This workbook was written to support students and teachers preparing for the GCSE French exams beginning in 2026 (first teaching September 2024). It is the first of two books covering a total of 10 thematic areas.

Each one of the five units in this book consists of the following:

Foundation Tier vocabulary building exercises.

Foundation Tier exam-style Reading tasks.

Higher Tier vocabulary building exercises.

Higher Tier exam-style Reading tasks.

A Grammar Focus section with explanations and practice exercises.

Pre-speaking and writing exercises.

An exam-style photo task for both tiers.

An exam-style role-play task for both tiers.

Exam-style writing tasks for both tiers.

Two banks of model sentences, one for each tier.

At the end of the workbook you will find a set of answers to the exercises.

We know how important frequent repetition is for students of all levels of proficiency. So each unit has been carefully planned to recycle the same words, chunks and sentences many times over to help students remember as much as possible when they do the exam. In addition, many high-frequency vocabulary and grammatical structures are encountered across all the units.

The content has been written to take account of the DfE's requirement that GCSE students become familiar with aspects of the contexts and cultures in which French is spoken. The comprehension texts were written by the authors, often drawing on authentic sources.

Thematic, vocabulary and grammar content has been matched against the new specifications and should be suitable for any of the three awarding bodies: AQA, Eduqas and Pearson-Edexcel