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Meet our A-Level French tutors
Our team is a combination of A-Level graduates who sat these exams recently and qualified teachers with years of classroom and examining experience.
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Achraf (Ash) is a Mathematics, Physics and French tutor with over 4 years of teaching experience across GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and Further Mathematics. He has worked with students following major UK exam boards including Edexcel, AQA and OCR, supporting learners ranging from those strengthening core foundations to high-achieving students targeting Grades 8–9 and top A-Level results.
Ash graduated from the University of Bristol with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering (MEng), giving him a strong academic background in advanced mathematics, mechanics, statistics, modelling and problem-solving. His professional experience also includes work as a Reusable Rocket Engineer and Mathematics AI Trainer, where he developed and reviewed complex mathematical and engineering problems.
His tutoring is structured, exam-focused and highly adaptive. He helps students understand difficult concepts clearly, develop stronger problem-solving habits and improve their exam technique through targeted practice, past-paper questions and step-by-step feedback. He also supports students preparing for Further Mathematics and university admissions-style problem solving, including ESAT-type questions.
Ash has taught students from a wide range of ability levels and focuses on building both confidence and mathematical independence so that students can perform consistently under exam conditions.
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Maria Beatrice teaches maths, biology and french and prepares students for admission in prestigious universities and faculties (such as medicine, economics, engineering and architecture).
She is a med student currently in her sixth year of studies, she has attended Bocconi university for one year before realizing that medicine was the right path for her.
Before university she completed high school diplomas (American, French and Italian), she graduated with honors and 4 AP exams (in which she got the scores 5,5,5,4) in Los Angeles and then got a double diploma in Milan.
Maria Beatrice has a deep interest in scientific subjects and in emergency medicine; she, indeed, volunteers as an ambulance rescuer.
Maria Beatrice has a long experience with tutoring, she started tutoring while still in high school because she loved sharing her knowledge with her peers.
She has been teaching A-level students for 5 years and has helped go through SAT and University admission tests preparation for more than 4 years.
She loves discovering new and different methods personally adjusted for each individual students, she also treasures being challenged every day and her main goal is to make students feel understood since she went through the same experiences and knows how pressured they can feel.
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Virginia was born and educated in Spain and later qualified as a teacher in the UK. She also holds a Master’s degree in Translation.
She has been teaching IB Spanish and French since 2010 and has over 10 years of experience teaching IGCSE Spanish, as well as extensive experience teaching A Level Spanish. Throughout her career, she has worked in international schools in the UK, the UAE, Germany, China, and Thailand, teaching students from a wide range of nationalities, backgrounds, and abilities.
Virginia is an IB examiner and a certified examiner for other official exam boards, which means she has an in-depth understanding of what examiners are looking for and how students can maximise their marks. She particularly enjoys helping students master exam technique and strategies, develop their language skills, build confidence, and achieve results they can be proud of.
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Why A-Level French needs the right tutor
What makes A-Level French hard
A-Levels move faster and go deeper than anything students have done before, and they are studied alongside two or three other subjects at the same level. Classes are taught to the middle of the room, so gaps are easy to carry forward unnoticed until the exam.
- A sharp step up in difficulty from GCSE
- Marks decided by technique, not recall
- Grades that determine university options
How tutoring changes the outcome
One-to-one tutoring targets the two things a classroom cannot: exam technique and the specific topics a student keeps getting wrong. A tutor marks work the way an examiner would, shows where the marks went, and then drills those areas until they hold. Confidence follows from that, not the other way round.
- Exam technique built on real past papers
- Targeted work on areas of weakness
- Confidence going into the exam
What you'll learn in A-Level French tutoring
Core skills developed
The UK A-Level French specifications at AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas and WJEC share the same four assessment objectives and weightings: understanding and responding to spoken language (20%), understanding and responding to written language (30%), manipulating the language accurately (30%), and knowledge and critical analysis of the culture and society of French-speaking countries (20%). The international boards weight things differently. Cambridge splits the marks roughly equally between reading, writing and literature, with no speaking or listening, while on Edexcel International critical response to a topic, text or film is worth under 8% of the IAL. We work through past-paper questions objective by objective, so you can see whether comprehension, accuracy or analysis is costing you marks.
