Part 1: Role-play (AQA GCSE German): Revision Note

Role-play

• The role-play is worth ten marks

• It will last between 1 and 1.5 minutes at both tiers

• The role-play involves a conversation between two people, and your teacher will play one of them

• You will be given a context and a topic (e.g. 'you are speaking to your German friend about hobbies')

• There will be five bullet points in English telling you what to say in German

• One of the bullet points will tell you to ask your teacher a question

• Each response must include a verb

• One-word answers are not sufficient

The difference between foundation and higher tier

• The difference between Foundation and Higher tier in the role-play is relatively small — the task format and marking are the same at both tiers, although the stimulus materials are different

• Higher tier students are expected to produce more complex and varied language in their responses, for example, by using a wider range of tenses and subordinating conjunctions such as weil and obwohl