German U6 Essay titles for writing in registers

Elusive Moose

That's about 1/4 of the ones I have, so if you get through all of those or want more then just ask! These titles are fairly representive though- they're all either about 'Umwelt', moral issues, slightly 'ligher' issues (there's one about whether famous people should be allowed to have private lives, the sports stars one) and then current issues, like 'does TV make you violent?' etc. Hope that helps people though :smile:

Much appreciated :biggrin:

Danke schön!

Reply 2

If you wouldnt mind putting up some others it would be much appreciated, or PM them to me.

Thanks
Vicki x

Reply 3

OP

No problem, I'll do some this evening when the insano revision plan has been completed for today :smile:

Reply 4

thank you so much :smile:

Revision is madness isnt it, i seem to have so much to do :frown:

, never mind though...i'd better get on

Reply 5

OP

Added them on, the new ones are below the three stars :smile:

(And again, sorry for the spelling mistakes that are guaranteed to be there)

And yeah, my life seems to be revision, revision and more revision at the moment. I just hope it's worth it come August 17th (I'm going to cry so much if I end up having to stay at home another year and retake despite all the work!)

Reply 6

Thank you so much! :ta:

These are going to be a massive help :biggrin:

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Has the smoking one really come up? or did your teacher make that one up?

I was hoping that would be in this years. I did my oral on it so i know loads about it :smile:

lol never mind... :frown:

Reply 8

OP

She said she copied them off past exam papers, though there seems to be an awful lot for them to have just been on the Edexcel past papers we have in school. So some might be from a different exam board or something? But they seem to repeat topics a lot, so it might come up in a different guise this year. I want abortion to come up again, that was my oral topic! All the facts and figures I could use...

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Thank you.. vvv helpful :biggrin:

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Stir Crazy

V helpful - thanks! But really scary - my knowledge of German is just not flexible enough to answer questions like that and I desperatly need an A otherwise I cant go to York. Oh well, hopefully one of the ones I've done as practice will will come up

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i'm hoping for an A as well, so i'm going to learn a little bit of vocab for lots of topics, and then lots of discursive phrases.

When is your exam?

Reply 12

I need an A too, damnit!

I'm doing Edexcel, so have Topics and Texts on 13th, then the other 3 on 15th.

Not looking good... I soooo want that A!

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I've done coursework so no topics and texts for me. Thank god! Saying that though i did my coursework on 'Un Sac de Billes' and really enjoyed it. :smile:

My three German exams are also on the 15th, and French is on the 27th, which i'm glad about, as it means that i've got a while between the two- unlike the oral when i had 5 days. lol

Reply 14

OP

I had one day between my German and Spanish orals last year :P It was quite good though, my German one was a lot better for having done Spanish the day before and having got into the swing of it.

Yup, got all the 3 exams on the 15th too. Great fun. I'm going for a B though- I only *just* have an A from the last lot (literally, 241!) and I don't think my coursework was an A, so there's nothing to rely on. Still, I can (*just*) get a D and get a B overall, so...

Oh, and those concerned about grammar and vocabulary- the mark scheme (really very rough) never specifies anything about use of grammar it in, it just says a good content and structure is needed, really. So whilst stupidly complex grammar may give you a couple of extra marks, it's what you have to say and how you structure your essay which are the really important things :smile:

Good news for anyone who does subjects like History and English anyway :biggrin:

(Not that I'm saying don't learn the grammar or anything... I've been going over and over the pluperfect, future perfect and all that other fun fun stuff all morning. Great fun!)

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I got 265/ 300 last year, but although i tried really hard i dont think my coursework is an A for German- i dont know for sure coz our teacher wont tell us :angry:

so i need to do quite well this year. My oral was ok... a lot better than last year when i panicked halfway through so that should pick me up a few marks.. ah well we'll just have to wait for results day i suppose. :biggrin:

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Woo glad to hear grammar's not such a big thing since I hate grammar! You sre about that tho Elusive Moose? The essays themselves I actually enjoy cos I like writing essays (yes, I know I'm sad hehe), tis just the vocab I have trouble with.. too many ideas, not enough ways to say it in German!

I worked out that I need about 230 UMS this year to get an A overall and unfortunately I don't think I'm gonna get it. At first it seems doable cos I can lose 70 marks and still get an A, but I think I messed up my oral (maybe a B/C) which doesn't leave me much room for losing marks on Topics and Texts which is hard, or the translation part of the writing paper which is such a bitch of a section! Grrrr.

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Stir Crazy

I got 265/ 300 last year so i need to do quite well this year.

Ahhh I got 259 and wasn't feeling too bad - am seriously worried I'm gonna drop my A from last year - your right mellow-yellow the translation part is a bitch. As is topics and texts - does anyone do 'Crazy' if so, any suggestions on what the question might be? Its only been on the sylabus one year so there's only 2 past questions! The only bits that I'm secure on are reading comprehension and listening paper. STRESS!

Reply 18

OP

I hate that translation part with a passion! The mark scheme is so harsh :frown:

Actually that whole reading section is harsh, one practise paper I did I'd put down pretty much the right answers but the way I'd put a lot of them wasn't accepted by the mark scheme (even though I had used my own words, etc). Gah!

Erm, I'm not completely sure about the grammar thing, mellow_yellow, and my teacher still tells me to work on it a lot (sadly) but it doesn't really mention anything other than giving marks for structure and content in the mark scheme. That said, it could come under structure so don't take my word for it! But hopefully it'll be like the coursework, where the language use is weighted much less heavily than the actual content...

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