GCSE French/German/Spanish: Boosting your students' language skills and knowledge
This AQA training course is designed to help teachers broaden and enrich their GCSE MFL students’ linguistic skills beyond the core requirements of the French, German and Spanish GCSE specifications.
In this session, we will explore practical, classroom-ready teaching and learning activities that enhance students’ spoken and written skills, build linguistic resilience, and promote real communication.
You will leave with adaptable tools, templated activities and examples across French, German and Spanish. These will support ‘stretch and challenge’ within GCSE lessons while also strengthening the skills students need should they continue to further language study.
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Identify opportunities to enrich GCSE students’ linguistic development beyond the prescribed vocabulary list, including the use of creative language, authentic materials and meaningful cultural content.
Evaluate appropriate classroom approaches for extending higher-tier learners and native speakers, ensuring challenge, engagement and progression for diverse learner profiles.
Apply a range of speaking and writing activities that foster creativity, sustained arguments, coherent sequencing and the expression of opinions beyond first-person, GCSE-typical responses.
Suitable for all teachers of GCSE French, German and Spanish and for those preparing their students for the transition to A-level languages.