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French - Edexcel (for exams until 2025)

Easy-to-understand homework and revision materials for your GCSE French Edexcel (for exams until 2025) '9-1' studies and exams

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Who am I?

  • Me, my family and friends in French

    Can you understand people talking about their friends and family in French? Practise key phrases for describing appearance and personality and explain how well you get on with them.

  • My interests and role models in French

    Can you understand discussions about hobbies, interests and what makes a good role model in French? Practise your language skills with listening, reading and writing exercises.

Daily life

  • Social media and mobile technology in French

    Can you understand discussions about social media and mobile technology in French? Learn key phrases about different types of technology and develop your reading, writing and listening skills.

  • Everyday life at home in French

    Can you understand people describing their houses in French? Develop your listening and reading skills with activities and get to grips with describing where you live.

  • Food and drink in French

    Can you understand discussions about food and drink? Practise your listening, reading and speaking skills to express opinions about your favourite things to eat and eating out.

  • Shopping in French

    Can you talk about shopping in French? Develop your understanding through listening and reading activities and practise your speaking skills with a role-play in a clothes shop.

Cultural life

  • Music, cinema, TV and reading in French

    Can you understand conversations about reading, music, film and TV? Learn vocabulary to help you express opinions and practise your language skills with reading, listening and speaking exercises.

  • Sport in French

    Can you understand people talk about sport in French? Get to grips with vocabulary about different types of sport and develop your listening, reading and writing skills with practice exercises.

  • Celebrations and festivals in French

    Can you understand conversations about celebrations and festivals in French? Get to grips with vocabulary and practise your listening, reading and writing skills.

Holidays, travel and tourism

  • Holidays and tourism in French

    Can you understand people talking about their holidays and tourism in French? Develop the listening, reading and writing skills to be able to understand others and write about your holidays.

  • Travel in French

    Develop your French speaking skills with a role-play at the coach station, listen to people describing their journeys and read about transport of the future.

Town, region and country

  • Places to see and things to do in French

    Can you talk about what you like and dislike about where you live? Understand others describing where they live and develop your listening, reading and speaking skills.

School

  • What school is like in French

    Can you understand discussions about school? Practise your language skills with listening, reading and speaking exercises and get to grips with key vocabulary.

  • School activities in French

    Can you understand conversations about extra-curricular activities? Find out how to talk about the school clubs, trips and exchanges and test your knowledge with a quiz.

Future aspirations, work and study

  • Ambitions in French

    Can you understand people talking about sixth form and university studies in French? Get to grips with key vocabulary and develop your reading and listening skills with practice exercises.

  • Work in French

    Can you describe your work experience and part-time job in French? Develop your reading and writing skills with practice exercises and try a job interview role-play.

International and global dimension

  • Environmental issues in French

    Get to grips with French vocabulary about the environment and how to protect it. Develop your listening, reading and speaking skills with practice exercises.

  • Global issues and events in French

    Can you understand conversations about global issues and events in French? Develop your reading, listening and writing skills with practice exercises and get to grips with key vocabulary.

Grammar

  • French nouns and articles

    A noun is a naming word used for a person, thing, place or idea. The word for ‘the’ or ‘a’ changes depending on the gender of the noun and whether it is singular or plural.

  • French prepositions

    Prepositions describe where and when something is in relation to something else. Get to grips with some commonly used French prepositions and check your understanding with activities and a quiz.

  • French adjectives

    In French most adjectives come after the noun. Get to grips with constructing sentences containing adjectives and how to ‘agree’ them with the nouns they describe.

  • French adverbs

    Adverbs add meaning to a verb and describe actions. They usually describe the 'where', 'when' or 'how'. Practise using them in French sentences.

  • Pronouns - Edexcel

    Pronouns replace nouns in a sentence. They are usually quicker ways to refer to a noun and reduce repetition. Types of pronoun include subject pronouns, direct and indirect object pronouns.

  • The present tense in French

    Use the present tense to describe what happens regularly and what is happening now. Get to grips with regular and irregular verbs and check your understanding with activities and a quiz.

  • The perfect and pluperfect tenses - Edexcel

    The perfect tense describes an action in the past that has finished. The pluperfect is used to talk about actions far back in the past such as events that have happened.

  • The French imperfect tense

    The imperfect tense describes an ongoing action in the past or something that used to happen. Get to grips with using the imperfect tense and check your understanding with a quiz.

  • The future tenses in French

    Use the near future and the simple future tenses to talk about what will happen in the future. Find out how to form and use them and check your understanding with activities and a quiz.

  • The French conditional

    The conditional is used to describe what would, could or should happen. Get to grips with how to form the conditional and check your understanding with activities and a quiz.

  • Other French verb forms

    The infinitive, the imperative, the present participle, the present subjunctive, the perfect infinitive and the passive voice are French verb forms.

  • Asking questions in French

    Do you know how to ask questions in French? Get to grips with common question words and check your understanding with activities and a quiz.

  • Negatives in French

    Forming negatives is an important part of speaking and writing French. Find out how to form negative structures, then check your understanding with activities and a quiz.

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