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The GCSE in Applied French

Resources for teaching the GCSE in Applied French

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has appointed four Lead Practitioners around the country for the GCSE in Applied French. They are: 

Sarah Ward
Heles School

Matt Connor
Piggott School

Jill Rowell
Park View Community School

Mark Penfold
Babington Community Technology College

Their details can be found on the SSAT website.

Applied French Revision websiteMatt Connor is the coordinator for all the SSAT Lead Practitioners for GCSE in Applied French. He is creating and publishing teaching and assessment resources for the course on his Applied French Revision website.

 

Contexte book cover

 

A coursebook has been produced for the Leisure and Tourism context. This is called 'Contexte' and is published by Heinemann.

Find out more about 'Contexte' on the Heinemann website.

 

A website to support the course has been produced by Neil Jones from the Elliott School who is a Lead Practitioner with the SSAT. Visit the Elliot School Applied GCSE web pages.

ICT Resources (rtf 1.14 MB) which have been found useful by schools teaching the course

Useful resources to practise for the on-screen tests:

Visit the Chatsmore resources page to find example materials for unit 1 (speaking).

Often when delivering vocationally-related language/applied courses, teachers will find that mainstream textbooks are just not enough. However, there are some books which can be used to supplement the resources you will have to make yourself. 

Download a list of resources for vocational language courses and MFL teaching generally (doc 352KB)