Back in the early 90's Francoscopie was the best way of getting access to the latest statistics about France and it is still an extremely interesting book, covering all the latest topics for A level. You'll find a link to it on www.alevelfrench.com and the cost of £30 or so is a real investment. I think using small chunks of it is the best thing to do as the language is very "statistical" although this gives the teacher a good opportunity to practise a wealth of language like "monter en flèche", connaître un déclin" and other ways of talking about social trends.
Alternatively, an excellent way of accessing facts and figures on France is through the insee site. Click here to go to the topics pages from where you can branch off to a world of random information. Maybe the way to exploit statistical information is to create surveys on particular topics and then relate them to the information given in the Insee site for the purposes of comparison. I'm going to be doing some of these for the AS level resources based on this approach on www.alevelfrench.com and there should shortly be some samples up to play with. That should keep me busy and off the streets for a few weeks.
Increasingly it seems apparent that the AS is a bit more difficult and more students are going to be resitting the written paper in the January so maybe the year 12 sitting of the exam will need to be looked at more as a practice? I don't know - I'd be interested to hear what other people think.
Alternatively, an excellent way of accessing facts and figures on France is through the insee site. Click here to go to the topics pages from where you can branch off to a world of random information. Maybe the way to exploit statistical information is to create surveys on particular topics and then relate them to the information given in the Insee site for the purposes of comparison. I'm going to be doing some of these for the AS level resources based on this approach on www.alevelfrench.com and there should shortly be some samples up to play with. That should keep me busy and off the streets for a few weeks.
Increasingly it seems apparent that the AS is a bit more difficult and more students are going to be resitting the written paper in the January so maybe the year 12 sitting of the exam will need to be looked at more as a practice? I don't know - I'd be interested to hear what other people think.
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