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Teenagers, the right to vote and political commitment

Les ados, le droit de vote et l'engagement politique opens AQA's political-life theme, studied at A-Level only. It covers the arguments for and against extending the vote, whether young people are politically motivated or demotivated, and what future politics has. The notes give the French electoral framework accurately - the vote at eighteen since 1974, automatic registration, the range of elections - and the real forms of youth engagement in France, from the conseil de la vie lycéenne to climate marches, with the conditional and concessive structures a pour-et-contre debate demands.

5 sections·~23 min reading time·4 competencies·Level Standard 2 · Advanced 3

T·101010 / 15
Exam profile
AO1 · Understand and respond, in speech and in writing, to spoken French on politics and youthAO2 · Understand and respond, in speech and in writing, to written French on political engagementAO3 · Manipulate the language accurately, using a range of lexis and structureAO4 · Show knowledge of, and respond critically to, political life in French-speaking society
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basic level

This sub-theme belongs to the political-life theme and is not part of AS French (7651).

higher level

The full A-Level expects a genuine debate to be constructed and resolved in French, distinguishing abstention from disengagement and party membership from political commitment, with conditional and concessive structures used accurately.

Depth

Reading depth: In depth

Text

Text size: Standard

Contents · 5 sections▾
  1. Teenagers, the right to vote and political commitment
    • 01The right to vote: pour ou contre ?◐
    • 02Motivated or demotivated? Les ados et l'engagement politique●
    • 03What future for politics? Quel avenir pour la politique ?●
    • 04Le lexique et les tournures: the language of political argument◐
    • 05En épreuve: debating a political card in French●
§ 01

The right to vote: pour ou contre ?#

●●○StandardLPAQA 7652 3.2.2 - Les ados, le droit de vote et l'engagement politique : pour ou contre le droit de vote ?LPDfE GCE modern foreign languages subject content

Key points

Begin from the French facts. The voting age in France was lowered from twenty-one to eighteen in 1974, under the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and eighteen also marks la majorité civile. Since 1997, young French citizens are registered automatically on the electoral roll when they turn eighteen, following the compulsory recensement citoyen at sixteen and the journée défense et citoyenneté - so the barrier of registration, which suppresses turnout in some countries, has largely been removed in France. That fact matters for the argument: if the young vote less in France, it is not because they are not registered.
The range of elections should be at your fingertips because a card may show a polling station or a ballot paper: l'élection présidentielle, held every five years since the quinquennat took effect in 2002; les élections législatives for l'Assemblée nationale; les municipales for the commune; les départementales; les régionales; and les européennes. The vocabulary of voting itself: s'inscrire sur les listes électorales, une carte d'électeur, un bureau de vote, l'isoloir (the polling booth), l'urne, un bulletin de vote, un scrutin, le premier tour and le second tour, la procuration (proxy vote), le dépouillement (the count).
The case for lowering the vote to sixteen, as Austria did in 2007 and Malta in 2018, has four standard planks. Coherence: at sixteen a person may work and pay tax, and is subject to criminal law, so the argument runs on ne peut pas être responsable devant la loi et mineur devant l'urne. Habit: research on turnout suggests voting is habit-forming and that a first vote cast while still in education and at home is more likely to be followed by others. Demography: an ageing electorate structurally weights policy towards older voters. And civic education: the vote gives school citizenship teaching a real object.
The case against is equally serious and must be given fairly. Maturity: the argument that political judgement requires experience, and that sixteen-year-olds may be more exposed to family or teacher influence - a claim its opponents answer by noting that adults are influenced too. Coherence in the other direction: French majority is a coherent package at eighteen, and unpicking one element creates anomalies. Priority: if young people already abstain heavily at eighteen, extending the franchise addresses the symptom rather than the cause. The conclusion that scores best does not simply pick a side but states a condition: l'abaissement du droit de vote n'aurait de sens que s'il s'accompagnait d'une véritable éducation civique - note ne... que si and the conditional.
Worked example

Building a pour-et-contre answer with the right connectors

The card asks: « Faut-il accorder le droit de vote à seize ans ? » Construct a 50-second answer that argues both sides and resolves.

  1. 01Open by identifying the real question

    La question n'est pas de savoir si les jeunes sont capables de voter, mais si le vote seul suffit à les intégrer à la vie politique. Reframing the question is the single most effective opening move, and it displays a complex subordinate structure.

