French Revision Guidelines

January examinations

Listening exam
When will it take place? During the last week of term in May
How long will the exam be? Approximately 30 minutes
All answers will be written on the exam paper and all instructions will be
given in French and English. Each section will be played to you twice.
Concentrate carefully, especially during the second playing to find any
answers you did not hear the first time through. After you have finished
one section, look at the next set of questions so that you will know what
information you need to look out for.

Reading and Writing exam

When will it take place? During the school exam week in May
How long will the exam be? One and half hours
All answers will be written on the exam paper and all instructions will be
given in French and English. Do not rush, but take time to read the
instructions and the questions carefully before you start to write your
answers. Always follow the example that you are given.

Reading

There will be different types of exercises, all of which you will have
practised in class.
e.g.
 gap-fill exercises
 vrai/faux
 matching up the beginnings and ends of sentences etc.

Writing

You will be marked on accuracy, spelling etc. Follow the examples you are
given, as they are there to help you. You will have a letter to write in
this section.

Revision

Now look at your revision list overleaf. You need to revise all the items
on it very carefully; there are page numbers for you to refer to in your
textbook. If at any point after you receive these guidelines, you are
unsure about anything, ask your teacher to go over these points again.
 REVISION LIST (Year 7)

You need to revise all the vocabulary you have written down or been given. In
addition, you will need to look back over the units you have studied in the past
term in your textbook, including the ‘Au choix’, sections in the back for phrases,
dialogues, genders of nouns (masculine or feminine) etc.

Unité 2
Page Exercise/grammar point
10 Où habites-tu?
11 J’habite à (where I live)
Unité 3
Page Exercise/grammar point
15 The indefinite article ~ ‘un/une’
La famille Laurent ~ vocabulary ~ family
16 Possessive adjectives ~ ‘mon/ma/mes’
17 Les jours de la semaine ~ Days of the week
18 La maison de la famille Laurent ~ vocabulary ~
rooms in the house
19 Être ~ the verb ‘to be’ & ‘sur/dans/sous’
Unité 4
Page Exercise/grammar point
24 Grand Concours National ~ vocabulary ~ animals
25 Des adjectives ~ adjectives and agreements
Avoir ~ the verb ‘to have’ (see also Page 47)
28 Des opinions ~ how to express preferences
29 Oui dit ça? ~ How to express yourself
Unité 5
Page Exercise/grammar point
34 & 35 Les jours de la senaine ~ Days of the week
Les mois de l’année ~ Months of the year
37 Revision of Être ~ the verb ‘to be’
38 & 39 L’Année en France | Important dates in France
40 Use of ‘des’ ~ plurals
47 Revise ‘sommaire’ ~ les vêtements ~ clothes
Unité 6
Page Exercise/grammar point
50 – 52 Weather
54 - 55 Sports
55 - 59 Regular ‘-er’ verbs

BONNE CHANCE!
REVISION LIST (Year 8)
You need to revise all the vocabulary you have written down or been given.
In addition, you will need to look back over the units you have studied in
the past term in your textbook, including the ‘Au choix’, sections in the
back for phrases, dialogues, genders of nouns (masculine or feminine) etc.

Unité 1

Page Exercise/grammar point

6 Shops and provisions
7 Du/de la/des
8 -Re verbs
10 Quantities
11 Prices in Euros
13 -IR verbs
14 Pas de/plus de
16 -IR verbs
17 Revise sommaire

Unité 2
Page Exercise/grammar point
21 A/en/au with town/country
22 Transport aller and venir
24 Aller + infinitive
27 pouvoir
30 Cartes postales

Unite 3
Page Exercise/grammar point
34/35 School subjects
36 Lire/dire/ecrire
38 Comprendre/apprendre/prendre
39 Daily routine
47 Revise sommaire

Unite 4
Page Exercise/grammar point
50 Descriptions
52 Avoir
53.58,60 Perfect tense regular –er,-re. –ir verbs

BONNE CHANCE!
REVISION LIST (Year 9)
You need to revise all the vocabulary you have written down or been given.
In addition, you will need to look back over the units you have studied in
the past term in your textbook, including the ‘Au choix’, sections in the
back for phrases, dialogues, genders of nouns (masculine or feminine) etc.

Unite1

Page Exercise/grammar point

8 Present tese regular verb endings
9 Avoir and etre
12 Adjectival agreements
14 Reflexive verbs
17 Revise Sommaire

Unité 2

Page Exercise/grammar point

20,21 Famous places and monuments in Paris
24 Passé Composé (perfect tense) with avoir ~
regular & irregular past participles
23 The weather present and past tense
26 Passé Composé with être ~ agreements
24,29 Writing postcards from Paris
29 Time expressions
31 Revise Sommaire

Unité 4

Page Exercise/grammar point

50 Negatives
52 School subjects
55 Jobs
57 Future time expressions and simple future
tense

33 Revise ‘sommaire’

BONNE CHANCE!

REVISION LIST (Year 9 Beginners’)

You need to revise all the vocabulary you have written down or
been given. In addition, you will need to look back over the
units you have studied in the past term in your textbook, for
phrases, dialogues, genders of nouns (masculine or feminine)
etc. Finally, make sure that you revise thoroughly the
worksheets in your exercise books.

Unité 9

Page(s) Exercise/grammar point

64 - 5 Meals and what is eaten at each meal
67 Food and drinks (hot & cold)
70 Questions and answers about food
71 Negatives
72 Flash-infos
74 - 5 More about meals and what the French
eat and drink at lunchtime

Unité 10

Page(s) Exercise/grammar point

76 - 77 Shops and shopping
80 Quantities of food
81 Numbers 1 - 1000

BONNE CHANCE!

Year 10 ~ French Revision Guidelines

 January examinations

In the January exam you will sit the following papers :

 Paper 2 ~ Reading and Directed Writing paper

 Paper 4 ~ Writing paper

Paper 1 (Listening) will take place in lesson time in December and will
take approximately 35 minutes. You will be given a past IGCSE paper, in
order to get you used to the exam format under exam conditions.
However, the paper will not be as long as the real thing; some questions
will have been removed.
The exercises will range from easy questions at the start to harder ones
at the end ; this is always the case.

Paper 2 will take place in the hall during your exam week and will take one
hour. This is basically a comprehension paper and you will have to answer
‘vrai/faux’ exercises, multiple choice questions and questions requiring
one word, short phrase or full sentence answers in French. Again this will
be a past IGCSE paper which has been shortened.

Paper 4 will take place in the hall during your exam week and will take
45minutes. The question has been chosen to reflect the topics you
have covered so far in Year 10.

Revision List
You will need to look back over and revise all the work you have covered
over the past term.

Grammar points are as follows :~

 Present tense
 Perfect tense ‘avoir’ & ‘être’ verbs
 Countries and prepositions
 Question forms
 Negatives

BONNE CHANCE !