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KS4 · French · Year 11

Contrôle écrit: short and long essay practice (AQA)

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Your learning goal

I can confidently complete exam-style essay tasks from the writing paper.

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Contrôle écrit: short and long essay practice (AQA): slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.

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What you’ll learn

I can confidently complete exam-style essay tasks from the writing paper.

Key learning points

  • The BORDER acronym is a useful tool to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts.

Words to know

BORDER
acronym used to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts

Common mistakes

I can choose which bullet points I answer for the essay questions in the writing paper.

You must answer all bullet points for the essay questions in the writing paper.

For parents, carers and teachers
  • For extra scaffolding in Tasks B1 and B2, you could provide students with some useful sentence starters.
IllumED Slides adapts “Contrôle écrit: short and long essay practice (AQA)”, French, by Oak National Academy ↗. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Slides and recall practice adapted by IlluminatED; no publisher endorsement. Restricted lessons have listing information only.