French Listening Help

In the real deal, in the Listening exam, you'll have 5 minutes to read through the paper. During that time, you can jot down what words might come up in the recording. Use the first time the audio is played to get a slight idea of what they're saying, then use the second time to listen out for the answer. Make sure your French vocabulary is broad too, since you won't recognise words that you don't know.

If you're doing AQA French, here are some practice papers for listening and the other components, albeit from the old spec, but still useful: http://www.broadwater.surrey.sch.uk/1775/gcse-french-past-papers

I think French listening is most people's weakness in GCSE French, therefore luckily for you the grade boundaries are quite low! I wouldn't worry too much, maybe try out duolingo as u can hear all the words you're learning which will help you to recognise the words when it comes to listening. Good luck!

Yeah, I hope grade boundaries will be low. I’ve tried a bit of duolingo and memrise and I’m not sure which is best as duolingo doesn’t seem to go over exam-specific vocabulary

IDK about you but Edexcel higher was spoken super slowly! I would say try listen out for key aspects of the response rather than try to translate the whole thing - when you're going through the paper think about specific words in the question to listen out for so you don't translate everything. Also think of words that could be mentioned, and listen out for them or words with the same/similar meaning - but don't focus too hard listening for that exact word cause you don't know if they'll use it. Listen out for time indicators too! And linking phrases e.g. par contre because that's a clear distinction of topic within the response! You can do this, especially if you're good at everything else because you won't have to score as high against already low grade boundaries! Good luck - you can do this!!! xxx

I do Edexcel and most of the vocabulary I learned on there came up in listening tests. Memrise is pretty helpful too though

Thanks!I do AQA. When you use duolingo, do you start from the basics of French and also, does it go over verbs and grammar? I’ve tried using it before but it seemed a bit basic at first. Do you think Quizlet should be used aswell as Duolingo/Memrise or should I just stick with one. Thanks

I'd just stick with the one tbh, Memrise is probably better for u if you're doing AQA.