This two-year course will help you prepare for the new specification AQA French GCSE. The Y2 course is aimed at students going into who have already covered the Y1 course with us.

We will cover all the topics in the new syllabus, and help you improve your confidence in the four key skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Remember that in the exam, these four skills each carry 25% of the overall mark, so I will be encouraging you to take part in speaking activities right from the first lesson!

Throughout the course we will use specimen exam questions so that you become familiar with the required exam technique, and there will be optional learning activities set after each lesson to help you consolidate what we’ve done in class. I normally set a choice of two or three optional tasks each week and they are graded in difficulty, so that everyone can find something useful to do by way of independent work in between lessons.

I have been teaching French GCSE for almost 30 years now, and I am very excited about delivering this new course. The new exam specifications seem to be designed to give students a fairer chance of getting the best grade possible, as all the exam instructions are in English. This seems like a great improvement to me!

Recommended Resources

AQA Approved GCSE French Higher Student Book (AQA GCSE French Higher)

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• If a class with exactly the same name is on more than once a week it is a repeat lesson with the same content. As places are limited and so you don’t have duplicate lessons please only sign up for the one class per week. This will leave spaces for other customers and stop any additional cost to yourself as we will be unable to give a refund.
• On occasions we may have to change the day or time of a course or on rare occasions the course is cancelled. This maybe due to a teacher leaving or low numbers. We do try to do this only when absolutely necessary and will always give advance warning and try to offer an alternative for you.
• Standard classes are £3 and numbers are limited to 40. Smaller classes (e.g, GCSE) are £6 are per student and classes are kept smaller at 25 maximum. If there is more than 1 child joining a £6 class you need to make sure you have added the correct amount to your basket. We reserve the right to ask for back payments if this does not happen.
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• We are now offering some courses as pre recorded lessons in topic blocks on llpextralearningspace.co.uk This then allows you to buy previous lessons in topic packs either for revision purposes or to do a topic yourselves. We recognise that this will have some issues for those that do not wish to be on camera so the new format of the class is that the visual register and any informal discussions happen before and after the lesson itself is recorded. The teachers will all have their settings set to speaker view so that the thumbnail of whoever is speaking will only be highlighted when or if they speak. If you do not want your child to appear in the recording it is your responsibility to ensure the camera is switched off after the visual register unless they have an agreed password then it can remain switched off at all times.