GCSE COURSEWORK

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GCSE COURSEWORK

• French

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GCSE Coursework

• 25 of overall marks/grade
• 3 pieces submitted to exam board
• At least one completed in controlled conditions
• Draft / Final version
• 3 pieces 250 300 words Foundation
• 400 500 words Higher

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For Grade C or above

• Must show evidence of the following
• Variety of tenses (Past, Present and Future)
• Opinions and justifications (Jaimeparce que..)
• Lots of salt and pepper

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Source materialWhen writing your draft, you may
refer to a variety of source material

• Exercise book
• Text books
• Dictionary
• Worksheets
• Web sites (must be declared)
• For controlled pieces, only a dictionary can be
  used.

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Task2.4 My dream holiday

• Reasons for choice of destination, with reference
  to previous holidays.
• Travel
• Description of area, attractions, etc
• Accommodation
• Activities
• Why it will be so good
• Could be an account of an actual dream

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A few ideas to get you started

• Compare with a past holiday.
• Decide
• Is it an actual dream?
• Is it a dream holiday you will take later?
• Is it a fantasy? (to another planet? If you won
  the lottery? If you were..?)

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Which tenses?

• Revise passé composé (see questions on past
  holiday)
• Revise future tense (both 1 Futur immédiat
  aller infinitif and 2 Futur simple)
• Higher level
• Revise imparfait (if ..)
• Revise / learn the conditional I would

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Quelques questions

• Pourquoi iras-tu (irais-tu) en / au..?
• Pourquoi voyageras-tu (voyagerais-tu) en/ par le
  / à ..)?
• Comment sera (serait) la région?
• Quest-ce quil y aura (aurait) à faire et à
  voir?
• Pourquoi est-ce que ce sera (serait) bien?