Using the guide sheet create a piece of writing on the topic of holidays.Write a description of a holiday
France is currently in the middle of its Presidential Elections.
You have access to the Internet (wikipedia/ news sites) to research the process of these elections and who the main candidates are.
You could also research how France came to have a President- what did they have before? Why did it change? When did it change? Is the French system different to our own?
What are the main issues in France at the moment?
If you wish you may create a profile of each of the candidates or make a profile of a famous French President.
You must put your reserach into one A4 poster IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
You have this lesson and next lesson also.
1. Read the text on p.58 and the text on p. 60 again to refresh your memory of how to incorporate the preterite (past tense) into a text. Then, using the yellow box on p.59 and your own book notes, write a paragraph about your week (real or imaginary). You should use time phrases (see the blue box on p.59), opinions and connectives and make sure your sentences are not too short and snappy
2. Complete ex. 3 page 59 (you will need to access Kerboodle- don’t look at the transacript until afterwards). Write the answers in your ex.book.
3. Complete ex. 4a/4b page 61 (you will need to access Kerboodle- don’t look at the trsnacript until afterwards). Write your answers in your ex. book.
Please open the attached document and follow the instructions written on it.
MFL Film Club
Friday 12.30-1.15 Room 16
(to begin on 23rd March)
A fantastic opportunity to gain a greater insight into another language and culture.
If anybody is interested in attending please collect a letter from Miss O’Brien and return the permission slip by 21st March 2012.
The films available this term are:
* All films
will have sub-titles
| Normalement
(Normally) |
Je joue au…
Je fais du/de la/de l’….. |
au centre sportif
(at the sports centre) |
avec
ma mere, mon frère etc |
C’est cool! etc |
| De temps en temps
(Sometimes) |
au college
(at school) |
|||
| Une fois par semaine
(once a week) |
dans le parc
(in the park) |
|||
| Deux fois par semaine (twice a week) | ||||
| Tengo
I have |
problemas
dificultades |
con
with |
mis estudios. my studies
el comportamiento de mis compañeros. the behaviour of my classmates mis notas. my grades la presión. my pressure el estrés. stress |
| Me preocupo
I am worried about |
por
about |
||
| Tengo miedo I am scared of
Temo I am scared of |
de
a |
mis compañeros. my classmates
mis profesores. my teachers los exámenes / las evaluaciones. exams/ asessments |
|
| ¿Cómo | puede ayudarme? | ||
| ¿Qué | debería / puedo hacer? | ||
Write the following in French (use the verb flower attached above):
I watch you (s) listen
they draw we speak
I sing you (s) have lunch
she dances he plays
you (pl) copy We come back
they (f) leave he eats
they swim we travel
I live they dine(m)
Here are some useful structures to help you with your homework which is to write about your school timetable. We expect at least a third of a page for this task.
A las nueve= at 9
A las diez=at 10
A las once y cuarto= at 11.15
A las doce y cuarto= at 12.15
A la una y media=at 1.30
A las dos y media=at 2.30
A las tres y media=1t 3.30
empieza = starts
e.g. mi clase de español empieza a las…=my Spanish class starts at…
termina = finishes
e.g. mi clase de espanol termina a las…=my Spanish class ends at..
tengo una hora de…=I have an hour of..
los lunes/martes/miercoles…=on Mondays/ Tuesdays etc
después= after antes= beforesaco= I get
mi primera clase es= my first lesson in..
mi ultima clase es..=my last class is…
Listening Task
Find the “me encanta la informatica” soundfile on Fronter
Listen to the school subjects being pronounced and write them down in the order that you hear them (pay attention to your Spanish spellings!)
Listen to the 8 people give their opinion of a school subject e.g. Me gusta la historia. Note down the opinion and the subject in English in your book.
Listen to the four people talk about what they like/ don’t like to study. Note down a many details as you can in your ex. book in English.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
This is the soundfile to accompany Year 7 French homework.
http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/
http://www.whystudylanguages.ac.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15189033
http://www.cilt.org.uk/home/valuing_languages/european_day_of_languages.aspx
Languages_crisis_is_threatening
Report_reveals_extent_of_school_languages_crisis
SOUNDFILE 14 U4 in Fronter “Animals” folder
Your task is to listen to the 3 “paragraphs” of information and record in your ex. book at least 3 pieces of information per paragraph.
