French

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

GCSE French

French specification

Course Overview

French is a global language spoken across five continents, making it a valuable skill for travel, careers and cultural enrichment.  Choosing GCSE French will help you develop practical communication skills. Boost your confidence and enhance future study and job opportunities.

Course Content

• develop confidence in, and a positive attitude towards, French and to recognise the importance of languages.
• provide a strong linguistic and cultural foundation for students who go on to study languages at a higher level post-16.
• develop students’ ability and ambition to communicate independently in speech and writing with speakers of the language for authentic purposes.
• build students’ confidence and broaden their horizons, enabling them to step beyond familiar cultural boundaries, develop new ways of seeing the world, and better understand relationships between the foreign language and the English language.
• enable students to become familiar with aspects of the contexts and cultures of the countries and communities where the language is spoken.