Addendum to Sample assessment materials, August

2021
Qualification Specification Subject
(GCSE / AS / A Level)

2016
GCSE French, German and Spanish
2017 Chinese, Japanese, Italian,
GCSE
Russian, Urdu, Greek, Arabic
2018 Turkish, Gujarati, Persian,
GCSE
Portuguese

Addition to General instructions to the teacher, Paper 2

speaking, Foundation and Higher tiers
There is an addition to the instructions for the conducting of the role play in the
document General instructions to the teacher, highlighted below in yellow. The
section Task 1: Role play will now read:
Task 1: Role play
• The role play is recommended to last between one to one-and-a-half minutes.
• The purpose of the role play is to assess communication through understanding
and responding, including the ability to ask questions and use the correct
register.
• The set questions and comments must be asked as they are presented.
Exception: For prompt 5 in Foundation tier and prompts 4 and 5 in Higher tier, if
the candidate asks a question before the teacher has prompted them, the teacher
must not then ask the candidate if they have a question.
• There must be no supplementary questions and no re-phrasing. The
statements/questions may be repeated but no more than twice.

Author: Qualifications Product Developer

Authorised by: Head of English, Languages and Arts
August 2021 version 1.0
DCL 1: Public