German GCSE

Revision for GCSE German

REVISION SESSIONS: Every Tuesday 1.25-1.55 and also 4pm – 4.30. Come to one or both 😊

Extra revision session purely to revise for Oral exam:

Saturday 29th April 10am – 12 noon in school, Room C1/2. During the session (only 4 days before your real oral exam), we will focus primarily on role plays and how to prepare for every eventuality, as well as practicing key vocabulary needed for the photo card section.

GENERAL TOPIC VOCABULARY

Revise all of the 8 Modules we have studied - there is vocabulary in your textbook/ on Onenote and on Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/class/9033477/

READING

  • Revision Guide and workbook– use these as much as possible. Aim to do a page a day if possible. The answers are at the back so you can immediately check if you’re right or not.
  • Look back through the Reading tasks in the textbook- have a go at these
  • Use your reading revision booklet to regularly practice

SPEAKING

  • Learn the Questions and answers to all 3 themes in the Conversation booklet. Suggestions for learning:
  • Record yourself asking and answering the questions and listen to your answers as frequently as possible.
  • Print off your answers and put them up around your house - on your bedroom wall / on the outside of the shower door / by the kitchen table / on the car dashboard etc so that you can run through them easily, whilst simultaneously getting on with your daily routine.
  • In the Speaking exam folder in content library on One Note - study the Chatty mat and Photocard phrases
  • In the Speaking folder- study the Role play phrases
  • On Quizlet – check out the photo card vocab

WRITING

  • Practise the Speaking questions in the Conversation booklet as these are the same for the Speaking and Writing exams
  • Writing folder in One note- look over the Higher Writing phrases/ 90 word Writing mat/ 150 word Writing mat/ model Writings for 90 word tasks and 150 word tasks for all 8 topics
  • Grammatik folder > content library > one note – look through the key grammar points we have studied and make sure you understand and can apply them in your written work.
  • Do all past paper questions that I have given you.
  • Use the text book end of chapter Schreibtests for more practice (p.24 / 44 / 64 / 90 / 112 / 134 / 154 / 178)

TRANSLATION

  • In the Onenote folder/ Translations- there are 4 booklets of Translations covering all of the 3 main themes and both tiers
  • Translations – German into English (step by step practice and help)
  • Translations – German into English – more practice (similar to exam style questions)
  • Translations- English into German (step by step practice and help)
  • Translations – English into German – more practice (similar to exam style questions)

​​​​​​​LISTENING

Tune your ear to the language in the lead up to GCSE German exams. Check out the links below to help improve your listening skills!

SHORT NEWS, MUSIC, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND GCSE TOPIC RELATED CLIPS

Spend 20 minutes, two times per week on what works for you - listen, transcribe what you hear, make notes of vocab, verbs or useful structures and then use them in your written/spoken work too.

NEWS/CURRENT AFFAIRS

  1. Slow German – Podcasts about different topics by Annik Rubens with transcript in German - use the search bar to browse different topics (i.e. Essen, soziale Netzwerke…)

TIER: HIGHER

https://slowgerman.com/inhaltsverzeichnis/ 

  1. News in Slow German– Short News and Current Affairs interview clips with the transcript and vocab support

TIER: FOUNDATION/HIGHER

https://www.newsinslowgerman.com/ 

  1. Das Erste - Tagesschau – 20 minute news programme focusing on the main news story from last 24 hours

TIER: HIGHER

http://www.daserste.de/

  1. Audio Lingua – topic and level related clips, A1 = beginner / B1 = intermediate / B2 = higher

TIER: FOUNDATION/HIGHER

https://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?rubrique3&lang=en

GCSE RELATED CLIPS

  1. Easy German – short videos on many GCSE related topics. Use the search bar to GCSE topics (i.e. Musik, Filme…) They also have the subtitles in English

TIER: FOUNDATION/HIGHER

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbxb2fqe9oNgglAoYqsYOtQ/featured 

  1. Pearson AQA MFL 9-1 Audio Samples – loads of short clips for GCSE topic related

TIER: FOUNDATION/HIGHER

http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/secondary/GlobalPages/mfl-91-revision-audio-samples/aqa-gcse-9-1-german-revision-audio.aspx

  1. GermanPod101 ­- Loads of short video clips related to GCSE themes plus an activity to do at the end, go through the playlist 15 minutes at a time.

TIER: FOUNDATION/HIGHER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPk1YqYOHig&t=0s&list=PLsoAwWtvF3L0rEBLC33J2jIlNjwfsXg88&index=2

 

SONGS/MUSIC

  1. Lyrics Training – German songs with interactive gap filling activities with different levels of difficulty. Browse songs by Genre and click ‘Play’

TIER: FOUNDATION/HIGHER

https://lyricstraining.com/de/

 

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