Key Stage 4

Year 10/Year 11                                                  

GCSE

Students follow the Edexcel GCSE syllabus for French, German or Spanish. The full specification (including marking criteria) can be downloaded here:

What are the GCSE Topics?

For French, German and Spanish Controlled Assessment tasks will focus on:

• Travel & Tourism

• Media

In writing, for GCSE grade C or above, each piece of written coursework is expected to be

a minimum of 200 words

To meet the assessment criteria at the highest level, your coursework must contain examples of:

• A range of tenses - what you do, did and are going to do
• Your opinion- 'justified' opinions, explaining why you think as you do, are required for the highest marks
• A good range of vocabulary and idiom from within the chosen topic
• An appropriate use of 'negatives' - saying what you do/did NOT think or do
• Complex sentences using clauses and connectives to avoid repetition and lists

Useful Links for GCSE revision

• speaking 2 - guidance for parents

• speaking 2 2011-12 Student Task Card

• French-vocab-book

• German-Vocab-Book

• Spanish-Vocab-Book