GCSE French student revision workbook (Week 1 - Friends, family, relationships and technology)

We gave this to our Year 10 students to provide structured revision support for their forthcoming mocks. We’ve found that our students need increasing amounts of support if they are to avoid the ‘staring at a book’ technique! This workbook provides daily exercises students must complete to revise actively and in time for the mocks. The plan is that they do these exercises at home, bringing in their booklets each week to show that they are actively engaging with their revision.

Although we’re using Kerboodle’s assessment resources for Units 1 and 2, the language and skills are generic enough to suit all. As we’re doing the speaking mocks in June, this workbook contains activities that specifically target Listening, Reading and Writing. Although much of this would be relevant for Speaking, this skill is not addressed specifically . Subsequent workbooks will be added weekly and will cover Units 3-8 (free time, festivals, home and area, social issues, global issues and travel & tourism.

In general terms, the workbook contains:

• Many translations out of and into French
• Match-ups to broaden vocabulary and develop problem-solving skills
• Real hand-holding on writing the 40-word essay
• Student-friendly adaptations of AQA’s 40-word essay criteria so they learn how to asses their own work
• Guidance on how to extend the 40-word essay to 90 words by adding detail and opinions
• Student-friendly versions of AQA’s 90-word essay criteria

These are the instructions I give our reprographics colleague to turn it into a booklet : ‘Please print 30 A4 booklets (A3 paper folded to A4 and stapled)’