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Teacher Resource Bank
GCE French
A2 Suggested Schemes of Work
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Teacher Resource Bank / GCE French / A2 Suggested Schemes of Work / Version 1.3
Year 13 French Scheme of Work
Overview
AQA specification topic areas
Term 1 - weeks 1- 12 (two teachers) or weeks 1-6 (one teacher)
ENVIRONMENT
Pollution
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Types, causes and effects of pollution
Measures to reduce pollution
Individual action/responsibility versus collective action/responsibility
Transport issues
Energy
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Coal, oil and gas
Nuclear
Alternative energy sources
Changing attitudes to energy consumption
Protecting the planet
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Ways of minimising environmental damage
The role of pressure groups
Initiatives to improve awareness and change behaviour
Responsibilities towards other nations, especially developing countries
Suggested grammar
Conditional tense
Conditional perfect tense
Passive
Indirect speech
Depuis + imperfect
Skills
Giving opinions
Arguing and standing one’s ground
Understanding statistics (revisited)
Translation from French-English
Suggested activities
Grammar workbook
Conditional quiz (what would you do if you found £500 in the street etc)
Dictogloss
Design an environmental awareness campaign
Survey on how green members of the class are
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Term 1 - weeks 7-12 (one teacher) or weeks 1-12 (two teachers)
THE MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Immigration
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Reasons for immigration
Benefits and problems of immigration for immigrants and for country of destination
Migration within the enlarged EU
Curbs on immigration
Integration
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Factors making integration difficult
Factors facilitating integration
To which culture should immigrants show loyalty?
Experiences of individual immigrants
Racism
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Victims of racism
Reasons for racism
Measures to eliminate racism and their effectiveness
Experiences of individuals, including those of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants
Grammar
Future perfect
Recognition of past historic
Negatives
Pronouns
Agreement of preceding direct object
Skills
Oral presentation
Adapting text
Researching a topic using the Internet
Writing a structured response
Translation from English to French
Suggested activities
Presentation on an aspect of la France plurielle (eg music, sport, cuisine)
Write and perform a rap
Diary of a beur
Recipes
Read extracts from novels eg Kiffe Kiffe Demain (Faïza Guène)
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Term 2
One teacher to do both Cultural Topics or colleagues take one each
A target language-speaking region/community
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its geography and how its geography has influenced/influences/will influence the
region
its history and how its history has influenced/influences/will influence the region
its industries and how these have changed in the last 20 years. What about the
future?
its population and how it has changed in last 20 years. What about the future?
its economy and how important this is/was
a personal perspective: would I like to live/work in this region?
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A period of 20th century history from a target language-speaking country/community
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main events of the period
causes of these events
the importance/influence/effects of these events
the ideas and influences of at least two individuals who made a significant impact
during the period
specific actions of these individuals plus an appraisal of the importance of these
actions
a personal perspective: would I have liked to live in that period?
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The work of an author from a target language-speaking country/community
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the context of the author’s work
the themes/ideas/messages of the author
how these themes/ideas/messages are expressed
what/who influences/inspires the author? Why does he/she feel as he/she does?
a detailed study of at least one novel/collection of short stories plus personal
appraisal
a personal evaluation of the author’s work: why do I enjoy reading the work of this
author?
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The work of a dramatist or poet from a target language-speaking country/community
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the context of the dramatist’s/poet’s work
the themes/ideas/messages of the dramatist/poet
how these themes/ideas/messages are expressed
what/who influences/inspires the dramatist/poet? Why does he/she feel as he/she
does?
a detailed study of at least one play/collection of poems plus personal appraisal
a personal evaluation of the dramatist’s/poet’s work: why do I enjoy the work of this
dramatist/poet?
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The work of a director, architect, musician or painter from a target language-speaking
country/community
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the context of the artist’s work
the influences on the artist: events and people
the ideas/techniques of the artist plus personal appraisal
the importance/influences of the artist both in his/her own lifetime and later
a detailed study of at least one work of the artist plus a personal appraisal
a personal evaluation: why do I find this artist so interesting?
