Mastering GCSE translation: French to English – 2024 specification

This GCSE teaching pack consists of 10 PowerPoint files with accompanying photocopiable resources and is designed to improve students’ skills in translating from French to English.

The pack focuses on 10 key skills, each linked to a different topic. It includes activities for Foundation and Higher tiers plus exam-style assessments. The activities can be woven into your teaching throughout the GCSE course or used as a revision tool in the run-up to the exam.

Mastering GCSE translation: French to English – 2024 specification will prepare students for the last question in the French reading exam with AQA, Edexcel or Eduqas and has been updated for the 2024 curriculum.

Updates

The translation texts are now split into individual sentences for Foundation tier. Throughout, the pack has been updated to reflect:

• the changes to the topics/sub-themes
• the new GCSE French grammar and vocabulary lists for AQA and Edexcel.

About the writer

The translation practice sentences and paragraphs in Mastering GCSE translation: French to English – 2024 specification have been written and updated by Robert Margolis, a former deputy headteacher and a teacher of MFL for many years. He is the lead examiner for AQA’s GCSE writing exam and currently authors and delivers face-to-face and online training for AQA.

What's included?

• 10 differentiated PowerPoint lessons on GCSE translation skills (into English).
• Engaging learning activities across 10 topics.
• Exam-style assessments for Foundation and Higher, with answers.

What's inside?

Introduction

Teaching notes

Lesson 1: Precision (Topic: family and friends)

• Learning activity: quiz, quiz, trade
• Precision assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 2: Time frames (Topic: technology)

• Learning activity: collaborative translation
• Time frames assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 3: Negatives (Topic: free time)

• Learning activity: verbal dominoes
• Negatives assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 4: Articles and adverbs (Topic: customs and festivals)

• Learning activity: one pen, one dice
• Articles and adverbs assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 5: False friends (healthy lifestyle)

• Learning activity: card sort
• False friends assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 6: Pronouns and possessive adjectives (Topic: house and town)

• Learning activity: four in a row game
• Pronouns and possessive adjectives assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 7: Connectives (Topic: environment)

• Learning activity: running translation
• Connectives assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 8: Tricky words (Topic: travel and tourism)

• Learning activity: card game
• Unknown words assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 9: Checking the basics (Topic: school)

• Learning activity: find it and fix it
• Checking the basics assessment tasks and answers

Lesson 10: Common sense (Topic: work and future plans)

• Learning activity: back to back
• Common sense assessment tasks and answers