Coursework
From the start of the course all your written work will be in preparation for your coursework. It must be carefully filed and in M5 you will produce 3 or 4 units of work, one of which will be in controlled conditions in the summer exams. Over the summer holiday a further unit will be required and if necessary a second controlled piece can be written in the January mock exams of U5.
Ultimately you will choose to include the 3 best units of work, one of which must be done under controlled conditions.
These units will be from:
Familie or Haus
Medienstar
*Schule* or Arbeit
*Reisen*
* = written under controlled conditions
You may be issued with one task or a variety of differentiated tasks.
Normally you will write a draft version and with the help of a guidance sheet you will have the chance to re-work the piece once only.
You may make use of stimulus material as issued, a dictionary, Kernpunkte grammar book and your own vocabulary and grammar notes.
You are not allowed to receive help with the writing of the piece from a parent, friend, other pupil, native speaker or your teacher or to copy it from elsewhere or download it from the internet.
There are however examples of good
practice on the German Department website.
Nobody can correct the work for you. You must therefore develop the ability to spot the mistakes and correct them yourself.
Marks will be awarded for Communication, Quality of Language and Accuracy and you will be encouraged to follow the requirements of the mark scheme as you write. You will be issued with a mark scheme but here are examples for Grades C and A:
Grade C Majority of tasks completed; beginning to express opinions; appropriate and accurate use of verb tenses; correct grammar in simple short sentences plus some longer sentences where grammar is not always correct; use of adjectives and adverbs; subordinated clauses used; piece well linked; effective use of reference material; some ambiguity; half of what is written should be free of major errors.
Grade A Full response to task/stimulus; detailed description and arguments fully justified; well researched, imaginative, clear time sequence, coherent and pleasant to read; confident use of complex grammatical structures and varied vocabulary with high level of accuracy regarding spelling, genders agreements and verb endings.
For the controlled conditions of the exam you will need to bring your task sheet (issued in advance) and you will only be allowed a dictionary. No other books or notes.
You may only present one draft of this work and must therefore
prepare and learn your material beforehand using the guidance
notes for all coursework.
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| Make sure all parts of the task have been covered. | Read the instructions carefully. Use a highlighter to highlight key tasks and all questions to be answered. Tick off when completed. |
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| Be aware of the need for good presentation and layout. | Be sure to write on alternate lines
and in blue or black ink!!!! Think about your paragraphing.
Put a reminder about alternate lines and blue or black ink in your notes! |
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| Be sure to include a clear introduction and conclusion. | Plan these in your notes. |
| Give plenty of description (adjectives and adverbs). | Include adjectives and adverbs in your notes |
| Give plenty of opinions and reasons. | Ich glaube, dass / ich finde, dass / ich meine, dass / meiner Meinung nach / weil /obwohl |
| Make comparisons. | besser als / nicht so gut wie KP pages 17-19 |
| Vary your sentence structure (subordinate clauses, relative clauses, indirect questions). | Use VTEs eg wenn / als / bevor / nachdem / weil / obwohl / der(die/das) |
| Vary your vocabulary and avoid English and French. | Find alternatives to gut /
schön / sehr eg fabelhaft / hübsch / äußerst |
| Make sure there is a clear time sequence. | Zuerst / dann / nachher /
später / danach / schließlich Erstens / zweitens / drittens / zum Schluss Letzte Woche / gestern / heute früh / jetzt / heute abend / morgen / nächste Woche Am ersten/zweiten/dritten/nächsten/letzten Tag check dates KP page 60 |
| QUALITY OF LANGUAGE | CHECK BELOW & INCLUDE REMINDERS IN YOUR NOTES AS NECESSARY! |
| Check spelling beforehand including Umlaut and capital letters. | Spellings of key words in your notes |
| Check genders and plurals of key words beforehand | Have key genders and plurals in your notes. |
| Check for correct case (subject/object/indirect object). | KP pages 12 & 6-7 |
| Check for prepositions that take the dative always/accusative always/sometimes dative or sometimes accusative. | KP pages 49-52 |
| Check for correct declension (nom/acc/gen/dat) of der/die/das/ein/eine/ein. | KP pages 12 & 14 Make a simple table in your notes. |
| Check correct pronoun incl.reflexives & their declension. | KP pages 2021 & 33 |
| Think about adjective agreements. Do they all need to agree? | |
| Check for the correct adjective agreements. | DH2 pages 33 / 72 / 155 & KP pages 12-15 |
| Have you got the correct word for you and your(s)? | KP pages 20-21 |
| Check verb endings match the subject of the sentence. | Present KP page 26-28, Future
KP page 29, Perfect & Conditional KP page 30 |
| Vary the tenses to include past/future/conditional. | Check formation of present/future/conditional
tenses. Present KP page 26-28, Future KP pages 29-30, Conditional KP page 30 |
| Check formation of perfect tense (correct auxiliary and past participle). | Perfect KP pages 30-33 and 46-48. Also given in the dictionary. List the key ones. |
| Check modal verbs plus infinitives. | KP pages 28 & 78 |
| Check when infinitive is needed, with or without zu. | KP page 78 |
| Check word order (eg VTEs). | KP pages 55-56 |
| Check word order (normal or inversion). | Und oder aber denn KP pages 56-57 YCHIAU ! |
| Inversion | KP pages 57-58 |
| Check word order in separable verbs and prefixes. | KP page 57 |
| Check word order of adverbs. | TMP KP page 58 |
MCGP Sept 2002 / WHJC for web