Supporting Your Child Through GCSE Modern Foreign Languages.

Supporting Your Child Through GCSE Modern

Foreign Languages

You are expected to become familiar with a variety of topics under 4 sub-headings:

• Lifestyle

• Leisure

• Home & Environment

• Education & Work

LifestyleHEALTH

• Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their consequences

RELATIONSHIPS & CHOICES

• Relationships with family and friends

• Future plans regarding: marriage/partnership

• Social issues and equality

LeisureLEISURE

• 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 & EnvironmentHOME 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

Education & WorkSCHOOL/COLLEGE & FUTURE PLANS

• What school/college is like

• Pressures and problems

CURRENT AND FUTURE JOBS

• Looking for and getting a job

• Advantages and disadvantages of different jobs

How are we assessed?

The course is assessed via the four main skills, listening, reading (worth 20% of the total mark) speaking, and writing (worth 30% of the total mark)

Listening

Reading

Speaking

Writing

Listening

One paper at the end of the course

Reading

One paper at the end of the course

Speaking• Controlled Assessment

• Internally assessed

• 2 tasks submitted

Writing • Controlled Assessment

• Externally assessed

• 2 tasks submitted

everything you need to know about…

everything you need to know about… …preparing for controlled assessment

Textivate!

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everything you need to know about… …preparing for controlled assessment

Make use of your phone!

Record your text and listen to it regularly!

everything you need to know about… …preparing for controlled assessment

YakiToMe!• Copy and paste your text• Speed up or slow down the French• Create an account and download a

mp3 file

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Work out your prompts early!

When you start to learn, you will

discover which words you need to recall the

sentence.

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Speak, speak, speak!

Say it aloud over and over and over and over and over and over and

over again!

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Write, write, write (& check!)

Make sure that your controlled

assessment (under exam conditions) is

not the first time you are writing out your

text

• You will be given a booklet containing all the vocabulary needed for MFL GCSE.

• Remember if you are sitting the higher tier, you need to be familiar with both foundation & higher vocabulary.

• PUPILS MUST ENSURE THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE VOCABULARY.

• Use Kerboodle to help you practise vocabulary.

• Online Exam Questions direct from the exam board will be available.

• These resources have been created by the same people who write the examination paper so is a brilliant way to prepare for the final examinations.

• Lastly, all interactive reading and listening exercises from Kerboodle will be assigned to students.