How to Revise Speaking: communicate and interact in speech — AQA GCSE German
Candidates must demonstrate the ability to initiate and sustain communication across a variety of contexts, employing accurate pronunciation and intonation to ensure clarity for native speakers. The assessment requires the synthesis of lexical knowledge and grammatical structures to describe events, narrate experiences, and justify personal viewpoints. Proficiency is measured by the capacity to transition between time frames—past, present, and future—while maintaining spontaneity and interactional fluency.
Examiner Tips for Speaking: communicate and interact in speech
- Use repair strategies (e.g., asking for clarification) if you do not understand a question; this is rewarded if you then respond successfully.
- Practice developing your answers beyond one or two words to show extended sequences of speech.
- Ensure you cover all three themes across the speaking test components.
- Prepare for the Photo card and Role-play during the supervised preparation time, but do not rely solely on pre-learnt scripts for the General conversation.
- Remember to ask the teacher a question during the General conversation to avoid a mark deduction.
- Focus on using a variety of time frames (past, present, future) to access higher marks for range of language.
Common Mistakes in Speaking: communicate and interact in speech
- Over-reliance on pre-learnt responses
- Lack of spontaneity when faced with unexpected questions
- Failure to use repair strategies when communication breaks down
- Inability to sustain communication through extended sequences of speech
- Ignoring the requirement to ask the teacher a question
- Overuse of simple structures when more complex forms are required for higher marks
Key Marking Points
- Communication of messages without ambiguity
- Ability to develop responses in extended sequences of speech
- Use of appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures
- Accurate pronunciation and intonation
- Spontaneity and fluency in responding to unexpected questions
- Use of repair strategies to sustain communication