GERMAN - GCSE REVISION

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE German. It can be used independently by students as well as for teacher-directed classroom practice. It contains 16 units which focus mainly on the themes: myself family and relationships daily activities my role model hobbies and leisure.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Each unit consists of a knowledge organiser recapping the target sentence patterns and lexical items a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's P.I.P.O. framework:</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pre-reading tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (activation of prior knowledge and pre-teaching)</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In-reading tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (intensive exploitation of texts)</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Post-reading tasks</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (consolidation)</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Output</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (pushed-output tasks)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Consistent with Dr Conti's E.P.I. approach each of the 16 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables) lexis (both words and chunks) grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing) meaning and discourse.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging tried and tested classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing faulty translation spot the missing detail sentence puzzles etc.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Table of contents</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1 Introducing myself</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2 Describing myself my family and friends</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>3 Talking about my hobbies and interests</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>4 Describing a typical day in school</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>5 Describing what I do after school</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>6 Talking about a typical weekend</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>7 Talking about what I did last weekend</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>8 Talking about when I was younger</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>9 Discussing the qualities of a good friend</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>10 Describing the qualities of a good partner</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>11 Saying why I don't get along with people</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>12 Saying why I get along with people</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>13 Saying why I argue with my parents</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>14 Discussing why couples break up</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>15 Talking about a person I admire</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>16 Bringing it all together - Parts 1-5</strong></p>