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This photocopiable resource prepares students of GCSE German (AQA Linear Specification A) who are completing their writing as course work.
This resource contains:
- notes for teachers
- tips on getting the writing right for course work
- notes for students on choosing course work
- notes for students on completing course work
- student check lists for completing course work
- questions on Theme 1 - My world
- questions on Theme 2 - Holiday Time and Travel
- questions on Theme 3 - Work and Lifestyle
- questions on Theme 4 - The Young Person in Society
- tips on competing a survey
- tips on completing a 'for and against' essay
- mark scheme
- mark sheet fro teachers
- tracking sheet for teachers
Excerpt
Getting Writing Right for Course Work
How right it has to be
You will probably have to complete the final draft of your course work in school, in conditions which resemble what happens in an exam. You will be allowed to have your dictionary, but you will not be allowed to refer to your first draft. Even if the course work cannot be completed in class, your teacher must be sure that you have not had any help with the work. At least one of the assignments has to be done under very strict exam-like conditions.
Improving your writing skills
This is something you can be working on all of the time throughout your GCSE course. Here are some things you can do.
· In every piece of writing, try to bring in a range of tenses - past, present, future, and give opinions. You need to do this to get good marks in your course work.
· Collect language which is useful to you. Have a special place for noting down phrases you would like to use. Try to learn them and bring them into your writing and speaking work.
· Each time your email / penfriend sends you a letter, use this as a model for producing your own work. Can you turn it into something about yourself? They may even be willing to correct it for you. But of course, you must not ask them to do this for your final piece of course work. Could you do the same with texts you have read or other ones you have written?
· 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.
Checking work
· 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.
· Your teacher is allowed to look at one draft of your work. They fill in a special sheet from the exam board. They are not allowed to comment on specific mistakes. They can make general comments about the work. Make sure you study that very carefully. Also, your teacher may go over in class, between the time you have back your notes on your first draft and the day you complete your final draft, those areas where they think your class is generally weak Take this very seriously too.
· Final draft day may feel like an exam. One of your assignments certainly will. But at least you know what the question is! Remember to inlcude three tenses and an opinion and to check your work in order.
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