AQA GCSE French Higher revision guide – About Oxford Revise
With our guide, you’ll revise the full specification for the AQA GCSE French Higher exam.
This in-depth study of the French language allows you to actively apply your learning and regularly test your knowledge. To begin with, you’ll explore a wide range of engaging topics, such as people and lifestyles.
Next, you’ll move on to areas like popular culture, communication, and the world around us – each one helping you build a strong foundation. Alongside these themes, you’ll also dive into essential and advanced grammar, including future tenses and the conditional, among many others.
How Oxford Revise prepares for your French language exams
Oxford Revise fully prepares you for your listening, speaking, reading, and writing exams. It guides you through what to revise and how to do it, so you can build confidence and stay on track.
To begin with, you’ll expand your understanding of key concepts through clear explanations and structured content. Then, you’ll check your learning using retrieval questions designed to strengthen memory and boost recall.
In addition, you’ll get plenty of exam practice with targeted questions and model answers. Each step is carefully designed to reinforce your knowledge, support your progress, and help you succeed in your French exam.
Revise effectively with Oxford Revise
This guide covers every topic in the AQA GCSE French Higher course in depth. To support your learning, the vocabulary pages use the ‘look, cover, write, check’ technique. As a result, you’ll be able to learn and recall the French words you need more effectively. In addition, this method helps reinforce memory and build long-term retention – perfect for exam preparation.
AQA GCSE French Higher exam practice
Each chapter comes with loads of exam-style questions for you to practise. On top of that, these revision guides are made to help you feel more confident, strengthen what you already know, and push your understanding across all the topics you’ll need for the exam. So, it’s everything you need to feel ready and prepared! Plus, there are handy tips throughout to guide you along the way:
- Exam tips show you how to interpret questions and produce a good answer
Want to boost revision success for your AQA GCSE French exams?
Start revising for your AQA GCSE French Higher exams – because by building your understanding step by step, consolidating key knowledge, and strengthening retrieval through regular practice, you’ll feel more prepared and confident every day. Here are some additional key resources that can support you:
- Discover how to revise effectively for your French exams
- Explore revision tips and techniques on the Oxford Revise YouTube Channel.
Contents list
Basics
Theme 1 People and lifestyle
1.1 Identity and relationships with others
1.2 Healthy living and lifestyle
1.3 Education and work
Theme 1 Exam Practice
Theme 2 Popular culture
2.1 Free-time activities
2.2 Customs, festivals and celebrations
2.3 Celebrity culture
Theme 2 Exam practice
Theme 3 Communication and the world around us
3.1 Travel and tourism, including places of interest
3.2 Media and technology
3.3 The environment and where people live
Theme 3 Exam practice
Grammar
Nouns and articles
Adjectives
Adverbs
Pronouns
Prepositions
Infinitives, imperatives, and the present participle
The present and imperfect tenses
Future tenses and the conditional
Negatives and the passive voice
Reflexive and impersonal verbs
Recognising prefixes and suffixes
Exam Practice
Listening paper
Speaking paper
Reading paper
Writing paper
Sound-spelling links
The Oxford Revise approach
Oxford Revise uses a clear three-step method to get you ready for your exams.
1. Knowledge – Learn the facts through an easy-to-follow ‘Knowledge Organiser’ in each chapter.
2. Retrieval – Check you’ve retained the exam knowledge, through quick-fire recall questions and answers.
3. Practice – Put your knowledge into practice by completing plenty of exam-style questions.
In addition, there are lots of hints and tips from revision and subject experts on how to plan your revision and helpful advice on techniques to build exam confidence.
Our expert authors
Author: Sheena Newland
Sheena Newland
Sheena is a former MFL teacher with many years of classroom experience and is an expert in educational resource creation for secondary languages. Over the past decade, she has transitioned into educational publishing, initially taking on the role of Teachit’s Languages Editor. Since then, she has held several key positions, including Senior Content Lead for three websites, Edexcel’s Languages Subject Advisor, and Senior Publisher for Secondary MFL at Pearson. In addition, Sheena now runs her own company, Mistral Publishing Services, where she offers freelance consultancy, project management, commissioning, writing, and development editing. Along the way, she has authored both print and digital content for major educational platforms such as OUP, BBC Bitesize, Pearson, and Teachit.
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Really good revision book that is well laid-out, has concise summaries of each topic and a good range of practice questions. It seems to cover the entire syllabus, which is always important! Useful.
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