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This photocopiable resource prepares students from the AQA German Modular GCSE Module 1
The resource contains notes for teachers on using the resource and notes for students on revising for the listening and reading exams and on preparing for the speaking project.
All sheets are photocopiable. There are fifty sample reading and listening questions. There are ten each of the easier Foundation questions, the Harder Foundation questions , the questions which appear in both the Foundation and Higher papers,(Crossover), the easier Higher questions and the harder Higehr questions. Answers are provided for all listening and reading questions. A CD is supplied with the course, and a transcript of the recordings.
The oral preparation section includes a sample tape script, a sample prompt sheet and tip sheets for each of the topic areas - Myself and My Family, Where I live: My Home and my Home Life, My School, My Free Time and Routine.
Tracking and mark grids further help the teacher.
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General preparation for speaking
You have actually been preparing for this course work task ever since you first started learning German. If you have good study habits you will do well in this. But it's not too late to develop a few more good habits. Practise with a friend, or even better still with your exchange partner if you have one. Listen to what native speakers say. Are they using phrases which might be useful to you? Make a note of them and then try them out. Do some speaking every lesson / every day / every time you see your German teacher in or out of school. If you can, listen to German radio or watch German television and "collect" language from there. Rehearse all of your collected work and include it as much as possible every time you do some speaking work.
What you have to do in Module 1 Speaking Course Work
You have to record a monologue of up to four minutes on all of the topics specified by the board. The topics are listed below. Each topic should be 30 to 40 seconds.
Speaking
Myself and my family
Where I live (house and home)
Where I live (town / village / area)
My school
My free time
Routine
In this resource, a detailed sheet is provided for each topic.
Your teacher may not correct any script you produce in detail, though they may give you a comment sheet which is provided by the exam board. You are going to have to say that your monologue is all your own work. You are not allowed to have the script in front of you when you record the monologue, which you do in the presence of your teacher. However, you may have notes with you which take up not more than half a side of A4, and only include key words. These notes are given in with your tape.
Should you produce a tape script?
Most people actually do produce a tape-script for their monologue. This can work very well, but one great disadvantage is that you then have to learn it off by heart and it can then sound very unnatural when you record it. We can work on that. However, if you are very good at German - perhaps you were working at National Curriculum level 6 or above before you started your GCSE, it might be worth considering working just from notes from the outset. This is something you should discuss with your teacher.
Producing your tape script
If you do decide to produce a script, it must be your own work. You may use dictionaries, text books, literature written for native speakers of German, web-sites and any contact you have with native speakers. However, you must not get native speakers to do the work for you, nor should you just copy chunks from the Internet or out of books. You must use language with which you are familiar. If you include some really clever sounding phrases alongside those which you speak fluently, it will sound disjointed. The exam board and your teacher will know this is not your own work and you will not receive marks for the extra effort you have made.
The trick is to make any new material you find part of the core material you know. You do this by using and rehearsing it frequently, so that it becomes part of what you know.
So work this way.
1. Prepare your tape script as carefully as you would any piece of written work. Make sure there is a variety of tenses in it, include opinions and some phrases form the sources mentioned above which you then rehearse until you can speak them fluently. Later on in this resource, topics have been broken down into smaller areas. Try to give at least three details for each area.
2. Check your work well. Check for one thing at a time - verbs, word order, case for giving meaning to the sentence, case with prepositions, agreements with gender and number and for your own common mistakes.
3. Read your text out loud. If it lasts more than four minutes, you may have to speak faster or leave out some detail.
4. Submit to your teacher and obtain the exam board comment sheet. React to the comments and rehash your text.
5. Start rehearsing your text. Hint: professional actors read the whole play script twelve times before they start rehearsing. Make part of your rehearsal reading the text out loud twelve times. Then put the script down and see how much you can do without looking at it. You might also consider asking your exchange partner or the German assistant to make a recording of it. If no native speaker can help you, you could make your own recording. Listen to it frequently.
6. Once you have become fairly fluent, sort out your prompt sheet. Use one prompt word for each detail. Set it out clearly on the paper. Study the sample play script and prompt sheet.
7. Now practise working with the prompt sheet.
8. As you speak, practise pausing in the appropriate places and smiling occasionally. You will sound more natural.
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