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GCSE French Themes & Topics

People and lifestyle

Communication and the World Around Us

People and lifestyle

  • Topic 1: Identity and relationships with others
  • Topic 2: Healthy living and lifestyle
  • Topic 3: Education and work

Popular Culture

Communication and the World Around Us

People and lifestyle

  • Topic 1: Free-time activities
  • Topic 2: Customs, festivals, and celebrations
  • Topic 3: Celebrity culture

Communication and the World Around Us

Communication and the World Around Us

Communication and the World Around Us

  • Topic 1: Travel and tourism, including places of interest
  • Topic 2: Media and technology
  • Topic 3: The environment and where people live


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GCSE French Vocabulary

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What are the 4 GCSE French Assessment Objectives?

Paper 1: AQA GCSE French Listening

Paper 1: AQA GCSE French Listening

Paper 1: AQA GCSE French Listening

What's assessed ? 

  • Understanding and responding to spoken extracts comprising the defined vocabulary and grammar for each tier.
  • Dictation of short, spoken extracts


How it's assessed? 

 

  • Written exam: 35 minutes (Foundation tier), 45 minutes (Higher tier) 
  • 40 marks (Foundation tier), 50 marks (Higher tier) 
  • 25% of GCSE 


  • Recording controlled by the

What's assessed ? 

  • Understanding and responding to spoken extracts comprising the defined vocabulary and grammar for each tier.
  • Dictation of short, spoken extracts


How it's assessed? 

 

  • Written exam: 35 minutes (Foundation tier), 45 minutes (Higher tier) 
  • 40 marks (Foundation tier), 50 marks (Higher tier) 
  • 25% of GCSE 


  • Recording controlled by the invigilator with built-in repetitions and pauses. 
  • Each exam includes 5 minutes’ reading time at the start of the question paper before the listening material is played and 2 minutes at the end of the recording for students to check their work. 


Questions? 

  • Section A – listening comprehension questions in English, to be answered in English or non-verbally (32 marks at Foundation tier and 40 marks at Higher tier)
  • Section B – dictation where students transcribe short sentences, including a small number of words from outside the prescribed vocabulary list (8 marks at Foundation tier and 10 marks at Higher tier)

Listening Walkthrough Mock

Paper 2: AQA GCSE French Speaking

Paper 1: AQA GCSE French Listening

Paper 1: AQA GCSE French Listening

What's assessed?

  •  Speaking using clear and comprehensible language to undertake a Role-play 
  • Carry out a Reading aloud task 
  • Talk about visual stimuli 


How it's assessed? 

  • Non-exam assessment (NEA) 
  • 7–9 minutes (Foundation tier) + 15 minutes' supervised preparation time 
  • 10–12 minutes (Higher tier) + 15 minutes' supervised preparation time 
  • 50 ma

What's assessed?

  •  Speaking using clear and comprehensible language to undertake a Role-play 
  • Carry out a Reading aloud task 
  • Talk about visual stimuli 


How it's assessed? 

  • Non-exam assessment (NEA) 
  • 7–9 minutes (Foundation tier) + 15 minutes' supervised preparation time 
  • 10–12 minutes (Higher tier) + 15 minutes' supervised preparation time 
  • 50 marks (for each of Foundation tier and Higher tier) 
  • 25% of GCSE 


Questions? 

The format is the same at Foundation tier and Higher tier, but with different stimulus materials for the Role-play and the Reading aloud task. For the Photo card task, the same photos are used at both tiers. 


  • Role-play – 10 marks (recommended to last between 1 and 1.5 minutes at both tiers) 
  • Reading aloud task and short conversation – 15 marks (recommended to last in total between 2 and 2.5 minutes at Foundation tier and between 3 and 3.5 minutes at Higher tier) 
  • Reading aloud task: minimum 35 words of text at Foundation tier and 50 words at Higher tier 
  • Short unprepared conversation 
  • Photo card discussion – 25 marks (recommended to last between 4 and 5 minutes in total at Foundation tier, and between 6 and 7 minutes in total at Higher tier) 
  • Response to the content of the photos on the card (recommended to last approximately 1 minute at Foundation tier and approximately 1.5 minutes at Higher tier) 
  • Unprepared conversation (recommended to last between 3 and 4 minutes at Foundation tier and between 4.5 and 5.5 minutes at Higher tier)

FRENCH SPEAKING QUESTIONS

Paper 3: AQA GCSE French Reading

What's assessed?

  •  Understanding and responding to written texts which focus predominantly on the vocabulary and grammar at each tier 
  • Inferring plausible meanings of single words when they are embedded in written sentences 
  • Translating from French into English 


How it's assessed ?

  • Written exam: 45 minutes (Foundation tier), 1 hour (Higher tier

What's assessed?

  •  Understanding and responding to written texts which focus predominantly on the vocabulary and grammar at each tier 
  • Inferring plausible meanings of single words when they are embedded in written sentences 
  • Translating from French into English 


How it's assessed ?

  • Written exam: 45 minutes (Foundation tier), 1 hour (Higher tier) 
  • 50 marks (for each of Foundation tier and Higher tier) 
  • 25% of GCSE 


Questions?

  • Section A – reading comprehension questions in English, to be answered in English or nonverbally (40 marks) 
  • Section B – translation from French into English, minimum of 35 words at Foundation tier and 50 words at Higher tier (10 marks)

Reading Walkthrough Mock

Paper 4: AQA GCSE French Writing

What's assessed?

  •  Writing text in the language in a lexically and grammatically accurate way in response to simple and familiar stimuli 
  • Translating from English into French 


How it's assessed?

  •  Written exam: 1 hour 10 minutes (Foundation tier), 1 hour 15 minutes (Higher tier) 
  • 50 marks (for each of Foundation tier and Higher tier) 
  • 25% of GCSE

What's assessed?

  •  Writing text in the language in a lexically and grammatically accurate way in response to simple and familiar stimuli 
  • Translating from English into French 


How it's assessed?

  •  Written exam: 1 hour 10 minutes (Foundation tier), 1 hour 15 minutes (Higher tier) 
  • 50 marks (for each of Foundation tier and Higher tier) 
  • 25% of GCSE 


Questions?

 Foundation tier

  •  Question 1 – student produces five short sentences in response to a photo (10 marks) 
  • Question 2 – student produces a short piece of writing in response to five compulsory bullet points, approximately 50 words in total (10 marks) 
  • Question 3 – student completes five short grammar tasks (5 marks) 
  • Question 4 – translation of sentences from English into French, minimum 35 words in total (10 marks) 
  • Question 5 (overlap question) – student produces a piece of writing in response to three compulsory bullet points, approximately 90 words in total. There is a choice from two questions (15 marks) 


Higher tier

  •  Question 1 – translation of sentences from English into French, minimum 50 words in total (10 marks) 
  • Question 2 (overlap question) – student produces a piece of writing in response to three compulsory bullet points, approximately 90 words in total. There is a choice from two questions (15 marks) 
  • Question 3 – open-ended writing task (student responds to two bullets, producing approximately 150 words in total). There is a choice from two questions (25 marks)

GCSE FRENCH WRITING QUESTIONS

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