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ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE

This NEW conference is designed to support and inspire students to achieve outstanding grades in GCSE German. This interactive and refreshed GCSE German Revision Conference will provide students with a motivational, informative and valuable revision day.

Specially designed by practicing senior examiners, the day will allow your students to gain greater understanding of how to improve their performance in all four skill areas, ensuring higher levels of achievement and confidence.

The conference is led by current GCSE German examiner experts; the day is fast-paced, with varied tasks and differentiated challenge within the Higher exam questions – with a surprise fun element too! interactive throughout the day, and will provide students with revision skills, exam techniques and relevant practice tasks as well as being a valuable, worthwhile and enriching experience for them.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Students will come away with increased motivation and confidence in their abilities to take on the GCSE German exam
• Students will be presented with strategies they can apply and directly impact their marks
• An opportunity to spend a day immersed in exam-style tasks with lots of German language input
• The tasks are designed to cover Higher exam questions in the main
• Teachers receive the full conference presentations and follow-on materials as electronic resources after the conference

PROGRAMME

Welcome and Introduction

10.00 – 10.10am

Quick-fire high-frequency vocabulary warm up!

10.10 – 10.20am

• How quickly can you respond?
• Starting the day with high energy!

Achieving Well in Reading and Listening Skills

10.20 – 11.00am

• An examination of the different question types – tips for answering questions fully and accurately
• Aiming for Grades – 8 – 9 – what the examiners are looking for and how to show this
• Dealing with dual meaning texts and strategies for students
• Identify the skill involved – what are you being asked to?
• ACTIVITY: Learning vocabulary – new ideas and strategies to reach grades 7 -9
• Dealing with longer texts and extracts – how not to be intimidated!
• Distractors – how can we identify and deal with them?
• What are examiners looking for and what does the mark scheme say?
• How can you revise for Listening and Reading? Top tips and strategies.

Break – write your question for the Question Box

11.00 – 11.20am

The Reading Paper

11.20 – 11.50am

• Question types and common errors – how to squeeze every last mark in the reading paper
• ACTIVITY: dealing with distractors – what to listen out for
• Students have the chance to do a mini-Reading paper of an appropriate tier
• Full feedback and analysis of the questions covered

Tackling The Listening Paper

11.50 – 12.30pm

• Key messages from an Examiner!
• What the examiner is looking for, and how to show the examiner your skills and expertise in the listening paper!
• Examples of question types and answers and notes to use
• Key messages from the 2022 exams – what not to do, what to avoid
• ACITVITY: quick mini-Listening paper of Higher Tier

Lunch

12.30 – 1.00pm

Question Box

1.00 – 1.10pm

• A chance to ask direct questions to the keynote speakers, with a prize awarded for the best question.

The Writing Paper – Achieving Highest Marks

1.10 – 1.50pm

•  Focus on how to incorporate variety, range and complexity to obtain the highest marks
• Easy wins for the Writing exam – what can you recycle?
• Spelling and Grammar – tips for practicing and revision to ensure top grades – every mark matters!
• ACTIVITY: High level structures and phrases which can be used for any question
• The Translation Task – How to Score the Highest Marks 2.15 – 3.00pm
• What exactly do you need to do to score the highest marks in the translation tasks?
• Tackling with success issues with word order and syntax.
• ACTIVITY: Grades 7 – 9 examples – be the examiner!
• ACTIVITY – Moving a Grade 6/7 answer up to a grade 8/9 answer – how to do it

Short Break

2.20 – 2.30pm

The Speaking Paper – How to Score Highest Marks

2.30 – 3.10pm

• Quick-fire pronunciation practice – easy marks to score
• Strategies for achieving with the Photo Card
• Dealing with the different question types – what are examiners looking for?
• Tips for feeling confident: Fact, fact, opinion, reason
• Having the right tense at your fingertips
• ACTIVITY: Using a sample writing paper, a chance to complete and plan answers of the highest quality

Final Top Tips and Inter School Quiz

3.10 – 3.20pm

• Final Top Tips from each of the keynote presenters on how to improve your final grade