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.
The GCSE topics
Use this list and tick off each heading when you have revised.
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Lifestyle
Health
Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and their
Consequences
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Relationships and Choices
Relationships with family and friends
Future plans regarding: marriage/partnership
Social issues and equality
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Leisure
Free Time and the Media
Free time activities
Shopping, money, fashion and trends
Advantages and disadvantages of new technology
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Holidays
Plans, preferences, experiences
What to see and getting around
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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.
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Environment
Current problems facing the planet
Being environmentally friendly within the home and local area
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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
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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