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video we are going to learn how to
master the photocard we are going to see
what is the photocard
how long do I have how long does it take
how many Mars is the photocard what is
the protocol like and how do I face the
photocard tasks so what's the photo card
the photo card is a task with index
peeking Spanish exam as you know the
DCCC Spanish exam has four different
papers paper number two is speaking and
it will take place the first one the
speaking exam has three different tasks
the first one is the role play the
second one is the photo card and the
third one is the general conversation
but today now in this video we are going
to focus on the photo card so how does
the exam work first you have a probation
time it's 12 minutes and during the
preparation time you are going to have
your role play card your photo card and
a plan pay
you are not allowed allowed any notes
books dictionaries you only have those
three papers then you enter the
examination room and you are allowed to
keep those three papers only through the
roleplay and the photo card then you
have to give those papers to the
examiner and then you will carry on with
the general conversation so as soon as
you get into the examination room the
teacher who is the examiner will be
introduced in each of the parts of the
speaking exam in the target language
this means in Spanish so the teacher
will say something like okay now we are
going to do role play and between the
roadway and the photo car
she will also say now we are going to do
the photocard
and then she will ask you for your
papers and she will say now we are going
to start with the general conversation
and how long do I have for the photocard
so as we said before we have 12 minutes
of preparation time for both role play
and photocard and then if you are taking
the AQA exam board for the photocard
for foundation you will have two minutes
and higher you will have three minutes
if you are taking the Edexcel exam board
exam you will have two and a half to
three to three minutes for Foundation
and three to three and a half ok how
many marks is the photocard the speaking
exam is 25% of the total Spanish GCSE
exam both for AQA and at excel in AQA
the photo car is 50 marks both in
foundation and higher so this means 25%
of the speaking exam and 6.3 out of the
total GCSE Spanish exam if you are
taking at Excel and Excel will be 24
marks foundation and higher for the
photocard these would be 34% of the
speaking exam and 8.5 out of the total
Spanish exam so what's the photo car
like let's have a look first to the AQA
board in AQ board we can see like that
photo card will always have 5 questions
but during the preparation time you are
only going to have the photograph and
the first three questions the first
question is always ki in a photo okay so
both the foundation and the higher have
the same look and the same number of
questions available during the
preparation time that's in the AQI board
right and these material I'm I got it
from the AQA board official website
and here you have the links and sources
so if we take a closer look we can see
that the first question as we said
before is going to be kan la foto for
the second question and third question
in foundation we can see they proposed
para que who's a state toward another a
year so in foundation they are asking in
the past and the third question will be
well as to opinion the Facebook so they
are asking for opinion for higher they
proposed the same photograph in the
specimen paper that samples they they
offered when the examination knew a
specification came out but the questions
are a little different is carrying a
photo again and then the second question
is prefieres hacer el mobile el
ordenador / came and the third question
is a new Dae Dae al te gustaría pasar
tiempo en el ordenador Oh Sally Ann go
con tus amigos
porque okay and now let's have a look at
the Edexcel board that accept board also
have five bullets or five questions but
in foundation we can see that we are
going to have all the bullets available
during the preparation time instead of
que en la photo the photo Kowalski Bella
photo so describe the photo and what
about higher higher in higher we will
have the five bullets but the last
bullet is going to be an exclamation
mark so the the only the last bullet is
going to be the one you don't know let's
take a closer look to the foundation and
higher sample that we are using both
samples and a lot more available in
Pearson's website is a document called
Pearson at Excel level a longer name
that you can see on the screen thus
source of these cards so let's have a
look to Foundation and higher cuts in
foundation as we said before you have
the five bullets during the preparation
time as you can see in higher their
fifth bullet is only an exclamation mark
which is telling you that this question
is going to be a surprise question and
you will only hear this question in your
actual exam talking to the examiner so
what's the difference between the first
bullet there is no different at all is
that description telephoto between the
second bullet we can see like in
foundation the second bullet the same to
opinion so break American la familia and
in higher we can see a more difficult
worry because it says like la
importancia de pasar tiempo con amigos
the third question in foundation is Luke
a comma stay in unison especial
the fourth one is located west area
prepara para tus amigos and the fifth
one is to opinion sobre la compra poor
internet en super mercado x' whereas in