  2. 02Give the strongest case for

    En faveur de l'abaissement, on invoque la cohérence : à seize ans, on peut travailler et l'on répond de ses actes devant la loi. On souligne aussi que le vote est une habitude qui se prend tôt. Note l'on after et - a small elegance that costs nothing.

  3. 03Give the strongest case against

    À l'inverse, ses adversaires objectent que la majorité forme un ensemble cohérent à dix-huit ans, et qu'un électeur encore scolarisé serait plus exposé à l'influence de son entourage. Note the conditional serait - reporting an argument without endorsing it.

  4. 04Answer the objection

    Cet argument me paraît fragile : l'influence de l'entourage ne disparaît pas à dix-huit ans, et l'on n'a jamais proposé de retirer le droit de vote pour autant. pour autant is a compact French way of saying and yet nobody has proposed.

  5. 05Resolve conditionally

    En définitive, je serais favorable à cet abaissement, mais à une condition : qu'il s'accompagne d'un enseignement civique renforcé, faute de quoi il ne ferait qu'ajouter de nouveaux abstentionnistes. Note faute de quoi and the restrictive ne... que.

Result: La question n'est pas de savoir si les jeunes sont capables de voter, mais si le vote seul suffit à les intégrer à la vie politique. En faveur de l'abaissement, on invoque la cohérence : à seize ans, on peut travailler et l'on répond de ses actes devant la loi ; on souligne aussi que le vote est une habitude qui se prend tôt. À l'inverse, ses adversaires objectent qu'un électeur encore scolarisé serait plus exposé à l'influence de son entourage. Cet argument me paraît fragile : cette influence ne disparaît pas à dix-huit ans. En définitive, je serais favorable à cet abaissement, mais à une condition : qu'il s'accompagne d'un enseignement civique renforcé, faute de quoi il ne ferait qu'ajouter de nouveaux abstentionnistes.

Exam focus

  • Use the French framework accurately - vote at eighteen since 1974, automatic registration since 1997 - rather than assuming British arrangements (AO4).
  • Give the strongest version of the case you disagree with before answering it; this is what critical response means in the mark scheme (AO4).

Typical mistakes

  • Assuming young French people must register to vote themselves; registration has been automatic at eighteen since 1997.
  • Arguing only from I am sixteen and I would vote responsibly - the mark scheme rewards structural argument, not personal assertion.

Active revision

Rédigez 150 mots en français : deux arguments pour le vote à seize ans, deux arguments contre, et une conclusion conditionnelle utilisant « ne... que si ».

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level French (7652) specification - subject content (AQA) · GCE AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages (Department for Education)

§ 02

Motivated or demotivated? Les ados et l'engagement politique#

●●●AdvancedLPAQA 7652 3.2.2 - Les ados, le droit de vote et l'engagement politique : les ados et l'engagement politique - motivés ou démotivés ?LPDfE GCE modern foreign languages subject content

Key points

The decisive analytical move on this strand is to separate two things that are constantly confused: le vote and l'engagement. Young voters in France abstain at higher rates than older ones, and abstention among the young has been a persistent feature of recent French elections, particularly at local and European level. But abstention is not the same as apathy. The same generation is heavily present in les marches pour le climat, les pétitions en ligne, le bénévolat associatif, les mobilisations ponctuelles and les campagnes sur les réseaux sociaux. The formulation to own: les jeunes ne se détournent pas de la politique, ils se détournent de ses formes traditionnelles.
Name the reasons for abstention accurately, because vague disillusionment is not an analysis. La défiance envers les partis et les élus, reinforced by affaires and by the sense that promises are not kept. Le sentiment que le vote ne change rien, particularly where a second round offers a choice between options none of which was chosen. L'offre politique jugée inadaptée aux préoccupations des jeunes - logement, emploi, climat. La complexité du système, especially for local and European elections whose competences are poorly understood. And le vote blanc, which since 2014 is counted separately but not included among the suffrages exprimés - a fact that itself fuels a sense of not being heard.
The forms engagement does take in France are institutional as well as informal, and the institutional ones are worth naming because they are concrete and verifiable. In schools: les délégués de classe, le conseil de la vie lycéenne, le conseil national de la vie lycéenne, and student unions such as l'UNL and la FIDL. In the community: les conseils municipaux de jeunes, le service civique, and the associative sector generally. And beyond: participation in marches, in collectives around a single issue, and in online mobilisation. The verbs: se mobiliser, descendre dans la rue, signer une pétition, militer, adhérer à, se syndiquer, relayer une information, interpeller un élu.
The critical question worth arguing is whether the new forms substitute for the old or merely supplement them. The sceptical case is real: a petition costs nothing, online mobilisation can be shallow - the French label is le militantisme de canapé - and single-issue campaigns do not build the durable structures that turn protest into legislation. The optimistic case is equally real: mass mobilisation has repeatedly changed the French political agenda, and durable engagement often begins with a single issue. A conclusion that scores: ces nouvelles formes ne remplacent pas le vote, elles le complètent ; le danger serait de croire qu'un clic vaut un bulletin.
Worked example

