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This fully photocopiable resource prepares students for the AQA B German Modular GCSE - Module 3 - Spoken and Written Course Work
This resource contains teachers' notes on the content of the course work and this guide. There are also mark schemes, and mark grids and tracking grids.
There are notes for students on choosing, preparing and checking written and spoken course work. A smample tape script is also provided.
Guidance is given on speaking topics:
- A Family Celebration
- Keeping Fit
- Work Experience / Part-time job
- A Leisure Outing
- Money Matters
Three levels of guidance are given for written course work in the following areas:
- Home Life
- Healthy Living
- Part-time Jobs / Work Experience
- Leisure
- Shopping
Two tasks are given for each topic.
Excerpt
General preparation for speaking
You have actually been preparing for this course work 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 3 Speaking Course Work
You have to record a monologue of up to four minutes on one of the topics specified by the board. You must take care that you do not use the same topics for speaking course work as for writing course work. Your teacher will probably give you some guidance on this. The topics are listen below.
Speaking Writing
Family celebration Home life
Keeping fit Healthy living
Work experience or part-time job Part-time jobs and work experience
A leisure outing Leisure
Money matters Shopping
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.
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