Level 3 French

Year 13 French

Year 13 is all about justifying and challenging ideas and opinions, and looking at world issues.

In Year 13, we…

• learn one common French expression every week. e.g. « Se noyer dans un verre d'eau. »
• regularly read the news in French.
• continue with French Fridays.
• produce marketing videos about helping the environment.
• have a debate around the best form of renewable energy.
• read a famous French book.
• have a high enough level of French to write essays and formal letters in French.
• increase our knowledge of tenses from 10 to 26! (Don't worry, it's much easier than it sounds.)
• have the opportunity to either take B1 DELF or B2 DELF. B1 is the level required to gain French citizenship and B2 to attend university in France.
• become more knowledgeable about the world.
• have 10 fortnightly vocabulary lists. By the end of the year, we will know over 1400 words.
• learn about issues in the French-speaking world and consider how we can help improve the world.
• have the opportunity to sit Scholarship French.
• read French poems and fables.
• research topics that may or may not challenge our opinions.
• take a trip to a French café in Newmarket.
• and tearfully say goodbye to each other in November after 5 years journeying together.

Se noyer dans un verre d'eau

Our topics in Year 13 are:

- Poems and Fables by Jacques Prévert and Jean de La Fontaine.

- The Environment - different types of pollution, small actions to improve it, renewable energy.

- Le Petit Prince by de Saint-Exupéry.

- Immigration and Discrimination - diversity in France, Maghreb migration movements, the Roms, racism and discrimination in the world, in NZ and personal experiences of it.

- Current Events - in France and in the world.

An example of a Year 13 interaction: