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gr1000ca course and assessment guide ncea level 1

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german (gr1000) teacher contact details

When you first make contact with your teacher, please fill out their details below, for future reference.

name: telephone: 0800 65 99 88 ext:

alternative telephone number: email address:

Private Bag 39992, Wellington Mail Centre, Lower Hutt 5045 Please keep your German (GR1000) Course and Assessment Guide in a safe place so that you can use it to plan your study and to record your assessment results. For future information about courses at this level, please refer to Student Guide to Years 1113 and the Student Guide to National Certificates.

Cover photo: Large family, iStock, 10470134. Copyright 2011 Board of Trustees of Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu, Private Bag 39992, Wellington Mail Centre, Lower Hutt 5045, New Zealand. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu. te ah o o te k u ra p ou n am u

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 Welcome to GR1000 Getting started information How to get the best from the course GR1000 course outline Assessment summary Additional course materials Assessment information Suggested course plan My course planner My German assessment record (GR1000)

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welcome to gr1000
Welcome to the Level 1 German (GR1000) course offered by Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu.

aims of gr1000

Your language learning will follow various themes such as travel, leisure and eating out. You will find out about the German speaking world as you go. Some activities prepare you for things you will want to do in real life in a German speaking country, while others are designed to train your memory to help you learn and remember the language. You will build your communication skills in German by listening, speaking, reading and writing. This course follows level 6 of Learning Languages in the New Zealand Curriculum. It also revises some content of levels 4 and 5. The course prepares you to gain 19 Level 1 credits for your National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA). You can gain nine of these credits from the internally assessed activities in this course. The rest of the credits come from externally assessed activities. Course endorsement is available for this course. You must gain at least three credits externally and three credits internally to be eligible.

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getting started information

how gr1000 is delivered
GR1000 is a course with printed material and an online component delivered in the online teaching and learning environment (OTLE) for Te Kura. To access OTLE, go to our website at www.tekura.school.nz and click on Login on the top right of the homepage. Scroll down to the OTLE heading and click the Login to OTLE link. You may wish to bookmark the OTLE login screen in your browser. Your username to access OTLE is based on your Te Kura student ID number. Username: <Student ID> (Your Te Kura student ID number) Password: 12345678 You will be asked to change your password when you have logged in.

organising your study

Plan a regular time to study. Some people learn best from frequent short sessions while others do better with fewer, longer sessions. It is important to have a plan or a timetable and to keep to it. There is a suggested planner in the back of this guide for you to plan your programme of study. You should complete the blank course planner to help you plan your learning goals and assessment for each week. You may wish to consult with your subject teacher to help you decide on your plan. Getting your study underway is very important. Your first return of work should be two to three weeks after you first received your initial work. If you have any issues returning your work within this time please contact your subject teacher. For more information on how to study successfully, refer to the Students Guide to Years 1113 (www.tekura.school.nz).

te kura codes

Your course code is: GR1000. GR is the code for German and 1 refers to Level 1. GR1001 refers to a booklet that covers a particular learning topic in the GR1000 course. GR1001Y1 refers to the first assessment for an Achievement Standard (AS90713) for GR1001. AS is the code for Achievement Standard and US is the code for Unit Standard.

resources you need to get going

Te Kura booklets and supplements, Te Kura Portfolio writing pack, Te Kura audio CDs, CD player or computer that can play audio CDs, facility to record audio files in .mp3 or .wav format (for example computer with audio software and microphone or mp3 player), telephone. A computer with Internet and email access is highly recommended. NZQA no longer accepts cassette tapes, so spoken work for Achievement Standards must be
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sent to Te Kura in digital form. Cassette tapes cannot be accepted for Achievement Standard assessments.

self-assessment

Many activities are self-marked. Youll find an Answer guide towards the back of each booklet. Use these answers to mark your own work and make corrections where necessary. Self-marking is very important as it gives you instant feedback on how well you understand the ideas, concepts or information that has been covered.

assessment

Students are required to send in their self-marked activities as well as their internal or practice external assessments. Teachers will go over the work and send it back to them with feedback and feed forward. The detailed criteria for Achievement Standards will be given in the relevant booklets. They can also be found by searching the subject and level in the NCEA part of the NZQA website (www.nzqa.govt.nz) and then finding the relevant standard(s). If there are two assessment opportunities, one is called Y1 for an Achievement Standard and the other is called Y2 or for oral work Y3 and Y4. For example GR1009Y3 is one assessment for AS1.2 and there is a further assessment opportunity in GR1009Y4. AS1.5 AS90887 is the Portfolio writing Achievement Standard. You write a number of different texts as you work through your booklets. One of those writing tasks will have to be done under supervision. You will have a range of completed texts from which to select the ones you want to submit in your Portfolio for assessment. Your teacher will give you guidance, so it is important that you discuss with your teacher which pieces of writing in your Portfolio are best to submit. After talking this through with your teacher, you choose the pieces of writing that you think are the best and most effective, and that show your writing ability in a variety of text types. Your teacher will be happy to help you with this process. There is no further assessment opportunity for this Achievement Standard. External assessment preparation includes: working through your booklets to develop your listening and reading skills practice with previous external assessments Te Kura practice examinations. Students are required to send in their self-marked activities as well as their internal or practice external assessments. Teachers send these back to them with feedback and feed forward. Internal assessments for this course are: Portfolio writing (in a pack called GR1000W, which includes the portfolio writing tasks, for example GR1001Y1) a prepared talk (GR1009Y3).
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time commitment

There are 10 booklets in this course. Each contains a note on the front cover indicating how many hours the topic is likely to take. For example, booklet GR1001 may take 20 hours of work to complete at the normal pace, representing about four weeks of work. Before deciding on the pace of learning, read through this Course and assessment guide and ask yourself the following: How much time can I set aside for study each week? Will I be able to keep a steady pace of four hours of study each week? What do I want to do next year? How many credits will I need to do this? Will I be doing externally and internally assessed standards? Will I be prepared to sit the external examination in November? Will I need specific external or internal credits as a prerequisite for next years study or work?

normal pace of learning

A normal pace of learning is similar to what a student does at school. As a guide, expect to do at least four hours work per week. This means completing three to four booklets each term so that you complete the course before the November external examinations and the end of the school year. Allow at least an extra hour a week for revision and vocabulary learning.

flexible pace of learning

If you have less than a year because you start later or need to finish earlier, you can decide the pace at which you work. You could still complete the whole course by devoting more time and effort to it. Your teacher can ensure that you receive the resources you need in time to do this.

choosing topics and standards

You may wish to do only some standards. For example, you may only want to do internal standards in this course. You need to discuss this with your German teacher at Te Kura. You should consider how well this will meet your learning goals and whether it will meet the specific course entry requirements for tertiary institutions or any future study, and whether you will be able to gain enough credits to achieve your NCEA.

cover sheets

There is a cover sheet at the back of the work you send to your teacher. Fill it in and sign it before sending it back to Te Kura. Your supervisor also signs this sheet as part of our authenticity requirements (if applicable).

queries about your work

It is important to contact your teacher if you have any queries about your work. It helps to have your ID number, booklet code (for example GR1001) and the activity or question number when you contact your teacher but it is not essential.

other

Some additional material might be available on our online teaching and learning platform (OTLE).

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how to get the best from the course

booklets
The booklets are yours to keep, so you can be really active about using them make notes, highlight things you want to remember, write your corrections on the page so that you can learn from your mistakes.

audio cds

Listen to the CDs as many times as you want. If you dont get something the first time, go over it until you do. Almost all the German you hear is said by a German speaker, so the more you listen and use it as a model for practising aloud, the more your brain will absorb and remember the sounds, the rhythm and the tune of real German. You will need a quiet room where you can hear the CD and practise speaking out loud.

checking

You will check most of your own work in the section at the back of the booklet. This gives you immediate feedback so that you can learn from your mistakes. It is important that you do this carefully. Compare your answers with the model answers. If your answers are different, go back to your booklet and go over the explanations so you know where you went wrong and how to improve. Then correct your answers in a different coloured pen. Writing out the corrections helps you remember them better and if done in a different colour you will be drawn towards them when you do your revision. If you are still unsure after doing this, ask your teacher for help.

revision

When you are speaking or writing a foreign language, you can only use what you can remember, so its important to learn as you go and revise frequently daily, weekly, monthly. Revising a little bit often is more effective than doing a big chunk of revision less often.

written work
When you are asked to use your own paper for an activity, hand-written work is perfectly acceptable. You are welcome to use a computer, if its more convenient and if you have a German keyboard or know how to use the special German letters: . If youre doing a lot of word processing, you might like to create your own shortcut keys. In Microsoft Word on a PC or a Mac you can do that by going to the toolbar and clicking Insert and then Symbol. In the box that pops up, check that it says normal text in the font box. Click on the letter you want and then click on shortcut key and follow the instructions that pop up in the new box. Check in the bottom left corner where you are making the changes (you can make them for only one document or for everything you type on your computer). Dont forget to press the assign key before you leave that box. If you dont want to create your own shortcuts and you dont want to go to the insert menu every time, you can access the special letters in another way. In Microsoft Word on a PC, for the umlauts, press Ctrl + Shift + ; simultaneously and then the letter you want. For the , press Ctrl + & simultaneously and then s.
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In Microsoft Word on a Mac, for umlauts press option + u simultaneously and then the letter you want. For , just press option + s simultaneously. Another alternative is the international code for special characters, which also works with email programmes. You need to use the numbers on the right-hand side on your keyboard and you need to make sure that the number lock key above those numbers is switched on. Keep the alt key pressed down while typing the numbers. = alt + 0228 = alt + 0196 = alt + 0246 = alt + 0214 = alt + 0252 = alt + 0220 = alt + 0223

german and the internet

Your teacher may send you additional information on what and how you can access additional German materials online. A good website with a lot of different material is the Goethe Institut address: www.goethe.de If you want to search for other websites, go to a search engine and type in German lessons. If you are searching websites in the German language, remember that most of them have the ending .de (Deutschland), for example, Berlin.de

contacting your teacher

Ring the free phone number of Te Kura 0800 65 99 88 and ask for your own teacher. If you dont know your teachers name, ask for the senior teacher of German. To email your teacher, the email address of Te Kura teachers follows the format: firstname.surname@tekura.school.nz Most teachers have a Skype account as well. You might need to exchange Skype details via email before you can Skype your teacher.

When you contact your teacher, give her/him your name and your ID number. If your call is regarding specific course work, say which booklet of the course your phone call relates to.

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gr1000 course outline

Course item/ booklet GR1001 Title Introducing myself and my family Learning outcomes or intentions (if applicable) Learning to introduce yourself. Talking about your family. Learning to express your likes and dislikes. Listening to and communicating in basic German oral conversations. Describing a German city in writing. GR1002 Where I live Making comparisons. Describing people. Describing where you live. Describing where to put things and where things are (including dative and accusative case). Expressing pleasure, enthusiasm, compliments. GR1003 Gttingen New Zealand Using compound nouns. Using strong verbs. Using adjective endings (revision). Using superlatives. Using perfect tense. Describing New Zealand, including various towns and/or cities. Communicating about climate. Practice for further 1.5 Portfolio writing AS90887 Practice for 1.2 Spoken presentation AS90884. Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing. Practice for 1.2 Spoken presentation. No No Standard Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing. AS90887 Further assessment opportunity No

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GR1004

Directions

Communicating about more German cities. Using future tense. Giving directions. Using the simple past of haben, sein and modal verbs. Communicating and understanding information about life in the former GDR and the new Federal States of Germany. Using formulaic language to communicate prohibitions.

Practice for further 1.5 Portfolio writing. Practice for 1.2 Spoken presentation.

No

GR1005

My daily routine

Describing daily routines using reflexive verbs. Communicating about going to places using separable verbs. Communicating using man. Talking about the German driving licence using subordinate clause: um zu. Communicating about Kln using subordinate clauses: wenn weil als. Communicating about movies using relative clauses. Describing German school routines. Communicating about subjects taken at school. Communicating using expressions of comparison and preference. Exploring differences in German and New Zealand schooling. Understanding the German assessment and report system. Using indefinite pronouns: jeder jemand niemand. Giving your opinion using finden denken glauben meinen. Answering a letter from a pen friend about schooling.

Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing. Practice for 1.2 Spoken presentation

No

GR1006

School

Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing. Practice for 1.2 Spoken presentation.

No

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Course item/ booklet GR1007

Title Food and entertainment

Learning outcomes or intentions (if applicable) Learning about commands and requests. Expressing wishes politely, using ich htte gern Learning about menus and ordering in a restaurant. Arranging a birthday party. Learning when and how to use legen and liegen. Finding out more about Christmas traditions in Germany.

Standard Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing.

Further assessment opportunity

GR1008

Munich and Bavaria

Finding your way in a railway station. Learning various ways to say which (welch-). Shopping for clothes. Addressing a letter. Making a phone call. Coordinating conjunctions. Finding out about more German cities.

Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing.

