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🇫🇷 Grammar Spine · AQA GCSE French (8652)

The grammar spine

A language has no tidy modules — but its grammar does. These ten mini-lessons teach the whole grammatical backbone of AQA GCSE French in sequence, from the building blocks to the higher-tier structures. Work through them in order: each one builds on the last.

1 · The teaching

Ten grammar mini-lessons — the graspable overview. Grammar drives the order of the course.

2 · The practice fuel

Theme vocabulary rides on top as drills and games, exercising each structure in context.

Foundation core · clusters 1–8
1
🧱 Building blocks Foundation

Nouns, gender, articles, the partitive, and adjective agreement & position.

2
🗣️ The present-tense system Foundation

Regular -er/-ir/-re verbs, spelling-change verbs and the key irregulars; avoir vs être.

3
👥 Talking about people Foundation

Subject, object and reflexive pronouns; y & en; negation; questions.

4
💭 Plans & opinions Foundation

Near future (aller + inf), modal verbs, opinion verbs, je voudrais.

5
⏪ The perfect tense Foundation

The passé composé: avoir/être + past participle, and agreement.

6
🎞️ Perfect & imperfect Foundation

The imperfect, and the passé composé-vs-imperfect contrast.

7
🔮 Future & conditional Foundation

The inflectional future and conditional, with irregular stems.

8
🔗 Joining ideas Foundation

Comparatives, adverbs, prepositions and the au / du / aux / des contractions.

Higher & skills · clusters 9–10
9
🎓 Higher-tier structures Higher

The subjunctive, pluperfect, venir de, depuis + present, and the passive.

10
🔤 Sounds & exam technique Skills

Phonics & sound-symbol rules, liaison, accents, dictation, reading aloud, translation, faux amis.

Built to the AQA GCSE French (8652) specification.
Clusters 1–8 sit at Foundation level; cluster 9 collects the Higher-tier additions; cluster 10 is phonics and exam technique.