GCSE FRENCH 8658/WF Paper 4 Writing Foundation Mark scheme June 2021

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Step 2 Determine a mark Once you have assigned a level you need to decide on the mark. The descriptors on how to allocate marks can help with this. The exemplar materials used during standardisation... will help. There will be an answer in the standardising materials which will correspond with each level of the mark scheme. This answer will have been awarded a mark by the Lead Examiner. You can compare the student’s answer with the example to determine if it is the same standard, better or worse than the example. You can then use this to allocate a mark for the answer based on the Lead Examiner’s mark on the example. You may well need to read back through the answer as you apply the mark scheme to clarify points and assure yourself that the level and the mark are appropriate. Indicative content in the mark scheme is provided as a guide for examiners. It is not intended to be exhaustive and you must credit other valid points. Students do not have to cover all of the points mentioned in the Indicative content to reach the highest level of the mark scheme. An answer which contains nothing of relevance to the question must be awarded no marks.MARK SCHEME – GCSE FRENCH – 8658/WF – JUNE 2021 4 Marks will be allocated in the following way at Foundation Tier: Communication Content Quality of language Conveying key messages Application of grammatical knowledge of language and structures Total Question 1 8 8 Question 2 10 6 16 Question 3 5 5 10 Question 4 10 6 16 Total 8 20 12 5 5 50 Foundation Question 1 There are 8 marks for Communication. Candidates are required to write four sentences about what is in the photo. Each sentence is marked separately and is worth a maximum of two marks, according to these assessment criteria. Mark Communication 2 The relevant message is clearly communicated. 1 The message is relevant but has some ambiguity and causes a delay in communication. 0 The message is irrelevant or cannot be understood. Statements must refer to what is in the photo and cannot refer to what is not in it. ‘I like the photo’ and similar opinions about the photo, without mentioning what is in it, will score 0. However, if the sentence reads, for example, ‘I like the photo because it is sunny’, it will score 2 marks. If the sentence could possibly be true or is very broadly relevant, accept it. For instance, it is acceptable if the candidate writes ‘The tent is green’, even though the photo is in black and white. However, if the sentence is clearly false, it receives a mark of 0. For example, ‘There is an elephant’, when there clearly isn’t one. It is acceptable to write a figure (eg ‘There are 2 people’) rather than a word. This is true of all questions at both Foundation and Higher tiers. The aim of this question is for candidates to write in the present tense, but other tenses are also acceptable. For 2 marks • The response must be in the form of a sentence, using an appropriate conjugated verb. The only exception to this is in French, where voici/voilà may be used in place of a verb. The same verb/grammatical structure may be repeated in more than one sentence, eg il y a/es gibt/hay plus different nouns. • Any sentence that is broadly relevant to the photo is given 2 marks. For example, imagine that the photo is of a man in a café. The student writes, in the target language: It’s a man. He’s old (even if to your eyes he may not be – ‘old’ to a 16-year old may be different from your perception of ‘old’). He’s a father (even if this is not appare [Show More]

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