AQA A Level French Paper 2 7652/2 - 19th June 2023 [Exam Chat]

Im doing un sac de billes! I'm quite scared i feel like they ask really hard questions for that one

i do it !

If they ask a technique related question for ARLE I'm going to kms istg. PLEASE just be some stupid julien and jean or joseph question or something

Yea I'm scared for Billes also.
I don't feel like I know the entirety of the story that well - I always use the same points in my essays.
Do you have any ideas what sort of questions they might ask this year?

Constant sexualisation of women as a medium for the boys to express their adolescent desires:
1) On the first day back at the pensionnat in the dormitory when the boys are looking at a picture of a woman and they're all talking about her body ("Elle est vachement bien roulée") and Julien goes even further and says ("Elle a meme pas de nichons"). Thought that was super gross.
2) After the first meal when the guys are bullying Joseph but somehow it ends up as them insulting each other's girlfriends + sisters but making fun of their looks or calling them a slut.
3) The whole piano teacher ordeal. The boys staring at her figure and talking about her body the entire time. During the movie projection scenes Francois keeps kissing her even though she's clearly trying to stop him from doing that.

Francois slut shames his mother (in the infirmary after the treasure chase incident) and you'd think that the director would not want to have scenes slut shaming his mother in his semi autobiography but no.


My teacher seems to think Louis Malle put all this in the play to show the treatment of women in the war and to accurately show how the boys acted back then and I see why people can think that. I just personally think it's a bit sexist. It can be seen either way I suppose.

Both of them?

yup

could you use "intimité" do describe emotional closeness of brothers, or is that more like intimacy like between partners. and is proximité physical closeness or could i use it emotionally?

I do Sac de Billes and Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (haven't seen any other schools who even do this film haha), any predictions? I know for Sac de Billes, not including last yrs bc I haven't seen that paper, there have been plenty of questions about Jo and also a couple on both brothers together. Obviously they are the protagonists but they haven't asked a theme question for a while...

does anyone have last years questions for this paper (in spec L'étranger or entre les murs)

How many paragraphs for the essays is it best to write? cause we only get around 50 mins for each essay...

How many paragraphs for the essays is it best to write? cause we only get around 50 mins for each essay...