Higher French 2018-19 SQA Past Papers with Answers

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To practise listening comprehension, we strongly recommend immersing yourself in the language. Whether it’s podcasts, radio, or even music - you need to listen to French as much as possible. Listening is one of the two passive skills in language-learning (along with reading), in that it doesn’t require you to actively produce the language in any way. Instead, listening is an exercise in receiving information and correctly decoding it and translating it into your native language. By holding court with yourself in a foreign language, you can develop a rhythm with sounds, words, and sentences. If you only ever speak with native speakers, it’s going to take you a very long time to get comfortable unless you live in a French-speaking country. Like with any modern foreign language, this French exam is broken down into the four key competencies of a language: listening, writing, speaking, and reading. As a result, it isn’t enough that you can talk a good game in French or read texts without using a dictionary.

The higher French exam in Scotland is made up of several components, and each one requires a solid amount of revision if you hope to pass with flying colours. Reading is the other passive skill in language-learning, and for many it’s the easiest competency to master. Below you will find access to all of the question papers and transcripts. We will try to update with marking keys as and when we can but for the moment the transcripts will help you correct your work.Fortunately, in the higher French exam you will be able to use a dictionary. The piece of writing will be on a topic revealed only on the day of the exam, and usually between 200-250 words in length. Information on the production and submission of SQA-assessed coursework for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.

Candidates must submit their portfolio using the Advanced Higher Modern Languages Portfolio Answer Booklet, found below for each modern language. Candidates can copy and paste their portfolio essay into the template or type directly onto it (Word version). A pdf template is also provided for candidates who wish to handwrite their portfolio essay. The answer booklet replaces the flyleaf and there is no requirement to complete a flyleaf. Each candidate portfolio should be printed off by the centre for submission on the uplift date of April 26. Once you have a firm grasp of what you need to do for the exam, the anxiety surrounding exam day should lessen. Since you want to give yourself every advantage possible, studying past papers is crucial - but we’ll get to those a little later on. This isn’t true, though, as you are free to write about whatever you want. That’s right, we encourage you to let your imagination run wild and write anything from a short story about aliens to a poem or a newsletter.Once you understand exactly what to expect in each section, you can optimise your revision by imitating the exercises and adapting them so that you can get effective practise in. Anki - Whatever language you’re learning, Anki is an excellent app for expanding and retaining your vocabulary. Harnessing the power of spaced repetition, this app brings words up for you at the moment which you’re most likely to forget them to reinforce the connection and cement it in your mind. While the second paper has the listening, speaking, and writing tasks. This paper is worth more points, with 80 in total up for grabs.