Writing Gold Standard Pack – French GCSE (Foundation & Higher)

A complete support system for the extended-writing tasks in the New French GCSE (AQA)

This tiered pack is designed to make the 50-, 90- and 150-word tasks fully transparent for classroom use. Each format is broken down into clear success criteria, safe structures, and annotated model answers, so you can teach extended writing with structure and precision.

• Foundation & Higher teacher guides, where each task has:
  ○ what must appear in a top-band answer
  ○ sentence-by-sentence safe structures
  ○ a sample exam task, mirroring AQA’s layout
  ○ a fully annotated model answer linked to the mark scheme

• Foundation & Higher student pages, where each format has:
  ○ the gold-standard answer (top-band requirements)
  ○ the map to success (safe structures)
  ○ the wrong turns (common mistakes to avoid)

• Foundation & Higher reference summaries of the mark scheme
  ○ full breakdown of AO2 and AO3 for each extended-writing format
  ○ translation and grammar gap-fill mark schemes included for completeness

This resource provides a clear, practical system to help teachers teach extended writing explicitly while giving students adaptable templates they can reshape for any exam question.

I hope you find it useful.

You might be interested in these other supporting resources in my shop:

• Opinions and reasons mat – French GCSE (Foundation & Higher)
• French adjectives – KS3-GCSE grammar mat
• Tense consolidation – French GCSE worksheets (Foundation & Higher)
• French tenses workbook – KS3-GCSE

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