GCSE French
What Will I Study?
How to communicate through speaking and writing and understand written and spoken information on the following topics:
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Lifestyle
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Leisure
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Home and Environment
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Work and Education
How Will I Be Assessed?
In Year 9 Assessment will be based initially on National Curriculum Levels.
For the GCSE examination you will be entered at Foundation or Higher Level, as appropriate, in each of the following skills: Listening and Reading (each skill is worth 20% of the total mark). These examinations will normally take place at the end of Year 11.
Controlled Assessments (60%): you will submit 2 Writing tasks (30%) to be marked externally and 2 Speaking tests (30%) to be marked internally and externally moderated. These will take place throughout Year 10 and 11.
Assessment will also take place on a regular basis through classwork and homework tasks, including testing your knowledge of key vocabulary.
What Can It Lead To?
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Specialist job, involving use of language skills: teaching, interpreting, tourism, secretarial, European Commission.
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Using your language skills working for a company with foreign trade partners (on average, those who use language skills at work earn 8% more than those who do not.)
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Leisure / recreational use e.g. holidays
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It can make it easier to learn new foreign language in the future. (Some people may be required to do this for work).
Useful Web Links
French Section on School Website
Revisiontime.com : G.C.S.E. French
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