Ultimate Year 10 Study Group

Hi,
Thank you for replying :yes:

I'm mostly worried about grammar as I'm not really good at it and I keep mixing my tenses up when I'm writing. I'm also kinda worried about vocab as so far I've only focused on the words for foundation and now I've got all the higher ones to learn as well. :dontknow:

But never the less I'm really happy that I've moved to higher cause now I can aim for the higher grades. :u:

I think the best I'm at is reading as I feel like its a bit easier. The translation bit is okay as well if its French to English though I sometimes struggle with the English to French part. I'm not sure about speaking cause we were only supposed to start it after the Easter holidays... so I think they'll work on it after school reopens again. Listening is okay but sometimes I have to guess because of the accent. :shy2:

Kerboodle is like this textbook that aqa published. It has like exercises and listening practice stuff.. But I personally feel like its mainly for exam revision before exams rather than using it for actual studying.

So sorry for the long message :frown:

and once again a huge Thank you your help!!! :h:

No worries :grin:

For grammar and tenses, I would certainly try Conjuguemos as I mentioned. If you really struggle with tenses though, I would start of with the 4 main ones (être, avoir, aller and faire) in each tense. :yep:

These are super duper useful in any situation, so make flashcards for them on Quizlet to review or if you're more of a visual learner, then you could stick post it notes around your room with the separate tenses.

For each of the 8 modules, I would pick about 3 or 4 main verbs and conjugate them all into the present, perfect, imperfect, near future, future and conditional. :blow:

I would then do the same for these verbs as for the 4 main ones, I would create flashcards or ways to remember them. It is tedious, but honestly it helps because with the regular verbs, you begin to see patterns forming with -er, -ir and -re verbs.

If you think you could manage it, then of course you can learn me but if you really struggle then it's best to have a few verbs properly conjugated in every case. :yep:

Higher vocabulary is based on foundation, just in more depth. Again, Memrise and Quizlet are incredible for vocabulary- they do absolute wonders! :dumbells:

When I was preparing for mocks all throughout this year in French, I used either Memrise or Quizlet for about 5 minutes a day as all 4 exams revolve around the knowledge of good vocabulary. Have you been through your specification or a revision guide? It may be an idea to create flashcards for unknown vocabulary and revise them? :dontknow:

Also you could do blurt pages, where you pick a random topic from a module (after studying it, but not straight after :biggrin:

) and then write down as much vocabulary based on that topic as you possibly can. Any that you missed could go into a Quizlet set or flashcards. The thing with languages is that it's about remembering patterns, and people do that in various ways. I like putting Spanish grammar rules to the tunes of songs, I didn't do this for French. :flute:

Whatever helps you, do it.

Being entered into higher is a huge advantage, and I wouldn't worry too much about it. I guess translation is also based upon grammar and vocab knowledge, so if you stick to a constant routine then you will do great! :gfight:

The thing with listening is honestly practice. If you find it difficult, I would learn words on Memrise from a course that has audio and that actually pronounces the words (some community created courses have this, some don't but all official courses for French do :borat:

). Listening to French music can be quite tricky, so maybe when you feel more confident you could start listening and searching up some lyrics to follow along with. I feel to improve listening and speaking in general, it's important to know and understand separate sounds that are made. For this, I would recommend a YouTube channel called Alexa Teaches French, she's made a whole collection of pronounciation (and grammar) videos :awesome:

she is great.

If you are struggling to pronounce a certain word, I would use Forvo which is a website that native speakers share pronounciations on. :rave:

As a general go to, instead of using google translate I would suggest downloading Word Reference, which is a really accurate app for translation.

Ohhhh, thanks for letting me know! :five:

If it improves your exam technique then go for it, but if you feel it's useless then I would honestly try your own revision methods.

It's fine *mine's even longer :rofl:

* , I'm more than happy to help anytime. Apologies for the even longer message.

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alvinagiala

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Original post by **Crumbles**

No worries :grin:

For grammar and tenses, I would certainly try Conjuguemos as I mentioned. If you really struggle with tenses though, I would start of with the 4 main ones (être, avoir, aller and faire) in each tense. :yep:

These are super duper useful in any situation, so make flashcards for them on Quizlet to review or if you're more of a visual learner, then you could stick post it notes around your room with the separate tenses.

For each of the 8 modules, I would pick about 3 or 4 main verbs and conjugate them all into the present, perfect, imperfect, near future, future and conditional. :blow:

I would then do the same for these verbs as for the 4 main ones, I would create flashcards or ways to remember them. It is tedious, but honestly it helps because with the regular verbs, you begin to see patterns forming with -er, -ir and -re verbs.

If you think you could manage it, then of course you can learn me but if you really struggle then it's best to have a few verbs properly conjugated in every case.

Higher vocabulary is based on foundation, just in more depth. Again, Memrise and Quizlet are incredible for vocabulary- they do absolute wonders! :dumbells: