Year 11 Revision list

As well as all the work from year 10 (see below) you will also need to know the following.....

Grammar (very basic list)-

Connecting words (and, but, who, however, etc)
Present tense
Perfect Tense
Close Future Tense

Imperfect Tense (Higher Tier)
Conditional Tense (H)
Future Tense (H)

PluPerfect (A*)

Vocabulary

Module 3 - Work and Lifestyle

3A- Home Life

• Meals
• Household Tasks
• Celebrations (party, New Year, Christmas etc.)
• Religious vocab (e.g. God, Hindu, Muslim, etc.)

3B - Healthy Lifestyle

• Food (incl. Fruit and Veg, Groceries, Breads, Meats, Fish, Sea Food)
• Drink
• Classifications of food (e.g. Organic, Dairy, Vitamins etc.)
• Associated adjectives (e.g. delicious, home-made etc.)
• Verbs to do with cooking (e.g. grate, stir, cook, etc.)
• Weights and Measurements

3C - Part Time Jobs, Work Experience

• Telephone and communication vocab (e.g. Hold the line please, fax machine, phone bok, e-mail, to call, etc.)
• Saturday jobs (e.g. babysitting, waiter/waitress, till operator etc.)
• Salary (per week, to spend, to save etc.)
• Adjectives (e.g. boring, dangerous, badly-paid etc.)
• Advantages and disadvantages of work

3D - Leisure

• Television (types of programme, remote control, actor,etc.)
• Music (types of music, walkman, singer etc.)
• Cinema (character, filmstar, sub-titled, types of film etc.)
• Theatre (ballet, comedy, tragedy, interval etc.)
• When? (weekly, monthly, etc.)
• Adjectives to describe the above (e.g. impressive, not bad, magical etc.)
• Invitations and refusals (e.g. shall we go out?, it depends, an invitation etc.)
• Places of Leisure (e.g. theatre, ice rink, sports centre etc.)
• Position words (e.g. In front of the cinema etc.)
• Buying tickets
• Opening times
• Books (types of book/reading material)
• Describing a match (e.g. player, referee, to win etc.)

3E - Shopping

• Types of shop
• People in shops (e.g. customer, shopkeeper, etc.)
• Department store vocab (e.g. escalator, first floor, counter, brand, price, receipt, mannequin)
• Notices (e.g. Emergency exit, no smoking, sales)
• Things you can buy (e.g. walkman, bike, CDs)
• Clothes
• Materials (e.g. silver, wool, leather etc.)
• Make-up
• Sizes of clothes and shoes
• Colours and descriptions of clothes (e.g. good value, fashionable, striped etc.)
• Paying (e.g. Money, change, credit card etc.)
• Problems (e.g. leak, flood, complaint, hole, stain etc.)
• All associated verbs.

Module 4 - The Young Person in Society

4A - Character and Personal Relationships

• Descriptions of character
• Celebrating milestones (e.g. wedding, birthday, name day, civil ceremony)
• Verbs associated (e.g. to admire, to look like, to seem, to behave, to forgive etc.)

4B - The Environment

• Things you can recycle (e.g. palstic, cans etc.)
• Sources of pollution (e.g. oil tankers, chemicals etc.)
• Ways to improve the environment (e.g. recycling centre, public transport etc.)
• Environmental vocab (e.g. green, ozone layer, the Earth etc.)
• Disasters (e.g. hunger, greenhouse effect, earthquake etc.)
• Endangered Species (e.g. Panda, Dolphin etc.)

4C - Education

• Higher education (e.g. University, degree, halls of residence etc.)
• School life (e.g. exams, parents, teachers etc.)
• Subjects
• Gap year
• Training (e.g. apprenticeships, work experience, apprentice, trainee etc.)
• School system in France and in UK

4D - Careers and Future Plans

• Job-seeking vocab (e.g. Cv, diploma, job offer, job, advice, to apply etc.)
• Qualities in a worker
• Types of contract and salaries
• Business vocab (e.g. abroad, team, company, project, trade etc.)
• Office vocab (e.g. form, phone book, desk, photocopier etc.)
• People (e.g. apprentice, sales director, boss, etc. )

4E - Social Issues

• Advertising (for hire, for sale, newspaper etc.)
• Young people (e.g. youth, boyfriend, friend etc.)
• Probelms (e.g. allowance, jobs, spots, racism, etc.)
• Descriptions of Teens (e.g. gifted, bored, spoiled, priviliged etc.)
• Health and Welfare problems (e.g. drugs, alcohol, anorexia, bullemia, stress etc.)
• Pressure (e.g. media, friends, parents, teachers etc.)
• Emotions (e.g. upset, tense, stressed etc.)
• Crime (e.g. murder, theft, mugging, policeman, judge, gun, prison etc.)

And finally.... LEARN YOUR QUESTION WORDS AND HOW TO USE THEM!!

A Snazzy Website

Good for Module 2 year 10 and also for Role Play for Yr 11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/experience/

Watch videos on things like booking a table, buying a ticket, etc. Some of you might find this helpful!

