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French

Countesthorpe Academy

Winchester Road, Countesthorpe, Leicester , Leicestershire, LE8 5PR

GCE A/AS Level or Equivalent

Level 3

Available start dates

Wednesday, 01 September 2027

Countesthorpe Academy

2 Year(s)

Full time

Daytime/working hours

Course Summary

Developing an in-depth understanding of the French language is a lifelong skill for education, employment and leisure purposes.

Why study this course?

Develop your communication and adaptability skills: Learning a new language gives you the opportunity to communicate with foreign speakers, including people you meet when travelling as well as people in your own community.

Enhance your cultural understanding: Speaking another language helps you to get to know about other people and cultures, it gives you a broader view of the world.

Increase your brain power: Foreign language study can help to develop your problem-solving skills, long and short-term memory, self-discipline and grammatical and linguistic understanding of your own language.

This is an incredible opportunity to work with our colleagues at Bosworth Academy. Students will have opportunities both in person and online to interact with staff and other learners at Bosworth Academy, including to take part in overseas cultural visits and programmes.

Course Details

Topics we study in Year 12

1. Social issues and trends

• The changing nature of family (La famille en voie de changement)

• The ‘cyber-society’ (La « cyber-société »)

• The place of voluntary work (Le rôle du bénévolat)

2. Political and artistic culture

• A culture proud of its heritage (Une culture fière de son patrimoine)

• Le patrimoine sur le plan national, régional et local

• Contemporary francophone music (La musique francophone contemporaine)

• Cinema: the 7th art form (Cinéma : le septième art)

Topics we study in Year 13

1. Social issues and trends

• Positive features of a diverse society (Les aspects positifs d’une société diverse)

• Life for the marginalised (Quelle vie pour les marginalisés ? )

• How criminals are treated (Comment on traite les criminels)

2. Political and artistic culture

• Teenagers, the right to vote and political commitment (Les ados, le droit de vote et l’engagement

politique)

• Demonstrations, strikes – who holds the power? (manifestations, grèves – à qui le pouvoir ? )

• Politics and immigration (La politique et l’immigration)

1 film study in year 12: La Haine.

1 book study in year 13: Un sac de billes.

How will it be delivered and assessed?

Paper 1: Listening, reading and writing: 50% of the whole exam, 2hours 30

Paper 2: 2 essays on the film and the book studied in class. 20% of the whole exam, 2 hours

Paper 3: Individual research project + 1 card/discussion about 1 of the 12 topics studied above. 30% of the whole exam, 21-23 minutes.

Entry requirements

Grade 6 and above in French GCSE.

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