No

GR1009

Leisure and health

Favourite sports activities in Germany. Communication about body parts and health issues. Discussing and giving opinions about after-school activities. Communication about TV programmes and discussing preferences. What to do at the box office. Trimm-Dich: how to stay fit in Germany.

Work towards 1.5 Portfolio writing. 1.2 Spoken presentation. (AS90884)

No for 1.5 Portfolio writing. Yes for 1.2 Spoken Presentation (GR1009Y3)

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GR1010

Travel

Expressing preferences, suggestions, giving opinions with reasons. Communicating about future plans. Communicating about past events. Asking for accommodation in formal situations. Communicating about different places in the North of Germany. Achievement Standard 90887 1.5 Write a variety of text types in German on areas of most immediate relevance 1.5 Portfolio writing. (AS90887) No

GR1000W Portfolio writing pack

Note 1: All booklets will also include teaching and practice for external standards: German 1.1 AS90883 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of spoken German texts on areas of most immediate relevance German 1.4 AS90886 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of written/visual German texts relating to areas of most immediate relevance Therefore it is important to finish all booklets before entering the external examinations. Note 2: Although we are not offering the conversation standard in this course, there will be some practice conversations included. This gives you the opportunity to have one-on-one time with your teacher. It also gives you practice, should you want to do a conversation standard in a different NCEA level later on.

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assessment summary
credits offered: 19
Standard Number 1.1 AS90883 Standard Title Demonstrate understanding of a variety of spoken German texts on areas of most immediate relevance (External assessment) 1.2 AS90884 Give a spoken presentation in German that communicates a personal response (Internal assessment) 1.4 AS90886 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of German texts relating to areas of most immediate relevance (External assessment) 1.5 AS90887 Write a variety of text types in German on areas of most immediate relevance (Internal assessment) GR1001Y1 GR1003Y1 GR1005Y1 GR1006Y1 GR1007Y1 GR1008Y1 GR1009Y1 GR1001 GR1010 GR1009Y3

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Study Material (code) GR1001 GR1010

Course endorsement is available for this course. You must gain at least three credits externally and three credits internally to be eligible.

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additional course materials/resources
Item GR1000W GR1000VL GR1000DA GR1000CA GR1001DGR1010D Description Portfolio writing pack that includes all Y1 writing tasks. NCEA Level 1 Vocabulary list and verb supplement. Questionnaire. Course and assessment guide. Audio CDs (one per booklet).

online resouces
Resource NCEA website link TKI website link Description Link to NCEA information. Link to material for internal assessments like up-todate NCEA vocabulary and structures lists. Links to the Goethe Institut, German projects and competitions, useful background information about topics in the booklets. Here you can communicate with other students of the course. Website www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/ In English: www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/ In Mori: www.tki.org.nz/m/community/ncea/ Te Kura online learning environment (OTLE)

Links to various German websites

Discussion board

Te Kura online learning environment (OTLE)

Note: A dictionary is completely optional. If you want to invest in one, we recommend the Collins Paperback German Dictionary.

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assessment tasks
The self-assessments are contained in the booklets. The answers will be in the back of the booklets. Your Portfolio writing internal assessments are included in your Portfolio writing pack (GR1000W). You should complete each booklet with the same code, before you do the corresponding Y1 assessment. For example you need to do booklet GR1001 first, before you do the GR1001Y1 writing task. One of your written tasks will need to be done under school supervision. Your spoken presentation needs to be done under your schools supervision. It will have to be delivered to us in a digital format. For audio files, we accept .mp3 or .wav files. If you opt for filming your presentation, the file needs to be Windows Media Player or VLC player compatible. You can email your digital files to your teacher or burn them onto a CD and send the CD in with the rest of your written work. All of your internal assessments must be your own work. Extended extracts from other sources (for example, websites, whole translations from Google translate etc.) are not acceptable, neither is getting major help from other people.

