This is a copy of all of the questions that I used for my GCSE students this summer. They sat the edexcel course but the questions could equally be used for the AQA course.

Here is a power point that drills the most common words that students needed to know as the actual answer on the French GCSE AQA papers from 2018-2022. I have put the list together from QLA of the papers. Includes: The LIST of the TOP 50 WORDS! -Great revision to boost those grades last minute. self quiz sheet/vocab learner word stealer game twist and shout activity snakes and ladders tetris translation test/checking sheets pyramid spelling sheet.

This resource is designed to support students in preparation for their reading and listening exam in French and is suitable for foundation and higher students. It includes: -general strategies -cognates/near cognates/false friends -time expressions -specific strategies for each question style -synonyms -spelling and phonics to help decoding -a list of distractors

This is a verb drill sheet designed to consolidate and build on prior knowledge of forming the immediate future tense in the context of technology. It includes vocabulary about Instagram/Facebook/Spotify and supports students in how to write accurately on their plans to use technology. An answer sheet is provided.

A worksheet that was made to prepare students for a writing and speaking assessment on what they like to eat and drink. It covers all three tenses.

This resource contains knowledge organisers on the topic of Holidays which includes: holiday choices past holidays future holidays transport accommodation

A powerpoint that covers where you live and what you can do in the local area. The start of the powerpoint focuses on the verbs - I live, I used to live, I would like to live The second part of the powerpoint focuses on what there is to do in the local area. The worksheet is built around translations to support both higher and foundation students.

This lesson revises sport in the present and the imperfect tenses, time expressions and opinions. It also explains the use of depuis with the present and the imperfect tense. It includes a knowledge organiser on sport and a sheet of vocabulary to complete ate the end of the lesson with 30 translations on core vocabulary from French to English and then 30 from English to French. Other features are sentence builders with codes, write the highest scoring sentence as a starter. There are also notes at the bottom which explain how you can run activities either online or face to face within the classroom. Higher and foundation phrases are taught so it is ideal for a mixed ability group.

This bundle includes the following resources A worksheet to consolidate the weather and that links in to activities. A powerpoint on where you live and what you can do with a worksheet to consolidate key structures and vocabulary. A power point on the benefits of living in the town or countryside for a mixed tier class. A mixed tier powerpoint on directions and places in town (town pictures will need to be added again due to copyright). A interchangeable dialogue sheet on directions A power point and worksheet on problems in town Knowledge organisers for all of the units listed above. A DIRT powerpoint based on improving students 90 word marks with a new 90 word task based on town and local area.

There are two powerpoints. One is for the foundation tier and one is for the higher tier. They both build up confidence with: understanding the bullet points -interactive games Snakes and ladders game how to ask a question.

This French retrieval starter includes the following items: a mixture of vocabulary and grammar building exercises a self quiz of some of the key verbs in all 3 tenses to support the development of writing and speaking.

A wordsearch to revise. This includes the top 30 most common words that appear in answers on the French Edexcel listening and reading papers from 2018-2021. Students need to translate the words into French and then find the French word in the puzzle.

This contains two teaching resources: PLEASE NOTE THE VIDEOS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM THE WEB AND SET TO PRIVATE. STILL LOTS OF GOOD RESOURCES. Resource A: I made this as a KS3 resource to show students that learning languages can certainly open doors in the future. Plan: Students mark on the progress line what they think of languages at the start of the lesson. Students listen to the celebrities talking about the languages that they speak and complete exercise A of the worksheet. Students read the statements and decide which ones are true. These are reviewed throughout the lesson and are finally marked at the end so that students can reflect on their learning throughout the lesson. The resources also include a version of the Game of Life. This is based on real life accounts of linguists. The links to the videos are in the footnotes of the powerpoint slides. Resource B Students complete the word search on page one of the workbook. This has some of the jobs that you can do with a language. Students then play Call my Bluff (explained on the ppt), This game matches job descriptions and jobs. Students then look at some of the international comapnies that recruit linguists by playing a snap game. The lesson ends with a true false test on why languages are important. This is also on resource A One of the video links is used again in resource B. I made resource B to follow on from A that I had used in the previous year.

The resource includes a ppt which introduces: -key festivals in France and what they celebrate. -loto game -sentence builders (how I celebrate a festival) -listening choices (to introduce present tense activities) -a narrow reading -translation -some past tense phrases too. There is also a present tense work sheet on festivals in the present tense and a knowledge organiser that includes the past and the present.

Booklets to support students to do well on the French exam papers.

These cover a large part of theme 1 for Edexcel GCSE -describing yourself -talking about family -talking about friends -festivals -TV -Cinema -Reading -Sport -technology Each contains a core verb table, a list of common exam questions, higher phrases, impressive structures, grammar,spelling and pronunciation tips.

Two activities to support students to talk about what they watch on TV and why. I used this with a mixed ability class of higher and foundation students.

This is a self study resource to supplement describing a stay in a hotel. It gives positive and negatives for staying in a hotel. The exercises include: -sort the sentences into negatives and positives -match the French and the English -pyramid spelling of key verbs and new vocabulary -a gap fill reading (like foundation GCSE) -a which hotel (like foundation GCSE) -a pyramid translation based on a negative and a positive hotel stay. Ideal for: revision, consolidation and cover

A whole GCSE lesson on whether it is better to live in the countryside or in the town. This includes: A starter sheet which matches up the French and English A powerpoint which consolidates key verbs, a speaking gapfill task, a listening with strategies and DIRT (answers included) Two trap door activites which are differentiated for foundation and higher. A translation task from French into English which is also differentiated foundation to higher.

A knowledge organiser for students studying GCSE Italian with useful vocabulary for talking about school subjects and opinions. It is set out with a key verb table, key nouns and adjectives, key phrases and how to impress in the exam and possible questions.