There is also this website (also from the wonderful BBC!) which does more on the ordering thing, but also has activities and GRAMMAR :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/language_notes/

We love grammar, right?

Mrs W.

Year 10 GCSE Revision List for Module 2

Grammar-
RECOGNISE
Perfect Tense; e.g. Je suis allé, J'ai mangé
Present Tense; e.g. Je vais, Je mange
Close Future Tense; e.g. Je vais aller, Je vais manger
Future Tense; e.g. J'irai, Je mangerai

And if you can......

Imperfect Tense e.g. J'allais, Je mangeais
Conditional Tense e.g. J'irais, Je mangerais

Vocabulary - All of Module 1 and Module 2 (in detail - please note, sometimes vocab may overlap. We will have done all of the essentials and as much of the additional vocab as possible. )

Module 1
A - Self, Family and Friends

• Relations e.g. mother, father, neighbour etc.
• Descriptions of people (hair, eyes, married, single, weight, etc.)
• Pets
• Personal Details e.g. nationality, address, etc.
• Spelling (alphabet)
• Professions
• Places of work
• Greetings (Hello, May I introduce..., Good evening, etc.)
• Nationalities
• Things you have in your suitcase (or might have forgotten to take on a trip to a pen-friend)
• All associated verbs

B- Interests and Hobbies

• Sports (and which verb it uses- faire or jouer)
• Equipment
• Sport-related vocabulary (e.g. competition, team, goal etc. )
• Adjectives to describe a sport
• Methods of transport (into town)
• Stations and buying a ticket
• Other out-of-school activities (e.g. disco, party, theatre, etc.)
• Places you can practise sport (e.g. Swimming pool etc.)
• Musical Instruments
• Methods of playing music (e.g. Hi-Fi, MP3 player, etc.)
• At-Home activities (e.g. chess, cooking, painting etc.)
• ICT vocab
• All associated verbs

C- Home and Local Environment

• Address
• Roads etc. (e.g. street, path etc.) and directions
• Situation (e.g. in the country, in the suburbs, by the sea etc.)
• Places (e.g. town, village, county, etc. )
• Compass directions
• House types (e.g. semi-detached etc.)
• Rooms of the house and floors (e.g. ground floor, attic etc. )
• Items in each room (e.g. in the kitchen, in the bedroom, in the bathroom etc.)
• Adjectives to describe a house or a town
• Geography words (e.g. climate, mountain, river etc.)
• Buildings in town
• Other features of a town (e.g. fountain, monument, letter box etc.)
• Things in the countryside (e.g. trees, grass, etc.)
• Animals on the farm
• Descriptions of town and country (e.g. dangerous, quiet, etc.)
• All associated verbs

D- Daily Routine

• Daily routine verbs
• Clothes

E - School and Future Plans

• Different schools (e.g. primary, secondary etc.)
• People in school (e.g. teacher, pupils, friends, receptionist, librarian etc.)
• Buildings and rooms in school (e.g. labs, corridors etc.)
• Subjects (remember, these all have le, la or les in front of them e.g. J'aime les maths)
• Time
• Times of day
• Classroom things (e.g. essay, pen, mistake etc.)
• Exam vocab (e.g. to pass, to fail, to sit (an exam))
• Descriptions of school, subjects and exams
• Out-of-School activities
• All associated verbs

Module 2
A- Travel, Transport, Finding the Way

• Asking directions and finding your way around
• Position words (e.g. opposite, on the corner, etc.)
• Methods of transport to another country including crossing the Channel
• Train vocab (e.g. timetable, buying a ticket etc.)
• Bus or tram vocab
• Boat vocab (e.g. embarking, ferry, terminal etc.)
• Plane vocab (e.g. cabin, flight, to land etc.)
• Car vocab (e.g. toll, motorway, roadworks etc.)
• All associated verbs

B- Tourism

• Places to stay on holiday
• Important people on holiday (e.g. owner, manager etc.)
• Things you need on holiday you might have forgotten (e.g. camera, sunglasses etc.)
• When you're going/When you went (e.g. at Easter, next year/last year, etc.)
• Who you holiday with
• How long your holiday will last/ has lasted
• Adjectives to describe your holiday
• A school exchange (e.g. pen friend, french family etc.)
• Weather
• All associated verbs

C - Accommodation

• Booking a hotel
• Rooms in the hotel (e.g. lift, reception, pool etc.)
• There is a problem with the room/hotel
• At the Campsite (e.g. shower block, tent, laundry)
• At the Youth Hostel (e.g. dormitory, office, day room)
• All associated verbs

D - Holiday Activities

• Activities by the sea (e.g. going for a walk, golf course, fishing etc.)
• Activities on a Winter Holiday (e.g. skiing, chalet, ice rink etc.)
• Restaurant (e.g. meals and courses, different types of restaurant, ordering, booking a table etc.)
• Food
• Things in a restaurant (e.g plate, spoon, etc.)
• Snacks
• All associated verbs

E - Services

• At the post office
• At the bank
• Lost property
• Health problems and parts of the body
• At the chemist/dentist/surgery
• There's been an accident!
• Car break-down
• All associated verbs

How to Revise

Did you know that we only retain 10% of what we read!! It’s no wonder, is it, that pupils who just ‘read over’ their work before a test find that it doesn’t ‘sink in’. We do, however, retain 70% of what we say, and 90% of what we do!! So to make things ‘sink in’ we need to SAY them, and DO something rather than just read.

