GCSE French revision resources

Practice translation activities in the style of the new GCSE.
Worksheet includes a short version of the AQA mark scheme.
I go through the correct translation on the board then get pupils to make corrections and peer assess before I mark their work.

Using these every 2-3 weeks as a 10-15 minute activity, to assess pupils regularly and keep exam skills ticking over, rather than doing a massive exam at the end of each topic.

KS4 resources to practice Paper 4: writing in French.
An exam practice based on the theme School.
Writing questions and translation task (Foundation Tier).

Some simple questions for students to ask each other as ice-breakers - ideal for the beginning of an A Level course. Can also be used to practice basic questions for GCSE speaking exams (new specification).

This is a complete Speaking Pack for GCSE French. The main presentation included in the pack has hyperlinks to allow you to easily navigate the menus and switch between candidate, teacher and example cards.

It will guide both teachers and students through all parts of the new speaking exam.

• Easy to follow marking grids for all aspects of the speaking exam for both foundation and higher tiers
• Top tips for Role-Plays, Photo Cards and General Conversations
• Example Student cards
• Example Teacher cards
• Example scripts for Role-Plays
• Printable Student and Teacher Cards
• Printable marking grids for student feedback
• Printable worksheet for Top Tips

This is the one-stop resource for seeing your students through this vital element of their French GCSE. I am really proud of this resource and hope you will find it as useful as I have!

(DESIGNED FOR AQA. Could also be used for EdExcel GCSE French, but will need some adapting for the marking sheets)

This booklet is designed to accompany GCSE students through both year 10 and 11 in preparation for the writing exam as part of the new GCSEs. There are 11 example essay prompts with space to plan and draft for each. There is also several pages with extra planning pages which can be photocopied as sheets and space for extra example bullet points.

KS4 booklet with about 90 questions to practice conversation questions for French GCSE.
Questions are divided into 5 themes.
Students can write in the booklet.

Six reading tasks on the topic of jobs, plans for the future and job advertisements followed by an answer sheet. I wrote these texts and questions following the AQA Foundation GCSE French style of texts and questions. Useful for end of topic test/revision, for GCSE mock/exam practice or just for homework or cover work. Can also be used with Year 9.

Video link available on the document, but transcript given here as well, so can be done as a reading, new style GCSE. Yet another useful little starter for those TL style questions for new GCSE 2018.

I selected the questions for units 1-4 of the New AQA GCSE resources. I used them for my year 10 speaking assessment.

This sheet was developed to facilitate marking during mock speaking exams for GCSE languages.
It turned out to be a true time saving resource.
It's best printed side by side on A3 paper.
It was developed for AQA marking scheme.

A series of 4 writing exams for the new format writing paper for IGCSE French. Could be useful as a mock, exam revision or homework. They might also be useful for preparation for the new GCSE.

A series of picture cards and role plays in the style of the Edexcel French GCSE Speaking exam based on theme 2 Local area, holiday and travel

Prepare GCSE French students for the exams with this TAILORED crib sheet of grammar and structures to guide their revision. Yellow column is for foundation, green for higher.

A grid of common verbs in French in the first and third person, suitable for revision and support for speaking and writing tasks.

Booklets for GCSE French students with 10 questions for each module. Good way to start preparing the conversation part of the new GCSE Speaking exam in advance of the exam. Students can write their answer to each question and learn these answers ahead of their exam.

I created model answers for the speaking. It helps both higher achievers and low achievers who don’t know what to say. They can shorten the answers or make it more complex if they want. It worked well with my classes.

a revision powerpoint on pronouns for GCSE and an accompanying worksheet

Writing Mat designed to assist students in the writing of the 90 words, 16 mark task, in the new AQA GCSE (1-9). It has lots of useful phrases, verb help, a pupil speak markscheme. Very useful to stick in the front of pupils' books/print out back to back and laminate for use in class. I have found they have gone down very well with the pupils when scaffolding the writing task.

12 pages of wordbuilders focusing on the description of physical appearance, personality, irregular adjectives, emotional and physical states, the present of ETRE and AVOIR as well as idioms with AVOIR.

A two-page work-out drilling in imperfect tense formation

Summary on how to build the passe compose

Conjugation worksheets on the verbs ALLER and FAIRE (présent, passé composé, imparfait, future proche and future simple, OR just présent). Contain verb tables and practice. Ideal for consolidation, revision or preparation for exams.

