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 The GCSE French speaking exam consists of 3 tasks : a role-play, a photo-card and a conversation . Before the exam, you have 12 minutes to prepare your answers to the role and the photocard. In this post, let's have a look at how to be successful in the GCSE role-play task at Foundation and Higher tiers.  What is included in the task? - The task will include an introduction with a situation / context. It will also indicate if you need to address the other person as "tu" (informal, when talking to a friend) or "vous" ( formal, when talking to someone you don't know at a ticket office, in a restaurant, at the tourist office etc). Make sure you use the correct pronouns ( tu/ ton/ ta/ tes) (vous/ votre / vos) especially in the questions you have to ask. - For Foundation and Higher tiers, the task includes 5 bullets points, one unprepared question marked as ! and one question ask marked as ? - For Foundation and Higher tiers, remember to keep your answers short ...

In the reading paper, you have to translate a short passage from French to English. In the AQA paper, the question is out of 9 marks and in the Edexcel paper, the question is out of 7 marks.   In this post, you are going to find about the skills assessed in this task and get the maximum mark for this task. 1. Know your vocabulary including false friends It is really important that you dedicate time every week to learning new vocabulary and revise topics regularly.  You can expect to see "false friends" in the translation task. These are words that look like an English word but have a different meaning.  Example :  "attendre" means "to wait" and not " to attend", "un car" means " a coach" not "a car" 2. Understand the difference between JE, ON, NOUS, IL , ELLE , ILS Look the full passage first and identify who speaks (JE, ON, NOUS) and read carefully if there is a change of pronoun, where the passage suddenly talks ab...

 ‘Little and often’ is the best policy when it comes to learning French.  How to learn vocabulary: -         -  Aim to learn 10 words per day. Use the vocabulary for each module and choose 10 words from each section. -         -  It is best to spend 10-20 minutes per day   learning/ revising them, then get a friend or family member to test you on them at the end of the day. -          - Make a list of all the words you find most difficult to remember and return to these every couple of days. -         - Write the words out and colour-code them (masculine nouns, feminine nouns, plural nouns, verbs, adjectives, other words). Write them on Post-It notes (French on one side, English on the other) and stick them around the house. -         -  Learn structures and idioms that you can use in your speaking and writing papers. - ...