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Festivals is a brilliant topic for tenses, but also a tedious topic for us as the exam board likes to put in random festivals that don't even exist!!! Make sure you understand the general different festivals in France!

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GREAT THINGS NEVER COME FROM COMFORT ZONES

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GREAT THINGS NEVER COME FROM COMFORT ZONES

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Let's start at the beginning, It's a very good place to start!

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Let's start at the beginning, It's a very good place to start!

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25-30 Minutes
On the first day it is important to establish where we are and where we need to be.
Start by mind mapping. Get a blank piece of paper and write some headings like...

opinion phrases

adjectives

present tense

past tense

imperfect tens

future tense

conditional tense

wow phrases

Then fill in what you know from memory!

Which of these phrases will be useful across all of the topics you will be asked about. Can you start to learn some of these key phrases that you can put in, whichever question you get asked?

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10 Mins
Faire (to do) is a verb that we often get wrong when we are speaking. Take a look at this video and make some notes - perhaps make a verb spider?

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Faire (to do/make) in 5 Main French Tenses

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Take a look at this...
MEMORY FOR LEARNING

Just Staring at a load of words on a screen/page will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! So don't bother, it is a waste of time.

Today, pick 2 of the revision tips from the link above and try them with 2 different paragraphs.

Spend a maximum of 15 minutes on each paragraph using the different strategies.

Questions to ask yourself...

Did it work?

Will I use this again?

Which one of the two worked best

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We ALL must know how to say about what we did last weekend - it will be relevant across many different topics. Alongside your own paragraph, take a look at this video.

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GCSE French Speaking: What did you do last weekend?

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There is absolutely no point in revising the questions you already know or feel quite confident in answering, so don't waste your time.

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In your booklets you will find the questions -

1. Décris ta famille

2. Tu t'entends bien avec ta famille? pourquoi?

3. Quelle est ta personnalité?

4. Comment étais-tu quand tu étais plus jeune?

5. Comment es-tu? (ta déscription physique)

6. C'est quoi un bon ami pour toi?

Task:
Without looking at your answers, which of these questions could you have a good go at answering?

Find which questions you are not good at and focus on those ones!

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DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THE QUESTION MEANS??

Well if you don't then we have an issue.
Here are the questions in the 2nd Topic you will be asked questions about. Grab a piece of paper and see if you can translate all the questions.

1. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes faire pendant ton temps libre?

2. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes comme sport?

3. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes lire?

4. Qu'est-ce que tu as fait le weekend dernier?

5. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes comme musique?

6. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes regarder à la télé?

7. Comment était le dernier film que tu as vu?

8. Qui est ton acteur/actrice préféré(e)?

9. Quels sont les avantages / les inconvénients de regarder un film à la téle?

10. Est-ce que tu aimes aller au cinéma?

11. Voudrais tu participer à une émission de télé réalité?

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I KNOW.... THATS A LOT!!!

But let's work smart, not hard!
Which of the questions could you bundle together to make a slightly longer answer, to ensure I don't ask you as many questions and show me you are giving enough details?

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GCSE French Speaking: Family Relationships

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GCSE French Speaking: What kind of music or movie do you prefer?

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Although I haven't asked you explicitly to write an answer to this question, can you take anything from this video and add it to one of your responses? Particularly using a different tense?

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GCSE French Speaking: Would you like a new mobile phone?

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Right. Let's forget about those google classroom questions for a minute.
Think about phrases that you could use to talk about this topic (a bit like we did on day one)

Present tense verbs

Past tense verbs

Future tense verbs

Opinion Phrases

Adjectives.

Dig them out of your long term memory and see which structures you are confident in using, and where can we now apply them to the technology topic.

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Here are the questions for the technology topic:

1. Que fais-tu sur ton portable?

2. Quels sont les dangers ou les risques des téléphones portables?

3. Préfères tu Snapchat ou Instagram et pourquoi?

4. Quels sont les avantages et les inconvénients de l'internet?

5. Est-ce qu'il serait possible pour toi de vivre sans internet?

Can you make some answers up without looking at your answers using the universal structures you have thought about from your mind mapping?

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You could use Vocaroo to record your answers and listen back to them throughout the week. Have you found any pronunciation errors?

You can download the files and save them for the real mocks in January.

I know noone likes listening to their own voice, but but your brave pants on and crack on!

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Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

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Check out this link to look at some of the commonly Celebrated Holidays in France!

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Important events, special days and festivals are an integral part of the rich colour of the countries whose languages we teach. They enable use to deliver some of our most exciting, vibrant and creative lessons, often the lessons that the children remember for many years to come. They help us to put the language learning into context, and to make it relevant.

(Please send additions, suggestions or amendments to this page to office@all-languages.org.uk.)

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Festivals and fiestas in France and the French-speaking world - Association for Language Learning

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Important events, special days and festivals are an integral part of the rich colour of the countries whose languages we teach. They enable use to deliver some of our most exciting, vibrant and creative lessons, often the lessons that the children remember for many years to come.

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Remember that the festivals topic is really versatile. You can get lots of opinions in here and use one paragraph for lots of difference celebrations. Check out this video - there's loads of different videos in this playlist too on the same topic.

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GCSE French Speaking: What did you do to celebrate your birthday?