French
Why are there so many apostrophes and what’s all this accent business? Singing and dancing in French is fun but suddenly needing to write can be a shock to the system. As vocab steps up and verbs creep in, Prep School Tutor will ensure that, whether in the run up to 13 plus Common Entrance exams, Scholarship or GCSE, learning is manageable and conjugations are no longer daunting, but rather just another piece of a growing jigsaw of language to play with. Prep School Tutor soon guides tutees to build impressive sentence structures, going beyond the realms of survival language towards a far more flexible and far reaching form of communication.
Lost? Don’t be! If you have missed out and feel behind your peers, we have a Fast Track programme to suit you. A great many children start French in Year 7 with no previous knowledge but still manage to shine by the time the 13 plus Common Entrance comes along. Also, for those who have studied French but perhaps not been overly engaged, this is the moment to make absolutely sure that the foundation is in place and the groundwork is complete.
GCSE
Most private schools work towards IGCSE as opposed to GCSE but, not to worry, our teachers tutor both. For IGCSE, the exam boards are either Edexcel or Cambridge OCR so worth checking with the school. In either case, the aim is, essentially, to have more fun in France! As a student learns to use language more effectively, they feel confident and more independent abroad, chatting in the boulangerie on one level, reading articles and watching a film on another. The first step is exam success, then doors open.
The course includes various cultural aspects which most children take a natural interest in, if only as a breather from grammar! The topics chosen for the reading and writing papers are designed to be suitable for the students with ‘personal life’ and ‘education’ a continuation of 13+ Common Entrance in part. Though these themes feel familiar at the outset, there is little room for complacency. To reach those top grades, students need to mature linguistically and develop a deeper understanding and complexity in their written and spoken communication. Let us help!