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A-level French (7652). For exams 2018 onwards. |
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SOCIAL ISSUES AND TRENDS (in relation to any French-speaking country or countries)
POLITICAL AND ARTISTIC CULTURE (in relation to at least one French-speaking country)
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Paper 1
LISTENING
Advice and useful links on the LISTENING Page
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GRAMMAR
Syllabus
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Practice:Musées
Practice:Musique
Practice:Sports
Practice:Discrimination
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Topics - travel and tourism, sport, hobbies, entertainment, customs, traditions, health and nutrition, diet and exercise; unhealthy living - drugs, aids, smoking, alcohol, etc
- relationships and responsibilities, gender issues, youth culture (values, peer groups, fashions and trends etc.), education, vocational training and future careers.
Material on Maupassant
Material on LA HAINE
AS grammar
Nouns
Gender, Singular and plural forms
Articles
Definite, indefinite and partitive
Adjectives
Agreement, Position, Comparative and superlative, Use of adjectives as nouns (eg le vieux, les Anglais)
Demonstrative (ce, cet, cette, ces)
Indefinite (including autre, chaque, même, quelque) Possessive (mon, ma, mes, etc)
Interrogative and exclamatory (quel, quelle, quels, quelles)
Numerals
Cardinal (eg un, deux), Ordinal (eg premier, deuxième) Expression of time and date
Adverbs
Formation of adverbs ending in -ment, Comparative and superlative
Interrogative (including combien (de), comment, où, pourquoi, quand)
Quantifiers/intensifiers
assez, beaucoup, moins, plus, la plupart, plusieurs, presque, tant, très, trop...
Pronouns
Personal: subject (including on);
Object: direct and indirect
Disjunctive/emphatic personal, as subject and object: moi/moi-même, etc
Reflexive
Relative (including qui, que, dont, lequel etc, auquel etc, ce qui, ce que) Demonstrative (celui, celle, ceux, celles; and celui-ci/celui-là etc) Indefinite (including quelqu’un, quelque chose)
Possessive (le mien etc)
Interrogative (including qui, que, quoi)
Use of y, en
Verbs
Conjugation of regular -er, -ir, -re verbs, modal verbs, principal irregular verbs, including reflexive verbs Agreement of verb and subject
Uses of il y a
Modes of address (tu / vous)
Impersonal verbs
Constructions with verbs
Verbs followed by an infinitive (with or without a preposition) Dependent infinitives (faire réparer) (R)
Perfect infinitive
Negative forms
Interrogative forms
Use of tenses: Present; Perfect; Imperfect; Future; Conditional; Future Perfect; Conditional Perfect; Pluperfect; Past Historic (R)
Verbal paraphrases and their uses (including aller + infinitive, venir de + infinitive)
Passive voice
Subjunctive mood: present (common uses, for example, after expressions of possibility, necessity, obligation and after conjunctions such as bien que
Use of the infinitive, present participle (eg en arrivant) and past participle
Prepositions
Simple (eg sous) and complex (eg au-delà de)
Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions (eg et, ou, mais)
Subordinating conjunctions
Negation
Use of negative particles (eg ne...pas, ne...personne, ne...que)
Use of ne with negative subjects (eg Personne n’est venu)
Questions
Commands
Word order : Inversion after speech
Other constructions
Time expressions with depuis and il y a
Comparative constructions
Indirect speech
Discourse markers
eg au contraire, en fait
Fillers
eg alors, bon
A-level grammar
In addition to the vocabulary listed in the AS grammar list, students of A-level will also be expected to study the following:
Verbs : Dependent infinitives (faire réparer) ; Passive voice: all tenses ; Subjunctive mood (perfect tense , imperfect tense (R))
Word order : Inversion after adverbs
Nouns
Gender, Singular and plural forms
Articles
Definite, indefinite and partitive
Adjectives
Agreement, Position, Comparative and superlative, Use of adjectives as nouns (eg le vieux, les Anglais)
Demonstrative (ce, cet, cette, ces)
Indefinite (including autre, chaque, même, quelque) Possessive (mon, ma, mes, etc)
Interrogative and exclamatory (quel, quelle, quels, quelles)
Numerals
Cardinal (eg un, deux), Ordinal (eg premier, deuxième) Expression of time and date
Adverbs
Formation of adverbs ending in -ment, Comparative and superlative
Interrogative (including combien (de), comment, où, pourquoi, quand)
Quantifiers/intensifiers
assez, beaucoup, moins, plus, la plupart, plusieurs, presque, tant, très, trop...
Pronouns
Personal: subject (including on);
Object: direct and indirect
Disjunctive/emphatic personal, as subject and object: moi/moi-même, etc
Reflexive
Relative (including qui, que, dont, lequel etc, auquel etc, ce qui, ce que) Demonstrative (celui, celle, ceux, celles; and celui-ci/celui-là etc) Indefinite (including quelqu’un, quelque chose)
Possessive (le mien etc)
Interrogative (including qui, que, quoi)
Use of y, en
Verbs
Conjugation of regular -er, -ir, -re verbs, modal verbs, principal irregular verbs, including reflexive verbs Agreement of verb and subject
Uses of il y a
Modes of address (tu / vous)
Impersonal verbs
Constructions with verbs
Verbs followed by an infinitive (with or without a preposition) Dependent infinitives (faire réparer) (R)
Perfect infinitive
Negative forms
Interrogative forms
Use of tenses: Present; Perfect; Imperfect; Future; Conditional; Future Perfect; Conditional Perfect; Pluperfect; Past Historic (R)
Verbal paraphrases and their uses (including aller + infinitive, venir de + infinitive)
Passive voice
Subjunctive mood: present (common uses, for example, after expressions of possibility, necessity, obligation and after conjunctions such as bien que
Use of the infinitive, present participle (eg en arrivant) and past participle
Prepositions
Simple (eg sous) and complex (eg au-delà de)
Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions (eg et, ou, mais)
Subordinating conjunctions
Negation
Use of negative particles (eg ne...pas, ne...personne, ne...que)
Use of ne with negative subjects (eg Personne n’est venu)
Questions
Commands
Word order : Inversion after speech
Other constructions
Time expressions with depuis and il y a
Comparative constructions
Indirect speech
Discourse markers
eg au contraire, en fait
Fillers
eg alors, bon
A-level grammar
In addition to the vocabulary listed in the AS grammar list, students of A-level will also be expected to study the following:
Verbs : Dependent infinitives (faire réparer) ; Passive voice: all tenses ; Subjunctive mood (perfect tense , imperfect tense (R))
Word order : Inversion after adverbs