The document provides information about speaking and listening assessments for a GCSE English course. It outlines the different types of assessments, including group discussions, and provides an example task and mark scheme. Students will plan and prepare for their speaking and listening assessment by exploring and analyzing a film poster as a sample task to practice the skills for the assessment.

1. Objectives: To understand the nature of your speaking and listening assessments To focus on one of these and begin to prepare and practice…

2. GCSE Eng/Eng Lit COURSEWORK EXAMS Original Writing Media Shakespeare 20 th Century Drama (play) Prose Study (Novel) 3 Speaking & Listening Assessments Eng Paper1 Sec A: Questions on Non Fiction & Media texts Sec B: Writing to Argue Persuade or Advise Eng Paper 2 Sec A: Other Cultures Poetry Sec B: Writing Inf/Ex/Descr Lit Paper: ‘Of Mice & Men ’ And Poetry (Heaney & Clarke) Lang: 40% Lit:30% Lang:60% Lit:70% S K I L L S 20% of the 40%

3. How are they marked? Let’s have a look at the ‘pupil friendly’ mark scheme…

4. TYPE: Group discussion TRIPLET: Analyse, explore, imagine

5. Actual task: To explore and analyse a film poster, focusing on images, layout, colour scheme, copy and other presentational and linguistic devices. Some flexibility here…

9. Today: You are going to plan and prepare your Speaking and Listening assessment Each member of the group must contribute equally Remember the triplet! Remember the mark scheme! You are going to feedback a ‘sample’ in about 20 minutes

10. FEEDBACK: Listen closely… what grade might they be working at? What are their targets for improvement?