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standards
The National Qualifications Framework has two types of national standards: Achievement and Unit Standards. Credits from both Achievement Standards and Unit Standards count towards NCEA. For German, only Achievement Standards are offered. Please refer to our Student Guide to National Certificates or Te Kura (www.tekura.school.nz) and NZQA websites (www.nzqa.govt.nz) for more information about National Certificates of Educational Achievement, and assessment.

internal assessment

There are two internally assessed Achievement Standards in this course.

external assessment

External assessment means that someone outside the school marks your work. This is through NZQA examinations at the end of the year. You will do practice for the external assessments as you work through your booklets and sit the Te Kura practice examinations.

course endorsement

Students can be awarded a Merit or an Excellence endorsement in this course if they achieve 14 or more credits at Merit or Excellence in a single school year. They must include at least three credits from externally assessed standards and at least three credits from internally assessed standards.

te kura practice examinations

It is important that you complete all practice examinations for any external standards you have entered. If for some reason, such as illness, you are unable to sit the examinations, you will only be eligible for consideration for a derived grade (compassionate consideration) if you have completed the practice examinations.

further assessment opportunities for internal assessments

For some standards, you will be able to complete a second assessment called a further assessment opportunity to improve your results. These standards are indicated in the course outline. You may take this opportunity where it is available.

resubmissions

If you have made a small mistake in your assessment, your teacher may offer you a resubmission. This means you have made an error that you are capable of discovering and correcting by yourself. A resubmission allows you to improve your result.

authenticity

Authenticity means students complete and submit work that is their own. When you submit work to Te Kura, you sign an authentication declaration that the work you are submitting is your own work and was done under the required assessment conditions. Your supervisor signs this declaration to confirm this (where applicable).

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derived grades (compassionate consideration)

If for any unexpected reason you are not able to sit your end of the year NZQA examination, you may be eligible for a derived grade. Please refer to the Student Guide to National Certificates and contact your own school as soon as possible to find out more should you feel this is necessary.

appeals

You have the right to query an assessment result if you want further clarification or disagree with the result. If you are still not satisfied, you may appeal. Refer to the Student Guide to National Certificates for more information. You can also appeal any other decisions, procedures or policies about assessments. Contact your teacher or learning advisor if you wish to appeal. More information and a form that students can use to appeal is available on the Te Kura website in the student toolkit area (www.tekura.school.nz and go to student toolkit).

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suggested course plan

You should send work in every month. If we dont receive work within two months at any time of the year, you will be withdrawn from the course and cannot be re-enrolled during the remainder of that year. You also need to work through your course booklets unless you have negotiated an alternative with your teacher. Only sending in assessments is not in the spirit of the standards and you wont be able to gain credits if you dont do your course work. Aim to finish by Terms 13 Deadline for internal assessment 1.5 writing portfolio to arrive at Te Kura is end of September. Term 1 GR1000W Topics and language skills Writing portfolio pack containing all suggested writing folio assessments (Y1). Do the topics when alongside the booklets the topics go with (eg. GR1001Y1 with booklet GR1001) Introducing myself and my family Assessments Submit your final folio collection of a variety of text types at the end of September

GR1001

Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1)

Term 1

GR1002

Where I live separable verbs

Term 1

GR1003

Gttingen and New Zealand

Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1)

Term 2

GR1004

Directions

Term 2

GR1005

My daily routine

Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1) Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1)
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Term 2

GR1006

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Term 3

GR1007

Food and entertainment

Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1) Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1) Working towards AS90887 1.5 Writing portfolio (GR1001Y1) NCEA Achievement Standard AS90884 1.2 Prepared Presentation (GR1009Y3)

Term 3

GR1008

Munich and Bavaria

Term 3 Deadline for internal assessment 1.2 spoken presentation to arrive at Te Kura is end of October. Terms 34 Mock exam to be sat end of August. Papers to be returned to Te Kura same day as sat. NZQA external exam in November

GR1009

Leisure and health

GR1010

Travel

GR1000X Te Kura mock exam based on GR1001GR1010

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my course planner
Term Week Key Dates Targets This week I am going to: (e.g. finish GR1001 or complete GR1001Y1/AS90887 assessment). 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Key Dates

Targets This week I am going to: (e.g. finish GR1001 or complete GR1001Y1/AS90887 assessment).

Tick

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my german assessment record (gr1000)

Standard number AS91123 German 1.1 (5 credits) Assessment details Exam/ Assessment due date November exam* Grade awarded Credits achieved

Demonstrate understanding of a variety of spoken German texts on areas of most immediate relevance External NZQA exam Te Kura Practice exam

AS91125 German 1.2 (4 credits)

Give a spoken presentation in German that communicates a personal response Internal

End of October

AS91126 German 1.4 (5 credits)

Demonstrate understanding of a variety of German texts on areas of most immediate relevance External NZQA exam Te Kura Practice exam

November exam*

AS91127 German 1.5 (5 credits)

Write a variety of text types in German on areas of most immediate relevance Internal

End of September

* NZQA examination results are available in January.

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