GCSE French writing practice and revision based on Edexcel.
This PPT includes:
a recap of Paper 4 (writing) for both foundation and higher level, based on Edexcel
success criteria for a good piece of writing
an analysis of an exam question (based on the topic of my area)
a model answer (with gap fill and answers included)
sentence bingo (based on all topics)
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF EDEXCEL CONFLICT POEMS!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the Edexcel 'Conflict’ anthology:
Exposure - Wilfred Owen;
Catrin - Gillian Clarke;
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Poppies - Jane Weir
War Photographer - Carole Satyamurti
Belfast Confetti - Ciaran Carson
The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron
Cousin Kate -Christina Rossetti
The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy
A Poison Tree -William Blake
What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
No Problem - Benjamin Zephaniah
The Prelude (Extract) - William Wordsworth
Half-caste - John Agard
The Class Game - Mary Casey
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
This is an entire lesson based on preparing students for the Edexcel GCSE French Listening exam.
It includes…
a quick starter quiz to see how well the students know the exam.
how to use the 5 minute reading time with an activity to practice this.
slides on the different types of questions that appear in the exam - how to answer the questions, things to look out for and then a question from the 2023 listening paper to practice what you’ve just covered (answers provided).
the audio for the practice questions is embedded in the relevant slides. Just click the mouse and it should play or click on the speaker icon.
tips from previous examiner reports.
vocabulary activity based on words/phrases that have tripped students up on previous papers (taken from examiner reports) - students have a table of 30 words and have to fill in the English for all the ones they already know and then use a dictionary/work together to find the meaning for the rest of them.
A bank of questions for the Edexcel Speaking exam conversation element. Questions are organised by theme into one handy booklet. Each question has a model answer to support less able students and space for students to prepare their own response in the target language. Ideal for students to keep all their speaking exam preparation in one place!
Knowledge Organizer for Module 1: New GCSE Spanish (First Teaching 2024, First Assessment 2026)
Exam Board: Pearson Edexcel
This comprehensive double-page knowledge organizer is designed specifically for the inaugural unit of the newly structured GCSE Spanish curriculum by Pearson. It includes an exhaustive list of vocabulary encompassed within the unit, providing an essential resource for your students’ independent study. This organizer is crafted to support educators in delivering a structured overview of key terms and phrases, facilitating effective learning and retention. Ideal for integrating into lesson plans, it serves as an invaluable tool for enhancing linguistic proficiency and comprehension.
This resource can be used as a lesson on how to prepare for the role play task (foundation and higher tiers) or as a booklet for students to practise as part of the lesson, homework, revision material, etc.
The booklet is aimed to focus on how to answer/understand the bullet points and think about what the examiner could ask for each of them. It also contains information about the role play task for Edexcel.
I have not created/designed the role plays. I have put together some of the foundation and higher role plays from the Edexcel VIVA textbook and some from past papers/sample assessments, etc. They are organised by theme.
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS FOR ALL 15 OF THE EDEXCEL TIME AND PLACE POEMS!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the ‘Time and Place’ anthology:
John Keats – “To Autumn”
William Wordsworth – “Composed upon Westminster Bridge"
William Blake – “Songs of Experience: London”
Emily Dickinson – “I started Early – Took my Dog”
Thomas Hardy – “Where the Picnic was”
Edward Thomas – “Adlestrop”
Robert Browning – “Home Thoughts from Abroad”
U A Fanthorpe – “First Flight”
Fleur Adcock – “Stewart Island”
Moniza Alvi – “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan”
Grace Nichols – “Hurricane Hits England”
Tatamkhulu Afrika – “Nothing’s Changed”
Sophie Hannah – “Postcard from a Travel Snob”
John Davidson – “In Romney Marsh”
Elizabeth Jennings – “Absence”
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A4 or A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
10 MARK GRAMMAR QUESTION
This includes:
1 PowerPoint presentation (the lesson) and
1 booklet (word) to be printed
This resource is to guide iGCSE students through the final question on their Reading & Writing exam.
First of all, there are gap-fill questions tense-by-tense (ideally you would do this with the students) and at the end of the lesson, there are 2 practice exam questions [just like the 10 marker in their exam]
This is a full lesson to prepare students for the GCSE Edexcel Spanish Listening Exam.
It includes the following slides/activities:
Starter quiz - how well do they know the exam?
Brief overview of the exam
5 minute reading time - how to use it wisely - what they can be doing during those 5 minutes
Question Types - slides that go through the different types of questions that come up in the exam, how to answer them, what not to do, and then a chance to have a practice at each type of question.
Tips from the examiner - slide of tips from previous examiner reports.
Vocabulary - I have been through examiner reports from past few years and picked up the words/phrases that they said students tripped up on - these words are in a table and students work together to fill in the English translations.
All answers to exam questions are included. All audio for exam questions is included - it is embedded on each slide, you just have to click on the speaker icon and it will play.
Two lessons of 50 min / an hour each
Lesson 1: revision of question word + questions that will be used to prepare the Role play (from lesson On se retrouve où?)
Lesson 2: introduction of Speaking exam + what a Role play looks like + practice of a role play.
