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This app has been created to help you make sure that you are up to speed with your Foundation French GCSE vocabulary and grammar, specifically orientated around the topics covered by Edexcel, OCR and AQA to ensure that you know your stuff to get up to a C grade. There are over 1000 multiple choice questions for you to test yourself with, written by a qualified teacher in the subject who provides you with an explanation to each question whether you get it wrong or right.
Monitor your progress, post your results on Facebook and Twitter and challenge friends to see if they can do better. These self-assessment exercises are designed to ensure that you have a good grounding in the grammar and language that you will need in your Foundation French GCSE exams.

We have also included past papers from all three exam boards to make this the most complete revision app for GCSE French Foundation.

Key Revision Topics covered:
Health, Relationships and Sport
Ability to recognise and use a variety of the necessary vocabulary and grammar to express opinions on healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their consequences; relationships with family and friends; thoughts for the future such as marriage and partnerships; to discuss hobbies and interests, sporting events and lifestyle

Leisure and Entertainment
Ability to recognise and use a variety of the necessary vocabulary and grammar to discuss your free time, plans, preferences and experiences; to talk about what you do when you are getting around, socialising, special occasions and festivals as well as your opinions on TV, films, music, shopping, money, fashion and trends as well as technology

Travel and Tourism
Ability to recognise and use the necessary vocabulary and grammar to discuss how to travel, about experiences of holidays and exchanges – including the weather, accommodation, food, drink and cultural differences

Media and Culture
Ability to recognise and use the necessary vocabulary and grammar to describe and discuss music, film, reading and books, fashion, celebrities, religion, blogs and the internet

Home and Environment
Ability to recognise and use the necessary vocabulary and grammar to describe your home and the local area, what your local region is like; to talk about life at home, facilities nearby and how you get around; to give opinions and discuss the current problems facing the planet and how to be environmentally friendly

Education and Work
Ability to recognise and use the necessary vocabulary and grammar to describe your school, college and future plans as well as pressures and problems; to talk about current jobs, work experience/part-time jobs school life, future study and jobs abroad

Grammar covered:

Verbs - regular and irregular, including reflexive, all persons of the verb, negative forms, interrogative forms, impersonal verbs (‘il faut’), verbs followed by an infinitive and prepositions; Tenses - The present tense, the perfect tense, the imperfect tense (‘avoir’, ‘être’, ‘faire’), the conditional tense with ‘vouloir’, ‘aimer’ and ‘pouvoir’, the immediate future tense, the imperative; Articles - definite, indefinite and partitive; The use of the negative; Adverbs - comparative and superlative, regular, interrogative, of place and time; Noun agreements; Question words; Adjectives - agreements and position, possessive, demonstrative (‘ce’, ‘cette’), comparative and superlative, indefinite; Dates and time - including ‘depuis’ plus the present tense; Pronouns - personal, reflexive, relative (‘qui’ and ‘que’), emphatic, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative; Quantifiers and intensifiers (‘assez’, ‘beaucoup’, ‘peu’ etc.); Prepositions; Conjunctions such as ‘mais’ and ‘puis’
Recognising: The passive voice; Other verbs in the imperfect tense; The future tense; The pluperfect tense, The present participle.
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Content produced October 2012