GCSE French/German/Spanish How to Revise

What will be tested?

You will take a Listening paper – Reading paper – Speaking – Writing GCSE Higher GCSE Higher Controlled assessment Controlled assessment You cannot revise everything – you haven’t finished the course yet. You should focus on the topics you have covered.

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The GCSE topics

Use this list and tick off each heading when you have revised.

Lifestyle Health Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their Consequences • • • • Relationships and Choices Relationships with family and friends Future plans regarding: marriage/partnership Social issues and equality • • • • • Leisure Free Time and the Media Free time activities Shopping, money, fashion and trends Advantages and disadvantages of new technology

• • • Holidays Plans, preferences, experiences What to see and getting around • • • Home and Environment & Home and Local Area Special occasions celebrated in the home Home, town, neighbourhood and region, where it is and what it is like.

• • • Environment Current problems facing the planet Being environmentally friendly within the home and local area • • • • • Work and Education & School/College and Future Plans, Current and Future Jobs What school/college is like Pressures and problems Looking for and getting a job Advantages and disadvantages of different jobs

Start with vocabulary

• • • • • Choose a unit on the list of topics Learn vocabulary use the double pages at the end of each unit.

Look cover write check Scribble vocabulary as you read through the list Test yourself

Listening

The paper takes 45 minutes You have 5 minutes preparation time when you must annotate questions, label images & prep the paper Tasks will be like those in your text book: Match up, choose the correct letter, true/false/not mentioned,who,postive/negative/postive & negative Towards the end of the paper there will be some comprehension types questions asked and answered in English.

Revise Listening after vocabulary

• • • Re do exercises in your text book via Moodle GCSE Bitesize Listen and transcribe

Reading • The reading paper takes 50 minutes.

• The tasks will be similar to those in your text book Match up, choose the correct letter, true/false/not mentioned,who,postive/negative/postive & negative Towards the end of the paper there will be some comprehension types questions asked and answered in English.

Revise Reading after vocabulary

• • Re do exercises in your text book Translate word for word

• • • • • Speaking You will take a speaking test with your teacher.

There are 3 stages

Stage 1

Class work, homework leading up to an extended piece of writing that you can use in the test. You will be shown the task the lesson before you do stage 2

Stage 2

Choose 40 words to help you

Stage 3

The test – this will last 4-6 minutes and will be recorded.

Revising Speaking

• • • Look cover speak check Learn a bit at a time Get someone to test you

• • • • • • Writing You will take the writing test in class with your teacher.

There are 3 stages

Stage 1

Classwork, homework leading up to an extended piece of writing that you can use in the test. You will be shown the task the lesson before you do stage 2

Stage 2

Choose 40 words to help you

Stage 3

The test – this will be taken in your lessons in exam conditions. You will have 1 hour to write 250 – 300 words in answer to the task set by your teacher.

Revising writing

• • • • • Look cover write check Learn a bit at a time Time yourself and write out your work Touch check at the end and find you errors Compare what you wrote from memory with the actual and highlight mistakes