Leaving Cert French Essay Builder 🇫🇷

25 Rédactions et Activités for Higher Level Leaving Cert French

Build the vocabulary, structures and confidence you need to tackle the written exam successfully.

The Leaving Cert French Essay Builder is a comprehensive 183-page digital workbook created by Nicola Rowan, a qualified French teacher with nearly 20 years’ classroom experience and experience working as an SEC Oral Examiner and Written Examiner.

Rather than simply giving students model answers to memorise, this workbook shows them how strong French responses are constructed—and then guides them through building their own.

What’s included?

• 25 topical French essays based on important Leaving Cert themes
• Detailed model answers
• Topic-specific vocabulary and key expressions
• Sentence-building and word-order activities
• Translation exercises
• Vocabulary matching and unscrambling tasks
• Guided gap-fill activities
• Examples of improved Higher Level sentences
• Full corrections and answer keys
• 183 pages of structured, exam-focused practice

Essay topics include:

• Technology in education
• Mobile-phone pouches in Irish secondary schools
• Social media
• Advertising aimed at children
• Climate change
• Sport and education
• Artificial intelligence and the future of teaching
• Immigration and society
• Mental health among young people
• Alcohol and tobacco among teenagers
• School uniforms and examinations
• Part-time jobs, work experience and paid placements

Plus many more topical issues covering education, society, the environment and the challenges facing young people today.

Who is this workbook for?

The Essay Builder is ideal for:

• Higher Level Leaving Cert French students
• Fifth and sixth-year students
• Students who struggle to develop or organise written answers
• Students who want to expand their vocabulary and improve the quality of their French
• Students preparing independently outside the classroom
• French teachers seeking structured essay-writing activities

How the activities work

Each chapter takes students through the language used in the model essay with activities including vocabulary recall, sentence order, matching exercises, translations and guided gap-fills.

Students gradually move from recognising useful French to constructing stronger sentences and producing their own written responses.

Digital download

This product is supplied as a downloadable PDF workbook. No physical book will be posted.

After purchasing, you can download the workbook and:

• Use it on a computer or tablet
• Print the complete workbook
• Print individual chapters or activities as needed

About the author

Nicola Rowan is a qualified French teacher with nearly 20 years’ experience teaching Leaving Cert Higher Level French. She has also worked as an SEC Oral Examiner and Written Examiner.

Nicola created FrenchExam.ie to give students access to clear, structured and affordable Higher Level French support.

Created by Nicola Rowan

French Teacher · SEC Oral Examiner · SEC Written Examiner

Founder of FrenchExam.ie

Important information

This is a digital PDF product. No physical item will be delivered.

Your purchase is for individual use only. The workbook may not be copied, shared, uploaded, resold or distributed to other students, teachers, schools or organisations.

Due to the immediate digital nature of this product, please review the description carefully before purchasing.