GCSE French

 

Succeed in the Exams!	Grammar Practice	Self, Family and Friends	Leisure	Home, Local Environment	Home Life	School	Travel, Finding the Way	Tourism
Services	Healthy Living	Part-time Jobs and Work Experience	Shopping	Environment	Careers and Future Plans	Help Sheets	Useful Links

Click on a topic in the above table or choose a link from the lists below.

	GCSE Examination Skills: How to Succeed!
	Follow these three steps to improve your mark on the Foundation Reading paper!
1 Quia	STEP 1: Check you understand these collective nouns (matching activity).
2 Quia	STEP 2: Check you understand these common nouns (matching activity).
3 Quia	STEP 3: Match these nouns to the correct collective noun, e.g. a church is a building, a kitchen is a room in a house and a dog is a animal.
4 Quia	Check that you understand typical instructions, prompts and introductions found on GCSE listening and reading papers.
5 Quia	Improve your chances of understanding the questions on the exams by playing this matching game.
6 Quia	To do well at Higher Role Plays check you can understand these prompts from recent past papers.
	Grammar Practice
1 Quia	Games to revise two very useful verbs: avoir and être.
2 Quia	Games to practise stems of verbs in the future tense.
3 Quia	Rags to riches game - use connectives to improve your sentences. (quand = when, mais = but, et =  and, parce que = because, pour = in order to)
4 Quia	Games to revise common -er verbs.
5 Jeu	Fantastic memory game with sound effects to practise irregular past participles (needed to form the past tense!). Languages Online, Australia.
	Unit 1: Self, Family and Friends
1 Quia	Games to practise describing people.
2 Tetris	Tetris game on agreement of adjectives. Languages Online, Australia.
3 Quia	What are you afraid of?
	Unit 2: Interests, Hobbies and Leisure Activities
1 Quia	What sports do you do? This activity will help you to use advanced sentences to talk about sport.
2 Quia	What type of films do you like to watch?
3	What type of TV programmes do you prefer?
	Unit 3: Home, Local Environment
1 Quia	Where do you live?
2 Quia	What is in your garden?
	Unit 4: Daily Routine and Home Life
1 Quia	Activities to practise daily routine words.
2 Quia	More games to practise daily routine vocabulary.
3 Quia	Match these halves of sentences for daily routine.
4 Quia	Word search for housework words.
5 Quia	Match the housework pictures to the right sentences.
6 Quia	Practise past tense housework sentences.
7 Quia	Win a million euros if you know present and past tense sentences about housework.
	Unit 5: School and Future Plans (up to age 18)
1	TaskMagic games to practise opinions of subjects.
2	TaskMagic games to practise describing your school.
3 Quia	Use these phrases to introduce your opinions.
	Unit 6: Travel, Transport and Finding the Way
1 Quia	Practise train travel vocabulary.
2 Quia	Describing a past journey.
3 Quia	Games to help you learn words for the service station.
4 Quia	Asking for and giving information while travelling.
	Unit 7: Tourism and Holiday Activities (e.g. Restaurants)
1 Quia	Activities to practise food and drink words.
	Unit 8: Services (Post Office, Bank, Accident, Breakdown, Illness, Lost Property, Theft etc.)
1 Quia	Practise breakdown vocabulary and win a million euros!
2 Quia	Learn the parts of the body.
3 Quia	Can you identify what you have lost?
	Unit 9: Healthy Living
1 Quia	What should you do to stay healthy?
2 Quia	Play battleships to practise reasons for and against smoking.
	Unit 10: Part-Time Jobs and Work Experience
1 Quia	How do you earn money?
	Unit 11: Shopping
1 Quia	Matching games to practise asking the price of fruit and vegetables. Good for the foundation role play, listening and reading exams.
2 Quia	Games on shopping for clothes.
3 Quia	Can you put this dialogue on shopping for clothes in the right order?
	Unit 12: The Environment
1 Quia	Games to practise environmental problems.
	Unit 13: Careers and Future Plans (Post 18)
1 Quia	Matching activities to practise some masculine words for jobs.

Links to other useful websites:

	Revision, grammar and exam question practice. Free! You will need to log on using the school ID - ask your teacher.
	Free downloadable and interactive Higher Reading activities provided by the University of York. Excellent!
	This site helps you to prepare for the GCSE examination
	This on-line BBC language course will help you to revise many topic areas.
	Play French games!
	Ashcombe School's website - videos and quizzes which cover many topic areas and are useful for revision. Wait for the video to download.
	On-line exercises for GCSE topics created by the Aiglon College in Switzerland.
Wildfrench	This site allows you to access a wealth of material designed to go with various French textbooks. You can also download free of charge some exercises to use offline on your computer.
French Tutorial	This site helps you to understand French grammar. Remember that you need to include past and future tenses in your coursework and in the speaking test topics. Why not revise the tenses using this website?
Realfrench	Nine vocabulary games - choose intermediate or beginner level (website provided by Manchester Metropolitan University)
Realfrench	Grammar explanations provided by the Manchester Metropolitan University - scroll down the list for an area you wish to revise (see top left of page)
BBC	Tips from the BBC for learning words.