France Troisième French

1. Literary culture: 3e themes

Autobiography and self-portrait · Satire and social criticism · Poetic visions of the world · Individual and power in the 20th century · Complementary: progress and scientific dreams · Complementary: free theme

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2. Listening and speaking

Ranking information and understanding implied meaning · Formal 10-minute presentation (brevet oral) · Leading and chairing a debate · Recitation and multimedia creation

• Debate Skills: How to Argue Clearly, Fairly and Well – A debate is a timed, rule-based contest of ideas on a motion. One side argues for it, the other against it, and a chair keeps order. A good argument has a claim, a reason, evidence and a link to the motion. Research makes evidence strong: reliable, recent and relevant. Rebuttal answers the other side's weakest points; cross-examination uses short questions to expose them. Good debaters attack arguments, not people, and listen as carefully as they speak.

3. Reading

Independent reading of complex texts · Comparing a text and an image · Argument forms: persuading vs convincing

• Visual Literacy: Reading Images Step by Step – Visual literacy means reading pictures as carefully as we read words. Use four steps: look, describe, analyse, interpret. Describe what you see (people, objects, the three planes: foreground, middle ground, background). Analyse the formal elements: colour, light, line, shape, framing and composition (rule of thirds, leading lines, point of view). Interpret: what feeling or message does it give, and who made it for whom? Remember that framing hides what is off-screen, and that a caption or text next to an image changes how we read it.

4. Writing

Long, nuanced argumentative text · Creative writing and rewriting

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5. Language study

Functions: object complement, all adverbials · All pronoun types · Infinitive and participle clauses; clause functions · Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive; uses of subjunctive · Complex agreements · Free indirect speech, modality, connectives · Language variation: time, place, borrowings

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