- Speaking spontaneously and at length about a stimulus card and your own research project
- Listening and reading for gist, detail and inference in authentic material
- Translating accurately from French into English and from English into French
- Controlling the grammar on your board's list, including the subjunctive, the passive and compound tenses
- Writing critical, evidence-based essays on a French novel, play or film
How are students assessed
How French is assessed depends heavily on the board. AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas examine all four skills at the end of the course, with a speaking exam worth 30% that includes the presentation and discussion of an independent research project. AQA and Eduqas put 50% on a listening, reading and translation paper, while Edexcel splits the written marks 40% and 30%, with the translation into French on the literature paper. Edexcel International is modular, with two speaking units sat in January or June and no translation. Cambridge has no oral at all: three written papers on reading, writing and literature.
- Speaking: stimulus-card discussion and research presentation, practised in timed mock orals with unpredictable follow-up questions
- Listening, reading and translation: authentic past-paper material, drilled for gist, detail, inference and accurate translation in both directions
- Essays on texts and films: planned and rewritten against the mark scheme until they analyse with evidence rather than narrate
What A-Level French topics do we cover?
Eduqas (England) · A level French
Three components, all taken in the May/June series at the end of the course. Component 1: Speaking is a 21–23 minute non-exam assessment (including 5 minutes' preparation) worth 30%: a 2-minute presentation and 9–10 minute discussion of an independent research project, then a 5–6 minute discussion based on a stimulus card. Component 2: Listening, Reading and Translation is a 2 hour 30 minute exam worth 50%. Component 3: Critical and analytical response in writing (closed-book) is a two-hour exam worth 20%: two essays of about 300 words, at least one on a literary work, from a list of six literary works and six films.
- Being a young person in French-speaking society: Families and citizenship; Youth trends and personal identity; Education and employment opportunities
- Understanding the French-speaking world: Regional culture and heritage in France, French-speaking countries and communities; Media, art, film and music in the French-speaking world
- Diversity and difference: Migration and integration; Cultural identity and marginalisation; Cultural enrichment and celebrating difference; Discrimination and diversity
- France 1940-1950: The Occupation and post-war years: June 1940–May 1945; The cultural dimension in occupied France; 1945-1950
WJEC (Wales) · AS/A level French
Five units, assessed each summer: AS Units 1 and 2 (40% of the A level) and A2 Units 3, 4 and 5 (60%). Unit 1: Speaking (12%) and Unit 2: Listening, reading, translation and critical response in writing (28%, including an essay on one prescribed film) make up the AS. Unit 3: Speaking (18%, the independent research project), Unit 4: Listening, reading and translation (30%) and Unit 5: Critical and analytical response in writing (closed-book, 12%, on one literary work) complete the A level.
- Theme 1: (AS) Being a young person in French-speaking society
- Theme 2: (AS) Understanding the French-speaking world
- Theme 3: (A level) Diversity and difference
- Theme 4: (A level) France 1940-1950: The Occupation and the post-war years
Both versions end with a French history theme on the Occupation and the years after the war, and both include a speaking exam built around an independent research project. In Wales the film is examined at AS and the novel at A level, and translation can be into English or Welsh. Sessions on this board build the historical context for the 1940–1950 theme and rehearse the research project discussion under questioning.
Four units, each available in January and June. Units 1 and 2 make up the International Advanced Subsidiary (IAS), and Units 3 and 4 complete the International Advanced Level. Units can be banked across exam series and resat. The two speaking units are each worth 15% of the IAL and the two written papers 35% each, and every unit is externally assessed.
