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AS RUSSIAN oral exam please help!!

taking Edexcel russian AS this may/june. im a native speaker and in yr 10 at school. did gcse last year. however, i have no idea what are the conversation topics for AS, because the school 1) doesnt teach russian
2) teaches french, german etc for AQA, so they cant really help me

can u plz tell me what the topics are and whether u need a presentation like for gcse or not (other details will be much appreciated)

thanks =]

Reply 1

lyrical_lies

http://www.edexcel.org.uk/quals/gce/mfl/adv/9570/

Reply 2

no1mohsin

I'm doing this too; you natives making it difficult for us!! :p:

. Just joking, I don't mind that much really.

Basically it's a 12 minute exam. You go in and say your 'presenation' which can be on anything - i'm personally doing Russian Literature. The next 10 minutes are conversation based so my teacher will ask me about the various eras (Golden, Silver, Soviet, Post-Soviet) and also a few about some authors probably. You'll coast through it seeing as you're a native, imagine how we feel!!

Reply 3

jason01

Ring up to Edexcel with some ideas and ask them what they think.

Reply 4

lence

Thanks for the question & reply (link).

that helped.

From examiners report for Unit 3, succesful candidates with topics :

Moscow
St. Petersburg
My native town
Putin
Master & Margarita
The rock group DDT
The language of 'Podonki'.

Reply 5

no1mohsin

lence

Don't just base it on that though. That is just generally the most popular amongst decent candidates. Do whatever actually interests you; don't do something for the sake of the exam.