GCSE French
Grammar patterns
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Tense endings, agreement, and the avoir / être decisions that hold a sentence together.
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Open guidePresent 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.
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