GCSE Specification – French
CCEA Frech for General Certificate of Secondary Education
Speaking
Controlled assessment
Students prepare and complete two tasks
under supervision.
Teachers can either:
• select or adapt the two tasks from a list
that we provide; or
• set their own two tasks, keeping within
the parameters described in Section 6.
Teachers mark the assessments and CCEA
moderate them.
30%
Every
Summer
(beginning
in 2010)
Writing
Controlled assessment
Students prepare and complete two tasks
under supervision.
Teachers can either:
• select or adapt the two tasks from a list
that we provide; or
• set their own two tasks, keeping within
the parameters described in Section 6.
CCEA mark the assessments.
30%
Every
Summer
(beginning
in 2010)
Listening
One externally assessed written paper
Two tiers of entry:
• Foundation (35 minutes); and
• Higher (45 minutes)
Stimulus material in French, recorded by
native speakers
Responses include selection, gap filling and
answering some questions in English
20%
Summer
Reading
One externally assessed written paper
Two tiers of entry:
• Foundation (40 minutes); and
• Higher (50 minutes)
Stimulus material of various lengths on a
range of topics in French
Responses include selection, gap filling and
short answers in French, and some answers
in English
20%
Summer