Jeunes Francophones

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started10th Jan 1994

ended21st Mar 1994

last rpt31st Jan 2008

15 school years

episodes10

duration20 mins

subject 💬LanguagesFrench Language

age rangeAge 13-16

languagefrIn French

3 images from Jeunes Francophones

Jeunes Francophones is a French-language BBC schools TV series from the 1990s and 2000s, covering French Language for secondary school pupils.

Youngsters from three different French-speaking countries introduce elements of culture and teenage life, showing diverse aspects of fashion, sports, work, love, the environment and other issues across the world.

The series completes the BBC/Longman language study programme Étoiles, providing natural French conversation at increasing difficulty to help pupils in the 4th and 5th years of study leading up to GCSE exams.

The series is linked by "roving reporter" Boss M.C., alias rapper Christian Djasngar, who delivers a rap at the start of every episode on the subject of the week. Viewers would recognise him from the earlier Étoiles series Le Café des Rêves where he played a character called Marco. Indeed he introduces himself on this basis: "He les mecs! Vous me connaissez? Ouais, je suis Marco dans le Café des Rêves, et maintenant je m'appelle Boss."

Boss is assisted by a local teenager from each of the three countries: Gina from Dakar in Senegal, Isabelle from Montreal in Canada, and Cécile from Toulouse in France

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Video

BBC

Much of the series is available to watch on the BBC website, split into clips of around five minutes.

The clips are ascribed to either "Episode 1" or "Episode 2", where "Episode 1" refers to the overnight Learning Zone omnibus of episodes 1-6, and "Episode 2" refers to the omnibus of episodes 7-10.

Episodes

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Trois continents	#1994-01-10-00-00-0010 Jan 1994
2.	Le look	#1994-01-17-00-00-0017 Jan 1994
3.	Le sport et la santé	#1994-01-24-00-00-0024 Jan 1994
4.	Le temps libre	#1994-01-31-00-00-0031 Jan 1994
5.	Notre environnement	#1994-02-07-00-00-007 Feb 1994
6.	Le travail	#1994-02-21-00-00-0021 Feb 1994
7.	Les media	#1994-02-28-00-00-0028 Feb 1994
8.	Je t'aime	#1994-03-07-00-00-007 Mar 1994
9.	La bonne assiette	#1994-03-14-00-00-0014 Mar 1994
10.	Notre planète	#1994-03-21-00-00-0021 Mar 1994

The series was first broadcast on BBC2 in Spring 1994.

Credits

Presented by	Boss M.C.
With	Gina Thiam Isabelle Cyr Cécile Jaquemet

Consultant	Amanda Rainger
Director	Luis España
Producer	Susan Paton

Resources

There was a booklet of teacher's notes written by Amanda Rainger including teaching suggestions, worksheets and transcripts of all the episodes.

The series was also released as a double video pack.

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Teacher's notes

Étoiles language course

Stage 1: Quinze Minutes (TV) • Satellites Français (radio)
Stage 2: Ici Paris (TV) • Satellites Français (radio)
Stage 3: Le Café des Rêves (TV) • Satellites Français (radio)
Stages 4-5: Jeunes Francophones (TV)

Topics

School topics covered in this programme. Click to find other programmes covering the same topics, but bear in mind topics are a new addition to the site in 2023 and not many are set up yet.

Life in France

Life in Canada

Life in West Africa

Protecting the environment

Teenage issues

Teenage relationships

African slavery

Rap music

Fashion and clothing

Behind the scenes of radio

Behind the scenes of TV

Local TV

Keyword tags

Some features of this programme. Click to find other programmes with the same features, but bear in mind tags are also a new addition to the site in 2023 and not many are set up yet.

Documentary

Presenter is a child

Vox pops

Repeated in the 21st century

Links

• BBC Programmes page for Jeunes Francophones

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