Help with 90 word essay for gcse french

90 words? That's a paragraph not an essay. The only way I think you can get everything in is for your last year's holiday to be to your preferred and ideal one all in one.

oop soz I meant paragraph. Could you explain what you mean?

You can combine all three aspects in one or two sentences. Something on the lines of (to put in English to save a translation)- Last year I went on holiday to a cottage in Cornwall and it enabled me to relax by reading and going for walks. Such a beautiful place and the calm makes it my ideal and favourite holiday.

You may want to refer to this thread: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2320896 which has some guidance for language work at the school level; it's more written for higher/AH but it is applicable to GCSE/A-level as well.

I don't know French so can't comment on what you've written directly but looking at the mark scheme for the accuracy section you've not attempted (enough) complex grammatical structures, and you haven't used three time frames/tenses (only two). You may also need to expand your vocabulary and make sure your style/register is relevant to the question (e.g. if it's something being written formally make sure you use any formal language, or if it's for friends to use more informal terms - I don't know French but in German an example would be Sie vs du).

For the content section you must've not addressed all the required points to not get into the top brackets. You may have also only expressed one opinion rather than several (although this is unclear). Otherwise it seems to be about conveying more information (avoid waffling I guess) and trying to be clear in what you are saying (which will follow largely from knowing your grammar and vocab).

Also generally speaking, for language exams, what my teachers used to emphasise was to lie and steal as much as we could i.e. for "lying" we don't tell actual true stories about our lives - just write what we can with the vocab we use. If you've never been skiing it doesn't matter if you know all the vocab to write as if you had. For the "steal" it means just take set grammatical constructions that have been given to you on work sheets and just lift them whole into your responses with the vocab tailored to the question - this way you are using those more complex grammatical constructions to get those points, but keeping them relevant.

@RazzzBerriesdo u hav any advice?

Hey Nikki! I’m so sorry for the late reply, I haven’t been active on TSR for a while!
I’d say to maybe vary the verbs that you use or switch up the basic words (e.g à cause de... instead of parce que), examiners love to see a bit of spice in the midst of marking all these exams 🤣. But otherwise, I’d reiterate the advice above. Well done you!! You’re doing amazing xx

go on pearson active learn!! they have a whole higher book if you want good grades! i use that for my french

also how are u revising for french?? (like vocab wise??) thankyou

go on pearson active learn!! they have a whole higher book if you want good grades! i use that for my french

also how are u revising for french?? (like vocab wise??) thankyou

i cantttt, but do u know where i could find the higher bool

oh i get it now! thx