Year 10 French Exam Revision
For your exam you will be doing the following tests:
Reading
Listening
Writing and Translation
The topics will all be related to topics that we have covered so far, so that means:
- Family, friends and relationships
- Healthy lifestyle
- Celebrations (Christmas and St Valentin)
- Freetime activities and hobbies
For the writing test you will have to do the following:
- Write full sentences describing a picture (using verbs accurately)
- translate shorter sentences into French
- Write a longer piece on one of two possible tasks, c 150-200 words
- Translate a longer section of writing into French
In order to be ready for the exam you should learn (and practise spelling) key vocabulary and phrases from the
above topics, and also go back over and practise the following key grammar:
- Nouns, gender + articles (un/une/le/la etc)
- Adjectives and adjective agreements, including irregulars
- Uses of the infinitive, such as after another verb, after pour, after avant de
- The Present tense, Regular and Key irregular verbs
- Reflexive verbs (+ use of the infinitive with reflexive verbs?)
- The present participle (if you have covered it)
- Negatives
- The imperfect Tense
- The future tenses (near and simple)
- The conditional tense
- The Passé Composé
Useful links to help with revision
You should hopefully have access to vocabulary on Quizlet or Memrise through your teacher. If not, follow this link:
https://quizlet.com/class/2885305/
Use your ‘This is Language’ logins to work on Nutty tilz for general vocab, to practise your listening skills and for
grammar practice.
For Grammar practice the following sites are very good:
http://www.languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/Index.htm
(click French and then Grammar and then work through the exercises. Prochain means next)
http://www.language-gym.com/#/
https://conjuguemos.com/
(on this site, click through to grammar and the graded practice mode is good. Equally, you can work on verbs and
some of the games are quite fun)