Attached is an 18 pages IGCSE Handbook aimed at reassuring students taking the Edexcel French IGCSE exam at the beginning of the course.
CONTENTS:
Why choose a modern foreign language at GCSE level
What is the IGCSE course like?
What is the difference between GCSE and IGCSE?
How big is the jump from Year 10 to Year 11?
How will you improve on from what I learnt in Year 10?
What is the IGCSE Edexcel exams like?
Which topics will be covered?
What grammar will be covered?
What do I have to do to get a good grade?
Know your learning style
How to improve your listening skills
How to improve your reading skills
How to improve your writing skills
How to prepare for the oral
Key to success
Attached is a collection of 10 authentic articles, slightly adapted, from various newspapers dealing with a range A Level topics. These Reading activities can be given to students as self-study material or homework. Each article is between 600 and 800 words. It also offers good practice for the Summary Task and Reading skills
Students are asked to summarize the article and explain the words in bold. You can also use them as a starter for discussion or for a Comprehension Task.
Topics covered:
Education & Career
Discrimination
National Heritage (Patrimoine)
Environment
Ethnic Minorities
Politics & Youth
Justice
Crime
A ttached are 4 comprehensive PPT presentations, as well as homework tasks to revise the following topics:
Saluer
les mois et les jours
Dire: ton nom, ta nationalité, Où tu habites, ton age, La date de ton anniversaire, Les langues que tu parles, d’ou tu viens
L’alphabet
les professions
les couleurs
Verbes etre/avoir
Les nombres de 1-30
Attached is a 66 pages self study pack aimed at beginners in French. Every point is followed by practical activities that can be met in real life situations. Students should spend around 15h to complete this booklet. The following topics and grammar points are covered :
• Greetings and introductions
• Basic sentences
• Basic questions
• Spelling
• Numbers up to 100
• The negative form
• Masculine and feminine
• Date and time
• Telling about the weather
• Talking about your daily routine
• Ordering at the bar
• Identifying objects
• “avoir” “etre” verbs
• Shopping and paying
• Conjugating regular verbs
• Identifying food
• Saying what you like to eat
• Saying where you go, how and why
• Saying what you like doing
• At the restaurant
Attached is a comprehensive pack on La Francophonie designed for GCSE / A Level students, which includes:
_ A 67 slides PPT on French speaking countries, with quiz and interactive tasks, with answers provided
_ 8 Presentations on French speaking countries over the world
_ A worksheet on Quebec with 8 comprehension task ( answers provided)
_ A quiz in PDF format on Francophonie with answers provided
_ A Video Questionnaire
This is fun way to familiarize and recycle students knowledge about French speaking countries. It is suitable for GCSE / A Level students. All documents apart from the 3 PDF are editable.
Attached are 10 speaking games, a mixture of fun vocab, translation and grammar tasks and quizzes, to facilitate oral conversations for GCSE students. Each activity takes between 10-20 mn, and can be used as a starter or a revision task. It is suitable for Foundation and Higher candidates.
It’s useful at the start of term when their French is a bit rusty.
This bundle contains 15 resources on the A Level topic Les Fetes et traditions en France, suitable for A Level Edexcel & AQA students. It includes :
_ A Listening comprehension with La Fete de la Musique ( audio track provided)
_ A text explaining the main celebrations and bank holidays in France and a word document to recap the dates of the celebrations and bank holidays listed in the article. A useful list of weblinks for this topic is also included
_ 5 Reading activities: New Year in Vietnam, Christmas celebrations in the overseas territories, Hanouka celebration and Labour Day in France, the story of the Marseillaise
_ a gap fill activity on Galette des Rois
_ picture book with the vocab related to this topic
This bundle includes 14 resources to introduce and reinforce the A Level topic Integration & Discrimination.
It consists of:
_ a comprehensive PPT with 73 slides exploring the issues of immigration, integration and racism in France through the ages with lots of facts, but also quizzes, film extracts, study cases and testimonies.
_ 5 Reading Comprehensions with questions or True/False tasks,
_ 2 Summary Tasks: 1 Reading and 1 Listening
_5 Audio and 2 Video questionnaires
_ Comic Strips and pictures to illustrate the topic of racism
_ 2 Vocab sheets with illustrations and definitions of words related to Racism, Secularism and Discrimination.
