Modern Languages with Mr. Fraser

GCSE Revision Advice and Past Papers

Use the vocabulary booklet to revise as much vocabulary as possible. Focus your attention on words you don't know/remember (highlight them), topics which are less familiar (perhaps because it is some time since you studied that topic) and false friends.

You should also work through the "Reading Improvement" booklet which was given out in class shortly before the Easter holidays.

There are some past papers below. You can also access revision material on the school's Modern Languages website www.mcsmodlangs.org/extra

To practise listening the best thing to do is go to the Scottish exams website using the link below

http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/40154.html

To access the listening papers you should download the question papers for a particular year (the question papers will include reading comprehension papers and listening transcript). Each year has the audio file you need for the listening. Marking schemes for each year can also be downloaded so that you can check your answers. You want the STANDARD GRADE papers at CREDIT LEVEL.

Reading past papers to download:

Download French higher tier reading test June 04

Download Reading 2005

Download Reading 2006

Download Reading 2007

Download Reading 2008

Listening past papers below - but no digital files available for these yet. Hopefully by study leave if required!

Download French Higher Tier Listening Test June 04

Download French Listening Higher Tier June 05

Download Listening 2006 paper and transcript

Download Listening 2007

Download Listening 2008

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 - The oral

My home area (1)

You are going to have a conversation with your teacher about your home area

Your teacher will ask you the following:

• where you live and how long you have lived there
• what there is to do for young people in your area
• what there is to do for tourists in your area
• whether there are environmental problems in your area
• where you would like to live in the future
• !

! Remember, at this point, you will have to respond to something which you have not yet prepared

The conversation will last between 4 and 6 minutes.

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

The timetable for oral exams this week

GCSE language Oral Timetable

Teacher NJF Language French

Room where orals will be conducted CS210

You should arrive 10 minutes before the time listed to allow yourself time to prepare

Thursday 8th December			Friday 9th December
Time	Name		Time	Name
09.00	Freddie Batho		09.00	Alex Plant
09.15	George Brooks		09.15	David Reavley
09.30	Duncan Cassells		09.30	Pietro Salvi
10.00	Codrin Condurache		10.00	Hal Stevenson
10.15	Adam Djili		10.15	Cedric Vennekens
10.30	Angelos Evangelou		10.30	Giles White
11.l5	Seb Gibson		11.15
11.30	Nick H- Wilks		11.30
11.45	Josh Lauder		11.45
12.15	Adam Matthews		12.15
12.30	Samay Mellor		12.30
12.45	Lewis Momen		12.45
14.30	Kit Nevile		14.30
14.45	J-H Norris		14.45
15.00	Francis Overton-Eccles		15.00

5th Form French

Here is the writing task.  Date for the controlled writing assessment is Friday 11th November (periods 1 and 2).   Download Advertising my local area

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