French

Y8 French Summer Exam Revision List

(updated March 26)

How will I be assessed?

-A 40 minute listening will be done in class before the exam period.

-A 2 minute speaking exam with your teacher (this has been done before Easter)

-A 1 hour 15 minutes reading and writing exam

What should I revise?

Content

All Year 7 content

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All Year 8 content, including the following topics:

Where I live and where I am from

My town, activities in town and town buildings

Directions

Free time

Weather

School - subjects, opinions, school day, parts of the school, teachers, rules and uniform

Telling the time

Daily routine

Rooms in my house

Saying what I do at home

Grammar 

Verbs & tenses

• Present tense 

  • regular ER, IR, RE verbs

  • reflexive verbs

• Negation (ne .. pas/jamais/rien)

Adjectives & nouns

• Gender & numbers 1-100

• Comparatives

Articles and prepositions

• Definite and indefinite articles

• Partitive articles e.g. when talking about food

• Prepositions

Connectives

Developing and justifying opinions using connectives

What revision resources are available to me?

Vocabulary and Grammar book 

• Your exercise book should be full of useful notes from the whole year.

Google Classroom

• Lesson slides

Languagenut

• log into Languagenut and complete reading and listening questions, as well as vocabulary and phonics exercises.

Language learning apps

Whilst these are usually not aligned to our course, they can be excellent tools for building vocabulary and confidence!

How should I revise?

Your books are your starting point. Your teachers work extremely hard to make sure you have everything you need at your fingertips.

Go through all your exercise books - read feedback and look at self-reflection. Look at previous exams, assessments & prior preparation too - where could you improve next time?

• TEST YOURSELF - do NOT use passive revision techniques such as reading notes or highlighting random pieces of information. You MUST employ active recall techniques.