The speaking assessments form 30% of the French GCSE.

You will complete 4 speaking assessments – one from each of the 4 themes.
Each assessment must last 3-6 minutes.
They can be in the form of:
• a presentation on a topic with some follow up questions
• a discussion about a picture
• a roleplay
They will all be recorded and the best 2 sent to the exam board.

The speaking themes are:
• Media and Culture
• Sport and Leisure
• Travel and Tourism
• Business, Work and Employment

Click here to download the speaking questions to practise a job interview in French.

TOP TIPS
>Read the instructions on the task carefully - it will provide you with lots of clues such as the tense you should be using, whether the dialogue will be formal (vous) ot informal (tu).

>Listen carefully for the question word in French, within context you should be able to make a reasonable answer.
Pourquoi - why
Quand - when
Avec qui - who with
Ou - where
Comment - how
A quelle heure - at what time

>Speak clearly and confidently.

> If you don't understand the question ask the teacher to repeat it:
"Pourriez-vous répéter la question s'il vous plaît?" Could you repeat the question please?

>Use the question to help answer in a full sentence
Qu'est ce que tu penses des hypermarches? What do you think of hypermarkets?
Je pense que les hypermarches sont... I think that hypermarkets are...

>To achieve the highest grade, make sure you are justifying and extending your answers.
Je vais aller en ville avec mon ami/pour acheter un souvenir pour ma copine/parce que je veux aller au cinema ...

>Here are the key phrases which form the 'hub' of common sentences in GCSE French role play.

Open up the audio file, play the file and join in!
For most rows, there is a pattern as follows:
Prompt in English
Gap for you to translate into French
Model answer
Gap for you to repeat
Afterwards (generally bars 5-8): a variety of ways to reinforce this ...always say the French immediately afer the English