higher we can see the second question is
as we said la importancia de pasar
tiempo con amigos the third one is la
ultima vez que con este a lady Libre and
the fourth one is low key eres para
ayudar in casa está fin de semana the
fifth one as we said is surprised
question so how do I face the photocard
does the important thing right now that
we know what the photograph is about and
what it looks like now we have to really
learn and understand how the marks are
going to be rendered in the photo card
the photo card has the first question
which is que en la foto describing a
photo and other four questions okay
during this five quest
you have to really give a lot of
information about the topic or what is
going on in the photograph but the most
important thing is to give the opinion
and to talk in buy-in in the three
different tenses you'll have to talk in
the past you have to talk in the present
and you have to talk in the future so in
order to get all the marks you need to
answer the questions properly answer the
question and know answer something else
about the topic but answer the question
you have to describe the photograph
properly you will give information about
the topic if you are just describing the
photograph so learning how to describe a
photograph is a must and then during the
other four questions you are going to
talk in the past in the present and in
the future when you talk in the past
it's likely that you are going to have a
question in the past right so if you see
one of the questions are given to you
during the preparation time in the past
yes answer it in the past so you don't
have to answer every question in the
past present and future the thing to do
would be yes answer in the same tense
you are asked but if you are doing the
profession time and you don't see any
question in the past for example it's
very likely you are going to have one of
the surprise question in the past so you
could prepare some key words key verbs
in the past like forecasting what kind
of question you are going to have so
let's dive in a little in the palma
technique the palma technique is going
to help you face the first question de
que la foto o discreet describe la foto
palmo stands for six different words
that are going to work like checklist
for you to know what to say about the
photograph so the P for example stands
for people imply
so you can say a la foto iona persona
and a photo ID tres personas a young
Chico a unity cat you can describe them
en el pelo necro teen el pelo Largo or
you can also describe the places maybe I
own a cathedral or I own a Casa Grande
and you can give details about this
description a instance for action so
please describe always always say what
they are doing right so you can say s
tan cosine and oh you can say s tan
trecek Lando so have a look at the photo
card Israeli likely to have keywords and
info you can use you read the
description of the photograph you may
see like environment you can see made
you ambient edge you can see Rafi Clark
hey you can see recycler in the rest of
the questions or in the title so please
during the professional time always
always read from the beginning to the
end of the photo card and have a look at
what keywords you may be able to use or
to be inspired by okay so let's go to
the L the L stands for location so you
may say they stand in Colegio oh it's
done in El Campo Oh Stan I don't know a
la universidad M stands for mood so you
can say para sa contento if they look
happy or parecen three stairs paraffin
concentrators or paraffin contentos or
instance for opinion so you can give
your opinion about the photograph please
remember give two sides opinions like
saying my Paris a importante
por que es bueno para el medio ambiente
pero es un Hoyo pero es a burrito okay
pero un Rayo means but it's pouring w
stands for weather so if they are
outside of course you cannot say
anything if they are inside but if they
are outside you can say si buen tiempo
or as a mal tiempo when the people is
inside if you don't have more
information to say about the photograph
because you cannot think of things to
say you may say parece que si bon tiempo
por que debe ropa de Verano
so it looks like they it's with weather
because they are wearing summer coats
okay so the palma technique please have
a look at our workshop about describing
the photo and the palma technique we are
going to say a lot of examples about
what to say in every one of these
letters and these people actual location
mood opinion weather and we are also
going to have like a lot of photograph
and we are going to describe them so you
can get a lot of training in this
workshop so please subscribe to our
channel and go and have a look to this
photograph workshop that we are going to
record for the next video okay so as we
said we have follow the questions and
you have to be really careful and answer
the questions so please read carefully
and if they're asking for where the
advantages of the social social networks
and and the internet or the technology
please don't don't say what is your
opinion but you could say what are the
advantages right then please do use
three tenses
but remember you don't have to use their
three tenses in every question yes cover
the three tenses all along that
photograph guard and then three try to
focused and write a list of useful
expression expressions and useful verbs
in in the tense you think that is very
likely to be the following and as a
unsurprised question so that's the end
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