KS4 · French · Year 10
Les célébrités et les réseaux sociaux : extending vocabulary (Edexcel)
Media and technology: les médias
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Your learning goal
I can understand texts about celebrities and their online presence, and acquire topic-specific vocabulary.
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Les célébrités et les réseaux sociaux : extending vocabulary (Edexcel): slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can understand texts about celebrities and their online presence, and acquire topic-specific vocabulary.
Key learning points
- There are many cognates in this topic which can be used to infer meaning of surrounding words and understand context.
- Reading texts can be exploited to enrich our vocabulary on current issues.
- Cognates may look very similar to English but sound quite different so attention must be paid to pronunciation.
Words to know
- cognate
- words with the same meaning and same or similar spelling in English and French
Common mistakes
Cognates are pronounced the same way in English and French.
Cognates often sound very different in French. Students must carefully practise the French pronunciation of these words.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task C1 has two options. Option 1 is a Higher Tier role-play. Option 2 is a Foundation Tier role-play. Option 1 is included in the video.