S4 and S5/6 French Exam preparation
There are lots of websites you can access free to practise your language skills. Here are a few:
www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/french/The excellent bbc site which provides practice specifically for Standard Grade.
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/excusemyfrench/
These are a set of lessons from the TV programme “Excuse my French”.
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/news/crossword/flash
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj
This is “French steps”. Sign up here for a weekly email with learning tips. It is free! You can guess the words, build sentences, speak and write.
www.bbc.co.uk/french/news/index.shtml
Here you can listen to an audio magazine containing reports on current issues. You can also do crosswords and choose an area of grammar that you need to practise. You can also listen and read texts.
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/listening/index.shtml
This is a site called “Better at Listening” and gives you practise in listening, as well as tips on how to improve this skill.
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/#
For Int2 and Credit pupils, read and listen to short films in French. There are French and English subtitles for every film.
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/cool/
Try this one for fun!
Lots of listening exercises are available free on the “bonjourdefrance” website. Here are a few you can go to directly:
www.bonjourdefrance.com/n3/qcm/a12t.htm
This one is on organising a picnic.
www.bonjourdefrance.com/n7/a12.htm
This one is about cinema.
www.bonjourdefrance.com/n10/a11.htm
This one is entitled “What’s in my room”.
This site is good as a vocabulary learning tool. It keeps track of the words you know and tests you on the ones you don’t.
http://quizlet.com/
It includes vocabulary lsted by topic and also various grammar points to practise on.
For more exercises on verbs in all tenses, including the subjunctive:
http://taka.unimedia.fr/~brindille/jeux/jeu_verbe/menu.php?class_id=2