IAS
- Unit 1: Spoken expression and response (8–10 minutes, 40 marks)
- Unit 2: Understanding and written response (2 hours 30 minutes, 90 marks)
IA2
- Unit 3: Understanding and spoken response (11–13 minutes, 40 marks)
- Unit 4: Research, understanding and written response (2 hours 30 minutes, 90 marks)
General topic areas (IAS and IAL)
- Youth matters
- Lifestyle, health and fitness
- Environment and travel
- Education and employment
Additional general topic areas (IAL)
- Technology in the French-speaking world
- Society in the French-speaking world
- Ethics in the French-speaking world
Edexcel IAL has no translation tasks, and only Unit 4 involves a set work: one 300–400 word essay on a geography topic, a history topic, a literary text or a film from the prescribed list. Unit 3 opens with a one-minute presentation in which the student takes a clear stance on an issue of their choice and then defends it in debate. Sessions on this board prepare a well-researched debate stance and build Unit 4 essays around the chosen topic, text or film.
Three papers, all in one year: the speaking assessment in April/May and both written papers in May/June. Paper 1 (Listening, reading and translation) is a two-hour, 80-mark exam worth 40% of the A level, ending with a translation into English. Paper 2 (Written response to works and translation) lasts 2 hours 40 minutes, carries 120 marks and is worth 30%: a translation into French plus two essays on either two literary texts or one literary text and one film. Paper 3 (Speaking) lasts 21–23 minutes including 5 minutes' preparation, carries 72 marks and is worth 30%. It is conducted by a teacher-examiner and marked by Pearson.
Theme 1: Les changements dans la société française
- Les changements dans les structures familiales
- L'éducation
- Le monde du travail
Theme 2: La culture politique et artistique dans les pays francophones
- La musique
- Les médias
- Les festivals et les traditions
Theme 3: L'immigration et la société multiculturelle française
- L'impact positif de l'immigration sur la société française
- Répondre aux défis de l'immigration et de l'intégration en France
- L'extrême droite
Theme 4: L'Occupation et la Résistance
- La France occupée
- Le régime de Vichy
- La Résistance
Prescribed literary texts and films
- 13 literary texts, including novels, plays and Maupassant's war stories, from Le Tartuffe to No et Moi
- 12 films, from Les 400 Coups to Intouchables (students must not answer on two films)
Edexcel sets Themes 1, 3 and 4 in the context of France only, and Theme 4 is history: the Occupation, the Vichy regime and the Resistance. In the speaking exam, Task 1 starts from a stimulus containing two different statements, and the research presentation must summarise at least two written sources. Sessions on this board build the historical knowledge Theme 4 needs and rehearse the research presentation against that source requirement.
Three papers, all taken in the same May/June series at the end of the two-year course. Paper 1 (Listening, reading and writing) is a 2 hour 30 minute, 100-mark exam worth 50% of the A-level, including a translation into English and a translation into French of at least 100 words each. Paper 2 (Writing) is a two-hour, 80-mark exam worth 20%, with two essays on either one text and one film or two texts. Paper 3 (Speaking) is a 21–23 minute oral worth 30%, including 5 minutes' preparation: a discussion based on a stimulus card, then a presentation and discussion of an individual research project.
3.1.1 Aspects of French-speaking society: current trends
- The changing nature of family (La famille en voie de changement)
- The 'cyber-society' (La « cyber-société »)
- The place of voluntary work (Le rôle du bénévolat)
3.1.2 Aspects of French-speaking society: current issues
- Positive features of a diverse society (Les aspects positifs d'une société diverse)
- Life for the marginalised (Quelle vie pour les marginalisés ?)
- How criminals are treated (Comment on traite les criminels)
3.2.1 Artistic culture in the French-speaking world
- A culture proud of its heritage (Une culture fière de son patrimoine)
- Contemporary francophone music (La musique francophone contemporaine)
- Cinema: the 7th art form (Cinéma : le septième art)
3.2.2 Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world
- Teenagers, the right to vote and political commitment (Les ados, le droit de vote et l'engagement politique)
- Demonstrations, strikes – who holds the power? (manifestations, grèves – à qui le pouvoir ?)
