With translation an increasingly important part of the new GCSE, I developed a short translation assessment for my Y9 French class to complete at the end of the unit on Home Town & Region.

Here is a list of exemplar speaking questions for the 6 AQA AS German topics. These could be used as follow-up questions to any speaking card stimulus.

A research activity in which pupils use the internet or their smartphones using school WIFI to research the other films, apart from La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and complete the grid. This enables pupils to establish common themes and includes links to 3 of Kassovitz's short films, and can lead to subsequent target language discussion in which pupils offer opinions.

Reading comprehension worksheet with vocabulary finder task and comprehension questions. Pupils can also texts as models for their own responses, which are ideal for GCSE speaking and writing preparation. The sentence building task is using phrases and ideas from the reading comprehension worksheet and along with the support column, pupils translate the English sentences into French to form an extended paragraph about how a town used to be.

Paired speaking task. Pupils ask each other the questions on their resource about La Haine and pupils to then peer-assess using the AQA A2 marks scheme. This can easily be adapted to use any part of the mark scheme & include different questions to suit what has been taught. This enables students to identify areas upon which to focus revision.

A reading comprehension worksheet with a model text and 2 comprehension tasks, including a "richtig, falsch, nicht im Text" task and a vocabulary identification task. The text provides a useful model for pupils preparing a response as part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.

Pupils to recognise whether phrases in grid are positive or negative. They can then read model text and complete vocabulary finder and reading comprehension tasks before writing their own using the model for inspiration. This is a useful resource for preparing pupils for GCSE writing or speaking tasks.

Reading comprhension worksheet with vocabulary finder task, reading comprehension questions and a grammar identification task. The paragraph gives a good model for pupils preparing a response to part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.

A reading comprehension task and some Imperfect tense verb gap-fill/manipulation and translation tasks in a nice concise resource on previous and current hobbies. Pupils can be encouraged to adapt paragraphs to create their own.

Two PowerPoints and a summary crib sheet & translation task for Year 7 French on topics of sport and leisure activities.

A reading comprehension task sheet with 3 different exercises including a comprehension grid and synonym and vocab finder tasks. The paragraph is a useful model for pupils who are preparing a response as part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.

This is a useful reading comprehension worksheet which includes 3 exercises and also serves as a useful model for written work. It has a comprehension grid to complete in English, as well as an adaptation task and a vocabulary finder task.

I created this resource for my Year 9 group who are studying die Medien und Freizeit. This is a reading comprehension worksheet with two tasks. The first is an identification task of the auxiliary verb and past participle & the second requires pupils to work back from the past participle to the infinitive whilst identifying the auxiliary verb. The latter exercise can be completed with the support of the summary sheet. Sentences can then be adapted as a written task.

A useful reading comprehension worksheet which includes a GCSE-level paragraph on school uniform and three exercises, including vocabulary finder, reading comprehension questions in English and a grammar identification task. Also serves as a good model for written work.

A model text with three reading comprehension tasks about previous and current sporting activities/physical exercise habits with examples of perfect, imperfect, present and future tenses. The exercises include reading comprehension questions, a vocabulary finder and an adaptation task whereby pupils use language in the model text to create new ideas. Pupils can subsequently use the model text as inspiration for their own written piece.

A grammar/reading comprehension resource with five exercises for pupils to tackle, including adaptation, verb-tense identification and a sentence writing task contrasting previous and current eating and exercise habits.

A booklet of approx. 40 questions suitable for the French A2 speaking exam on various aspects of the film La Haine. Pupils can annotate the pages and add/build their ideas they acquire throughout the teaching of the Guided Study Option. I have reviewed and lowered the price following feedback. The questions we set have been thoroughly successful and our centre attained 100% A*-C in the A2 speaking exams in the last two years these questions have been used as a basis for discussion. A small number of the questions are intentionally similar to suit candidates of varying ability.

A longer text about a past school trip with a parallel gap-fill text to test pupils' comprehension of German text. This can be accessed in a variety of ways and serves as a useful model for Controlled Assessment Speaking and/or Writing preparation.

I have used these writing and speaking support frameworks with the new AQA GCSE specification to help pupils produce more accurate and varied written ideas, and to support with answering target language questions spontaneously with greater confidence. The foundation framework includes key verbs in past, imperfect, present, near future tenses as well as key time markers, adverbs and conjunctions. The higher framework includes a wider range of both regular and irregular verbs in past, imperfect, present, near future tenses, future and conditional tenses as well as a range of time markers, adverbs and conjunctions. They also have reflexive verbs in the tenses listed above, as well as complex structures, including passive voice, subjunctive mood, perfect subjunctive, perfect infinitives, present participles, the conditional perfect and si clauses. These are very popular with the pupils, and can be laminated on A3 or used as A4 inserts in exercise books.

A 4-page document offering essay writing phrases specific to writing responses to Kiffe Kiffe Demain essays at AS and A-level French. These are tailored around the book by Faiza Guene and is divided into sections, including introductory phrases, Introducing / structuring points in main paragraphs, presenting evidence, presenting evaluation, being more specific, making conclusions. I allow and actively encourage my students to write essays using this framework, up to and including timed essay attempts, in order to familiarise themselves with phrases which will enable them to produce a structured piece with varied language. This has proven very successful and popular with students, whose results have developed by using this resource.