GCSE Options
Our GCSE Options
Choosing to study a Modern Foreign Language at GCSE is a way of ensuring that your options for the future are as wide as possible.
Whereas at KS3 our languages are taught over 4 hours each fortnight, at KS4 that increases to 5 hours.
GCSE French and German are tiered exams, with a Foundation and a Higher tier. There are four parts to each exam, which reflect the four key skills in MFL, and each part is worth 25% of the total:
| Speaking | Listening | Reading | Writing |
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Students prepare a chosen topic for conversation and are asked to speak about other topics they are given on prompt cards. |
Students listen to a range of texts and conversations, answering questions in both English and the target language. |
A range of texts in the target language assess the student’s understanding, through questions in both English and the target language. |
A choice of tasks allows students to write on a topic in a range of forms (letter, email, etc). Picture description is also used. |
We follow the GCSE Edexcel specifications. Find out more about these exams