- Politics and immigration (La politique et l'immigration)
3.4 Works
- Ten set texts, from Molière's Le Tartuffe and Voltaire's Candide to Kiffe kiffe demain and No et moi
- Six set films, from Les 400 coups to Entre les murs
AQA's Paper 1 includes summary questions in French, marked separately for content and for the quality of your French, and the listening and reading material must refer to at least two French-speaking countries other than France. The speaking test can be taken only once before certification, and the research project cannot be on a work you write about in Paper 2. Sessions on this board drill the summary questions and build a research project that holds up under ten minutes of questioning.
Cambridge offers French as a full A Level through French Language & Literature (9898). There are three compulsory papers, each worth 40 marks and about a third of the A Level, all taken in the same June series. There is no AS route into it: results from AS Level French Language (8028) cannot be carried forward. The current syllabus covers exams in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
- Paper 1 Reading (1 hour 30 minutes): 40 multiple-choice and matching questions
- Paper 2 Writing (2 hours): one argumentative/discursive essay and one descriptive or narrative essay, each 300–400 words
- Paper 3 Literature (2 hours): one passage-based question and one essay question on the set texts
A Level topic areas
- 1 Culture
- 2 Health and well-being
- 3 Education and future plans
- 4 Community and society
- 5 Our responsibility for the planet
- 6 Science and technology
Set texts for examination in 2026
- Section A: Jean Racine, Britannicus; George Sand, Indiana; Molière, Le Misanthrope
- Section B: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oscar et la dame rose; Fatou Diome, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique; Romain Gary, La Promesse de l'aube
Cambridge 9898 has no speaking, listening or translation, so the grade rests on reading, writing and literature. Unlike the UK boards, candidates take their set texts into the literature exam, as long as they are unannotated, and the texts rotate: for 2027, Camus's La Chute replaces Britannicus and Maylis de Kerangal's Réparer les vivants replaces Le Ventre de l'Atlantique. Sessions on this board train creative and argumentative writing alongside close literary analysis, using the set-text list for your exam year.
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A-Level French with an academic tutor starts from $60 USD (£45) per hour. Packages save 5 to 15%, which suits weekly speaking practice. Pay as you go is invoiced after each lesson, with no lock-in contracts. Professional tutors (qualified teachers and examiners) cost from $85 USD (£64) per hour. See pricing.
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Our academic tutors achieved an A* or A in A-Level French. Our professional tutors are qualified teachers or examiners with 5+ years' experience. Only the top 5% of applicants are accepted, and you are matched to a tutor who knows your board's set texts, films and speaking format. Learn how we select tutors.
Lessons are one-to-one and online, with a tutor matched to French, your exam board and your target grade. Sessions target your weak areas using past paper material from your board, plus regular mock orals with unpredictable follow-up questions, so your research project discussion holds up under pressure. See how it works or apply here.
It is a big step up from GCSE in two directions. The language gets harder, with translation into and out of French, fast authentic recordings, and structures like the subjunctive used without a dictionary. At the same time, you must write and speak about French-speaking society, a novel or a film with real analytical depth. Marks are often lost on genders and agreements in translation and on rehearsed oral answers. See how we help.
French has a relatively high top-grade rate. In summer 2026, 11.5% of UK A-Level French entries achieved an A*, and 39.0% achieved A* or A (JCQ). The boundaries are high too, so an A* leaves little room for error: accurate translation both ways, spontaneous speaking, and essays that analyse a text or film rather than retell it.
There is no written coursework, but AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas include a speaking exam built around an independent research project. On AQA, the 21 to 23 minute oral is worth 30%: a discussion based on a stimulus card, then a presentation and discussion of your research project. Edexcel's speaking exam is also worth 30%, out of 72 marks. Cambridge's A Level has no oral at all. See the AQA specification.
On AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas, A-Level French is assessed at the end of the course through a listening and reading paper, a writing paper on set works, and a speaking exam. AQA weights them 50% (2 hours 30 minutes), 20% (2 hours) and 30% (a 21 to 23 minute oral). Edexcel weights them 40%, 30% and 30%. The biggest difference is Cambridge French Language & Literature: three 40-mark papers on reading, writing and literature, with no speaking.
We also cover Edexcel International and WJEC and Eduqas. See the AQA French specification.
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