Translation into French: the abstention argument

Translate into French: It is often said that young people are no longer interested in politics. Yet those same young people take to the streets for the climate and sign petitions by the thousand. What they reject is not politics, but the way it is practised.

  1. 01Handle It is often said

    On dit souvent que, or the passive Il est souvent dit que. The on version is more natural French. Do not calque it as It is said with a heavy passive.

  2. 02Handle no longer interested in

    ne s'intéressent plus à la politique. s'intéresser à takes à, and ne... plus wraps the conjugated verb with the reflexive pronoun inside: ne s'intéressent plus. Getting the pronoun inside the negative is a real accuracy point.

  3. 03Handle Yet and those same

    Yet = Pourtant or Or. those same young people = ces mêmes jeunes - note that même before the noun means same, after it means very or -self. Placement changes meaning.

  4. 04Handle take to the streets and by the thousand

    descendre dans la rue is the fixed French idiom. by the thousand = par milliers, plural and without an article. Both are collocations you cannot derive from English.

  5. 05Handle the final cleft

    What they reject is not politics but the way it is practised = Ce qu'ils rejettent, ce n'est pas la politique, mais la manière dont on la pratique. Note dont, required because pratiquer takes a direct object and the relation is de la manière. Note also on la pratique rather than a passive, which is more natural French.

Result: On dit souvent que les jeunes ne s'intéressent plus à la politique. Pourtant, ces mêmes jeunes descendent dans la rue pour le climat et signent des pétitions par milliers. Ce qu'ils rejettent, ce n'est pas la politique, mais la manière dont on la pratique.

Exam focus

  • Separate abstention from disengagement - the strongest single argument available on this strand (AO4).
  • Name French institutional forms of youth engagement (le conseil de la vie lycéenne, le service civique) as evidence (AO4).

Typical mistakes

  • Saying young people are not interested in politics; the evidence points to a shift in form, not a loss of interest.
  • Treating le vote blanc as a spoiled ballot; in France it is counted separately, though not among the votes cast.

Active revision

Rédigez 130 mots en français distinguant l'abstention de la désaffection politique, avec deux exemples de formes d'engagement non électorales.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level French (7652) specification - subject content (AQA)

§ 03

What future for politics? Quel avenir pour la politique ?#

●●●AdvancedLPAQA 7652 3.2.2 - Les ados, le droit de vote et l'engagement politique : quel avenir pour la politique ?LPDfE GCE modern foreign languages subject content

