About Oxford Revise: AQA GCSE German Foundation revision guide
Oxford Revise AQA GCSE German Foundation provides you with all the key information you need for the listening, speaking, reading and writing exams. Plenty of practice exam-style questions with useful tips on how to approach them will help you make sure you’re exam-ready.
Contents list
Basics
Theme 1 People and lifestyle
1.1 Identity and relationships with others
1.2 Healthy living and lifestyle
1.3 Education and work
Theme 1 Exam Practice
Theme 2 Popular culture
2.1 Free-time activities
2.2 Customs, festivals and celebrations
2.3 Celebrity culture
Theme 2 Exam practice
Theme 3 Communication and the world around us
3.1 Travel and tourism, including places of interest
3.2 Media and technology
3.3 The environment and where people live
Theme 3 Exam practice
Grammar
Nouns, gender, plurals
Pronouns
Cases and prepositions
Possessive adjectives
Adjectives and comparison of adjectives
Present tense: regular and irregular verbs
Present tense: high frequency irregular verbs
Reflexive and separable verbs
Modal verbs
Perfect tense with haben
Perfect tense with sein
Imperfect tense
Future and conditional
Word order
Complex sentences and relative clauses
Word formation
Exam practice
Listening paper
Speaking paper
Reading paper
Writing paper
Sound-spelling links
Answers
Revise effectively with Oxford Revise
This guide covers every topic in the AQA GCSE German Foundation course in depth. The vocabulary learning pages use the ‘look, cover, write, check’ technique to help you learn and recall the German words you need for your exams.
Each chapter has lots of exam-style questions for you to practice. These are designed to build your confidence, consolidate your knowledge and stretch your understanding. Exam tips show you how to interpret questions and produce a good answer.
The Oxford Revise approach
Step 1: Knowledge – learn the facts
Everything you need to know in each chapter is summarised in an easy-to-follow Knowledge Organiser.
Step 2: Retrieval – check you’ve retained the knowledge
Quick-fire recall questions and answers make sure you have learned the knowledge you will need for your exams.
Step 3: Practice – complete questions in the style of the final exams
Practice applying your knowledge and skills with plenty of exam-style questions, featuring hints and tips from revision and subject experts.
Our expert authors
Author: Heather Murphy
Heather has been teaching French and German for over forty years and has in that time has been subject head and head of department in a range of schools. She has been Lead Examiner and Lead Assessment writer for German GCSE, has planned and delivered MFL training for the Prince’s Teaching Institute and has authored and co-authored a number of MFL publications. Heather has worked in Adult and Continuing Education, trained industry executives and has worked as a professional translator.
Customer Reviews
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