Senior languages in Years 11, 12 and 13

 

NCEA German

 

In these years students follow the usual NCEA programmes for 4 hours per week. The ground work put in the junior years acts as a great support in their examination years. Certainly there is less vocabulary for them to learn and they have already covered most of the structures required for the Level 1 exam.

 

IB German

 

This course is offered at Standard and Higher Levels. It runs for two years in Year 12 and 13. Please go to the IB link for more details about the whole programme.

 

International Baccalaureate programme

 

SYLLABUS OUTLINE

 

Higher Level (HL) and Standard Level (SL) Language

 

The presentation, explanation and review of grammatical structures and vocabulary is integrated into the course.

 

The four primary language skills to be developed in an integrated way are:

• listening

• speaking

• reading

• writing.

 

The balance between these four language skills should be appropriate to the needs of the students, but none should be neglected. Competence in each of the primary language skills will involve an understanding of three

interrelated areas:

• understanding ideas and how they are organized in order to communicate them appropriately.
• message selecting language appropriate to a particular cultural and social context
• cultural interaction handling the language system accurately
• language (grammar, syntax, etc)

 

Higher Level Assessment Information

 

Internal Assessment:

 

Interactive Oral Activity 15%

Individual Oral 15%

Oral Component = 30%

 

Two oral activities to be internally assessed by the teacher and

externally moderated by the IBO

 

External Assessment:

 

Paper 1:

 

Text Handling             1.5 hours        40%

 

Part A: A short writing exercise in response to a written text

Written response                                13%

 

Part B: Questions based on a number of written texts

Reading                                               27%

 

Paper 2:

 

Written Production             1.5 hours   30%

(One writing task from a choice of six)

 

External Assessment Component = 70%

 

Standard Level Assessment Information

 

Internal Assessment:

 

Interactive Oral Activity 15%

Individual Oral 15%

Oral Component = 30%

 

Two oral activities to be internally assessed by the teacher and

externally moderated by the IBO

 

External Assessment:

 

Paper 1:

 

Text Handling             1.5 hours   40%

 

Part A: A short writing exercise in response to a written text

Written response                                10%

 

Part B: Questions based on a number of written texts

Reading                                             30%

 

Paper 2:

 

Written Production             1.5 hours   30%

(One writing task from a choice of four)

 

External Assessment Component = 70%

 

Kirstyn Mawdsley (TIC German)