21.11.24.
The ALL London Committee always has a little ‘self help’ group chat following the planned agenda of its meetings, and in our October meeting, we talked at length about our A level issues. Hence our decision to give a platform for others to listen and share ideas in a series of informal webinars.
Here is a report of our first webinar, led by committee member Wanda Marshall. Vielen Dank, Wanda!
The next one will be led by Sharon Mangion on Tuesday 10th December 2024 starting at 7 pm. Please follow this link to register.
An appeal
ALL London organises webinars for the MFL community and this webinar is open to all MFL teachers. We hope that you will like us and want to join The Association for Language Learning! We are all volunteers, we pay Membership fees to this charity, and we urge others to join in order to support a body which is independent of government and can give a voice to its members. Thank you.
Recording:
Session overview
This free webinar covers the things A Level language teachers need to know to prepare for and manage the speaking exam. Many thanks to Wanda for sharing a pdf of her presentation: ALL A Level 01 Wanda Marshall- Speaking
Our presenter: Wanda Marshall
Wanda Marshall is a member of the ALL London Committee. Wanda has been teaching German and French in London secondaries and primaries since 1999. Currently she teaches German A level at Albemarle College and at the German Saturday School Islington and she is editing the new German GCSE textbook for Pearson. She is also about to start working with the Goethe Institut, helping to run their student days in London. She has taken students to the German film days at the BFI and has organised many primary school day trips to Paris. She is an examiner for the AQA German A Level speaking exam, has written study guides for some of the key books and films studied at A Level German and runs training courses for German teachers for Hodder and Keynote Education.
Resources
Thanks to those who have share resources relating to speaking:
- Elisena Lavecchia (ALL London committee member: IRP ideas for Spanish A Level – link to Elisena’s onedrive.
- Sharon (ALL London committee member): Information sheet to students preparing for Speaking mock (AQA) Link to Sharon’s Google document
- Sharon again: Mark sheet for mock speaking (AQA) Link to Sharon’s Google document
- Helen (ALL London chair) Student-friendly Criteria for Edexcel Speaking Task 1 (discussion on a Theme)
– formative focus. Link to Helen’s Google document.
The chat
People who registered have a copy of the chat.
Some questions from the chat which were discussed:
- How should we approach the IRP in trial exams? We do an IRP on the film study in the mock (using 2 articles about the film) Edexcel |
- How can we prevent students overusing AI to prepare their speaking introductions? I gave my class a mini AI lesson for how to training themselves to ask questions with chatGPT. I said to them, sorry I can’t help you much in this part of assessment but Mr ChatGPT can assist you 100%, even better than me to challenge your thinking. | I like the idea of a mini AI lesson as I think this has to be part of our future.
- Can you repeat or re-phrase questions?
Thanks!
Thanks to the participants who gave up their own time to attend on a Thursday evening. They appreciated Wanda! Here are some comments from the chat:
Great – thank you so much for the session!
great session! down to earth and informative.
I think it’s brilliant!
Many thanks. That was very interesting and useful.
Merci beaucoup
So much common sense!
Thank you for the session! Really informative!
Thank you so much 🙂
Thank you so much Helen and Wanda
thank you so much very good
Thank you so much!!!!
Thank you that was very useful
Thank you very much – very helpful
Thank you very much indeed, this was really helpful. Jo.
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much. Feeling a little more confident
Thank you very much; this was so helpful and well presented.
Thank you, this has been so helpful
Thank you:)
Thanks for your encouraging thoughts on AI. I like the idea of a mini AI lesson as I think this has to be part of our future.
Thanks so much! I’ll be joining ALL!
Thanks Wanda, appreciate the advice!
Thanks. It has been very informative
Original registration link
Please follow this link to Ticket Tailor to read more about the session and register. Thank you. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/associationforlanguagelearninglondonregionalbranch/1465053