Modern Languages - French

*IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM WEALD OF KENT GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR SEPTEMBER 2024 APPLICATIONS*

Students can join Weald of Kent Grammar School at our Tonbridge Campus.

Applications Open: - 15 November 2023

Applications Close: - 15 January 2024

Entry Requirements: - If you wish to join the Weald of Kent Sixth Form you must have a minimum of a Grade 5 in English Language or English Literature and a Grade 5 in Mathematics. In addition, students also need to achieve an Average Point Score (APS) of 5.5 to be comprised of their best 8 GCSE results.

How to Apply: - Applications are made through Applicaa. Please see the school website for more information: https://www.wealdofkent.kent.sch.uk/sixth-form/application

Open Event: - Our Sixth Form Open Evening is 14 November 2023.

The aim of the A Level course is to broaden and deepen your knowledge of your chosen language, to enable you to communicate clearly at a higher and more fluent level. You will also enhance your cultural understanding as the course covers a range of social aspects which affects the principal country in which that language is spoken. You will hone other transferable skills such as debating and defending your point view, carrying out independent research, and analysing literary texts.

The core topic areas will be:

• social issues and phenomena, such as wealth and poverty, racism and integration.

• Politics, current affairs and history, dealing with such issues as the rise of the far right.

• Intellectual culture, past and present. This requires the study of at least two works – one of which must be a novel, chosen from a prescribed list.

Students will also have to complete an independent research project into an aspect of French speaking society or culture, which they will present as part of their speaking exam.

Students will be assessed in three separate exams for

• speaking

• listening, reading and translation

• essay writing in French

Marks weightings will be as follows:

Paper 1 - Listening, reading and translation - 50%

Paper 2 - Writing - 20%

Paper 3 - Speaking - 30%

Students should have achieved a Grade 7 in the relevant language at GCSE.

In a ‘global economy’, the ability to speak more than one language and knowledge of different cultures can be very useful in many different job sectors.

The key areas of employment can include:

• education

• hospitality and tourism

• IT and telecommunications

• law

• marketing and publishing

• media and journalism

• transport and logistics

Modern Languages graduates have one of the highest rates of employment across all subject areas. Joint honours courses are also popular with language students, meaning they can combine their love of languages with another subject area at degree level.