A Level French Blue Coat Church of England Coventry
This presentation will cover.. • A level changes and Q & As • Year 12 • Year 13 • Exams • Grammar • trailer + task • A level what next • 10 reasons ...
NEW A LEVEL FRENCH • New syllabus started in September 2016 • Greater emphasis on French culture and French-speaking countries • A full A Level exam at end of year 13
Q+As * What is different about the new A level in French? • Greater emphasis on the culture of France and French-speaking countries. Study of a French film and a book are specified for all exam boards • Which new skills are examined? • Translation (from French to English and from English to French) • Creating a summary from both a listening and a reading passage
Topi pics Year 12 Year 12 covers 2 themes: Theme 1 - Aspects of French-speaking society: current trends Theme 2 - Artistic culture in the French-speaking world
• Theme one – Aspects of French- speaking society: current trends • The changing nature of family • The cyber-society • The place of voluntary work
• Theme two – artistic culture • A culture proud of its heritage • Contemporary francophone music • Cinema: the 7 th art form
Topi pics Year 13 The full A-level covers the Year 12 themes as well as 2 further themes and the study of a film and a piece of literature: Theme 3 – Aspects of French-speaking society: current issues Theme 4 - Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world
Theme 3 Aspects of French-speaking society: current issues: • Positive aspects of a diverse society • Life for the marginalised • How criminals are treated
Theme 4 Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world: • Teenagers, the right to vote and political commitment • Demonstrations and strikes – who holds the power? • Politics and immigration
Study of a Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaTVS7iQQk What do you think?
Study of Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXYgeYD1FA What do you think?
Exams A-level • Paper 1: 50% • Listening • Reading • Translation into English • Translation into French • Paper 2: 20% • 2 essays: one on the film and one about a piece of literature – 300 words each • Paper 3: 30% • Discussion based on a stimulus card from 1 sub- theme • Individual research project – 21-23 minutes in total
Grammar • We will revise grammar from GCSE and learn new tenses and grammatical structures A level Present – present tense/imperative/present participle With the person sitting next to you, make a Future time frame – near list of what tenses you think you covered future/future/conditional at GCSE Past time frame – perfect/imperfect/pluperfect/past participle Plus – subjunctive/passive voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUDottEC us Complete with the words on the side here • Le……………….. s’appelle Jules Ferry. pire/ • Il y a …………….. de réussite au bac. redoubler/ • Gladys est la prof ………….. cancre/ • Polochon est le prof ………….. copier/ • Tirocu est le prof de ……….. hyper fort • Amina est prof de …………. • L’objectif est de ………….. au bac
A level language what next… • University subject profile: modern languages and linguistics : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jun/07/s ubject-guide-modern-languages-linguistics • BA Modern Languages at University of Birmingham: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/l ang/modern-languages.aspx • Modern Languages at Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses- 2020/modernlanguagesandlinguistics/ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/ • Linguistics degree: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/subject s/what-can-you-do-linguistics-degree
Language degree combined with… BA Modern Languages with Business Management: • https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/lang/mod-lang- business.aspx BSc Biomedical Sciences with a Modern Language • https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/2020/06245/ bsc-biomedical-sciences-with-a-modern-language/ History and Modern Languages • http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses-listing/history-and- modern-languages Mathematics with Languages BSc (Hons) • https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/mathematical- sciences-with-a-european-language-bsc-hons/overview/ BA Translation, Media and Modern Languages • https://www2.uea.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/degree/detail/ba-translation- media-and-modern-language-double-honours Media with Languages - BA (Hons) • https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/media-with-languages- --ba-hons/ Drama with a Language BA (Hons) • https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/drama-with-a- language-ba
10 careers with Languages
1.Foreign civil service As a foreign civil, or public, servant in civil service, you’ll work overseas for a governmental department or agency, aside from the military. This type of position revolves around foreign affairs and international relations. Individuals with degrees in language are prime candidates, due to the fact that you’ll be placed abroad and likely in a country in which the primary language is not English. The duties assigned to each respective foreign service will vary based on your home country but can range from aiding international adoptions to negotiating and communicating with foreign government officials. A job in foreign service would be perfect for those who have a passion for immersing themselves in new countries and cultures, but who also are highly motivated and dedicated in supporting the U.S. and helping the U.S. gain and maintain positive foreign relations. 2. Airline services In working with an airline that flies internationally, you’ll have passengers from all over the world on every international flight. This isn’t to say you will be required to speak in every passenger’s native tongue, but most likely, you’d be flying back and forth from the U.S. to the same foreign country, and you will need to know both English and the language of that country. For example, if you’d work for Spanish airline Iberia, you would need to speak both Spanish and English to accommodate the majority of the passengers on flights between the U.S. and Spain. Whether as a pilot or a flight attendant, you would get to use both your native and second language on a daily basis at work and be constantly traveling internationally – the perfect job for someone with a language degree and wanderlust.
3. Advertising You could be taking goods and services to an international level of recognition. You could be working in a specific language or cultural division of an agency, in which you are creating advertisements in your second language. In advertising, you could be doing either of these things and more with your language degree. For example, in areas of the U.S. that have a high population density of native Spanish speakers, there are typically entire departments dedicated to creating advertisements in Spanish for a Spanish-speaking market. A career in advertising would be ideal for creative types who are excited by innovation and the ability to evoke reactions and emotions of people through their work. 4. Editing and Publishing The editing and publishing industry includes but is not limited to newspapers, magazines and publishing houses. In fact, most businesses require someone on staff with copy editing abilities to proofread and clean up written work, like newsletters, press releases and important documents. Additionally, there are likely more businesses than you could ever possibly imagine whose daily proceedings demand for bilingual and/or multilingual employees. This could mean drafting and editing letters to clients or business partners in both English and another language. This could mean editing the instruction manual for a product, which comes in a number of different languages. It could even mean editing and publishing software in multiple languages. Editing and publishing is a field that has its hands in every other, putting its finishing touches on the world’s text and giving you the opportunity to exhibit your language degree in international businesses and corporations of all kinds.
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