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Weeks 13-20
CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
Wealth and poverty
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Causes of poverty in Europe and developing countries
Work of charitable organisations and governments
Attitudes to wealth and poverty
Link between wealth and health
Law and order
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Examples of crime, especially committed by or affecting young people
Reasons for criminal and anti-social behaviour
Measures to reduce crime and their effectiveness
Alternatives to imprisonment, their appropriateness and effectiveness
Impact of scientific and technological progress
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Technology in the home and workplace, including IT
Space and satellite technology
Medical research
Ethical issues linked to scientific and technological progress
Grammar
Subjunctive
Overview of tenses
Passive voice – further practice
Conjunctions
Relative pronouns
Weeks 21-24 –REVISION (or completion of cultural topics)
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Modern Foreign Languages GCE A2 Scheme 1 (please see also the notes on page 8)
ENVIRONMENT
L6 postexams
THE MULTICULTURAL
SOCIETY
Pollution
weeks 1-3
Immigration
Energy
weeks 19-21
weeks 22-24
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Topic 1
Topic 1
Integration
weeks 13-15
weeks 16-18
Topic 1
Wealth and poverty
weeks 10-12
CULTURAL
TOPICS
Introduction to aspects
of target languagespeaking culture
weeks 4-6
weeks 7-9
CONTEMPORARY
SOCIAL ISSUES
Topic 1
Law and order
Protecting the planet
Topic 2
Topic 2
Racism
Topic 2
Impact of scientific and
technological progress
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Topic 2
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Modern Foreign Languages GCE A2 Scheme 2 (please see also the notes on page 8)
ENVIRONMENT
L6 postexams
Pollution: types, causes, effects;
transport issues
weeks 1-2
Pollution: reduction measures;
individual/collective action
THE MULTICULTURAL
SOCIETY
Immigration: reasons for immigration;
migration within the enlarged EU
weeks 5-6
Immigration: benefits and problems of
immigration; curbs on immigration
weeks 9-10
Topic 1
weeks 13-14
Integration: experiences of individual
immigrants; divided loyalties of immigrants
weeks 19-20
Law and order: examples of crime;
reasons for criminal and anti-social
behaviour
Law and order: measures to reduce
crime; alternatives to imprisonment
Protecting the planet: ways of
minimising environmental
damage
Protecting the planet: role of
pressure groups; initiatives to
improve awareness
Protecting the planet:
responsibilities towards other
nations
Topic 2
Topic 2
Topic 2
weeks 21-22
Racism: victims of racism; reasons for racism
weeks 23-24
Racism: measures to eliminate racism;
experiences of individuals
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Topic 1
Topic 1
Integration: factors facilitating integration;
factors making integration difficult
weeks 17-18
Wealth and poverty: causes of poverty;
work of charities and governments
Wealth and poverty: attitudes to wealth
and poverty; links between wealth and
health
Energy: coal, oil, gas, nuclear
and alternative energy sources
Energy: changing attitudes to
energy consumption
weeks 11-12
weeks 15-16
CULTURAL
TOPICS
Introduction to aspects of
target language-speaking
culture
weeks 3-4
weeks 7-8
CONTEMPORARY
SOCIAL ISSUES
Impact of scientific and technological
progress: technology at home and
work; medical research
Impact of scientific and technological
progress: ethical issues linked to
progress
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Both schemes assume that the A2 course starts in the post-exam period of Year 12 and continues for 24 weeks in Year 13. The remaining
time after that is used for revision and for practising examination skills. Scheme 1 assumes a single teacher, while Scheme 2 assumes that the
course is shared equally between two teachers, highlighted in italics and normal type respectively. In Scheme 1 the teaching of the two cultural
topics is spread thinly across the whole course, taking up approximately 20% of the teaching time each week. In Scheme 2 the teaching of the
two cultural topics takes place in two six-week blocks, taking up approximately 50% of the teaching time during those blocks.
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