Key points

The trends worth naming are structural, not anecdotal. La désaffection partisane: political parties across France have far fewer members than in the post-war decades, and identification with a party has weakened. La personnalisation: politics organises increasingly around individuals and presidential figures rather than programmes. La défiance: mistrust of elected representatives and institutions, measured consistently in French surveys, is high. And la volatilité électorale: voters change their choice from one election to the next far more readily than a generation ago. These four nouns will carry any answer on the future of politics.
Against that, name the innovations. La démocratie participative: budgets participatifs in French cities, where residents allocate part of the investment budget; les conseils de quartier; les consultations citoyennes. Les conventions citoyennes: France has convened citizens' assemblies drawn by lot to deliberate on major questions, of which the convention citoyenne pour le climat is the best known example; their recommendations were only partly taken up, which is itself the subject of debate about whether such bodies are consultation or theatre. Le numérique: online petitions, open data, direct contact with elected representatives - and, on the other side, la désinformation and the fragmentation of public debate.
Two French institutional facts are worth having for this strand. Le référendum exists in the Fifth Republic and has been decisive at moments of its history, though it is used sparingly. And the Constitution provides for a form of citizen-initiated referendum, le référendum d'initiative partagée, whose conditions are demanding enough that it has rarely been triggered - a good example of a mechanism whose existence matters less than its accessibility. Rather than asserting numbers, say: le dispositif existe, mais ses conditions sont si strictes qu'il n'a presque jamais abouti.
For the concluding judgement, the honest position is that the crisis is one of representation rather than of politics itself. The evidence: participation in single-issue mobilisation, associations and local initiatives is not collapsing; what is collapsing is the mediating machinery of parties and traditional representation. Say it in French as: ce n'est pas l'appétit politique qui manque, c'est le mécanisme qui devait le traduire en décisions. And add the risk, because a critical answer names risks: quand les canaux institutionnels ne fonctionnent plus, la contestation trouve d'autres voies, parfois plus brutales - a claim French political history amply supports and which leads naturally into the next sub-theme on strikes and demonstrations.
Worked example

The si-clause system in political argument

Express these three political claims in French, each with a different si-clause type, and explain the tense pairing in each.

  1. 01Type one: real, likely condition

    si + présent, main clause in futur simple. Si les partis ne se réforment pas, ils continueront à perdre des adhérents. Use this for a condition you present as genuinely possible.

  2. 02Type two: hypothetical present

    si + imparfait, main clause in conditionnel présent. Si le vote blanc était comptabilisé parmi les suffrages exprimés, le débat politique changerait de nature. Use this for a hypothesis contrary to present fact.

  3. 03Type three: unreal past

    si + plus-que-parfait, main clause in conditionnel passé. Si les recommandations de la convention citoyenne avaient toutes été reprises, la confiance aurait peut-être été restaurée. Use this for a past that did not happen.

  4. 04Fix the absolute rule

    Never put a future or a conditional immediately after si in a conditional clause. Si je serais and Si j'aurais are among the most heavily penalised errors in French. The conditional belongs in the other half of the sentence.

  5. 05Note the permitted exception

    si meaning whether, in indirect questions, does allow a future or conditional: Je me demande si les jeunes voteront. Recognising the two functions of si prevents you from over-applying the rule.

Result: Type 1: Si les partis ne se réforment pas, ils continueront à perdre des adhérents. Type 2: Si le vote blanc était comptabilisé parmi les suffrages exprimés, le débat changerait de nature. Type 3: Si les recommandations avaient toutes été reprises, la confiance aurait peut-être été restaurée. Rule: no future or conditional directly after a conditional si - but si meaning whether does allow them.

Exam focus

  • Use the four structural nouns - désaffection partisane, personnalisation, défiance, volatilité - as the backbone of any future-of-politics answer (AO4).
  • Name the participatory innovations, including the citizens' convention model, and evaluate them rather than praising them (AO4).

Typical mistakes

  • Presenting participatory democracy as an unqualified success; the standard French critique is that recommendations are only partly implemented.
  • Claiming precise membership or trust figures; describe the trend instead, which is what the argument actually needs.

Active revision

Rédigez 150 mots en français sur l'avenir de la démocratie représentative, en nommant deux tendances structurelles et deux innovations, puis en concluant.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level French (7652) specification - subject content (AQA)

§ 04

Le lexique et les tournures: the language of political argument#

●●○StandardLPAQA 7652 3.2.2 - Les ados, le droit de vote et l'engagement politiqueLPAQA 7652 3.3 Grammar

