2023 AQA GCSE GERMAN 8668/SH Paper 2 Speaking Higher Mark scheme including Guidance for Photo cards June 2023 [VERIFIED]

2023 AQA GCSE GERMAN 8668/SH Paper 2 Speaking Higher Mark scheme including Guidance for Photo cards June 2023 [VERIFIED] GCSE GERMAN 8668/SH Paper 2 Speaking Higher Mark scheme including Guidance for Photo cards June 2023 Version: Final 1.0 *236G8668/SH/MS* MARK SCHEME – GCSE GERMAN – 8668/SH – JUNE 2023 Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the scheme which was used by them in this examination. The standardisation process ensures that the mark scheme covers the students’ responses to questions and that every associate understands and applies it in the same correct way. As preparation for standardisation each associate analyses a number of students’ tests. Alternative answers not already covered by the mark scheme are discussed and legislated for. If, after the standardisation process, associates encounter unusual answers which have not been raised they are required to refer these to the Lead Examiner. It must be stressed that a mark scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and expanded on the basis of students’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination paper. Further copies of this mark scheme are available from MARK SCHEME – GCSE GERMAN – 8668/SH – JUNE 2023 Contents Page 4 Part One Mark Scheme 6 Section 1: Role-play 10 Section 2: Discussion of photo card 12 Section 3: General conversation 16 Appendix 1: Subject content (Themes) 17 Appendix 2: Speaking Score Sheet 18 Appendix 3: Symbols for annotating Speaking Score Sheet 20 Appendix 4: Marking of photo card – Guidance Notes 28 Appendix 5: Role-plays – General Principles 30 Appendix 6: Photo cards – General Principles 31 Appendix 7: Photo cards – Guidance on Paraphrasing 32 Part Two Mark Scheme 32 Section 1: Role-plays – specific June 2023 mark schemes 42 Section 2: Photo cards – specific June 2023 guidance 19 MARK SCHEME – GCSE GERMAN – 8668/SH – JUNE 2023 Speaking Tests – Higher tier Part One Mark Scheme Principles of marking The Speaking Tests are marked in accordance with the assessment criteria provided later in this document. No allowance can be made for poor teacher conduct of the tests. You can only assess what you hear. If a candidate requires a prompt or explanation of any kind, including the provision of an item of obviously unknown vocabulary, this must be given clearly and audibly by the teacherexaminer without stopping the recording. Level of response marking instructions Level of response mark schemes are used in the Photo card and General conversation tasks. The criteria are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The descriptor for the level shows the average performance for that level. Step 1 Determine a level Start at the lowest level of the mark scheme and use it as a ladder to see whether the student performance meets the descriptor for that level. The descriptor for the level indicates the different qualities that might be seen in the student’s performance for that level. If it meets the lowest level then go to the next one and decide if it meets this level, and so on, until you have a match between the level descriptor and the performance. With