GCSE French listening exam

Hi, I am doing the AQA FRENCH A GCSE next year, and wanted to do exam practice. Does anyone know any good sites that actually have the speaking with them. On the AQA website with past papers, it only gives you the transcript

Thanks!

Reply 1

lil groovy dude

14

the only one I could think of at the moment is;
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/11_16
and then click on French, hope this helps! :smile:

Reply 2

crazyexcitedrandomer01

OP

Thanks!

You could try www.zut.org.uk
It is a website designed by a lgnaueg teacher and has a section deciated to GCSE French. You could also try listening to French Radio or TV.

Reply 4

lil groovy dude

14

Oh yeah! Our school uses that! Thats a really good site! :biggrin:

Reply 5

NickiM

14

You could ask your teacher - mine gave me some past exam papers and a tape for a week or something :smile:

Reply 6

polythenepam

2

when i did it i used zut and tapes i asked my teacher for

Reply 7

Ste

If you have digital television later to the date of exams have a look at interactive bitesize there's usually about 10 listening questions on there and you get entered into prize draws if you get them all right.

Reply 8

Hashshashin

13

Becky68M

Word of advice - the foundation listening exam is very easy and is well worth doing instead of higher

I'm awful at listening - and have considered doing foundation in it but higher in everything else (which I'm fine with). Can you still get an A if you take foundation listening? The only thing that puts me off is I'm thinking about taking French AS, so really it might be better to just do a lot of work on listening practise and take higher, because it would prepare me for AS listening a lot better.

Reply 9

Excalibur

15

Yes, I think you can take foundation listening and still get an A, though only if your other components are pretty much around A*/high A standard. But as you say, if you're planning on taking French AS I think it's better for you if you just tried at the higher one anyway, because I've heard that the tapes will be a lot faster at A Level as it is.

Reply 10

lesser weevil

1

you can buy the past paper tapes cant you?

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and really, listening isnt all that hard. you just need PRACTICE. what I did was went over to Belgium for a week - you have to do listening then, because people will speak French to you. That really helps if you get total immersion in the language.

Reply 11

kellywood_5

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Hashshashin

I'm awful at listening - and have considered doing foundation in it but higher in everything else (which I'm fine with). Can you still get an A if you take foundation listening? The only thing that puts me off is I'm thinking about taking French AS, so really it might be better to just do a lot of work on listening practise and take higher, because it would prepare me for AS listening a lot better.

I know you could definitely get a B. I'm not sure if you could get an A, but you'd probably have to get A*s in reading, writing and speaking. I wouldn't recommend it if you want to do AS though- the tapes are incredibly fast at A-level even compared to GCSE higher tier, so if you only did Foundation the gap would be even bigger. At my school you have to get a B in French at GCSE to do AS and you have to have taken the higher paper in everything because you might struggle.

Reply 12

Hashshashin

13

kellywood_5

I know you could definitely get a B. I'm not sure if you could get an A, but you'd probably have to get A*s in reading, writing and speaking. I wouldn't recommend it if you want to do AS though- the tapes are incredibly fast at A-level even compared to GCSE higher tier, so if you only did Foundation the gap would be even bigger. At my school you have to get a B in French at GCSE to do AS and you have to have taken the higher paper in everything because you might struggle.

Ah, OK. I think you need to at my school. I just always seem to do badly at listening, it's quite depressing. At the end of year 10 we took practise papers and I got A in Reading, A in Speaking, A in Coursework but only a D in Listening. :frown:

Reply 13

kellywood_5

17

Hashshashin

Ah, OK. I think you need to at my school. I just always seem to do badly at listening, it's quite depressing. At the end of year 10 we took practise papers and I got A in Reading, A in Speaking, A in Coursework but only a D in Listening. :frown:

A lot of people find the listening difficult, but you should find you improve with practice. Listen to French radio, watch French TV, watch French films- obviously going to France if you can would be the best thing to do! Most GCSE revision guides come with a CD and some practice questions for the listening and BBC Bitesize have some on their website too. The thing with listening is that you don't need to understand every word or get bogged down in detail- you just need to pick out the key points, which you should be able to work out from the questions.

Reply 14

RJA

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go to channel 825 on sky digital :smile:

Reply 15

Lykabelle

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R.J.A

go to channel 825 on sky digital :smile:

lol my teachers always goes on about how useful TV5 is, as it can improve our listening skills. Apparently a girl who was very lazy, got an A grade for A Level French and went to Oxford by mostly just watching TV5. :rolleyes: