KS4 · French · Year 11
Contrôle écrit: short and long essay practice (Edexcel)
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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 (Edexcel): 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.
Original teaching resources
The original illustrated PowerPoint is available as well as the IllumED text slides. It retains the publisher’s design and credits.
Download original PowerPoint ↓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.

