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.

Three GCSE listening skills/ exam technique lessons with resources included in the powerpoints.
Exam practise taken from past papers and reference to examiner tricks.
Contains challenge tasks and lots of scaffold in terms of vocabulary.
I hope this helps, any feedback really appreciated!

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 booklet of 14 pages containing useful phrases learners could use in their writing and speaking exams. Phrases are organised by theme and sub-topic.

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.

With the GCSE exam coming up, I’ve put together a daily plan for my Y11 students so they can do 15-30 minutes revision each day on a different topic from the Edexcel GCSE French course. Hope it proves useful.

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

This is a new (but not VERY new, because it's been sitting on my c drive for a year!) revision guide to the 2009 specification for the EDEXCEL French GCSE. It is intended for the less motivated, although my quite able Year 11 group have found it a useful back-up to what they're doing. Hopefully, if I find a spare 30 hours or so, I&'ll deliver the 'Reach for the (A) Star' designed for the top end.

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.

A wide range of activities covering most GCSE grammar structures and tenses

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 wide range of activities on the topic

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.

A series of three lesson plans for active revision sessions - can be adapted to any lesson topic for GCSE or KS3

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.

A number of grammar quickies and gap-fill exercises to practise tenses and reading comprehension skills across most GCSE topics. For free self-marking ONLINE grammar activities go to language-gym.com/work-outs/ and select grammar modules. For a free interactive ONLINE verb trainer go to: www.language-gym.com/verb-trainer/

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!

NEW EDITION ADDED. You need to print this in colour in order for it to work. Throw a die, land on a square and conjugate the verb in the correct tense. Get it wrong and go back three spaces. Very easy for you to edit to suit your groups.

Based on the new specifications of exam boards for French GCSE, I have produced 40 different photo cards, all have 5 questions and are a range of questions to cover both foundation and higher tiers. The cards cover all 3 themes and all sub-themes. The questions are based on information from several exam boards. The assessment criteria for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC are included on the mark schemes document.

A random mix of activities to practice reading skills.