French A Level (Linear)

Applications Open: - 5th November 2025

Applications Close: - 5th January 2026

Entry Requirements: - Our entry requirements are subject specific, please look through our website for more information. Specific information can be found under Sixth Form and in Choosing courses. Details are here

How to Apply: - Please apply via KentChoices

French is the first or second language in over 40 countries and is spoken by 125 million people.

The aim of the course is to communicate confidently, clearly and effectively in French through both spoken and written word, using a variety of linguistic structures. To provide sufficient basis for the further study of French at university.

Core Content

1. Social Issues and trends

2. Political and artistic culture

3. Grammar

Options

4. Works: Literary texts and films

You will also learn:

 How to manipulate French in order to organise and express ideas.

 How to be expressive and imaginative in speech and writing.

 Contemporary issues and aspects of French society and culture

Paper 1 – 2 hours 30 minutes 40%

Listening
Reading
Translation

Writing Paper 2 -2 hour exam 30%

Writing on film and book studied

Speaking 21- 23 minutes 30%

Discussion
Presentation on individual research project

- APS 6+

- Grade 5 in GCSE French

What kinds of students are most suited to this course?

 Students with attitude! You must have views and opinions about some of the topics covered; you practise your French by expressing these views.

 Students who are Francophiles – it helps if you have visited France and are attracted to French life and culture.

 Students who enjoy language and who get a buzz out of communicating with people from a different culture.

 Students who have an eye for the technicalities of language and who are not frightened b y grammar and the need for increasing accuracy.

What career or higher education options might this course lead to?

Interpreting, translating, teaching, business studies, secretarial work, civil service, librarianship, travel and tourism, hotel and catering, journalism, etc

A language can be studied alongside marketing, law, business studies, and more or less anything else you can think of!

In an increasingly global society, language skills are increasing in demand in all areas of British commerce and industry, as are opportunities to work abroad.

France is a world leader in the development of modern telecommunications, a market with explosive growth potential. The European Union, the second largest trading bloc in the world, recognises French as an official language. Think about the many opportunities fluency in French will provide within the airline industry, import-export companies, and other international businesses.

French opens the doors to art, music, fashion and cinema. France has won more Nobel Prizes for literature than any other country. The French are also admired for their great philosophers such as Descartes and Pascal, Rousseau, Voltaire, Camus and Sartre.