Key points

The field in blocks. Le vote: un électeur, un scrutin, un bureau de vote, l'isoloir, l'urne, un bulletin, le premier tour, le second tour, le taux de participation, l'abstention, le vote blanc, le vote nul, une procuration. Les acteurs: un parti, un militant, un adhérent, un élu, un député, un sénateur, un maire, un conseiller municipal, un candidat, un porte-parole. L'engagement: se mobiliser, militer, adhérer, manifester, signer une pétition, faire campagne, s'investir, interpeller, boycotter. Les attitudes: la défiance, la méfiance, le désintérêt, le désenchantement, la lassitude, l'indignation, l'espoir, l'engagement.
Words that mislead English speakers. Un politicien is mildly pejorative in French; the neutral term for a political figure is un homme politique, une femme politique or un responsable politique, and la politique means both politics and a policy, distinguished by article and context - la politique du gouvernement is government policy, la politique tout court is politics. Un candidat se présente; il ne court pas. Une élection se tient or a lieu. And note that voter pour quelqu'un takes pour, while voter contre and voter blanc take no preposition.
The grammar of argument is what this sub-theme is really testing. Concession: certes... mais, il est vrai que... toutefois, bien que + subjonctif, quoique + subjonctif, même si + indicatif, avoir beau + infinitif (les partis ont beau se réformer, la défiance persiste - a superb and compact structure). Refutation: c'est oublier que, cet argument ne résiste pas à l'examen, encore faudrait-il que + subjonctif, on objectera que. Hypothesis: the three si-clause patterns, plus au cas où + conditionnel and à supposer que + subjonctif.
Finally, the register of a political discussion with an examiner. Keep vous throughout; avoid partisan slogans and personal attacks on named politicians, which score nothing and risk sounding intemperate. Attribute contested positions - les partisans de cette mesure soutiennent que..., ses adversaires répliquent que... - then state your own with a marker of personal responsibility: pour ma part, quant à moi, à mes yeux, je serais tenté de dire que. That last hedge, je serais tenté de dire, is a conditional and a hedge in one, and it is exactly the register a mature political discussion in French uses.
Worked example

Compressing a concession with avoir beau

Rewrite each sentence using avoir beau, and explain what is gained: (1) Bien que les partis se réforment, la défiance persiste. (2) Même si le gouvernement multiplie les consultations, les citoyens restent sceptiques. (3) Quoique les jeunes s'engagent beaucoup, ils votent peu.

  1. 01Learn the structure

    avoir beau + infinitive means to do something in vain, however much one does it. The subject of avoir beau is the subject of the concession, and the main clause follows with no conjunction: Les partis ont beau se réformer, la défiance persiste.

  2. 02Apply it to (2)

    Le gouvernement a beau multiplier les consultations, les citoyens restent sceptiques. Note that the infinitive follows immediately - no de, no à. This is a frequent slip.

  3. 03Apply it to (3), watching the tense

    Les jeunes ont beau s'engager beaucoup, ils votent peu. The pronominal infinitive keeps its pronoun: s'engager. If the concession were past, avoir beau itself moves: Les jeunes ont eu beau se mobiliser, rien n'a changé.

  4. 04State what is gained

    Three things: no subjunctive to get wrong, a structure most candidates never use, and greater compression - one clause instead of a conjunction plus a subordinate. Under time pressure it is both safer and more impressive.

  5. 05Note the limit

    avoir beau always carries the sense of in vain. It cannot replace bien que in a neutral concession where the outcome is not futile, so keep bien que + subjunctive for those.

Result: (1) Les partis ont beau se réformer, la défiance persiste. (2) Le gouvernement a beau multiplier les consultations, les citoyens restent sceptiques. (3) Les jeunes ont beau s'engager beaucoup, ils votent peu. Gained: no subjunctive risk, a rare structure, and greater compression - but only where the concession implies futility.

Exam focus

  • Use avoir beau + infinitive at least once - it compresses a whole concessive clause and is strongly credited (AO3).
  • Attribute positions before evaluating them, and mark your own view with pour ma part or à mes yeux (AO3/AO4).

Typical mistakes

  • Writing un politicien as the neutral term; use un homme or une femme politique, or un responsable politique.
  • Putting a conditional after si in a conditional clause - the single most penalised structure error in A-level French.

Active revision

Écrivez huit phrases politiques en français : deux avec « avoir beau », deux avec « bien que » + subjonctif, deux avec « même si » + indicatif, deux avec une formule d'attribution.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level French (7652) specification - grammar (AQA)

§ 05

En épreuve: debating a political card in French#

●●●AdvancedLPAQA 7652 4.4 Paper 1 - Listening, reading and writingLPAQA 7652 4.6 Paper 3 - Speaking, part one

