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Course content for GCSE

Revision programme for an GCSE course

Topics and themes

Grammar content

Talking about myself, family and friends
Inquiring about others
School, home-life and daily routine
Freetime and holidays
Special occasions
Food Health and fitness
Home town, local environment
Weather conditions
Finding one's way and getting around
Shopping
Education, career and employment
Tourism and accommodation
Media, culture and entertainment

Present tense
Perfect tense with Avoir and Etre
Reflexive verbs
Futur + si
Imperfect
Conditional+si
Après avoir….. / Avant de ….
Direct object and indirect object pronouns
Negative
Asking question
Relative pronouns : qui, que, dont, où


Teaching material

We do not use standard GCSE books for teaching material so that the
sudents do not have a feeling of "déjà vu" when they return to school.

Our grammar teaching material has been written by us or comes from
French teaching sources. We also rely on communication games.


Skills

We do our best to ensure the students have a balanced approach and work equally
on their four skills. We adapt the programme in order to allow each student to reach
their full potential. Once we have made a diagnostic of their strengths and weaknesses,
each student can work independently in the afternoon. However, the priority is given to
oral work. If students can say it clearly, the likelyhood is that they will write it clearly.
For this reason no one here gets away with mumbling.

Oral skills

Listening skills

We hope students will make an enthusiastic contribution to around the table discussions.

Students will discuss issues or literary topics. The aim is to gain in confidence, fluency and spontaneity as well as to acquire a wide range of vocabulary and structures through
1.Preparing topics and presenting them* *(Bring your own oral topic)*
2. Discussing topics (for/ against)
3. Taking part in role plays
4. Reporting and discussing the news of the day
5. Taking part in general conversation

Students will be encouraged to watch the news daily and report to the group.

Students will also practice listening papers and study how to approach various tasks encountered during exams such as
1. Answering questions in French
2. Making a summary in French
3. Filling gaps
4. Matching pairs (complete sentences)
5. Discriminating between true and false

 

Reading Skills

 

Writing skills

Students will acquire an understanding of written French by reading magazines and readers.

They will read general understanding as well as for details.

They will use past papers in order to study how to approach various exam tasks such as
1. Learning how to time themselves
2. Taking educated guesses
3. Recognising semantic fields
Looking out for "faux amis"

Students will practice written tasks in order to
become confident in using complex sentence patterns.
We will look at the importance of
1. Use of register
2. Accuracy / Grammar
3. Giving your opinion.

They will learn how to:
Improve the structure of a piece of writing
Introduce their ideas in a coherent fashion
Develop their ideas and link them through
Draw thoughtful conclusions.

Students are encouraged to bring their extended essay in order to look for ways of improving their work.

 
 

 

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