A whole pack focused on verbs and tenses, especially past tenses- include rules, examples and activities.

Tarsia- avoir and etre- present tense. Useful to revise present tense forms of avoir and etre. KS2 or KS3. Word and PDF versions so template can be used too.

Revision mindmaps on the AQA topics of
-relationship and friends
-technology and new media
- free time
- custom and festivals
- home town, neighbourhood and region

- social issues
- global issues - environment
- global issues - poverty and homelessness
- Travel and tourism
- Current and future Study and Employment

An overall revision of all tenses needed at GCSE. for the starter, print the verbs on card + cut out and make them sort them per tense (I wrote the categories on an A3 page). If you have time for 2 lessons you can make it extra good by making students explain their verb posters to each other. Make sure you provide them with key grammatical terms to use, such as 'ending', 'stem', etc.

Colour-coded board game for GCSE Speaking revision. Topics covered: Moi et ma famille, Ma ville, Mes loisirs, Mon collège. Questions can be edited. First student to reach the end wins the game.

Starter activity for GCSE French

15 different sheets to print out and laminate. Gap-fill on front, answers on back.
Content: Matching past participles (regular and irregular); perfect tense with avoir; perfect tense with être; reflexive verbs in the perfect tense; imperfect tense; and pluperfect tense.

This resource is a work in progress and I plan on adding more in the future based on the different verb tenses covered in the new GCSE specification. The idea is for it to work as a starter activity and encourage independent work:
1. Students pick a card (difficulty level is highlighted at the top) and start to work by filling in the gaps with a dry-wipe marker.
2. Students refer to the GCSE Higher French book (Oxford University Press) as much or as little as they need, either to read the instructions for the tense or grammar point first to refresh their memory or to refer to it as they do the activity.
3. Students self-assess their answers from the reverse of the card.
4. Students refer to the 'checklist' at the bottom with questions to prompt them, and note down any new verbs, endings, spellings etc in their books.

I plan on using this resource as a routine starter activity for one lesson a week. I hope that students will gain in confidence in conjugating verbs across tenses; these resources are designed to focus on one tense at a time, so over time students can self-select which tenses they need to practise and revise.

I welcome your feedback on this resource!

This games helps students to revise the main tenses required for examinations (excluding the subjunctive and imperative moods).

The resource contains six coloured cards with the categories: Present, Future, Conditional, Perfect, Imperfect and Infinitive and 36 cards with conjugated verbs/infinitives.

Students match-up the 36 cards into the 6 categories (6 per coloured card).

New specification (2018) GCSE French speaking questions. Not exhaustive, but certainly somewhere to start!

Save yourself some time! This download includes a 13 slides Powerpoint presentation with three games centered on revising food vocabulary in French. These are speaking, listening and reading games, aimed at helping your pupils improve their confidence in a fun and competitive environment.

French Tabou:
This game is a fun and creative way to get pupils speaking French.
With modification it can be used for both beginner and advanced pupils. Beginners can use the taboo words to help them explain the key word, advanced pupils must explain the key word WITHOUT using the taboo words on the card underneath it.
Great for laminating and can be used without needing any prep!
Object of the game:
Pupils are split into small groups. Pupils must try and get their teammates to guess the word at the top of a card. They can give clues, but can't use any of the taboo words underneath it. Teams score points for each word guessed successfully. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Follow Me Cards - great starter activity!
Game involves 30 cards and all need to be used to work, if you have less than 30 in your class give the stronger pupils more than one.
Hand each pupil a card as they enter the classroom.
All stand, the pupil with ‘Qui a de frites?’ goes first and reads their card out loud. The pupil with the card which says ‘I have some chips” speaks this out loud and then says their French sentence and so on.

Tarsia Activity - Great starter!
Cut out the triangle, muddle up the pieces and ask pupils to match up the English to the French. Can be used for individual, pair and group.

If you are considering buying these resources a HUGE thank you in advance. I aim to make activities as printer friendly as possible as well as using unique fonts and quality images to make the lessons the best they can be!

The vocab list of French weather from the AQA 9-1 GCSE spec.

An activity in class and two tarsia / triangle puzzles to practise. First is vocab and a few phrases, second is geared towards tense spotting.

Differentiated activity suitable for foundation and higher students.

A random mix of activities to practice reading skills.