i cant be bothered typing in french either. baha goose we've gotten very lazy since all our french talking during the year haha
anyway i agree, just constantly surround yourself with french. i didnt do much "study" per se, rather than just always watching french movies, listening to french podcasts, reading french books just cos i was really passionate about it. it helps so much that i didnt approach it as a school subject but rather a mission to improve my level of language and be able to speak it! however, technically, its good to practice the skills tested at vce too. at the start of the year our teacher compiled a list of lots of essay topic, and we were supposed to do 1 a week. i dont think i ever did ahha, but i shouldve! look up all the different lang exams for topic ideas, because they have translations of the topics on chinese, german etc exams. that way you're keeping the french ones for prac exams at the end of the year.
agreed with the talking to yourself bit. the amount people improved in their spoken french in the month leadingup the oral was amazing. now imagine if you did that all year. just talk to yourself at home, talk to friends in french, conciously make yourself think in french and go over things in your head in french
if you need help or want stuff corrected, there are a few of us here that will be to do that!