1. GCSE MFL at Pudsey Grangefield School

2. Programme of Session Introduction to the MFL GCSE exams
How MFL is taught: teaching and learning routines
Strategies to cope with a linear GCSE course
and the specific demands of MFL study
Resources used in lessons and useful strategies and resources to support independent learning

3. Introduction to the GCSE exams
Four exams, all at the end of the course.
All exams worth 25% of final grade.
All four exams have to be the same tier.
AQA exam board.
Department follow a 3 year scheme of learning produced by the exam board.

4. Introduction to the GCSE exams
The GCSE exam covers three themes, each of which contains four subtopics:
Identity and culture
Local, national, international and global areas of interest
Current and future study and employment

5. How MFL is taught: teaching and learning routines
Starter activities:
Grammar (tenses, adjectives, negatives)
Translation
Describe a picture
Timed writing with a stimulus
Exam question

6. How MFL is taught: teaching and learning routines
Activities during lessons:
Paired work speaking, reading aloud
Textbook based reading exercises
Listening exercises
Brain breaks: multiple choice questions interspersed into lessons to recap prior knowledge
Independent writing with a focus
Self-quizzing

7. How to cope with a linear GCSE
course and the specific demands of
MFL study
Know vocabulary, grammar and complex structures.
Recognition is not the same as recall or production
Cramming is impossible
Revision little and often
Frequent recycling of language and grammar

8. How to cope with a linear GCSE
course and the specific demands of
MFL study
Homework:
5 words to learn each lesson - low stake testing.
One longer task - from a choice of grammar, exam question, textbook work, Vocab Express (Year 10 and Year 11 only) or grammar revision.
Year 11 students can expect a greater volume

9. Revising vocabulary and grammar
Useful strategies and resources to support independent learning
Revising vocabulary and grammar
WHEN is key. Frequency aids longer term memory. Intervals enable forgetting and relearning. This is key for longer term memory.
HOW is vital. RAWACAC. Learn until it is right every time and you can recall without support.
SELF QUIZZING (at home and at school)
VARIETY may help, for example quizzing at home, use of flashcards and online revision websites (see last page of handout).

10. Quizlet (vocab learning tool) Memrise (Year 9)
Useful strategies and resources to support
independent learning
All recommended websites and apps can be found on the last page of the handout.
Quizlet (vocab learning tool)
Memrise (Year 9)
Vocab Express (Year 10 and Year 11)

11. Memrise

12. Vocab Express

13. Resources and current students
Please feel free to view your child’s workbook and to ask current students about their preferred revision styles.
Jessica Dean - French and Spanish Y10
Ella Russell - French Y11
Mark Grayson - Spanish Y10 (also Russian)