The reading and listening exams which you will sit in May are - to a large extent - tests of VOCABULARY. We have been going through the topic based vocabulary in class - filling in the English versions of the French words and phrases. Make sure you revise them all. The topic based vocabulary is in the second half of the booklet.
We will not have time in class to work through the miscellaneous vocabulary pages at the front of the booklet so I have recorded the French (so that you can HEAR what the words/phrases sound like should they come up in the listening exam) and have then recorded the English meanings. You could try writing in the ones you know and then listening to the audio files to check you were right - and to fill in any which you did not know! As always, focus your revision on the items which you DO NOT know. It might be a good idea to highlight these for ease of reference later.
Here is an electronic copy of the booklet if you need a spare ... Download _GCSE Vocabulary booklet
I advise you to work through one or two of the following audio files per day - then really learning them! Here are the files to accompany page one of the GCSE vocab booklet (comparisons, connectives, prepositions, negative expressions and question words/phrases). More will follow soon ...
Download Page 1 Comparisons superlatives and connectives
Download Page 1 Prepositions and negatives
Download Page 1 question words and phrases
Page 2 of vocab booklet:
Page 3 of vocab booklet:
Download Time expressions page 3 days months clock etc Pages 3 and on to page 4
Download Pages 3 and 4 Location distance and colours
Download Page 4 Weights measures shape
Pages 4 and 5
Thankyou for posting these, they have been very helpful. I'm from Yorkshire and I have my gsce listening test tomorrow. Merci!
Posted by: robyn | May 15, 2011 at 06:07 PM