AQA GCSE French Foundation revision guide – about Oxford revise
Oxford Revise AQA GCSE French Foundation provides you with all the key information you need for the listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
Plenty of practice exam-style questions with useful tips on how to approach them will help you make sure you’re exam-ready.
Revise effectively with Oxford Revise
This guide covers every topic in the AQA GCSE French Foundation course in depth. The vocabulary learning pages use the ‘look, cover, write, check’ technique to help you learn and recall the French words you need for your exams.
Exam Practice for GCSE French (Foundation)
Each chapter has lots of exam-style questions for you to practice. These are designed to build your confidence, consolidate your knowledge and stretch your understanding. Exam tips show you how to interpret questions and produce a good answer.
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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 and imperatives
The present tense
The perfect and imperfect tenses
The near future, the conditional and negatives in different tenses
Reflexive and impersonal verbs
Recognising prefixes and suffixes
Exam Practice
Listening paper
Speaking paper
Reading paper
Writing paper
Sound-spelling links
Answers
AQA GCSE French Foundation answers
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
Series Editor: Sheena Newland
Author: Sheena Newland
Sheena is a former MFL teacher with many years of classroom experience and an expert in educational resource creation for secondary languages. She has been working in educational publishing for over 10 years, starting out as Teachit’s Languages Editor. Sheena has also had roles as a Senior Content Lead for three websites, as Edexcel’s Languages Subject Advisor and as a Senior Publisher for Secondary MFL at Pearson. She now runs her own company, Mistral Publishing Services, providing freelance consultancy, project management, commissioning, writing and development editing. She has authored print and digital content for OUP, BBC Bitesize, Pearson and Teachit.
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