Why are there no Advanced Higher French past papers?

20007 and 20008

Am I really that tired that I have double vision? Or are you tired and making typos?

Probably because not enough people take it for the publishers to warrant making them. Disadvantages me as well unfortunatley, but you can get the 2007 and 2008 past papers on the SQA website here

Just out of interest how are you enjoying the course? I'm quite liking it, although it's a little bit daunting at first having group discussions in French, but quite enjoyable. We haven't done that much work though, we've watched all of Amélie, which was brilliant.

Thanks. And I haven't even started the course yet because I'm doing it at another school and we aren't sent there until August (lots of people are going to the same place for Advanced Higher Accounting ), but I'm the only person in my whole school doing AH French. So I'm a shoe-in for the academic achievement prize, hahahaha.

So I have no idea what the course entails but I'm watching French TV and reading French books to prepare.

Ah, interesting. Any French books you'd reccommend? (that are sufficiently comprehensible that I don't have to look up my dictionary for every 2nd word.) Because I'd really like to improve my vocabulary, which despite more oor less sailing through higher, is pretty poor.

Le Petit Prince is quite good and relatively simple (online version available here (free))

It depends as well on how well you know the english versions of some books, eg the only French books I've read for "fun" are Harry Potter 1 and "Fascination" (Twilight) - because I know the source so well, I could guess most of the words I didn't know!

Another way to improve your vocabulary is to watch a French film with French subtitles - you should be able to work out what's going on from either the sounds or the words onscreen, and I find that if you have English subtitles it is far too easy to cheat!