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Can anyone recommend an online resource for French GCSE?

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mulranno · 27/08/2013 21:07

My son is all over the place with French - he has been doing it for years - but finds it hard to apply himself and it is all a bit of a block - I think that he knows more that he thinks but would benefit with starting from scratch and speeding thru stuff - can anyone recommend an interactive online resource that he could access?

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viewwitharoom · 27/08/2013 22:08

Here's two to look at for starters:
www.zut.org.uk
www.languagesonline.org.uk
The first is freely available out of school hours, so after 4pm or at weekends. The second is free all the time.
Sorry about the non links but I don't know how to do them!

mulranno · 28/08/2013 01:27

thanks view -- will get stuck in!

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IndridCold · 28/08/2013 17:33

University of Texas website has lots of useful stuff. It is a bit American, but I find it explains a lot of the grammar really well.

Talkinpeace · 28/08/2013 18:28

BBC Bitesize is a good place to start for refreshers on ALL aspects of the UK Curriculum
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/french/

Everhopeful · 01/09/2013 21:35

How keen is he?

TV5 has loadsastuff including www.tv5.org/TV5Site/7-jours/ which is excellent. Also has he got a penfriend/correspondent? One of my pet resources is eTandem, which can run over Skype - it's run by a couple of universities: one's German and one's Italian, but what it does in a very long list of languages is put you in touch with someone who speaks your language to about the same extent as you speak theirs and you teach each other. Like Languages Online, both resources are absolutely free and a brilliant complement to more formal work, but you do need to be motivated enough to spend at least an hour a week on it (not necessarily in one piece if both your ds and correspondent are relative beginners. If I'm feeling tired or my correspondents are, we quite often speak for 10 mins, then swap and that's that for one session. We seldom do more than 30 each anyway) for best results.

Indrid, thanks for the University of Texas link - I didn't know about that one and it could come in handy!

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