Applied French GCSE

Edexcel offers a GCSE in Applied French.

This qualification offers learners an opportunity to develop French language skills in specialist contexts (business, leisure and tourism or media and communications)
A single award GCSE as well as two '2-skills' short courses are available. The latter focus either on oral communication (speaking and listening) or written communication (reading and writing).

The full course GCSE consists of three units, places emphasis on the application of productive skills, recognises ongoing classroom-based teacher assessment and features onscreen listening and reading assessment. Candidates can access the complete range of grades (G-A*).

Unit 1

Applied oral communication in specialist context
Assessment activities to include a range of target-language interactions and a presentation with follow-up questions and answers.

Specimen interactions:
Business (doc 362 KB)
Leisure and tourism (doc 2.11 MB)
Media and communication (doc 370 KB)

Mix of internal and teacher assessment
30%

Unit 2

Applied written communication in specialist context
Assessment activities to 3 units of written coursework (one in controlled conditions) 350-700 words in total.

Internal assessment
30%

Unit 3

Understanding applied oral and written communication (generic tests in listening and reading)

Generic topics upon which the onscreen tests are based (doc 28 KB)

Onscreen assessment
40%

Full specification for the GCSE in Applied French (doc 3.22 MB)

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has appointed 4 lead practitioners for Applied French in different parts of the country.

Further information at the Edexcel webpages relating to the Applied GCSE French.

Further information (doc 40 KB) for teachers of the Applied GCSE regarding the new GCSEs for 2009

Mapping of Edexcel GCSE in Applied French to new Edexcel GCSE in French (doc 42KB)