papers For h/w Team Workers Research skills to plan a Write an essay of 250presentation 300 words focusing on ethical aspects of the Creative Thinkers topic Speaking in different registers Debating a point Essay structure Discursive writing skills Finding synonyms Imaginative writing : p68 AP : 216 Réalisations: (older course book) supplementary reading – pp75-91 * approximate possition in programme Key Resources: Élan 2 e-Book : link (Oxford e-book username & password required) Élan interactive grammar book : link (SBS username & password required) Au Point Course book and Self-Study listening resources: link AP = Au Point Course Book APSS = AuPoint Self Study Z = Zénith ÉX = Élan 2 2001 edition TV5 Monde : Link Grammar Check-list : Link Languages online A2 resources Faits Divers : Link Possible Homework Tasks Research statistics about technology and science in France – social changes and the impact on leisure and work styles. Present this using data to justify your points. Speaking – put together a TV discussion program discussing the pros and cons of the internet Writing – Write a letter of complaint to the advertising authorities regarding the advert for Interactive DNA. Why do you find this advert so objectionable EVEN if it is just a prank?– 200 words Reading – Réalisations (older course book) pp75-79