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This photocopiable resource prepares students for the AQA German GCSE (Specification A) Writing Exam.
This resource contains:
- notes for teachers
- notes for students
- 10 Foundation Question 1 Practice Papers
- 10 Foundation Question 2 Practice Papers
- 10 Foudantion question 3 / Higher Question 1 Practice Papers
- 10 Higher Paper 2 Practice Papers
- Mark schemes
- Mark recording grids
Excerpt
Notes for students
Question 1 Foundation
This is largely a matter of being able to list items. Think of all of the topic areas you have covered. Try to learn at least six items of vocabulary for each topic. Ten would be even better, and will help you with other parts of the exam.
Question 2 Foundation
This is about writing short messages. The following activities will help you with this.
· Every time you have to write a message in English, try to think how you might write that in German.
· Start collecting phrases you can use in messages from
Þ Your text book
Þ Your teacher
Þ Your email / penfriend
Þ Other material you read
· Learn to clone - replace nouns (naming words) and adjectives (describing words) from the lists you have learnt for Question 1 in the phrases you have learnt for Question 2.
Question 3 Foundation / Question 1 Higher
This is about writing a letter, and may be formal or informal. You must try to include past, present and future events and your own opinions.
· Start collecting phrases on various topics which portray your opinions.
· Learn some of the letters you have written during the course of your study.
· Ask your email / penfriend to provide you with some good models.
· Carry on cloning.
· Better still, master the structure, the grammar of German. You will find this in the back of your text book, in a separate grammar book, in your revision book and in notes your teacher has given you. A good order in which to learn is Past Tense, Future Tense, Word Order, the Cases (for giving meaning in sentences), the Cases with Prepositions and the Imperfect Tense. That will give you a really good chance at GCSE. If you want even more mastery of German, add on in this order, the Pluperfect, the Conditional, the Subjunctive, Adjectival Endings, Relative Pronouns, the Passive.
· Once you have mastered the first part of these structures, get into the habit of checking your work for one thing at a time ; verbs (agreement of person and tense), word order, case, use of prepositions, gender and plurals, and finally for your normal mistakes.
· Every time corrected work has been handed back, check through carefully and make sure you understand why mistakes are mistakes. Look at that work again before you do your next piece of written work.
Question 2 Higher
As Question 1, but you will need a greater range of vocabulary. You will write articles, letters, publicity material i.e. similar to what you have to write in English.
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