Success at writing GCSE French teaching pack

Designed for AQA’s French GCSE (but also relevant to specifications from Edexcel and Eduqas), this pack will equip students with the language and skills they need to tackle their writing exam.

Success at writing offers targeted and differentiated revision for all attainment levels, from grades 9-1. Students can pick and choose the question type they most need to work on and make real progress in a short space of time.

The pack includes activities for each of the question types in the writing exam for Foundation and Higher tiers and features top tips to help students maximise their marks.

What’s included?

• activities for each of the question types for Foundation and Higher tiers, including describing a photo, the 40, 90 and 150 word tasks and translation
• revision of key language, pair work and peer assessment as well as exam practice
• top tips to ensure success.

What’s inside?

Introduction (page 4)

Teaching notes (page 5)

Foundation tier

Describing a photo (Foundation question 1) (pages 7-24)

• Getting started
• Tackling the question
• Exam practice
• Reflect and review
• Answers

40 word task (Foundation question 2) (pages 25-44)

• Getting started
• Tackling the question
• Exam practice
• Reflect and review
• Answers

Translation sentences (Foundation question 3) (pages 45-61)

• Getting started
• Tackling the question
• Exam practice
• Reflect and review
• Answers
• Foundation and Higher tiers

90 word task (Foundation question 4 and Higher question 1) (pages 62-82)

• Getting started
• Tackling the question
• Exam practice
• Reflect and review
• Answers
• Higher tier

150 word task (Higher question 2) (pages 83-105)

• Getting started
• Tackling the question
• Exam practice
• Reflect and review
• Answers

Translation passage (Higher question 3) (pages 106-116)

• Getting started
• Tackling the question
• Exam practice
• Reflect and review

Answers (page 117)