MFL GCSE

Since 2012 we've helped more than 500,000 students improve their grade in the GCSE exam.

Find out how with a free trial

"As MFL teachers, we're often torn between two crucial needs: inspiring a love of language and culture, while ensuring GCSE success.
‍
This is School allows us to achieve both!"

Neil Allies - Head of MFL - Initio Learning Trust

every examboard covered

This is School links to the following exam boards for MFL GCSE, including the New GCSE (from Sep. 2025) and iGCSE.

Dear Colleague,

I’m George Van den Bergh.

Former MFL teacher and now the Founder and CEO of This is School.

For over 12 years, we’ve helped almost 1,000,000 students and teachers bring a buzz into MFL departments as well as smash their grades at GCSE.

You’re probably here because of one (or all) of these things:

1. Time: You’d love to bring more GCSE-level authentic language into your classroom but don’t have the time to find or create it yourself.

2. GCSE Results: Most of the current online MFL GCSE products will help your students pass the exam, but none of them also help foster a love of language or an interest in culture.

3. Resources: You’ve bought into a GCSE textbook that you (have to) use. It has an accompanying online resource. But you know - deep down - that the content sucks a bit.

Sound familiar?

That’s because that was me before I set up This is School.

That was me before I started filming unscripted interviews with young native-speakers across the world and posting them on thisislanguage.com. (Yup, that was the original name of our platform.)

That was me before - with constant feedback from teachers and students - we refined the platform, added features and increased our content offering to cover the entire GCSE curriculum.

That was me before we stuck to our core principles that getting a student the highest grade possible at GCSE was as important as instilling in them a genuine love for languages.

I was bowled-over by the results that a simple shift in content could have.

For one thing, students were actually listening… to the Listenings! Because they were videos of real people talking for real!

Suddenly they weren’t being patronised by scripted, acted, fake language.

So they were actually taking an interest in what was being said.

More importantly, their exam results proved it out.

This wasn’t just an isolated incident.

Schools across the country came back to us at the end of every year telling us:

- How easy their students had found the GCSE Listening exam.
‍
- How their confidence had skyrocketed.
‍
- How uptake had increased.

We celebrated like crazy!

Of course, Listening is only 1/4 of the story for GCSE.

So we created games and game-mechanics around the other aspects of getting students prepared for GCSE.

We worked like crazy and the results came flooding in; our approach not only improved grades at GCSE, it helped develop a love of learning.

I’m not going to make a bold promise that taking out a free trial with This is School is going to solve all of your problems.

But I can promise you that if you follow our course you will 100% improve your students’ GCSE results over the course of a year.

And you may also just encourage the next generation of language teachers 😉.

"One of the unintended effects of using a product like TiS - which is an exam preparation website with huge personality -

is that students are actually talking about languages in the corridors. There’s now a real buzz here!"

Neil Allies - Head of MFL - Sir John Colfox School

12,500
AUTHENTIC
VIDEOS

Build your students’ comprehension and share the joy of real-world language and free-flowing conversation.

55,000
INTERACTIVE
ACTIVITIES

Games, quizzes and points that stand out from the norm. Academically rigorous activities with a dash of friendly competition.

10 YEARS
OF PROVEN
SUCCESS

Chat to our team for support, advice, demos and deep-dives into all the brilliant resources (you won’t believe how much it can do).

ACTIVITIES FOR EVERY OCCASION

Our award-winning resources don’t just make teaching easier and more fun, they save you loads of time too.
We’ve done the fiddly bits, so you can focus on growing the super-brains of tomorrow.

Listening Exercises

Eschuchar-Cha-Cha

More than 12,000 authentic, unscripted, brilliantly natural videos
Complementary comprehension exercises to cement learning and skills
Curriculum-relevant topics with graduated difficulty

Vocab Exercises

Abra-palabra

Interactive flashcards with key vocab read by native speakers
Students can test and retest to firmly grasp spelling and meaning
Auto-marked for instant feedback and high fives

Speaking Exercises

Hallo, is it moi you’re looking for?

Select a topical question for your students to answer
Students get to watch an example video for inspiration
Assign the exercise, choose the grading based on your curriculum - and you’re done!

Grammar Exercises

Always Perfect (Tense)

Entertaining 2-minute videos with Grammar Guy explaining formation and use
Complementary exercises, which get progressively more challenging
Engaging exercises including Identification, Multiple Choice, Spelling and Ordering