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GCSE exam prep resources on frenchteacher

The Year10-11 page on my frenchteacher website has a mass of resources for students working at A2 to B1 level (Foundation to Higher GCSE). As well as the numerous texts, vocab resources, listening exercises, video listening materials and full lesson plans, there are resources specifically aimed at preparing students for GCSE-style exam tasks. I shall list them below. In addition to these, I have a lot of legacy GCSE resources which may be useful. IGCSE students should find all this stuff useful as well.

I also have a few resources written specifically for the WJEC exam board in Wales. 

The full contents for the page on my site are here.

Foundation

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
8 more 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

18-page booklet for vocab building, sentence creation and fluency practice
Developing complex grammar constructions 
AQA Writing model – 150 words
Edexcel Writing model – 130-150 words
10 reading aloud passages
AQA-style Reading paper
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)

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

Stick-in writing strips

How to write a good Higher Tier essay (Word)

A help sheet for developing range in essays

20 Higher Tier translations into French (with answers)

WJEC resources

Unit 2 Model writing tasks + exercises 
10 role-plays to read aloud and adapt
Unit 4 model writing tasks to adapt

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