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FRENCH
- LANGUAGE A2
(Standard
level and Higher level)
Teacher
: Emmanuel Renou
Both Standard and Higher levels will study the same
topics but will be assessed according to different criteria.
Term 1
 | Literary
Text Option: Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
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Several essays to
produce about this literary text.
| Students
start building up their personal dossier of work and material.
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| Topic
Option: Language/Culture:
 | bilingualism
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| linguistic minorities
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| linguistic imperialism
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| nationalism |
| translation
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Preparation of First
Internal assessment activity based on this option (oral component)
| Study
of newspapers, magazines (including articles, editorials), comic strips,
documentaries…
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| Grammar.
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| Techniques
to analyse a literary text, how to read a text.
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| Development
of an appropriate critical vocabulary for discussion of style and ideas.
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(These two last tasks
will be tackled during the two-year course as well).
Preparation for
Second Internal assessment activity based on this option (oral component)
| Study
of magazines, articles, reports, advertisements, business letters…
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| Grammar.
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| Study
of comparative commentary techniques.
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students work on their second piece of structured piece of writing and will have to hand in
it in June.
Term 3
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| Literary
Text Option: Marivaux Le
Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard
Several
essays to be produced about this literary text
(should be finished by the end of this term)
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| Topic
Option: society:
| Expression and suppression of prejudice in all in its forms
(racial, ethnic, gender, discrimination)
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| The
impact of economic change on societies
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| Problems
of social deprivation (for example, drugs, violence,…)
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Completion of
Second Internal assessment activity based on this option (oral
component)
| Study/use
of plays, extracts from novels, biographies…
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| Grammar
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| More work on comparative commentary techniques.
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| Second structured piece of writing
handed in in June;
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