Success at writing: GCSE French – 2016 specification
Designed for AQA's French GCSE (but also relevant to specifications from Edexcel and Eduqas), this pack will equip students with the language and skills they need to tackle their writing exam.
Success at writing offers targeted and differentiated revision for all attainment levels, from grades 9-1. Students can pick and choose the question type they most need to work on and make real progress in a short space of time.
The pack includes activities for each of the question types in the writing exam for Foundation and Higher tiers and features top tips to help students maximise their marks.
What's included?
- activities for each of the question types for Foundation and Higher tiers, including describing a photo, the 40, 90 and 150 word tasks and translation
- revision of key language, pair work and peer assessment as well as exam practice
- top tips to ensure success.
What's inside?
Introduction (page 4)
Teaching notes (page 5)
Foundation tier
Describing a photo (Foundation question 1) (pages 7-24)
- Getting started
- Tackling the question
- Exam practice
- Reflect and review
- Answers
40 word task (Foundation question 2) (pages 25-44)
- Getting started
- Tackling the question
- Exam practice
- Reflect and review
- Answers
Translation sentences (Foundation question 3) (pages 45-61)
- Getting started
- Tackling the question
- Exam practice
- Reflect and review
- Answers
Foundation and Higher tiers
90 word task (Foundation question 4 and Higher question 1) (pages 62-82)
- Getting started
- Tackling the question
- Exam practice
- Reflect and review
- Answers
Higher tier
150 word task (Higher question 2) (pages 83-105)
- Getting started
- Tackling the question
- Exam practice
- Reflect and review
- Answers
Translation passage (Higher question 3) (pages 106-116)
- Getting started
- Tackling the question
- Exam practice
- Reflect and review
Answers (page 117)
This sample from the Success at writing - GCSE French teaching pack shows a student activity targeting the photo description section of the exam.
1. What’s the weather like?
Any photo taken outside usually gives some indication of what the weather might be like. There are three ways weather sentences can start in French. Categorise the weather words into the correct column and add the English meanings.
Il fait … (+ adjective) |
Il y a … (+ du /de la / des + noun) |
Il … (+ verb) |
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Weather words |
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du brouillard |
gèle |
beau |
gris |
froid |
neige |
du soleil |
des nuages |
pleut |
du vent |
chaud |
mauvais |
Top tips |
Students sometimes mix up ‘il fait’ and ‘il faut’ and lose marks on describing the weather. ‘Il faut’ is used with an infinitive to say what you should do, not for the weather! |
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