_ A translation activity French to English
_ 10 Exams Questions with possible answers
This Word doc provides Tutorials and worksheets with answers on 15 A Level Grammar points. Answers are provided on separate doc: The points are:
_Tenses: Present, Future, Perfect, Imperfect, Plue Perfect, Past Conditional, Subjunctive
_Adjectival agreement
_ Indirect Speech present & Past
_ 3 types of Si Clauses
_Gerund & Present Participle
_ Direct & Indirect pronouns
_ Double pronouns
_Indefinite Adjectives
This bundle is aimed at A level students. Attached are 7 comprehensive PPT : 1 model essay on l’amour + 6 analysis of the key topics with possible essay titles and plans:
Each PPT is between 10 and 20 slides
ESSAY TITLES:
_ l’amour dans un long dimanche de fiançailles.
KEY TOPICS
_Etude des personnages principaux :Mathilde et Manech
_ la musique, le silence et le bruit
_ Paris dans les années 20
_ l’importance du rôle des personnages masculins et féminins
_ Le décor dans le film
_ la représentation de la guerre
Attached is a list of 4 A Level AQA style gap-fill tasks, following the format of the exam task: 10 gaps and a choice of 15 words to choose from among verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs.
Students are often struggling with this type of task which is worth 10 marks in the Reading Paper.
Answers are provided. Document is a Word format and fully editable.
Attached are some worksheets to practice the following grammar points orally with on each poster a recap of the rule and some speaking activities ( mostly questions) to practice these points:
_ Perfect
_Imperfect
_Conditional
_Subjunctive
_ Y and EN
_ Questions
_ expressing cause and consequence
This resource provides a list of comprehension and summary questions chapter per chapter with answers in French. This can help students not only to remember the sequence of events but also to exemplify their points in their essays by recounting these events accurately in French.
This is a fully editable Word document
The following bundle includes: 8 boardgames to practise GCSE questions and various tenses orally: Present, Past, Imperfect, Future.
This can be used in classes with social distancing as long as each student has a copy of the boardgame and a dice.
This is suitable both for GCSE Foundation & Higher students.
Attached are 3 self-study booklets:
_ 1st one is to revise Verb, Grammar, and Culture - We came up with the idea of this booklet being used as a resource for students during lockdown. Students will take notes in it as it is in Word format.29 pages
_ 2nd one is a 22 pages Grammar booklet aimed more at GCSE students going through the major grammar points & tenses. For each GCSE grammar point, you have the rules and some practice exercices.
_ A 47 slide PPT presentation to practice all the basic topics for GCSE
Board game to revise a wide range of Grammar , Vocab and Civilisation points in a fun way. Students have to answer a question related to the colour they land on and are given 4 options by the person asking the question .
Answers are provided on the card.
It includes 380 questions and cover all the grammar points and most of the Topics of the A Level syllabus for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC.
It is suitable for group or 1 to 1 lesson.
Attached are 2 PDF files: the board game and the list of questions
Attached are 2 Revision booklets on La Haine including a wide range of activities.
_ 1st booklet is a general revision booklet to refresh the students’
knowledge of the movie. It includes 16 exercices: Gap fill, Multiple Choi ce, quizz, Comprehension Task, True/ False, General and specific questions, 3 Key scene study.
_ 2nd Booklet is a more in-depth study guide, 23 pages and 30 activities
,covering the following points:
L’examen écrit
Le contexte
Le scénario et la structure du film
Le genre
Les thèmes principaux
Les personnages
Les plans cinématographiques
La musique et le bruitage
Le langage
This study guide is in Word format and fully editable.
Answers are provided on the Teacher booklet provided in the attachment
This A LEVEL Revision Booklet, 80 pages, covers the following topics:
• 1 : La société multiculturelle, l’immigration, l’intégration, le racisme
• 2 : Problèmes sociaux contemporains: la pauvreté et criminalité
• 3 : Les nouvelles technologies
4: Section Grammaire
Each topic includes some vocab lists, a comprehensive range of set phrases and a mixture of Listening/ Reading Comprehension & Translation Tasks.
The 2nd part is a Grammar section comprising practice on a range of grammar points. Answers to the grammar section on Verbs & Adjectives are provided.
This booklet in Word format is editable and can be used for self-study or in class in preparation for the exam.
Attached is a 20 pages Revision booklet with more than 50 activities. It is divided into 2 sections: Practice exercises on Year 7 topics +a General Test. Topics covered are:
Les nombres
Les saisons
Les sports
Les passe-temps
L’école : la trousse et Les matières
Les vêtements
Je me présente
La famille
Où j’habite
La nourriture
Every topic in Section 1 include 3 to 6 fun activities. The test includes 15 activities. Booklet can be used in class or at home for independent practice. It is also suitable for Year 6 .