Key points

Political listening material in Paper 1 is likely to be a debate, an interview or a vox pop, and AQA guarantees at least one passage with more than one speaker. In a French debate, speakers interrupt, overlap and use discourse markers heavily - écoutez, attendez, non mais, justement, tout à fait, absolument pas. AQA's grammar list explicitly includes discourse markers and fillers, and on this sub-theme they carry the argumentative structure. Learn to hear justement, which signals that the speaker is turning the opponent's point back on them, and en revanche, which signals contrast.
Reading texts may be opinion pieces, and French opinion writing uses rhetorical questions, irony and the conditional of report freely. Two comprehension skills matter: separating the author's own view from views attributed to others, and recognising evaluative vocabulary - une mesure démagogique, une réforme cosmétique, une avancée significative - which tells you the writer's position even when it is never stated. A question asking L'auteur est-il favorable à cette mesure ? is usually answerable from adjectives alone.
For translation, this sub-theme brings: to vote = voter; turnout = le taux de participation; a poll or survey = un sondage; an election = une élection; a member of parliament = un député; a party member = un adhérent or un militant; to run for office = se présenter; a campaign = une campagne; disillusioned = désabusé or désenchanté; to take to the streets = descendre dans la rue. Also note that l'opinion publique is singular in French and takes a singular verb, and that les élections is plural where English often uses the election.
For the card, the risk on a political sub-theme is that you sound either partisan or vacant. Prepare a structure rather than opinions: a reframing sentence, one argument each way, one refutation, one conditional conclusion. That skeleton fits any political card. Prepare two questions for the examiner: Pensez-vous que l'abstention des jeunes soit un problème pour la démocratie ? and Dans votre pays, à quel âge peut-on voter, et cela vous paraît-il justifié ? The second is genuinely useful because it invites information you can then discuss.
Worked example

Reading a writer's position from their adjectives

A text says: « Cette réforme, présentée comme une avancée majeure, se réduit en réalité à un aménagement cosmétique. On se félicitera néanmoins qu'elle ait au moins ouvert le débat. » The question asks: L'auteur soutient-il cette réforme ? Justifiez.

  1. 01Notice the attribution

    présentée comme une avancée majeure attributes the positive framing to someone else. présenté comme is a distancing device: the writer is reporting how the reform is sold, not endorsing it.

  2. 02Notice the counter-adjective

    se réduit en réalité à un aménagement cosmétique - se réduire à means to amount to no more than, en réalité signals correction, and cosmétique is unambiguously dismissive. Three markers pointing the same way.

  3. 03Notice the concession

    On se félicitera néanmoins que... ait au moins ouvert le débat. néanmoins and au moins are concessive; the subjunctive ait ouvert follows se féliciter que. So the writer grants one limited merit.

  4. 04Write a nuanced answer

    The answer is not a simple no. It is: no, but with one qualification. Nuance here is not hedging - it is accurate reading, and it is what the justification asks for.

  5. 05Justify with the mechanism

    Name the devices rather than quoting the whole sentence: la distance créée par « présentée comme », l'adjectif dépréciatif « cosmétique », et la concession introduite par « néanmoins ».

Result: Non, l'auteur ne la soutient pas : il prend ses distances dès « présentée comme », puis la disqualifie par l'adjectif dépréciatif « cosmétique » et par la tournure « se réduit à ». Il lui concède toutefois un mérite limité - avoir ouvert le débat - grâce à la concession « néanmoins ».

Exam focus

  • Learn the debate discourse markers - justement, en revanche, non mais, tout à fait - since they carry the argument in spoken French (AO1).
  • Read the author's evaluative adjectives to determine their position when it is not stated (AO2).

Typical mistakes

  • Attacking named politicians on the card; the mark scheme rewards argument, and intemperance costs credibility.
  • Translating turnout as le tournant or la sortie; it is le taux de participation.

Active revision

Préparez le squelette d'une réponse politique en français : une phrase de recadrage, un argument pour, un argument contre, une réfutation, une conclusion conditionnelle. Testez-le sur trois questions différentes.

Active recall

Recall the key points — then reveal.

Sources: AQA A-level French (7652) specification - scheme of assessment (AQA)

Contents

Section -- / 05

    • 01The right to vote: pour ou contre ?◐
    • 02Motivated or demotivated? Les ados et l'engagement politique●
    • 03What future for politics? Quel avenir pour la politique ?●
    • 04Le lexique et les tournures: the language of political argument◐
    • 05En épreuve: debating a political card in French●

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