French - WJEC Eduqas A Level

Head of Faculty: Ms M Zarins

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.

Component 1. Speaking (21-23 minutes) (30% of A-level)

Task 1- Presentation and discussion of an independent research topic of an aspect that interests you related to the countries or communities where French is spoken.

Task 2 – Discussion based on a written stimulus

Component 2. Listening, Reading & Translation (2h30) (50% of A-level)

Listening – True/False answers, multiple choice answers, answers to questions in French

Reading – Gap fill tasks and answers to questions in French

Translation – One translation into English. One translation into French. (100 words each)

Component 3. Critical response in writing. (2 hours) (20% of A-level)

Two essays of 300 words each; on the film and one on the novel in which you write a critical response referring to characters, themes, structure and social & historical context.

Language students in the UK find it easier to get jobs and there is a wider choice of jobs for language graduates.

By choosing languages, you're enhancing your career options. Language graduates have a whole range of career opportunities open to them, including manufacturing, sales, banking/finance, community/social services, transport/communications, military, IT.