AQA GCSE French Writing Paper 2025 Foundation Pdf

Download the official AQA GCSE French Foundation Tier Writing Paper for the June 2025 examination series (8658/WF). This authentic AQA GCSE French Paper 4 Writing exam was sat on Thursday 5 June 2025 and contains the complete Foundation Tier writing assessment used in the live examination.

The paper includes structured GCSE French writing tasks designed to test vocabulary range, grammar accuracy, sentence building, translation skills, opinions, and extended writing abilities. Students complete four compulsory questions covering photo description, school life, translation into French, holidays, friendships, free time, and youth lifestyle topics commonly tested in GCSE French exams.

Question 1 requires students to describe a birthday-party photograph in four short French sentences, helping learners practise image description, present tense structures, and key vocabulary related to celebrations and social occasions. Question 2 asks candidates to write approximately 40 words about education, including school, breaktime, the canteen, and sport at school.

The paper also includes an official translation task from English into French featuring family, jobs, entertainment, town descriptions, and past tense activities. Students are tested on core GCSE grammar such as present tense verbs, negatives, opinions, adjective agreement, time phrases, and the perfect tense.

For the final extended-writing section, candidates choose between two 90-word tasks. Topics include school holidays, holiday preferences, food, future holiday plans, friendships, activities at home, recent excursions, and future free-time plans. These longer tasks assess students’ ability to use multiple tenses, connectives, justified opinions, and varied vocabulary in authentic GCSE-style writing.

This PDF is ideal for GCSE French revision, classroom assessment, independent study, homework practice, mock examinations, tutor-led learning, and exam preparation for Foundation Tier students. Teachers and tutors can also use the paper to train students in timing, structure, and exam technique using real 2025 AQA materials.

This document is designed for GCSE French students studying the AQA 8658 specification at Foundation Tier who want authentic writing practice using a real 2025 exam paper. It is especially useful for Year 10 and Year 11 students preparing for Paper 4 Writing examinations and aiming to improve grammar, translation, sentence structure, and extended writing skills.

The paper is also valuable for French teachers, tutors, revision-course providers, homeschooling families, and schools looking for realistic mock-writing assessments and official AQA-style exam practice materials.