IGCSE French - Designed for CIE 0520 - Book 1

This book has been written specifically for students following the Cambridge IGCSE™ French (0520) specification and is designed primarily for Year 10. It can be used for independent revision as well as teacher-led classroom practice. The book contains 14 units covering key thematic areas such as myself, family and relationships, daily activities, role models, hobbies and leisure, closely aligned with the language and communicative demands of the course.Table of Contents UNIT 1 – Introducing myselfUNIT 2 – Describing myself, my family and friendsUNIT 3 – My hobbies and interestsUNIT 4 – Talking about sportUNIT 5 – A typical day in schoolUNIT 6 – What I do after schoolUNIT 7 – A typical weekendUNIT 8 – What I did last weekendUNIT 9 – Food and eating outUNIT 10 – Healthy & unhealthy livingUNIT 11 – Accidents & illnesses: a visit to the doctor’sUNIT 12 – Discussing the qualities of a good friendUNIT 13 – Talking about when I was youngerUNIT 14 – Home, town, neighbourhood & regionCultural ExplorersEach unit ends with a one-page Cultural Explorer activity exploring interesting and sometimes lesser-discussed aspects of Spanish and Hispanic culture (reading comp style).UNIT 1 – Aya NakamuraUNIT 2 – Antoine DupontUNIT 3 – Jean DujardinUNIT 4 – La pelote basqueUNIT 5 – The Eiffel TowerUNIT 6 – Beyond the stereotype: escargots & frog legsUNIT 7 – Le Tour de FranceUNIT 8 – Les AlpesUNIT 9 – Le sel de GuérandeUNIT 10 – Le régime méditerranéenUNIT 11 – La France, le pays du parfumUNIT 12 – Kylian Mbappé & Ousmane DembéléUNIT 13 – L'enfance en France: avant et maintenantUNIT 14 – Gordes et Paris: deux façons de vivre en FranceStructure of the UnitsEach unit includes a knowledge organiser summarising key sentence patterns and vocabulary, a sequence of vocabulary-building activities, narrow reading texts with comprehension tasks, and translation practice. Activities are carefully graded to provide a manageable but increasing level of challenge and follow Dr Gianfranco Conti’s P.I.P.O. framework:• Pre-reading – activating prior knowledge and pre-teaching• In-reading – intensive work on texts• Post-reading – consolidation• Output – pushed-output practiceIn line with the E.P.I. approach, each unit provides extensive recycling of key language both within the unit and across the book. This recycling targets orthography, vocabulary, grammar, meaning and discourse, helping students build accuracy and fluency over time.Activities rely on input flooding and forced retrieval, using a wide range of engaging, classroom-tested tasks. Each unit contains over 20 activities, including favourites such as slalom writing, faulty translation, spot-the-missing-detail, and sentence puzzles.ListeningEach unit also includes a dedicated listening page designed to develop students’ listening comprehension and decoding skills. The accompanying audio recordings are available free of charge on the Language-Gym.com website, allowing students to practise both in class and independently at home.Online ResourcesThis book works particularly well alongside the Language Gym platform and SentenceBuilders.com, where students can access additional interactive practice, retrieval activities, and vocabulary training linked to the sentence patterns and language covered in the units. These platforms provide an ideal way for students to reinforce and extend their learning beyond the classroom.We hope this book becomes a practical and effective companion throughout Year 10 of the Cambridge IGCSE™ French (0520) course.Thanks,Gianfranco, Ronan & Dylan Read more