Top tips for Higher Speaking Part 1

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Top tips for Higher Speaking Part 1

• GCSE French 2009
  South Dartmoor Community College
  Department of Modern Languages

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Mantra

• tenses
• opinions
• expand / detail / justify / explain
• Objective
• Meet some tenses which can be used in speaking
  (H) to improve your grade to a B or higher

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Edexcel Mark Scheme

• Papers are out of 50 (Raw) marks
• Converted into Uniform marks
• Higher papers 90
• Foundation papers 59
• 4 papers 360 Uniform marks (H)
• 236 Uniform marks (F)

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Grade boundaries
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2007 Speaking (H)grade boundaries
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How do we get highest marks?

• Role Play B (10 marks)
• transactional 1 unpredicatable element
• successful completion of all transactional
  elements and
• dealing successfully with the unpredictable
  element
• no prompting necessary

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How do we get highest marks?

• Role Play C (10 marks)
• prescribed tasks all completed
• no prompting necessary
• the 2 unpredictable elements dealt with
  successfully
• little or no hesitation
• takes the initiative and expands

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2 Conversations (Chosen topic 1 additional
conversation)

• Communication and content (10 marks)
• deals well with a wide range of question types
• expands and develops
• expresses a wide range of opinions
• justifies opinions

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Conversations

• Application of language (10 marks)
• demonstrates use of a wide range of structures
  and lexis
• uses some more complex lexical items
• very competent use of present, past and future
  tenses

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Conversations

• Accuracy (10 marks)
• very accurate with only a few isolated errors
• pronunciation and intonation are of a
  consistently good standard

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Tenses

• Plus-que-parfait
• used to describe a past action that happened
  prior to another past action
• e.g. I had washed the dishes when the phone
  rang.
• Javais fait la vaisselle quand le téléphone a
  sonné.
• I had gone to the cinema where I met my friends.
• Jétais allé(e) au cinéma, où jai retrouvé mes
  ami(e)s.

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• Plus-que-parfait
• is constructed from the imperfect tense of the
  auxiliary avoir /être the past participle
• Javais fait la vaisselle quand le téléphone a
  sonné.
• Jétais allé(e) au cinéma, où jai retrouvé mes
  ami(e)s.

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5.2 Quest-ce que tu as fait le weekend dernier?

• Le weekend dernier, jai aidé à la maison. Mes
  parents mavaient donné de largent de poche,
  alors je suis allé(e) au cinéma.
• Last weekend I helped at home. My parents had
  given me some pocket money, so I went to the
  cinema.

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• Past conditional
• used together with the plus-que-parfait, the past
  conditional expresses what would have happened if
  another condition (in the past) had been met.
• e.g. I would have been happy if I had done my
  homework.
• Jaurais été content(e) si javais fait mes
  devoirs.
• (past conditional)
  (plus-que-parfait)

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• Past conditional
• is formed from the conditional of the auxiliary
• avoir / être the past participle
• Jaurais été content si javais fait mes devoirs.
• I would have been happy if I had done my
  homework.
• Mme. MKA naurait pas hurlé!
• MKA would not have shouted.
• Jy serais allé(e) si javais eu de largent.
• I would have gone there/to it (i.e. the cinema)
  if I had had some money.

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1.8 Où préférais-tu habiter?

• Jhabite à Newton Abbot. Jaurais préféré
  habiter à Exeter, mais mes parents avaient acheté
  une grande maison à Newton.
• I live in Newton Abbot. I would have preferred
  to live in Exeter, but my parents had bought a
  big house in Newton.

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2.15 Quest-ce que tu as fait hier au collège?

• Hier, je navais pas fait mes devoirs, alors je
  suis allé(e) à la bibliothèque pendant la
  recréation.
• Si javais fait mes devoirs, je serais allé(e) à
  la cantine avec mes ami(e)s.
• Yesterday, I had not done my homework, so I went
  to the library at break.
• If I had done my homework, I would have gone to
  the cantine with my friends.

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• Future anterior
• this tense describes what will have happened
  after a certain point in the future.
• e.g. When I will have finished secondary school
  I will go to university.
• Quand jaurai terminé mes études secondaires,
  jirai à luniversité.

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• Future anterior
• is constructed from the future tense of the
  auxiliary avoir / être the past participle
• Quand jaurai terminé mes études secondaires,
• (future of avoir)
• jirai à luniversité.
• (future of aller)

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2.22 Quest-ce que tu veux faire plus tard dans
la vie?

• Plus tard dans la vie, je voudrais être
  véterinaire.
• Quand jaurais fini mes études secondaires,
  jirai à luniversité, et jétudierai les
  sciences.
• Later in life, I would like to be a vet. When I
  will have finished my secondary schooling, I will
  go to university, and I will study science.

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Using the tense to give a time indicator

• Il y a There is / There are
• We do this one all the time, and
• it has become automatic.
• Il y avait There was / There were
• Using AVOIR in the imperfect,
• to describe how something was
• in the past.
• Il y aura There will be
• Il y aurait There would be

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2.14 Parle-moi de ton uniforme scolaire.

• Je déteste mon uniforme scolaire, cest moche et
  cest inconfortable. Si javais mon choix, il y
  aurait un nouvel uniforme scolaire. On aurait le
  choix dun jean et t-shirt, ou dune jupe.
• I hate my school uniform, its ugly and
  uncomfortable. If I were to have my choice,
  there would be a new school uniform. We would
  have the choice of jeans and a tee-shirt or a
  skirt.

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Health Warning

• This powerpoint is only intended as an
  introduction.
• You MUST be able to competently use the perfect,
  imperfect, present and future tenses BEFORE you
  attempt to use these more complex tenses.
• You must revise and practise these tenses to
  become more familiar with them.
• Get practice by incorporating these tenses into
  your Conversation Booklet answers and ask your
  teacher / FLA/ Miss Hibberd to check them.

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• Tenses will gain you the most marks in the
  Application of Language and Accuracy marks
  grids of the speaking exam. (10 marks each)
• However, Communication and Content (10 marks)
  is also very important. In addition to using
  these very ambitious tenses, you must also make
  sure to include your opinions, justify them, and
  take every opportunity to expand your answers.
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