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GCSE exam prep resources on frenchteacher

For your information and to unashamedly promote my website, below are the resources on the Y10-11 page which aim to help specifically with GCSE exam preparation. They are divided into two groups, the first Foundation Tier, the second Higher Tier.

The most recent additions are two sets of sentence builder frames which students could use to revise for the speaking and writing components of papers. There is a bias towards AQA-style questions since AQA is by far the most popular board in England, though in reality the differences between the various awarding bodies are not great, so teachers using WJEC or Pearson/Edexcel will find the resources very useful.

"Why reinvent the wheel?" so the old saying goes. I know hundreds of schools and teachers make use of these materials. 

To continue my pitch, these are just a few of the 1900-ish resources on the site. My surveys of members regularly show that the A-level and Y10-11 pages of the site are the most used. They are also the richest in the range of resources available: texts with exercises for reading, audio and video listening worksheets, MP3 audio files, grammar exercises, task-based lessons, sentence builders, knowledge organisers and much, much more.

So here are those GCSE exam resources.

Foundation Tier

Knowledge organiser (for speaking and writing)

Knowledge organiser (for speaking and writing) – alternative version

A booklet of 17 sentence builders for speaking and writing revision (added in October 2021)

AQA-style role-plays

AQA-style photo card conversations

Photo card conversations

Photo card conversations (2)

AQA GCSE general conversation questions

AQA conversation questions as board games

100 translation sentences into French (with answers)

Reading exam (1) with answers

Reading exam (2) with answers

Reading exam (3) with answers

Reading exam (4) with answers

10 Foundation Tier translations into English (with answers)

How to write a good Foundation Tier essay (ppt)

How to write a good Foundation Tier essay (Word)


Higher Tier

Listening revision booklet

Knowledge organiser (for speaking and writing)

A booklet of 17 sentence builders for speaking and writing revision (added in October 2021)

AQA-style GCSE role-plays

AQA-style photo card conversations 

AQA-style GCSE photo card conversations  (2)

AQA general conversation questions

AQA conversation questions as board games

20 Higher Tier translations into French (with answers)

10 Higher Tier translations into English (with answers)

A reading to writing task for essay writing (holidays)

Reading exam (with answers)

How to write a good Higher Tier essay (ppt)

Stick-in writing strips

How to write a good Higher Tier essay (Word)

Help sheet for developing range in essays

Set of 10 reading comp gapfills 

Further set of 10 gapfills for GCSE  (different format).

GCSE style gapfill tasks -  Identifying attitudes – 100 statements.

Reading tasks for GCSE revision

Common written errors at GCSE

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