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Year 8 French independent study task – Summer term 2014
Task – You should research an event, historical figure, period of history from the French
speaking world.
You must then produce a presentation lasting up to one minute to teach others in the
group about what you have researched.
You can use any medium you wish to create the work (Word, PowerPoint, Movie Maker,
Drama…) but the spoken part MUST NOT BE PRE-RECORDED! You must produce
and do the presentation on your own – you should NOT work with a partner or pairs on
this work. Since the work is on a cultural topic, all presentations will be done in
ENGLISH.
You can do your research about anything/anyone you choose as long as they are from
the French speaking world!!!!
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Events
- La fête nationale
- Le tour de France
- The French revolution
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Henri Matisse
Marie Tussaud (founder of wax museum)
Actors/Actresses
 Catherine Deneuve
 Audrey Tautou
 Yves Montand
 Gérard Depardieu
 Sophie Marceau
 Vanessa Paradis
Inventors
 Louis Braille (reading system for the
blinds)
 Gustave Eiffel (Eiffel Tower)
 Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (Statue of
Liberty)
 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier (hot air
balloon)
Classical Composers
 Hector Berlioz
 Claude Debussy
 Maurice Ravel
 Jacques Offenbach
Fashion Designers
 Coco Chanel
 Louis Vuitton
 Christian Dior
 Yves Saint-Laurent
 Christian Lacroix
 Jean-Paul Gaultier
Singers/Musicians
 Edith Piaf
 Charles Aznavour
 Céline Dion
Models
 Carla Bruni
Scientists
 Jacques Cousteau (oceanographer, film
maker)
 Louis Pasteur
 Pierre and Marie Curie
Artists
 Claude Monet
 Edgar Manet
 Edgar Degas
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Explorers
 Jacques Cartier
 Samuel de Champlain
 Sieur de La Salle
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Athletes
 André the Giant (wrestling)
 Zinedine Zidane (soccer player)
 Thierry Henry (soccer player)
 Tony Parker (basketball player)
 Alain Prost (racecar driver)
 Mélanie Oudin (tennis player)
 Yannick Noah (tennis player)
Jules Verne (200,000 Leagues Under the
Sea)
Alexandre Dumas (the Three
Musketeers)
Charles Perrault (fairytales The Sleeping
Beauty)
History
 Joan of Arc
 Marquis de La Fayette
 Marie Antoinette (Queen of France/Wife
of King Louis the 16th)
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Writers
 Victor Hugo (Les Misérables, the
Hunchback of Notre Dame)
All presentations will be done in lessons between 07.07.14 and the end of the academic
year. Please either email your work to your teacher, or bring this on memory stick. All
learners MUST be ready to do a presentation on 07.07.14.
If your son/daughter is struggling with the work and requires further support or advice,
please feel free to email Mr Willis before the deadline for the work.
M Houillon
Mr Erbin
Mr Willis
Mrs Campbell
Mrs Sharp
grh18@bewdley.worcs.sch.uk
me54@bewdley.worcs
pjw21@bewdley.worcs.sch.uk
vmc5@bewdley.worcs.sch.uk
ef36@bewdley.worcs.sch.uk
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This work will give you the opportunity to develop your STRIPE skills:
SELF MANAGER
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Preserve with a task even when things get though
Organise time and resources effectively
Balance my time, school work and other activities
REFLECTIVE
THINKER
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Use success criteria and scales to review and assess my own
Set my own targets for improving my work
Can look back over my work and identify how to improve it for myself
Take compliments and advice for improvements and respond positively
Think of how best to present my work to suit a particular audience or
need
INNOVATIVE
THINKER
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Come up with original and new ideas to complete a task or solve a
problem
Think of ways to extend my learning, asking questions &investigating
new things
Link together what I have learned in different places and lessons
Ask questions to check whether what someone is thinking is correct
Try different ways of working and follow through to completion of task
Modify ideas to adapt to new circumstances
PARTICIPATOR
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Put ideas across well to others to persuade them of something
ENQUIRING
LEARNER
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Think of things that I want to learn about myself
Find out about things independently
Look at things from other peoples’ points of views
Working out what information is useful and accurate
Can explain why things have happened
Can explain my answers using the information I have found out
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