Taking AS Level French as an adult

[Dingbatgirl]

I am attending evening class doing AS Level French - I did the GCSE last year and got a good grade, but I am finding this year very difficult, my children are 4 and 6, one at pre-school, one at school. Is there anybody else out there doing the same?

I'm a French teacher Dingbatgirl - the jump from GCSE to AS is huge! I would say to you make sure you know your verbs and tenses upside down and back to front as this is where I see my students struggle. It's especially the case if you were taught to "pass" GCSE rather than having a firm grounding in grammar (not suggesting that you were at all!)

If you need any advice, ideas for websites etc then just shout

Fatzak - Thanks for your reply. Great to hear from you!

We have just covered the present subjunctive, and I write lists of verbs down and stick them up in the kitchen. I am finding it very difficult to find the time to put in alot of work just at the moment because I am also running my dd's pre-school committee. T

The listening is my weak point, the teacher goes over it very quickly, and I only get less than half. I watch French telly, french films and go on the bbc website.

Can you recommend a few websites?

Am just on way out for a very rare night out but will post in the morning with some ideas!

Hi, ditto all fatzak has said. Will post some links in the morning to useful books for topics etc. Try all the exam boards
OCR,AQA, Edexcel to see if they have some sample listenigs for you. I asked the same question re. Gcse listenings on here recently so will search for that post and bump it for you

www.frenchexams.org/as_level/index.htm
any use?

www.zut.org.uk/index.html
go to Yr 12/13

Thank you all for your replies, I will try the exam boards and have a look at the websites. I sneaked off this morning and studied over a coffee, but no chance for any listening today. I welcome any advice, this AS Level is a great challenge for me, but I do enjoy French.

www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-French-Vocabulary-Second/dp/0748757805

Is a really Vocab book

www.amazon.co.uk/Help-Yourself-Advanced-French-Grammar/dp/0582329450

This is really good but quite difficult but is great as it has really relevant AS topic exapmples and questions ... and moreover answers, so although it is a nuisance for class teaching I would recommend it for self study

Ah thank you Frenchteacher - you got there before me!

Have just dropped off dd at pre-school, and will get on with some listening when I've finished browing on mumsnet! The websites are very helpful. Hope you had a great night out Fatzak, I remember those. Frenchteacher, I will also tell my colleagues at my evening class this evening about the websites, Vicky, it is reassuring to know AS is generally alot more difficult.