Well, now I'm course for getting four literary texts completed and what a labour of love that has been. On the alevelfrench.com site there will shortly be courses for the following literature resources based on a similar approach to the film guides. The four texts I have done are
L'étranger by Camus
Kiffe Kiffe Demain by Faiza Guène
Les Petits Enfants du Siècle by Christiane Rochefort
La neige en deuil by Henri Troyat
Remember the pass guides they do for English texts well there's never really been anything to tackle the language side of things-or not that I've seen so here goes, in my pass guides for the texts you get:-
OK it's very corny but the exercises are meaty, serious and designed so that teachers can give students materials which make them feel confident with the literary texts. There is still plenty of room for teacher creativity; questions can be written in French according to level of abilty. Creative writing where students adopt roles of various characters and empathize with different view points...the sky's the limit.
I'm interested in developing other titles and would be interested to hear what people would like. Just get my email from the A level resources site And don't forget you can buy the film guides from there too.
L'étranger by Camus
Kiffe Kiffe Demain by Faiza Guène
Les Petits Enfants du Siècle by Christiane Rochefort
La neige en deuil by Henri Troyat
Remember the pass guides they do for English texts well there's never really been anything to tackle the language side of things-or not that I've seen so here goes, in my pass guides for the texts you get:-
- Complete French - English vocabulary running to some 25/30 pages in three columns
- Complete summary of the text with gap fill for verbs and vocab to give the basic vocab of the summary
- Multi-tense exercise to help students identify all tenses of same verb in context of the book
- Direct speech matching exercise and reported speech activity
- Character adjective list and translation exercises
- The A factor contextualized exercises using passive, subjunctive and present participle
- ThemezRus exercise where students link quotations to themes
- Guide to planning exposé -the Tracbuster
- Essay planning tool and worked exemplar essay
OK it's very corny but the exercises are meaty, serious and designed so that teachers can give students materials which make them feel confident with the literary texts. There is still plenty of room for teacher creativity; questions can be written in French according to level of abilty. Creative writing where students adopt roles of various characters and empathize with different view points...the sky's the limit.
I'm interested in developing other titles and would be interested to hear what people would like. Just get my email from the A level resources site And don't forget you can buy the film guides from there too.
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