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GCSE French exams 2026 - I've got you covered!

Over the last couple of years I've built up a good collection of resources on frenchteacher.net to support teachers and pupils. As well as the many other resources, such as audio and video listening, 'correct the transcript' tasks, texts with exercises, parallel readings, sentence builders, dialogues, lesson plans, 'spot the differences' listening and traditional grammar drills — I have resources specifically written to match exam board tasks (all boards).

Teachers will no doubt find other resources on the site useful, inlcuding those on the Y9 page.

Here is the list from my Y10-11 page.


Foundation Tier

  • 10 reading aloud passages
  • AQA-style Reading paper
  • 8 AQA-style role-plays to read and adapt
  • AQA photo-card conversation booklet 
  • Knowledge Organiser based on AQA topics 
  • 8 Edexcel-style role-plays to read and adapt
  • 10 Edexcel-style photo card/conversation tasks
  • 10 AQA-style photo card/conversation tasks
  • 6 photo cards for display, modelling and practice (Foundation).
  • AQA Writing model – 90 words
  • Edexcel Writing model – 80-90 words
  • Reading paper (any board)
  • How to write a good Foundation Tier essay (Ppt)
  • How to write a good Foundation Tier essay (Word)
  • 100 translation sentences into French (with answers)
  • A booklet of 17 sentence builders for speaking and writing revision
  • 10 Foundation Tier translations into English (with answers)

Higher Tier

  • 18-page booklet for vocab building, sentence creation and fluency practice 
  • AQA Writing model – 150 words
  • Edexcel Writing model – 130-150 words
  • 10 reading aloud passages
  • AQA-style Reading paper
  • Pearson-Edexcel-style Reading paper
  • 8 AQA-style role-plays to read and adapt
  • AQA photo-card conversation booklet 
  • 8 Edexcel-style role-plays to read and adapt
  • 10 AQA-style photo card/conversation tasks
  • 10 Edexcel-style photo card/conversation tasks
  • 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
  • 20 Higher Tier translations into French (with answers)
  • 10 Higher Tier translations into English (with answers)
  • Set of 10 reading comp gapfills for GCSE/IGCSE.
  • A booklet of 17 sentence builders for speaking and writing revision
  • Further set of 10 gapfills for GCSE/IGCSE (different format).
  • Common written errors at GCSE
  • GCSE written error checking exercise
  • Identifying attitudes – 100 statements.

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