French

Assessment

The course will be taught by two teachers and a native speaker Foreign Language Assistant. Students are examined at the end of the two-year course as follows with each paper being worth 25% of the total marks: Paper 1 (Listening, Reading and Translation) (50%) Paper 2 (Writing) (20%) – culture component looking at a set literary text and a film (20%) Paper 3 (Speaking) (30%) – students discuss a stimulus article relating to politics, society, artistic culture or multiculturalism, and students also discuss their chosen research topic set in the cultures and societies of the language studied