Modern Languages with Mr. Fraser

5th Form French LES VACANCES

Here are my PowerPoint slides on holidays.

Download Vacances2012oralprep

GCSE French Vocab

Here is the approved vocabulary list for GCSE French (AQA)

Download AQA GCSE French vocab

GCSE French - Hobbies

Some sentences to translate on the topic of hobbies - with interesting tenses and structures Download Hobbiestransnoanswers

And the answers to the translations on the above document  Download Hobbiestrananwers

Some ideas/phrases for writing about hobbies Download Hobbies phrases

GCSE French Leisure Vocab

Here are some sound files which will provide you with the pronunciation of the leisure vocab on pages 11-13 of the GCSE French vocabulary booklet.  I provide the English for each item also.

LHS = left-hand side of the page and RHS = right-hand side

Download GCSE p11 Leisure lhs

Download GCSE p11 Leisure rhs

Download GCSE p12 Leisure lhs

Download GCSE p12 Leisure rhs

Download GCSE p13 Leisure lhs

Download GCSE p13 Leisure rhs

GCSE French chores

To revise chores you can either listen to this audio file  and translate into English

Download Household chores French version

or access the printed version and translate into English Download Les corvées

Here are the answers 

Download Household chores English version

GCSE French Vocabulary Revision

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:

Download Greetings and exclamations

Download Opinions

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

Download Pages 4 and 5 weather

5th Form French vocabulary revision

Here are the lists of vocabulary which we have encountered this term.  For most of them I have included sheets with just the French and the same sheets with the English included also.

How to revise vocabulary:

Download the French only versions.  Write/type in the English.  Then compare against the version which has the English.

For some of the environment/home area sheets there is no English version so compare against the English translations noted in your "Home area" booklets in class earlier this term.

You can also paste French versions into an Excel spreadsheet (1st column) then type the English in the 2nd column and check against the correct English version.  You can then hide the French column by scrolling along the bottom and try typing the French in column 3.  Then scroll back to check against the French in column 1.  You can keep doing this - alternate columns for French & English - until you know all the items.

Download o.doc

Download o_with_english_translations.doc

Download vacances_vocab.doc

Download vacances_vocab_with_english_translations.doc

Download verbes_en_vacances.doc

Download description_of_where_you_live.doc

Download home_area_and_environment.doc

Download home_area_and_environment_with_english_translations.doc

Download les_problmes.doc

Download ville_campagne_1.doc

Download ville_campagne_with_english_translations.doc

Download vocab_list.doc

Download leisure_vocab_list_with_answers.doc

Download leisure_vocab_list.doc

GCSE French - vocab revision with Task Magic games

Here are some files of games you can do on Task Magic to revise vocabulary for GCSE

Download False friends 1

Download False friends 2

Download False friends 3

Download Health vocab GCSE

Download Major news events and proboems

Download Negatives and avoir expressions

Download Opposites

Download Work, money, traffic, general

 

To view them you will need to download the "For home use only" version of the Task Magic software.  To do this go to http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/ and then from the menu bar on the left hand side click the button "Home use only" button. Et voilà!

GCSE French Vocab revision

A sheet to revise school vocabulary   Download GCSE vocab

GCSE French Vocabulary Revision

Here is the next instalment of vocabulary revision - this time the most common verbs which crop up in GCSE reading and listening papers.  The number to the right of the French indicates how many times the verb has appeared in the last five years.  Revise particularly the most commonly recurring verbs, therefore.

Download Most common verbs for French GCSE

And here is the list of the verbs with the English translations

Download Most common verbs for French GCSEwith English translations