🎉 Fun Summer French Activities Pt 3         

Part 3 – Try these activities to create good habits for learning French over the year. Improve French whilst having fun. Suitable for KS3 French, Common Entrance exams, GCSE amd IGCSE students and beyond. To get the full list to your inbox, pop your email below. 🗼Culture 🚲Watch a video about the Tour de France on the 1jour1actu website. The transcript appears below the video … Continue reading 🎉 Fun Summer French Activities Pt 3         

🎉 Fun Summer French Activities         

Part 1 – No matter where you are on your French journey, one thing’s certain: the key to success is practice, practice, practice. This is the first in a series of fun activities – including books, music, podcasts and more – that I will be posting over the coming days. To get the full list to your inbox, pop your email below. 🎧 Listen & … Continue reading 🎉 Fun Summer French Activities         

Building a Robust French Vocabulary for GCSE & IGCSE Success

A strong vocabulary is one of the most powerful tools a French student can have — especially when preparing for GCSE or IGCSE exams. Whether you’re aiming for top marks or just want to feel more confident expressing yourself, expanding your word bank is key to success in speaking, writing, reading and listening. Here are some smart, manageable strategies to help you build vocabulary that … Continue reading Building a Robust French Vocabulary for GCSE & IGCSE Success

How Listening Practice Boosts Your French Speaking Skills

Want to improve your French speaking skills? Start with your ears! Many learners focus on speaking practice alone, but listening is just as important—if not more so—when it comes to sounding natural and confident. Why is listening so powerful? 1. You absorb pronunciation naturally French has tricky sounds that don’t always match how words are written. By listening to native speakers, you train your brain … Continue reading How Listening Practice Boosts Your French Speaking Skills

How French Accents Can Help You Recognise Words in Reading and Listening Tasks

If you’ve ever struggled with understanding spoken or written French, paying attention to accents might just be the key to unlocking meaning. While accents in French can seem like an extra challenge, they often carry hidden clues about a word’s history, pronunciation, and even its English equivalent. One of the most fascinating accent-related patterns in French is how the circumflex accent (ˆ) replaces an “s” … Continue reading How French Accents Can Help You Recognise Words in Reading and Listening Tasks

Strengthen Your French Writing: How to Back Up Your Opinions

This week’s blog continues with the mnemonic CROISSANT, a simple tool to remember what to include in your answers to the longer writing questions: C: Connectives R: Reasons O: Opinions I: Intensifiers S S: Sophisticated structures/subordinate clauses A: Adverbs N: Negative phrases T: Tenses This post is going to concentrate on reasons, which are relevant for the 80-90 and 130-150 question (Edexcel and IGCSE) and … Continue reading Strengthen Your French Writing: How to Back Up Your Opinions

Ace your GCSE or IGCSE writing exam

I have blogged before about the mnemonic CROISSANT. It is a simple tool to remember what to include in your answers to the longer writing questions: C: Connectives R: Reasons O: Opinions I: Intensifiers S S: Sophisticated structures/subordinate clauses A: Adverbs N: Negative phrases T: Tenses This post is going to concentrate on opinions, which are relevant for the 80-90 and 130-150 question (Edexcel and … Continue reading Ace your GCSE or IGCSE writing exam