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Home study resources on frenchteacher

UPDATE 17.3.20

There are now home study booklets for Y7, Y8, Y9 and A-level. Just go to frenchteacher.net, choose Free Stuff, the Samples. Answers given for all except the Y7 material.

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UPDATE 15.3.20: I have uploaded two free GCSE home study packs of between 45-50 pages. One for Foundation, one for Higher Tier. Each pack contains listening, reading, speaking and writing practice. Answers are given, where appropriate. You can edit them since they are Word docs. Just print and hand out, or share electronically.

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If there are any school closures in the near future teachers will be no doubt looking to provide home study resources for pupils. I just wanted to mention to frenchteacher.net subscribers that one possible option is to put together a booklet of resources from the site.

The focus for GCSE students would be the Y10-11 page where you could print off worksheets for audio and video listening (possibly with the answers provided), grammar revision worksheets, conversation booklets and vocabulary lists.

Reading is well covered by the numerous passages with exercises on GCSE topics, most of them with answer keys. In addition, there are Foundation and Higher Tier Reading exams with answer keys.

The set of sentence builders could be put together as a booklet for both speaking and writing revision.

There are also knowledge organisers, essay guides, photo card example conversations and plenty of translation material.

This would entail a lot of costly printing, so you may have a way of sharing documents electronically. This is fine, but under no circumstances should site login details be shared with pupils, needless to say.

Actually, provided pupils are motivated and do their work, the kind of diet you provide for home study could be as beneficial as what you do in school, for some students even more so perhaps.

If I can be of any assistance during the coming period, get in touch. Let's hope the worst case scenarios do not arise, but it's looking likely schools will close and even exams may be under threat as the virus spreads in the next few weeks.

Look after yourselves. My wife and I are "socially distancing" ourselves already.

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