We started alevelfrench.com (ALF) with A2 materials for the cultural topics and these are now a popular resource for schools in the UK and abroad. After venturing into the creation of the A*ttitudes AS French course , a hugely ambitious endeavour for two people, after pausing for breath- for a year- we are now cracking on with the A2 language course.
This is a challenge but an enjoyable one as there are fewer but more conjoined topics so we are doing 3 major topics each comprising several subtopics, the first out of the blocks being the environment. We have already covered this at AS but are now doing it with much more focus on the discursive side with a considerable amount of reference to the wealth of freely available material out there. Making this into a cohesive whole is a challenge but a few years ago I wrote materials in English on sustainable energy and the environment for the new (and now nearly gone) Land based and environment diploma so I’m pretty up to date with the issues.
Nathalie will have a different and interesting perspective on this as she is experiencing global warming at first hand in Kuwait in temperatures rising to 50C!
The environment is an area ripe for discussion as, although global warming as a phenomenon is no longer particularly contentious as an issue, what we should be doing about it, how much we should be spending and should we be fracking, going nuclear etc are very controversial.
Our mission is to use the best of contemporary resources available; here’s an example of an excellent set of animations which help explain various aspects of the topic. There are lots more fascinating and stimulating resources in the pipeline.
Voir l’animation Les grandes dates de l’énergie sur www.cea.fr
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