ADVANCED LEVEL RESOURCES

ENGLAND AND WALES A-LEVEL EXAM PREPARATION

 Powerpoint on new AQA A-level specification
Conversation questions and vocab for new AQA oral exam NEW 1.6.08
Print-off A-level vocab booklet

List of idioms and other vocab for revision
Gender endings (thanks to John Walker)
Vocab list on statistics and comparisons
A-Z list of jobs
Proverbs exercise
Notes on French political system
Article on French education system (in English)
Record and Self-Evaluation Sheet for UK teachers (edit online)


GRAMMAR

 AS level grammar cloze exercise
AS level grammar cloze exercise (2)
AS level grammar cloze exercise (3)
AS level grammar cloze exercise (4)
Tense revision - Eng-French translation
Verb conjugation sheet
Negatives
General grammar revision
P.D.O. agreements
Depuis, pendant, pour, il y a
SI clauses
More tense practice
Passive voice (with faits divers)
Direct and Indirect Speech
Relative pronouns
Auquel, duquel etc
Prepositions
Subjunctive or not?
Subjunctive sentences to translate
Not more verb tenses!
Rough guide to modal verbs
A2 level grammar revision sentences
Passive


TEXTS WITH EXERCISES

 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and ENVIRONMENT

Climate change - French-Eng summary
Climate change - Eng - French summary
Pollution from air travel
Fuel cell cars
GM crops
Genetic engineering - pros and cons
Genetic modification
Genome research and artificial life
Nuclear energy
Wind turbines - for or against
Greenpeace on Tchernobyl
Interview with a French astronaut

SOCIAL ISSUES

Women in France
Strikes in France
Islamic veil
Violence in the banlieues
Homeless crisis
Gay marriages and the PACS
Racial discrimination
Binge drinking
Legalisation of c****bis
French education system
Smoking ban
Holidays quiz
Holidays
TV on the internet
Illegal downloading

HEALTHY LIVING

The potato!
Unhealthy French students
Stressed-out teachers
Listening task to go with above
Work-related stress
Smoking
TV and childhood obesity
Listening task to go with above

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES

Human rights in China
Fair trade
40 years of the Big Mac
World Cup and the German economy
The CPE (Contrat Première Embauche)
Eng-French summary on young French working in UK
Eng - French on social classes
Eng-French summary: what the EU has done for you

DEVELOPING WORLD

World poverty
Illiteracy
World AIDS Day

MEDIA AND ADVERTISING

Advertising
Weird news items
Exercises to go with above
Reading task on web sites
Humorous text and exercises from Le Monde

SPORT AND LEISURE

Zinédine Zidane (merci Nora)

MISCELLANEOUS

Some faits divers with exercises on the passive
An interesting fait divers!
Père-noël.fr
Ghosts and vampires
Mexican fishermen story
A café just for children
English mobile phone exam cheats
Les DOM-TOMs
Ken and Barbie to re-unite?
Gapfill task for comprehension and grammar (based on a fait divers)


TRANSLATIONS

 French-Eng on Slow Food
French - Eng - Philip Pullman
French - Eng - Jules et Jim
Eng - French - L'Etranger
Eng - French - Roald Dahl
Eng - French - Harry Potter
Eng - French - Harry Potter (2)
Eng - French - Jules et Jim


DISCUSSION TASKS ETC