Did you know that the new AQA GCSE French speaking exam is only 10 minutes long, and yet it counts for 25% of your overall mark? Or that the speaking exam includes 3 very specific tasks which are marked according to six different marking criteria?

At LLP, we believe it’s essential for students to have a clear understanding of each of those 3 exam tasks, as well as the highly prescriptive mark schemes. We want to support our students by offering a new weekly speaking class which will focus entirely on preparing for the AQA GCSE French speaking exam. In this new class, your child will:

 become familiar with the very particular marking criteria for each of the 3 tasks
 practise speaking exam tasks each week
 improve their accent and intonation
 build up confidence and fluency
 revise and consolidate vocabulary from the various GCSE topics
 have fun, whilst being gently guided by former Head of Dept with 30 years’ teaching experience

We look forward to welcoming your child into this new and exciting class!
AQA Paper 2: Speaking
– The Speaking exam is worth 25% of your overall marks for the GCSE.
– Your exam will last between 7-9 minutes (F) or 10-12 minutes (H)
– There are 3 parts to the exam:
• Role Play (10 marks )
• Read aloud (15 marks)
• Discussion of Photo Card and unprepared conversation (25 marks)

Before your exam you are given 15 minutes to prepare and make notes for the role play and photo card.

YOU CAN BRING THESE NOTES INTO THE EXAM AND READ THEM FROM THE PAPER. You will also see your read aloud text but will not be allowed to practise this out loud. There is no restriction on the number of words or the material (eg conjugated verbs) which the notes may contain.

In order to prepare for your exam:
– Practise as many example roleplay and photocard questions as you can
– Practise your pronunciation by reading aloud A LOT!!!
– Prepare model answers to the questions using this booklet.
– Practice your answers. Don’t just read them in your head. Say them out loud to your teacher, to your friends, to yourself!
– Learn the top level WOW phrases and make sure you get them in somewhere.
– Do not simply revise the night before. It just won’t happen!
– Practise using the 15 minute preparation time properly.