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AQA GCSE GERMAN 8662

What the GCSE course looks like:


Curriculum Allocation

German is taught for four 100 minute lessons per fortnight.

Curriculum Period 1:

Curriculum content

Theme 3 Unit 7: Travel and Tourism

Theme 2 Unit 5: Customs and Festivals

Theme 2 Topic 1: Free time activities

Assessment

MOCK EXAMINATION IN READING, LISTENING, WRITING and SPEAKING (25% WEIGHTING FOR EACH COMPONENT) - Questions will come from a variety of past-paper GCSE questions and will cover all topics studied from the start of Year 10 until this point in Year 11.

    Curriculum Period 2:

    Curriculum content

    Theme 1 Unit 3: Education and   Work

    Theme 3 Unit 9: The environment and where people live

    Assessment

    MOCK EXAMINATION IN READING, LISTENING, WRITING and SPEAKING (25% WEIGHTING FOR EACH COMPONENT) - Questions will come from a variety of past-paper GCSE questions and will cover all topics studied from the start of Year 10 until this point in Year 11.

      Curriculum Period 3:

      Curriculum content

      In this period of study, time will be spent on revising each Theme and practising exam skills, with an intensive focus on preparation for the Speaking examination

      Assessment

      There will be a Mock Speaking Examination, followed by the actual GCSE exams in Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing - each of which are worth 25% of the final grade.

      Revision resources

      We provide booklets of knowledge organisers for every topic throughout the GCSE course. Knowledge Organisers contain core structures, key grammatical concepts and an exhaustive vocabulary list. Pupils should use these to revise for vocabulary recall tests throughout the year and for the three formal assessments. We use Quizlet as a tool to promote vocabulary learning and retention.

      Subject advice and guidance

      If you need any further guidance then please contact the DTL for MFL,

      Mrs Jessica Dudley

      jessica.dudley@endon.set.org

      Specification

      The GCSE Course is split into three themes which are then examined at the end of the course:


      Throughout the whole GCSE course, we ensure coverage of each topic within each theme but we also try to rotate the theme coverage so that core vocabulary pertaining to a particular theme gets revisited and retrieved over a longer period of time.

      The GCSE course is examined in four skill areas at the end of Year 11, each worth 25% of the overall grade. GCSE German has a Foundation Tier (grades 1–5) and a Higher Tier (grades 4–9). Students must take all four question papers at the same tier.