French GCSE Unit 1 Me, my family and friends

This topic booklet and Powerpoint is designed to be used in conjunction with the **Oxford AQA GCSEoursebook **for French. The booklet is an attempt to help make the coursebook more engaging and accessible to students and to ensure students are more organised and have everything they need for the topic in one place. Whilst the booklet provides spaces to prepare and write answers to some exercises in the textbook, there are also additional speaking and reading exercises to help build up to the exercises in the textbook or to reinforce them. This is primarily aimed at Higher Tier students but many activities can be used with upper foundation students. This would be a good tool for cover teachers or for students who need to catch up. It is also good for students who need to self-teach or who are remote learning. The teacher Powerpoint works through the booklet step by step but includes some additional explanations and games.

The pdf booklet includes the following:
Attractive layout with use of colour coding and cartoon characters.
Support through Quizlet or Wordwall activities to help drill key vocabulary ahead of reading and listening activities.
Speaking sentence builders which have the French in orange so that it can be covered up with a red acetate to help with self-testing and drilling.
Links to songs on Youtube for cultural input.
Links to my website for audio files that can be used with additional audio activities.
All links to Wordwall, audio files, Youtube resources and Quizlet activities are scannable in printed copies, or in the pdf version clickable, so students can work through the exercises on their own – perfect for schools with ipads or a ‘bring your own device’ policy.
Students can have the booklet printed in black and white whilst referring to the full-colour pdf.
Links and printouts of coursebook and AQA vocabulary. The printouts are printed with the English in orange so that it can be hidden with a red acetate for self-learning.
A bank of structure grids which can be used with a red acetate, to help students build on what they have produced in earlier parts of the booklet and to help give them ideas for producing written paragraphs.
A mock speaking card with a link to 2 hidden questions.
A series of oral questions which students have been working towards by doing exercises in the booklet, or which are backed up by structure grids in the back of the booklet.
GCSE style essay and translation tasks.
Scannable / clickable links to marking rubrics.
A score sheet / reflection sheet.
Explanations and exercises to help with most grammar points covered in the topic.

Please note that the this is a topic booklet and whilst some grammar points are covered they will need to be looked at in more depth separately.