Student`s Book - Maria Fidelis School

AS French Topics
AQA specification
Nelson Thornes course
student book
Nelson Thornes online content
(NB. see introductory note above
for full details of online content)
Media: Television
Viewing habits; range of programmes; range
of channels; benefits and dangers of TV
Les médias: La télévision
(Chapter 1, pages 9-16)
Video: Opinions on television (page
11)
Media: Advertising Techniques and
purposes; curbs, e.g. tobacco, alcohol;
benefits and drawbacks of advertising
Les médias: La publicité
(Chapter 2, pages 17-24)
Audio record: Questions about
advertising (page 23)
Media: Communication technology
Current and potential usage of internet; its
benefits and dangers; popularity and
benefits/dangers of mobile phones, MP3
players etc
Les médias: Les nouvelles
technologies
Audio record: Questions about digital
media / the internet (page 31)
Popular Culture: Cinema
Types of film, changing trends; a good film I
have seen; the place of cinema in popular
culture; alternative ways of viewing films
La culture populaire: Le
cinéma
(Chapter 4, pages 33-40)
Popular Culture: Music Types of music,
changing trends; music I like; the place of
music in popular culture; how music defines
personal identity
La culture populaire: La
musique
(Chapter 5, pages 41-48)
Video: Musical preferences (page 46)
Popular Culture: Fashion/trends
How we can alter our image; does how we
look define who we are?; lifestyle and
leisure activities; the cult of the celebrity
La culture populaire: La
mode et l’image
(Chapter 6, pages 49-56)
Video: Opinions on ‘size zero’ and
tattoos (page 51)
Audio record: Questions about
celebrities / celebrity lifestyles (page
55)
Healthy Living/Lifestyle: Sport/exercise
Traditional and ‘fun’ sports; links between
exercise and health; reasons for taking part;
factors influencing participation
Une vie saine: Le sport
(Chapter 7, pages 57-64)
Video: Sports for different types of
people (page 62)
Healthy Living/Lifestyle: Health and wellbeing Alcohol, tobacco, other drugs; diet
and eating disorders; the ‘work-life balance’;
risks to health through accidents
Une vie saine: La santé et
le bien-être
(Chapter 8, pages 65-72)
Healthy Living/Lifestyle: Holidays
Types of holiday activities; purposes and
benefits of holidays; impact of tourism on
holiday destinations; changing attitudes to
holidays
Une vie saine: Les
vacances
(Chapter 9, pages 73-80)
Family/Relationships: Relationships
within the family
Role of parents; changing models of family
and parenting; attitudes of young people
towards other family members; conflicts
La famille et les relations
personnelles: En famille
(Chapter 10, pages 81-88)
Family/Relationships: Friendships
Characteristics and roles of friends;
importance of friends; conflict with friends;
friendship compared with love
La famille et les relations
personnelles: Bons
copains
(Chapter 11, pages 89-96)
Family/Relationships: Marriage/
partnerships
Changing attitudes towards marriage or
cohabitation; changing roles within the
home; separation and divorce; benefits and
drawbacks of staying single
La famille et les relations
personnelles: Entre nous
(Chapter 3, pages 25-32)
(Chapter 12, pages 97-104)
Audio record: Questions about
holidays (page 79)
Video: Friendships (page 91)
A2 French Topics
L’environnement
Topic
Learning Objectives
Reading text(s)
Page
Number
Language - talk about
different types, causes and
effects of pollution
La pollution par les déchets
en France
10-11
Electronic Resources
(NB. see introductory note
above for full details of
online content)
1 - La pollution
La pollution:
fléau de la
planète
Grammar - use present and
past tenses of the passive
voice
Les types de pollution et
leurs causes
Les effets de la pollution
Skills - formulate questions
Comment
réduire la
pollution?
Language - explore
measures to reduce
pollution; discuss individual
and collective action
L’environnement – c’est un
grand souci pour nous
12-13
A video on pollution
Le défi des transports
- Solutions
14-15
An audio roleplay on transport
Grammar- use modal verbs
Skills - express your own
views
Le transport
Language - describe
transport issues related to
pollution
Grammar - use the present
subjunctive
Est-ce qu’on voit une
révolution des transports
urbains?
