Edexcel A-level French Paper 3, IRP/Speaking (9FR0 03) - 2024 [Exam Chat]

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talk to your teachers!!! they're there to support and guide you, and will be able to help ease your nerves if you're honest with them about how youre feeling

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practice with other people! maybe ask some of your friends if they're up for some French speaking practice together

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the 5 min prep time - make bullet points rather than full sentences!! also, use the time to come up with questions to ask the examiner so you don't get stressed in the real thing

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irp - when you've memorised it, read through and try to come up with a list of questions that you could be asked and jot down a few rough answers - will help the discussion part of the irp feel a little bit less daunting

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Prepare a grid with all the questions on all the units, and prewritten answers (that of course include beautiful vocab, adjectives, and tenses, or whatever your teacher's advised you to do)

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Practice with your parents, siblings or friends (even if they don't speak french)

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Learn to understand dialogue (IMPORTANT IN LISTENING + SPEAKING!!!!!!!), listen to the following when youre procrastinating: news in slow french, french netflix (alternate with and without subtitles), and who could forget the GLORIOUS french dialogue recordings from cgp and exam boards? (protip: listen on full volume with the crappiest headphones you own for the most authentic sans domicile fixe experience)

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Make your speaking partner give you impromptu questions during the conversation or roleplay - iirc there were a list of question cards that teachers were given on exam day to ask students as wild cards. Try find something like that.