Learn to converse, read and write in French to a high standard with our French A level course. Useful for much more than just holidays, French is an international language also spoken in Canada, the Caribbean and across many parts of Africa. Whether you want to do business in French, travel in a French-speaking country or delve into French literature, this course will ensure your language skills are up to the task.
£14.99 / month and a £9.99 sign-up fee
Subscribe to the courses you wish to study. Each course contains everything you require to succeed in your chosen subject, including detailed coverage of all required topics, activities, self-assessment questions and assignments with comprehensive suggested answers. You may choose to have the assignments marked by one of our fully-qualified tutors.
The minimum subscription period is 6 months. After that, you can cancel your subscription at any time. If you wish, you may optionally purchase a printed, spiral-bound course pack at the point of subscription.
You will be allocated a tutor from our bank of PGCE-qualified tutors. Your tutor will arrange a free 15-minute induction call with you to introduce themselves and the course to you. As you require further tutor support, you can purchase:
The French A level is made up of five modules at AS level and a further five at A level.
The first half of the A level will build on the basics you have learned in GCSE French to improve fluency when talking about family and relationships, your lifestyle, the media and popular culture.
In the second half of the course, you will move on to more complex topics such as the environment, cultural subjects and contemporary social issues. Each module will help to develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills while expanding your vocabulary and knowledge of verbs and sentence structure.
Using a series of activities, self-assessment tests and support from your tutor, you will become a confident speaker of French on a variety of subjects.
You will have access to an ebook of the supporting textbook for the duration of your course. The ebook is accessible via Hodder Education’s Dynamic Learning Platform and Dynamic Reader App.
Alongside the ebook, you will also have access to online self-assessments, grammar lists and audio practice via the Hodder Dynamic Learning Platform.
The course includes thirteen tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) which will help to measure your progress and put your knowledge to the test. Your tutor will help you prepare for the speaking and listening components of your assessment. However, it would be a good idea to find additional sources of conversational practice beyond this.
The French A level course has been written to prepare you for Edexcel’s French A level, syllabus code 9FR0.
Listening, reading and translation
Written examination: 2 hours
40% of the qualification
80 marks
Written response to works and translation
Written examination: 2 hours and 40 minutes
30% of the qualification
120 marks
Speaking
Total assessment time: between 21 and 23 minutes, which includes a single period of 5 minutes’ formal preparation time
30% of the qualification
72 marks
The recommended period of study for this course is 500 hours.
Our cut-off for enrolling on an A level Spanish course for the following summer examination series is mid-October each year. So yes you can. However, remember that you will still need to fit around 700 hours of study time into your schedule before the examination. The earlier you enrol, the less study you must do each week!
We strongly recommend prior study to GCSE level and that a student has achieved Grade 6 or above in French GCSE with plenty of experience in writing, speaking and listening elements. But our tutors will support students from a wide variety of different backgrounds and adapt to differing levels of prior learning.
There isn’t a specific age-limit for an A-level course but we strongly recommend that the pupil is a minimum of 15 when they start A-level study and that they are academically capable of starting the course.
You can enrol and start any time you like, the earlier the better. The important thing to think about is when you wish to sit your exam and to give yourself plenty of time to work through your materials and revise successfully. Our cut-off dates for enrolment can be found here.
Once you have enrolled, you will get access to your course online immediately and your printed course materials will arrive a few days later.
The Biology IGCSE papers are available in both the Summer or the Autumn examination series. The Summer series typically runs from mid-May to late June and the Autumn series is in November.
The final date for booking summer exams with the exam board without incurring late entry fees is the 21st of February. You should book your place at an exam centre well in advance of this date. Start looking once the autumn term begins.
All the information you need to book an exam centre can be found in our Exams Hub. Here you will find
Tutors & Exams offers discounts to Oxford Home Schooling students and has ten current exam venues across the UK: Birmingham, Bolton, Coventry, Doncaster, High Wycombe, Romford, St Neots, Taunton and Wimbledon.
Pearson Edexcel also publishes a list of exam centres that accept private candidates. This won’t list every available centre, so if there’s nothing shown in your area, we recommend contacting local schools and colleges directly.
Your exam fees aren’t included in the course cost as they’re paid directly to the exam centre. They will vary depending on which centre you choose. Generally speaking, dedicated examination services will be more expensive than a local school or college. Prices range from £150 to £350 pounds.
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