GCSE-readyPearson Edexcel GCSE French (1FR1)
71 free lessons that follow the GCSE specification topic by topic. Each lesson has short notes, a worked example and a quick check with instant marking.
GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 1FR1
Getting started
5 lessons · about 73 minutes
Theme 1: My personal world
9 lessons · about 2 h 15 min
- Introducing yourself: être and avoir 15 min
- Family and descriptions 16 min
- Friends: adjective agreement and position 16 min
- Relationships: reflexive verbs 15 min
- Equality, identity and respect 15 min
- Vocabulary: family, people and life events 14 min
- Vocabulary: appearance and personality 14 min
- Vocabulary: house and home 14 min
- Vocabulary: daily routine, chores and clothes 15 min
Theme 2: Lifestyle and wellbeing
7 lessons · about 1 h 50 min
- Food and drink: du, de la, des and negatives 17 min
- Sport and leisure: jouer à, faire de 16 min
- Healthy living: modal verbs and il faut 16 min
- Mental wellbeing: Higher negatives 17 min
- Vocabulary: the body, illness and healthy living 15 min
- Vocabulary: shopping, money, food and eating out 15 min
- Vocabulary: hobbies, music, sport and special occasions 15 min
Theme 3: My neighbourhood
8 lessons · about 2 h 5 min
- In town: places and directions 16 min
- Shopping: this, which and prices 16 min
- The natural world: comparing places 16 min
- My town in the past: the imperfect (singular) 17 min
- Environmental issues: protecting the planet 16 min
- Vocabulary: town, directions and the countryside 15 min
- Travel and transport: tickets and times 16 min
- Vocabulary: weather, transport and travel problems 15 min
Theme 4: Media and technology
6 lessons · about 1 h 40 min
Theme 5: Studying and my future
8 lessons · about 2 h
- School subjects and opinions 15 min
- The present tense: -er verbs 15 min
- The near future: aller + infinitive 14 min
- Future jobs: the future tense 17 min
- Ambitions: the conditional 16 min
- Vocabulary: school life, rules and exams 15 min
- Vocabulary: school trips, exchanges and childhood 15 min
- Vocabulary: jobs, work and future plans 15 min
Theme 6: Travel and tourism
9 lessons · about 2 h 25 min
- Holidays and travel 14 min
- Accommodation: polite requests 16 min
- The past tense with avoir 17 min
- The past tense with être 17 min
- Holiday memories: imperfect or perfect? 18 min
- Sightseeing: en + -ant and the passive 17 min
- Vocabulary: holidays, accommodation and sightseeing 15 min
- Vocabulary: services, festivals and communities 15 min
- Vocabulary: countries, nationalities and greetings 14 min
Grammar, sounds and key vocabulary
15 lessons · about 3 h 45 min
- The present tense: -ir and -re verbs, prendre and mettre 16 min
- The perfect tense: more past participles 16 min
- Higher: connaître, écrire and other irregular verbs 16 min
- Verbs with à and de; chaque, plusieurs and tout 15 min
- Adverbs: how, when, where and how often 15 min
- Higher: pour and sans + infinitive, il est + adjective + de, le mieux 16 min
- Word building: work out new words in the Reading paper 14 min
- Sounds and spellings for read aloud and dictation 15 min
- Vocabulary: 50 key verbs 15 min
- Vocabulary: useful adjectives 14 min
- Vocabulary: everyday nouns and adverbs 15 min
- Vocabulary: cognates and false friends 14 min
- Higher vocabulary: verbs 15 min
- Higher vocabulary: issues, opinions and linking words 15 min
- Higher vocabulary: everyday things and actions 15 min