Success at speaking: GCSE French – 2024 specification

Updated for the 2024 GCSE AQA French specification, 'Success at speaking: French' will help students to prepare for all aspects of their speaking exam.

Please note: This is a digital, downloadable pack featuring editable Word and PowerPoint files that are ready-to-use and can also be adapted to suit your students’ needs. Download to get started!

What's covered?

The pack includes activities for the role-play, reading aloud + conversation and photo card + discussion elements of the exam, along with revision materials. There are PowerPoint versions of all the exam practice questions, and the slides for the reading aloud tasks include audio recordings of native French speakers so students can listen and check their own attempts.

Covering all three GCSE French speaking themes (and including the new 'Celebrity culture' topic), the pack also provides differentiated material for Foundation and Higher tiers, teaching notes and answers.

What's included?

• worksheets and vocabulary support
• answers to the vocabulary and grammar tasks
• pair work speaking activities and games
• exam-style tasks for GCSE French speaking revision.

What's inside?

Section one: Role-play

• Teaching notes
• Media and technology
• Free-time activities: music
• Free-time activities: sport
• The environment and where people live
• Healthy living and lifestyle
• Travel and tourism
• Education and work
• Answers

Section two: Reading aloud and short conversation

• Teaching notes
• Key ingredients
• Exam practice tasks
• Answers

Section three: Photo card discussion

• Teaching notes
• Identity: family and friends
• Relationships
• Media and technology
• Customs, festivals and celebrations
• Celebrity culture
• The environment
• Work
• Answers

Section four: Revision

• Teaching notes
• Mind-map template
• Dice speaking game
• Word sort
• Inference grids
• Pass the parcel speaking game
• Snakes and ladders speaking game
• Four in a row speaking game
• Answers