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Response to prescribed text:
Sample questions
Au revoir les enfants shots 439–464
Part A
The quality of your answer will depend on how well you:
- respond critically to the prescribed text
- analyse how meaning is conveyed
- demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the prescribed text and prescribed issues.
Question 1
Read the extract from Au revoir les enfants, shots 439–464 and answer the questions below in ENGLISH.
- Explain the reaction of the soeur-infirmière in
the scene of the infirmary. (3 marks)
- How does the language reinforce the mood of the scene?
Refer to shots 435-450. (3 marks)
- Joseph: Fais pas le curé. Tout ça
c’est de votre faute!
What does Joseph mean by this remark? How does this remark reveal a change in the relationship between Julien and Joseph? (3 marks)
- What techniques does the director use to convey the
change in the relationship? (3 marks)
- Joseph: C’est la guerre, mon
vieux.
Explain how this comment explores the issue of coping with change. (3 marks)
Part B
The quality of your answer will depend on how well you:
- demonstrate an understanding of the prescribed text
- write a narrative account in French.
Question 2
Read the following extract from Au revoir les enfants and answer the question that follows by writing approximately 200 words in FRENCH. (10 marks)
Joseph: C’est que des Juifs... Bonnet tu l’aimais bien?
Vous êtes Julien vingt ans après. Vous décidez d’écrire un roman qui débuterait avec la scène à l'infirmerie. Décrivez la scène et les émotions que vous avez ressenties ce jour-là.
You are Julien twenty years later. You decide to write a novel which would begin with the scene at the infirmary. Descibe the scene and the emotions you felt on that particular day.