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GRAMMAR
On this page, you will find: > Links to Grammar lessons on-line > Suggestions for targeted grammar work (consolidation outside of lessons) > Recommended books, Kindle books, apps and websites > Links to useful websites > Click here for brief notes on GCSE grammar items Suggestions for focused grammar work:
Frequent grammar mistakes:
- consistent use of on/tu/vous and respective agreements, pronouns and possessives. - present tense 3rd person (sing/plural agreement) - collective nouns which require singular verbs - eg: la classe, la famille, la police, le personnel, etc - gender of high-frequency words (le problème, le système, le lycée, la santé, le manque, la nature, la chose, le signe, le monde, la famille, le paysage, la réponse, la mort, le contraste, la façon, la fin, etc). Make your own list of mistakes you have made, learn thoroughy the gender of key topic-specific vocab. |
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What do you want to use?
> Traditional Grammar books? > E-books? > Websites? > You-tube videos? > Notes (PDF here)? > Apps? Using all of them is the best approach! Recommended books:
![]() Some useful books at A-Level:
Recommended Apps:
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Recommended Paper books
Living French: A Grammar-based Course by T. W. Knight & Anna Stevenson
Grammar-based course with focus on describing environment around us. Good to reactivate GCSE knowledge. Comes with a CD. Simple lay-out, difficulty builds up quite quickly. Texts become longer and eventually more literary. Structure of chapters:
> 1. Grammar rules
> 2. Key vocab
> 3. Reading text & questions (corrections available)
> 4. Fill in gaps
> 5. Translate
Fast French with Elisabeth Smith (Book & CD)
Based on using set sentences in context:
NO GRAMMAR EXERCISES at all, just Observe-Transfer-Memorise. Focus on Speaking. Comes with CD. Story line: a couple is spending a week in France and we follow them on the plane to get there, arriving and looking for accomodation, shopping, etc . Challenging at times, beyond GCSE level. Structure of chapters
> 1. Long dialogue (French on one page, English translation on the other). With CD.
> 2. New words and grammar explanations
> 3. Translation exercise (corrections available)
> 4. Questions to answer
> 5. Little text to learn by heart and recite
Grammar-based course with focus on describing environment around us. Good to reactivate GCSE knowledge. Comes with a CD. Simple lay-out, difficulty builds up quite quickly. Texts become longer and eventually more literary. Structure of chapters:
> 1. Grammar rules
> 2. Key vocab
> 3. Reading text & questions (corrections available)
> 4. Fill in gaps
> 5. Translate
Fast French with Elisabeth Smith (Book & CD)
Based on using set sentences in context:
NO GRAMMAR EXERCISES at all, just Observe-Transfer-Memorise. Focus on Speaking. Comes with CD. Story line: a couple is spending a week in France and we follow them on the plane to get there, arriving and looking for accomodation, shopping, etc . Challenging at times, beyond GCSE level. Structure of chapters
> 1. Long dialogue (French on one page, English translation on the other). With CD.
> 2. New words and grammar explanations
> 3. Translation exercise (corrections available)
> 4. Questions to answer
> 5. Little text to learn by heart and recite
Recommended Kindle books:
Useful grammar websites:
![]() Click here for Youtube grammar explanations (in French)
Video blog de Carmen Vera: selection of video clips explaining tricky grammar points (in French)
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