Here are a few tips to help you learn more effectively and do better in tests.

Always learn French to English first – it’s much easier; learn the words English to French after you know them French to English.

Learn words and phrases in chunks of 3, 4 or 5 – no more. When you know these, go on to the next chunk of 3, 4 or 5.Get someone to test you when you have learned them, not before . They say the English and you say the French and spell the words. Even if your ‘tester’ does not speak French, they will know if YOU know the French word and they can check your spelling on your vocabulary sheet.

Work with a friend. It makes it more fun, and you can help each other with some of the techniques suggested here.

Use games on the suggested revision websites to learn and practise your vocab and grammar. This is best for people who like the "doing" part of learning, rather than those who learn best through hearing something.

Cover and check (only French to English): Write vocabulary in two lists. For the first 3 or 4 words, read the French and the English side by side, cover the English, say the English, then check that you have got it right.
L A S A C A W A C for English to French: This stands for :
Look(at the English and French)
And Say(the French word)
And Cover(the French word)
And Write(the French word)
And Check(that you know the word and have spelt it accurately)
Practise with 3 or 4 words until you get them right, then go on.

Make vocab cards
- 1. Fold and tear a piece of A4 paper or card into 8 or 16 squares. On one sidewrite the French word (with the le, la or les if it is a noun) and on the other side write the English, or, if you like drawing, draw a picture / symbol.
-2. French to English: Place the cards French side up and shuffle them. You should have a neat pile of them. Select the first 4 or 5.
-3. Look at the first French word or phrase, say the English, turn over to check that you have got it right. Put it to the back of your pile of 5 and repeat withthe second card. Continue until you have done them all, shuffle and repeat. Go on to the next 4 or 5 when you know the first clump very well. At the end,take all the cards, shuffle and work your way through.
-4. English to French: shuffle all the cards and turn the pile over, so you have the picture or English facing up. Select the first 4 or 5.
-5. Look at the first picture or English word or phrase, say the French, spell it out and turn over to check that you have got it right. Put it to the back of your pile of 5 and repeat with the second card. Continue until you have done them all, shuffle and repeat. Go on to the next 4 or 5 when you know the first clump very well.
-6. At the end, shuffle the entire pack and work your way through all of them. If there are still words you don’t know well, isolate those and work just with them.

Record words and phrases onto tape: say the French word, leave a gap, then say the English. Repeat with the next word. When you listen, aim to say the English word before it appears on the tape. Do this with the English as well. When you listen, aim to say the French word before it appears on the tape.

Stick French labels onto things in your room.

Some people learn best by drawing Mind maps :
-1. Put the topic heading in the middle.
-2. Add words and phrases around the centre word, maybe with the English ina different colour
-3. Use lots of colour and symbols or drawings.
-4. You may find it helps to crayon around the boxes and colour in the background to make interesting shapes – that way you will be able to picture the mind-map in your head when you need to remember the word. You can use this for any subject, not just languages.

So – there are lots of different ways to help you revise effectively.Try them out and see which ones work best for you. But remember – don’t just ‘read over’ your work and hope it ‘sinks in’. Most of it won’t - your brain needs more help than that

Pronunciation

Tip:
Watch DVDs in French, with either French or English subtitles, and listen to the way they say words.
Alternatively, listen to a French language song and find the words on the internet and get a grasp of how the words are pronounced. Personally, I like the artist "M."

Library

Have a look in the library for a wealth of languages reading material and resources!

Orals

Year 10 speaking coursework will be carried out in January. We are currently writing and improving our pieces. Here are some pointers on pronunciation, which will also be useful for year 11.

French Pronunciation guide

· ONLY pronounce the following CONSONANTS at the end of words- C R F and L.
To help remember this, think of the word CaReFuL.

· “vert” is pronounced “ver,” but if there is an “e” at the end of the word, we pronounce the consonant before it, e.g. “verte” is pronounced “vert”

· Sometimes we need to join words up to make them sound better. This usually happens when one word ends in an “s” and the next word starts with a vowel.
e.g. “les yeux” is pronounced “lez year”

• In French we like the gutteral "r." This means it comes from around the back of your throat. This is very different to the Spanish "r" which is rolled and comes from the front of the mouth.

· This is how the following high frequency words are pronounced

Le (lerr)
La (laa)
Les (lai)

Ma (maa)
Mon (Mo(n))
Mes (mai)

Et (ai(r))
Parce- que (parss-Ker)
Qui (key)
Très (tre)
Comment (commo)
Beaucoup (boo-coo)
Préfère (prefer)