The Environment - Key Stage 4

Practise your listening skills


Here's a really useful listening exercise on the BBC GCSE Bitesize - French website
Listen to the audio extract and try to work out
1 What you can do at home to help the environment
2. What you can do in town to help to protect the environment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/audio/french/


Click on:
Listening Higher
Then:
Comprehension: The environment

Talking about where you live - Key Stage 3

Où habites-tu? Tu es de quelle nationalité?
Where do you live? What nationality are you?

Study the list of countries and nationalities.
Try to learn which countries are masculine and which are feminine.
Practise what you've learnt with these exercises about countries and nationalities.
Remember in French when you talk about your own or someone else's nationality you use a lower case letter not a capital letter. "Il est français", "He is French".

Asking for and giving directions

First you need to study the basics of this useful topic - Directions.
You can test yourself with this simple exercise - click and drag the words to the correct pictures.
You can practise listening to conversations on the GCSE Bitesize website. First Revise the topic then Test your knowledge.
Another useful language learning website is MYLO. On this website you can practise Directions and locations.
There are also many reading and writing exercises on the Languages Online website to help you with this topic.
The lexique website provides audio clips and exercises too

French ir verbs song

Le verbe aller - song

I bet you just won't be able to stop singing this!

Le temps présent - The present tense

Whether you're learning the present tense for the first time or doing some essential revision then the following websites should help.
Verb busters
Francais interactif
GCSE Bitesize
And for a clear step-by-step explanation of Regular verbs try Level 13  from Targetlanguage.co.uk and work through to Level 15.

La famille - talking about your family

First you could practise and revise the vocabulary needed for this topic Family members
Possessive adjectives such as my, your, his, her are also important, practise them with an exercise from languages online
Try a listening exercise about relationships between family members. You can access a transcript to listen to exactly what is said on the audio extract: GCSE Bitesize
Finally write about how you get on with the members of your family.