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A-level French topics

How is everyone revising for different topics in French 😭 so far I’ve made revision cards on La famille and Musique but it took ages and I don’t know if I can remember all my points anyway. Is there some better way at learning and remembering how to talk about all these topics?
Original post by Jennaa_rt
How is everyone revising for different topics in French 😭 so far I’ve made revision cards on La famille and Musique but it took ages and I don’t know if I can remember all my points anyway. Is there some better way at learning and remembering how to talk about all these topics?

Hello!
I made mindmaps for each topic. I used lots of colour to make it fun and big A3 sheets. I did really have to condense, which helped - like for music I had Politics (Stromae and BigFlo&Oli); Music from francophone countries (eg Ile Maurice); French government protecting music/la chanson francaise; a little history of music from the 20th century. For each section, I focused on giving one or two key examples and getting all the difficult/technical vocab recorded. Not full sentences or anything - it helps in the exam to just have facts at your fingertips and to be able to think on your feet and provide genuine reflections/responses to the question. Hope that helps - bonne chance!!
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Original post by purplepengu1n
Hello!
I made mindmaps for each topic. I used lots of colour to make it fun and big A3 sheets. I did really have to condense, which helped - like for music I had Politics (Stromae and BigFlo&Oli); Music from francophone countries (eg Ile Maurice); French government protecting music/la chanson francaise; a little history of music from the 20th century. For each section, I focused on giving one or two key examples and getting all the difficult/technical vocab recorded. Not full sentences or anything - it helps in the exam to just have facts at your fingertips and to be able to think on your feet and provide genuine reflections/responses to the question. Hope that helps - bonne chance!!

Thanks for the advice 🙏 I always thought memorising random phrases would be good but ig only to an extent as I need to practice rephrasing things like a natural conversation. It’s so different to gcse haha

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