Theme 2: Local, National, International & Global Areas of Interest
This section of the Year 11 French final revision summary sheet PDF covers four essential units that expand students' knowledge beyond personal topics to broader societal issues.
Unit 5: Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region
This unit focuses on describing living environments and expressing preferences. Key components include:
- Quizlet sets for describing houses and ideal homes
- Grammar focus on adjectives and the conditional mood
- Comparison of town and countryside living
Highlight: The inclusion of the conditional mood allows students to express hypothetical situations, enhancing their language complexity for the GCSE French revision.
Unit 6: Social Issues
This unit delves into societal concerns, particularly focusing on charities and healthy living. It covers:
- Vocabulary related to charities and healthy lifestyles
- Grammar points including the verb 'vouloir' and using partitive articles with food
- Tense practice with imperfect (used to do) and future tenses
Grammar: The use of 'du', 'de la', and 'des' with foods is crucial for discussing eating habits accurately.
Unit 7: Global Issues
This unit broadens the scope to environmental and social problems on a global scale:
- Recycling habits and environmental attitudes
- Environmental problems and homelessness
- Grammar focus on continuous tenses, modal verbs, and structures with infinitives
Vocabulary: Pluperfect tense - used to describe actions that occurred before another past action
Unit 8: Travel and Tourism
The final unit in this theme covers various aspects of holidays and travel:
- Past holidays and accommodation problems
- Holiday activities and other French verb forms
Example: Students might practice describing a problematic hotel stay using past tenses and specific vocabulary related to accommodation issues.
Each unit provides links to specific Quizlet sets, GCSE Pod resources, and relevant pages in the AQA Pearson Purple Workbook, offering a comprehensive approach to French revision resources for year 11 assessments.
