Chinese Edexcel A2 Exam June 18th

Hi, has anyone got any plans for how to prepare for the tpiocs for the speaking exam for AS mandarin? We're supposed to know about food, diet and health / transport, travel and tourism / education and employment / leisure, youth interests and chinese festivals. Does anyone know of where there are any vocabulary lists that can be downloaded or anything like that? Or maybe some useful articles? I can link anything I stumble across in the meantime.

Hi, has anyone got any plans for how to prepare for the tpiocs for the speaking exam for AS mandarin? We're supposed to know about food, diet and health / transport, travel and tourism / education and employment / leisure, youth interests and chinese festivals. Does anyone know of where there are any vocabulary lists that can be downloaded or anything like that? Or maybe some useful articles? I can link anything I stumble across in the meantime.

Just wing it. It got me an A last year.
What's the worst that can happen?

Are you taking A2 this year?

I was going to, but I decided that A2 would be much harder to do without studying so dropped it halfway through the year. I'm guessing you are?

Yes, I am. I am working on the research based essay, which is a pain.... the rest of the part is quite straightforward.

Good luck! I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore ^-^
What's your research based essay on?

Chinese modern history, chinese civil war.

For the research-based essay, I'm going to focus on environment, economy, or social issues of Beijing.
I would like to write about 魯迅 《故鄉》, but I couldn't get hold of a copy of it.

For the research based essay, do we have to choose a title thats on the list? or can I just set my own title?

Thanks

Guys, for the research based essay, do I have to choose a title from the list of questions they gave us?Or can I set my own title (that's not on the list)

I did the exam last year, apparently the RBE title has to be quite specific. Also with the history section, don't just narrate a story, give your own opinion and link the paragraphs, so basically like a normal english/history type essay. vocab-wise, not that essential, you just need to know key vocab from the book. Also for the translation, they usually chuck in some specific grammar structure like 把 or 被. Good luck guys!

OK, my girlfriend is doing AS Chinese tomorrow (I know it is the wrong exam, but she's in need of help) she is doing Mandarin, but she's unsure whether she can do the written in simplified (as this is her preferred format) does anyone know the answer? I've checked the spec and it isn't clear.

she can