Edit: 12/02/2024
Lesson two now contains a peer-assessment grid, including pronunciation and flow (useful to train for the picture task and conversation).
A PowerPoint with a booklet designed to prepare your students for their Foundation writing exam. It includes explanations of each task, the marking criteria and tips, given in a student friendly way. There is also a knowledge organiser to help them to tackle the translations section as well as practise questions to drill their writing skills. Model answers are included for some tasks. The perfect set of resources to boost their confidence when writing in Spanish!
A PowerPoint with a booklet designed to prepare your students for their Higher writing exam. It includes explanations of each task, the marking criteria and tips, given in a student friendly way. There is also a knowledge organiser to help them to tackle the translation section as well as practise questions to drill their writing skills. Model answers are included for some tasks. The perfect set of resources to boost their confidence when writing in Spanish!
This ambitious 140 page print-on-demand Spanish Grammar Workbook covers every grammar point from main exam board specifications and goes beyond as well! It is my attempt at distilling everything into one workbook which will last the entire GCSE course (potentially starting in as early as year 7/8 and lasting into year 12). The workbook is designed to be used both in the classroom and at home and assumes zero prior knowledge, I often use it for feedback and providing interventions. The cover was designed by the brilliant @languageswithmaddy!
All answers included, please leave a review!
Nouns
Gender and number +45 most high-frequency nouns
Definite and indefinite articles
Abstract nouns with lo plus adjective
Adjectives
Agreement and position + top 42 adjectives
Comparative and superlative (regular and mayor, menor, mejor, peor)
Demonstrative (this, that, these, those and those over there)
Indefinite (cada, otro, todo, mismo, alguno)
Short form possessives
Long form possessives
Interrogative
Quantifiers (muy, bastante, demasiado, poco, mucho).
Verbs
Top 15 verbs
Active and passive voice ®
Regular and irregular forms of verbs
Present simple tense
Present continuous
Preterite tense
Imperfect
Imperfect continuous
Imperfect tense weather phrases with estar and hacer
Imperfect and preterite together
Future simple
Immediate future
Present perfect
Conditional
The “me gustaría” structure
Complex “if structures” with the imperfect subjunctive
Pluperfect
Gerunds
Imperative (affirmative & negative tú commands)
Present subjunctive with wishes, opinions, obligations and possibilities
Present subjunctive with cuando
Impersonal verbs: most common only
Negation
Tú and usted
Reflexive verbs
Imperfect subjunctive ®
Quisiera
Prepositions
A, en, con, de, sobre, sin, desde/hasta, entre, the personal a
Conjunctions
Most common including: y, pero, o, porque, como, cuando
Number, quantity and dates
Days of the week
Months of the year
Numbers 1-100
Basic ordinal numbers (primero, segundo, tercero, cuarto, quinto, sexto)
Most common quantities
Time
Giving the time with “es la/son las” + hour
Stating what time something is done with “a la/las” + hour
Asking for the time/what time it is
Use of desde hace with present tense
Use of* llevar* + duration + gerund
Hacía + length of time + que + imperfect tense
Adverbs
Formation of -mente adverbs
Bueno and bien
Regular comparative and superlative adverbs
Adverbs of time and place
Common adverbial phrases (of manner, time and place)
Pronouns
Subject pronouns
Direct and indirect object pronouns + placement
DOPS/IDOPS used together
Reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns (que, quien, lo que, cuyo, el que)
Disjunctive (conmigo, para mí)
Extras
Idiomatic expressions
Exclamations
Obligation structures
Infinitive structures
The speaking tool kit
Introducing and justifying opinions
Verbs w/prepositions
Irregular conditional tense
Sequencers
Here you will find a PowerPoint that has everything students need to prepare for mock exams and the real deal in June.
Based on several existing resources from Edexcel and BBC Bitesize as well as Pearson text books, this complete guide gives you and your students a one-stop shop for everything they need to pass the reading sections of the GCSE English Language exam paper, 1+2.
20 Grammar-based tasks with answers to practise the final grammar cloze test in the Edexcel Pearson German International GCSE Reading and Writing Paper 2.
The twenty tasks are based around the topics of the IGCSE and there are varied levels of difficulty.
Each task contains a passage in German with ten missing verbs and adjectives, which the pupils must put into the correct form to complete the passage.
The passages and answer format are structured exactly as the task appears in the IGCSE.
The tasks would also be good practice or revision for Year 12 students.
POWERPOINT :
A quick Breakdown of the Exam Paper Structure and expectations for the GCSE paper 4 (writing) for Higher Tier students.
A step by step breakdown of how to answer the 130-150 word question.
This is also designed for students aiming for the 7-9 grades and has been approved by OFSTED during MFL deep dive observation.
I have used the topic of Future Plans but it is easily amendable to any other theme
This is a scheme of work which includes reference to the grammar and translation workbook, speaking questions and www.vocabexpress.com.
I hope you find it useful.
I created this PowerPoint so that my department could go through the key elements during the first week back with Yr 10 to introduce the course and the new GCSE Edexcel requirements.
A Speaking Booklet containing the questions in the back of the Viva text book for Edexcel. It also contains the mark scheme for Edexcel.
Apologies for any spelling mistakes.