AQA A-Level French: Reviewing the 2025 Exams

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This in-depth course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the 2025 AQA A-Level French exams, helping you identify key areas of student success and areas requiring improvement. The course will analyse common mistakes, examiner expectations, and strategies to develop students’ linguistic accuracy, comprehension, and essay-writing skills. Through expert-led sessions, you will gain practical insights into improving students’ responses in listening, reading, writing, speaking, and translation tasks. 

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Gain key insights from the 2025 AQA A-Level French exams
• Identify common pitfalls in translation, essay writing, and the speaking exam
• Develop strategies to improve students’ linguistic accuracy and fluency
• Strengthen students’ ability to analyse literary texts and films
• Learn practical methods to enhance listening and reading comprehension skills

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PROGRAMME

10.00am: Understanding the 2025 Exam Performance

• Key takeaways from examiner reports – strengths and areas for development
• Identifying trends in student performance across all papers
• Addressing common grammatical and vocabulary-related errors
• Developing an action plan to enhance teaching and exam preparation

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10.45am: Break

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11.00am: Mastering the Writing Paper (Paper 2)

• Analysing student responses to literature and film essay questions
• Structuring essays effectively to meet AO3 and AO4 criteria
• Improving analysis and evaluation of themes, characters, and stylistic features
• Enhancing students’ ability to justify opinions and develop sophisticated arguments

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11.45am: Excelling in the Listening, Reading & Translation Paper (Paper 1)

• Common challenges in comprehension and how to overcome them
• Teaching students to approach listening and reading tasks with confidence
• Tackling translation errors – improving accuracy and grammatical precision
• Strategies for developing inference skills in exam responses

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12.30pm: Lunch

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1.30pm: Preparing for the Speaking Exam (Paper 3)

• Understanding examiner expectations for the Individual Research Project (IRP)
• Helping students develop well-structured arguments and opinions
• Enhancing fluency, pronunciation, and spontaneity in spoken responses
• Encouraging cultural awareness and critical engagement with francophone topics

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2.30pm: Break

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2.40pm: Moving Forward – Ensuring Success in 2026 and Beyond

• Key lessons from 2025 and how to implement them in teaching
• Preventing recurring mistakes with targeted intervention strategies
• Creating a progressive language-learning environment
• Action planning to improve student performance in the coming year

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3.30pm: Depart