French

 

We offer French ALevel and we use AQA. This is a 2 year course and the themes are:

1.  Aspects of French-speaking society: current trends
2.  Artistic culture in the French-speaking world
3.  Aspects of French-speaking society: current issues
4.  Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world

 

It focuses as much on the language as it does on the cultural aspects of language learning. In parallel to the textbook content, students have to study a book and a film and do a research project on any topic related to the French-speaking world they might be interested in.

 

The exam is divided into 3 papers:

• Paper 1 is Listening, Reading and Writing (translation) ~ 50% of final grade
• Paper 2 is Writing (Essay) ~ 20% of final grade
• Paper 3 is Speaking ~ 30% of final grade.