Skills - present alternatives
2 - L’énergie
Les énergies
non
renouvelables
Language - talk about the
different sources of fossil
fuels; discuss the role of
nuclear energy in France
L’offre d’énergie en France
18-19
Les énergies non
renouvelables
Grammar - revise present
tense endings
Skills - debate controversial
issues
Les énergies
renouvelables
Language - discuss the need
for renewable energy
sources
Energies renouvelables
20-21
La solution passe par
l’innovation
22-23
Gramar - revise present and
conditional forms (to express
necessity)
Skills - express necessity,
consequence and contrast
Les attitudes
changeantes
Language - explore changing
attitudes to energy
consumption
Grammar - use verbs
followed by an infi nitive
Skills - evaluate lifestyle
using alternative forms of
energy
An audio roleplay on energy and
conservation
3 - Protection de la planète
Comment
minimiser les
dangers?
Language - describe the
impact of consumerism on
the environment and explore
how to change behaviour
Tracez l’empreinte
écologique
26-27
Qu’est-ce que l’empreinte
écologique?
Grammar - use interrogative
pronouns
Skills - recommend future
measures
Les groupes
de pression
Language - examine the role
of pressure groups and their
initiatives to promote
awareness
Protection des espèces
28-29
Climat: les principaux
pollueurs entament deux
jours de débats à Paris
30-31
Grammar - use the
subjunctive (revisited)
Skills - use language to
promote a cause
Notre
responsabilité
envers les
autres pays
Language - discuss the need
for collaboration and
cooperation
An audio roleplay on the
environment
Grammar - use the
immediate future and the
future tense
Skills - express awareness of
positive and negative impact
La société multiculturelle
Topic
Learning Objectives
Reading text(s)
Page
Number
Electronic Resources
Language - explore the
reasons for immigration
Les immigrés en France:
une situation qui évolue
34-35
An audio roleplay on
immigration
Nouvelle loi sur
l’immigration: durcissement
des conditions du
regroupement familial
36-37
Paris accélère les
expulsions de Roms avant
la trêve d’hiver
38-39
4 - L’immigration
La France, terre
d’accueil?
Grammar - revise numbers
Skills - express proportions
and statistics
Immigration
choisie
Language - talk about
government policy to curb
immigration; discuss the
benefits and problems of
immigration
Grammar - use the future
perfect tense
Skills - defend a viewpoint
Immigration au
sein de l’Union
européenne
Language - talk about
immigration within the
enlarged European
community
Grammar - use indirect
speech
Skills - present oral analysis
of advantages and
disadvantages of immigration
5 - L’intégration
Multiculturalisme
Language - talk about factors
facilitating integration; discuss
which culture immigrants
should show loyalty to
Blacks, blancs, beurs à la
même enseigne
42-43
Les racines du malaise
44-45
An audio roleplay on the riots
L’intégration des enfants
issus de l’immigration
46-47
An audio roleplay on
integration
Le racisme, d’où ça vient?
50-51
A video on racism
Garnier, condamné pour
discrimination raciale
52-53
Un petit alsacien d’origine
congolaise victime
d’attaques racists
54-55
Grammar - use conjunctions
Skills - express well-informed
and sophisticated opinions in
a debate
La désintégration
de la France
Language - consider factors
making integration difficult
Grammar - use demonstrative
pronouns: celui, celle, ceux,
celles
Skills - give precise
descriptions using complex
sentences
L’intégration des
jeunes
Language - talk about the
experiences of individual
immigrants
Grammar - use relative
pronouns with prepositions:
dans lequel, auquel, duquel,
dont
Skills - express obligation and
support someone’s rights
6 - Le racisme
Raciste, moi?
Language - discuss the
reasons for racism
Grammar - use possessive
pronouns
Skills - express clear ideas
about important issues
Discrimination
Language - talk about
discrimination in employment
and education
Grammar - revise present
and past tenses of the
passive voice
Skills - discuss anti-racism
initiatives
Victimes
Language - talk about the
victims of racism
Grammar - use the perfect
subjunctive
Skills - develop a personal
explanation
An audio roleplay on racism
Problèmes sociaux contemporains
Topic
Learning Objectives
Reading text(s)
Page
Number
Société malade?
