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French becomes manageable when you spot the family of the verb and then build. Regular -er present, perfect with avoir or être, imperfect from the nous stem, future on the infinitive. Add agreement you can hear, an opinion with parce que, and the role-play habit of hitting every prompt. That is the course in working order.
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Open guideGrammar patterns
Grammar patterns
made memorable.
Tense endings, agreement, and the avoir / être decisions that hold a sentence together.
All Grammar patterns revisionPresent tense
Regular -er, -ir and -re endings, plus être, avoir, aller and faire, the four irregulars that carry GCSE French.
Perfect tense
Completed past with avoir or être plus a past participle, including MRS VAN DER TRAMP and agreement.
Imperfect tense
Used to and was doing: take nous in the present, drop -ons, add -ais, with être as ét-.
Future tense
Simple future on the infinitive, je vais plus infinitive, and the irregular stems ser-, aur-, ir- and fer-.
Adjectival agreement
Gender, number, BAGS adjectives before the noun, and the spelling changes examiners actually mark.
Avoir and être
The two verbs that run French: identity versus possession, age and hunger, and which auxiliary the perfect tense needs.
Conditional tense
GCSE French conditional: je voudrais, je pourrais, irregular stems, polite requests, and the -ais ending you must not confuse with imperfect.
Passive voice
GCSE French passive: être + past participle, agent with par, present and perfect passives, and when active is safer in 90-word writing.
Imperative
GCSE French imperative: tu, nous, vous commands, -er verb drops tu s, negatives, reflexives, and politesse with veuillez.
Object pronouns
GCSE French object pronouns: le, la, les, me, te, lui, leur, before the verb; lui versus leur; and y/en at Higher.
Present progressive
GCSE French present progressive: être en train de + infinitive for right now, versus habitual present and the English -ing trap.
Translation into French
GCSE French translation: spot tense magnets, avoid English order, avoir for age, agreements, and the high-mark checklist for sentence translation.
French listening strategies
GCSE French listening: question types, distractors, numbers and negatives, cognates and false friends, and how to use the second hearing.
High-value vocabulary
High-value vocabulary
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Opinions, connectives and school-and-work language that transfer into speaking and writing.
All High-value vocabulary revisionOpinions and connectives
J’adore, je pense que and à mon avis, then parce que, donc and cependant, so answers develop instead of stalling.
School and work
Collège, matières, timetable language, jobs and stages, with opinions you can reuse in speaking and the 90-word task.
Family and friends
GCSE French family and friends vocabulary: avoir for people and age, être for personality and appearance, je m’entends bien, and relationship sentences you can reuse in speaking and writing.
Holidays and tourism
GCSE French holidays: perfect-tense recounts of where you went, transport and weather, plus a present habit and a future trip so the theme carries three time frames.
The environment
GCSE French environment language for recycling, pollution and what you do now versus what you will do, with on doit, opinions and a past action you can prove.
Healthy living
GCSE French healthy living: food and sport vocabulary, on doit for advice, present habits, a past match or meal, and future health plans you can reuse in writing and speaking.
Technology vocabulary
GCSE French technology theme: phones, social media, internet, gaming and opinions with parce que for speaking and 90-word writing.
Free time vocabulary
GCSE French free time: sports, hobbies, cinema, music, frequency phrases and three time frames.
Jobs and careers vocabulary
GCSE French jobs and careers: professions, work experience, future plans with je voudrais être and workplace phrases.
Local area vocabulary
GCSE French local area: town, countryside, directions, facilities, and environmental opinions.
Food and eating vocabulary
GCSE French food and eating: meals, restaurants, healthy eating, partitive articles and opinions.
Media and entertainment vocabulary
GCSE French media: TV, film, music, books, celebrities, and justified opinions for theme papers.
Speaking and writing
Speaking and writing
made memorable.
Role-play discipline and 90-word writing: cover the task, then upgrade the language.
All Speaking and writing revisionRole-play
Five English prompts, about a minute, two marks a task: answer what is asked, then ask the question the card requires.
90-word writing
Three compulsory bullets, about 90 words, clear communication, agreements, and three time frames for the top language marks.
150-word writing
Higher GCSE French 150-word writing: four bullets, more complexity than the 90-word task, three time frames, and how to develop ideas without drowning in errors.
General conversation
GCSE French general conversation after the photo card: develop answers, use past and future, and ask the teacher a question when your board requires it.
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GCSE French revision that starts from the ending you can see: present, perfect, imperfect and future, adjectival agreement, avoir and être, then role-play and 90-word writing.
29 guides, each with a memory hook, precise knowledge, a worked example and a retrieval check. Use a page for a quick refresh before exam questions, or as the first step in a spaced revision session.