Theme 2: Local, National, International & Global Areas of Interest

This section of the Year 11 French final revision summary sheet PDF covers four essential units that expand students' knowledge beyond personal topics to broader societal issues.

Unit 5: Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region

This unit focuses on describing living environments and expressing preferences. Key components include:

• Quizlet sets for describing houses and ideal homes
• Grammar focus on adjectives and the conditional mood
• Comparison of town and countryside living

Highlight: The inclusion of the conditional mood allows students to express hypothetical situations, enhancing their language complexity for the GCSE French revision.

Unit 6: Social Issues

This unit delves into societal concerns, particularly focusing on charities and healthy living. It covers:

• Vocabulary related to charities and healthy lifestyles
• Grammar points including the verb 'vouloir' and using partitive articles with food
• Tense practice with imperfect (used to do) and future tenses

Grammar: The use of 'du', 'de la', and 'des' with foods is crucial for discussing eating habits accurately.

Unit 7: Global Issues

This unit broadens the scope to environmental and social problems on a global scale:

• Recycling habits and environmental attitudes
• Environmental problems and homelessness
• Grammar focus on continuous tenses, modal verbs, and structures with infinitives

Vocabulary: Pluperfect tense - used to describe actions that occurred before another past action

Unit 8: Travel and Tourism

The final unit in this theme covers various aspects of holidays and travel:

• Past holidays and accommodation problems
• Holiday activities and other French verb forms

Example: Students might practice describing a problematic hotel stay using past tenses and specific vocabulary related to accommodation issues.

Each unit provides links to specific Quizlet sets, GCSE Pod resources, and relevant pages in the AQA Pearson Purple Workbook, offering a comprehensive approach to French revision resources for year 11 assessments.

Year 11 French Final Revision Summary Sheet

This comprehensive guide outlines the key components of the Year 11 French assessment, focusing on reading, writing, and listening skills. It provides a structured approach to revision, covering all major themes and units of the GCSE French curriculum.

General Resources

The summary sheet begins by listing general resources that are crucial for French GCSE revision. These include:

• BMS Year 10 French Quizlet class
• 25 Most common French verbs
• Key phrases and tenses practice
• Adverbs and negatives
• Magnificent Seven (complex language)
• Questions in French
• Exam question and rubric language
• KS4 French student booklet
• Core vocabulary sheets

Highlight: The inclusion of a Quizlet class and core vocabulary sheets emphasizes the importance of vocabulary acquisition in French revision for year 11 assessments.

Theme 1: Identity and Culture

This section covers four main units:

1. Me, my family and friends
2. Technology in everyday life
3. Free-time activities
4. Customs and festivals

Each unit is broken down into specific Quizlet sets, grammar points, and relevant workbook pages.

Example: For Unit 1, students are directed to practice family and relationship vocabulary, physical descriptions, and future relationships. Grammar focus includes the verbs 'avoir' and 'être', adjective agreement, and the 'going to' future tense.

Vocabulary: S'entendre - To get on

This comprehensive approach ensures students have a solid foundation in vocabulary and grammar related to personal identity and cultural topics.