Watch as Orla Ní Shúilleabháin, German teacher at The Institute of Education, shares her reaction to this year's Leaving Cert German (H).
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On the Written section Orla says: "The German paper always asks students to be versatile with their material. The themes and topics are always relevant and familiar but approached in novel ways that require students to react during the exam."
Key takeaways
- This paper was relevant and stimulating as it prompts students to be versatile with familiar material.
- The paper was balanced in that it offered something for everyone with challenges on par with previous years.
Aural section
"The themes and approach of the written paper extended into the aural. Ideas of engaging with the written word reappeared in Section 1's interview with a Russian author working in Germany. All the sections were topical and informed by familiar material, but students might have found the vocabulary relating to anger in Section 2’s noise complaint particularly challenging. Again, this portion of the exam was not without its challenges but fundamentally fair in its consistency with previous years."
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