IGCSE Paper 1 LISTENING
Duration of paper: 45 min
General tips for the Listening Paper - revise numbers (up to 50,000 - which appeared in a paper once!) and times. - Section 1 is purely vocabulary (furniture, sports, means of transports, etc). Click here for examples. - Section 2 contains factual material and attitudes/opinions - Section 3 requires you to understand agreement/disagreement, complaints, attitudes/emotions/ideas DO LEARN THE ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY LISTS. Click here for Flash Card Format. - Grammar-wise, there are quite a lot of verbs in the imperfect (devait, se conduisait, etc), a few gerunds (eg: en économisant), irregular future (fera, aura, sera) - Some verbs appear regularly in different tenses - it will be essential to recognise them: plaire, vivre -Just as in the Reading papers, some questions can be a little tricky. Make sure you understand what the following mean:
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ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY that appeared in Past Papers - click on a topic:
Home town & local tourism Around town, shopping, public services, finding the way Holidays, travel & transport House & Home life Eating & drinking, eating out Health & fitness Self, family & relationships Leisure & entertainment, arranging to go out Festivals & special occasions, Customs & places School life Further education, training and careers, communications in the work place Contemporary & world issues, Charity work Vocab in 2015 (Papers 1-2 & 1-3)
quinze / vingt / vingt-cinq / trente
ascenseur / bureau d'information en bus / à pied / en train sur / devant / lit / table / fenêtre / armoire gigot / poisson / poulet assiette / verre / bouteille / couverts / fourchette / couteau pluie / soleil / brouillard / vent alimentation / articles de sport / plantes nord / ouest / est / sud oiseaux / serpents / cuisiner / nager planche à voile / ski nautique / [mois de l'année] croisière / concert / marché / balcon |
You will find Practice papers (with the script and the mark scheme) on the School's intranet (Y-Drive>French>Past Papers > IGCSE). Select Nov 2010
May 2015 (Paper 1-2)
Or you can find revision material on line, on the site Extreme Papers. Click on the Paper you want.
June 2005 - audio file - : Section 2: School; Careers
Section 3: Sports; Customs & places Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2005 - audio file - : Section 2: Careers Section 3:Careers; Customs & places Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2006 - audio file - : Section 2: Local tourism; School life Section 3: Careers; Sports Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2007 - audio file - : Section 2: Local tourism; Holidays; Self & family Section 3: Careers Paper - mark scheme - script June 2007 - audio file - : Section 2: House; Health & fitness; Sports Section 3:Customs & places; Holidays Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2008 - audio file - : Section 2: Local tourism; Leisure; Self & family Section 3: Customs & places Paper - mark scheme - script June 2008 - audio file - : Section 2: Local tourism; Transport; Sports Section 3: Leisure; Careers Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2009 - audio file - : Section 2: Local tourism; Leisure; World issues Section 3: School Paper - mark scheme - script June 2009 - audio file - : Section 2: Local tourism; Careers; Customs & places Section 3: School life; Careers Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2010 - audio file - Section 2: Local tourism; House & Home life; Weather Section 3: Sports; Careers Paper - mark scheme - script Nov 2011: Section 2: Local tourism; Eating & drinking; Customs & places Section 3: World issues; Customs & places June 2012: Section 2: Cinema ; Experience of living in France Section 3: World issues (difficult childhood); Careers (Firewoman) June 2013: Section 2: holidays ; living in Montreal Section 3: Experience abroad in Asia ; Careers (Disc-jockey) Nov 2012 - audio file Section 2: Sports ; Life in Guyana Section 3: Facebook, Friends & holidays; living in Canada Paper - mark scheme - script |