58-59
L’emploi en France
60-61
Dette, aide et autonomie
62-63
Electronic Resources
7 - Richesse et pauvreté
L’embarras
des riches
Language - talk about wealth
and poverty, including links
to health and social unrest
Grammar - use the
conditional perfect
Skills - adapt others’ opinions
to express your own
Les racines de
la misère
Language - discuss the
causes of poverty in Europe
and developing countries
Grammar - use comparative
and superlative adjectives
Skills - construct dialogues
using various sources
Solidarité
globale?
Language - discuss debt and
aid programmes in developing
countries
Objectifs du Millénaire pour
le développement
An audio roleplay on wealth and
poverty
Grammar - use dependent
infinitives (revisited)
Skills - adapt online text and
data for presentations
8 - L’ordre public
La
délinquance:
causes et
effets
Language - discuss crime,
especially among young
people; talk about reasons
for criminal and antisocial
behaviour
Individualisme ou société?
66-67
La société n’existe pas?
Grammar - use the perfect
tense
Skills - structure a coherent
analysis of causes and
effects
La criminalité
en baisse
Language - discuss the
effectiveness of measures to
reduce crime
Baisse continue de la
délinquance enregistrée
depuis cinq ans
68-69
Language - consider
alternatives to imprisonment
Plus ça change...?
70-71
Grammar - use the future
tense of the passive voice
Le rôle de la prison
Grammar - use infinitive
constructions (revisited)
Skills - combine data with
opinions in debates and
presentations
Crime et
châtiment
Skills - consider the values
society holds on major issues
La justice
Les alternatives à
l’incarcération
An audio roleplay on crime and
punishment
9 - Sciences et technologie: avances ou régression?
Diagnostic:
informatique
Language - discuss
advantages and drawbacks
of ICT at home and at work
Solidarité virtuelle?
74-75
Points de repère?
76-77
Grammar - use present
participles
Skills - summarise opposing
views and draw balanced
conclusions
On va où
exactement?
Language - consider pros
and cons of space and
satellite technology
Le Projet Galileo
Grammar - use interrogative
pronouns (revisited)
Skills - make and counter
controversial statements
about contentious issues
Science ne
rime pas
toujours avec
conscience
Language - discuss ethical
issues relating to scientific,
technological and medical
progress and research
Grammar - invert verb and
subject after direct speech
and adverbs
Skills - use anticipation and
nuance to advance debates
Les bénéfices de
l’innovation?
78-79
An audio roleplay on science and
ethics
10 - Dossier culturel
To help you speak and write effectively about the culture of France, we will consider the following areas:
- how to talk and write about the geography of a French region, a period of French 20th-century history, or the work of French
authors, dramatists, poets, musicians, film directors, artists and architects
- how to evaluate the influence these aspects have had on the country’s development
- how to talk and write about a range of characteristics and features of the chosen cultural topic
- how to give a personal perspective on a topic
- how to develop the scope of your vocabulary, including appropriate specialist terms
- how to speak and write about the topic in an accurate and precise manner.
Une région
française
La France au
vingtième
siècle
L’oeuvre d’un
auteur français
Skills - Structuring a written
response
« La Lorraine »
Skills - Structuring a spoken
response
WebQuest - Paris et l’Ilede-France, est-ce qu’il fait
bon vivre dans cette
région?
Skills - Narrating events in
the past
Charles de Gaulle
Skills - Understanding the
past historic
Skills - Talking or writing
about a book
Skills - Giving a personal
evaluation of a book
82-85
L’île de la Réunion
86-89
La guerre d’Algérie 1954–
1962 « La sale guerre »
WebQuest - Mai 68:
comment l’avez-vous vécu?
Faïza Guène
90-93
Bonjour tristesse par
Françoise Sagan
WebQuest - L’Etranger de
Camus: un point de vue
personnel
L’oeuvre d’un
dramaturge ou
d’un poète
français
Skills - Describing the work
of a dramatist
Molière
Skills - Widening vocabulary
to give personal reaction
WebQuest - La poésie de la
Résistance
L’oeuvre d’un
artiste français
(réalisateur,
architecte,
musicien ou
peintre)
Skills - Widening vocabulary:
using alternatives
François Truffaut
Skills - Making a personal
analysis of a work of art
WebQuest - Les artistes
des années 30
94-97
Jacques Prévert
Jean-Michel Jarre
98-101