The aim is to improve the connections between the written word and the spoken word.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Log onto http://www.euroclubschools.co.uk/page41.htm
Print off the attached worksheet and answer the questions – forst one finihsed with all correct answers wins a prize! EuroclubSchoolsFRENCHChristmas30001
Take a look at what 8.2 have produced by logging onto Fronter room 8.2 or the student/staff room (the majority of the files are too big to be uploaded to the Blog, sorry!)…..
Assessment
Obj: To complete reading assessment
Please remember that there is a folder in 8Sp Room on Fronter which contains extensive revision files for the speaking assessment.
You will soon be doing your first speaking assessment
Sunderland’s certain je ne sais quoi wins over French theatre audiences
Featured in The Tim
es on Thursday 13th October
The setting is exotic, the decor strange and the characters endearingly unsophisticated.
So it is perhaps unsurprising that Sunderland — a play written by a French author who once worked in a factory in the city — should be hailed as a breath of fresh air on the Parisian theatre scene.
Clément Koch, 40, has won critical acclaim for offering audiences weaned on Château Latour and Chanel No 5 a glimpse of another planet.
Beer, football and unemployment are the backdrop to his work, which portrays the residents of the North East as everything that Parisians are not.
Their manners lack refinement, their home decoration leaves much to be desired and their clothes are garish. But they have a fierce sense of friendship and solidarity.
It rains so much in Sunderland “it feels like you’re living in a washing machine”, says Sally, the central character, who is played by Elodie Navarre, a well-known actress in France. She adds that if you have not lost your virginity by the age of 17, you are regarded as mentally abnormal.
Gaven, her suitor, played by Vincent Deniard, is a shock to French audiences, too. He is awkward and unable to express his sentiments except when drunk. Indeed, the only love he can talk about is the one he feels for Sunderland Football Club.
Yet whenever Sally needs a helping hand with the broken boiler, he is there. “I wanted a little exoticism in the play,” Koch told The Times yesterday. He managed that well enough. Seen from the elegant brasserie in central Paris where we talked over a €2.90 coffee, the North East is about as exotic as you can get.
“My eyes popped when I first went there,” said Koch, who gave up a career in business to become an actor before turning his hand to writing plays. “It wouldn’t have been any stranger if I had arrived in Japan.” He went to Britain in 1991 on a business studies course which involved three months of lessons in Durham and then six months working at the Nissan factory in Sunderland. He lived in Newcastle with two Nissan workers and became acquainted with a world very different from the one he had known at home.
“I really liked the place, but that whole ‘thank God it’s Friday’ phenomenon was unbelievable. The boozing and fighting and all that — you just don’t get that here.”
He was once chased out of a pub by a “horde of drunken girls”. He complained to the police, who promptly took him to the pub to confront the horde. “It was a bit surprising.” The dress-sense was unexpected, too. “The clothes the girls wore, well they were just, wow!” When his girlfriend visited from France, she looked for her usual soberly coloured nail varnish. “But that doesn’t exist up there.”
He admits that his play “is a bit of a caricature” of the North East, but says he wanted to get away from the usual French theatre diet of well-heeled, navel-gazing couples engaging in adultery.
His work, which revolves around Sally’s decision to become a surrogate mother to raise money to look after her autistic sister, has been playing to packed houses in Le Petit Théâtre de Paris since opening last month.
Le Figaro, the national daily, said the play, which may soon be staged in Russia, was “skilful and clever”, while Premiere, the internet site, compared Koch to Chekhov.
The success was not perhaps altogether unpredictable, however. France has long been fascinated by the grit of British working class culture and holds the likes of Ken Loach and Stephen Daldry in high esteem.
The difference with Sunderland is that it is written by a Frenchman
Today you will record your speaking presentation using the Sony digital recorder. This is very easy to use- simply press record to begin your presentation and stop when you are finished. Do not press any other buttons!
Once you have completed your assessment you must:
1. Look back in ex. book and complete any incomplete tasks
2. Complete a mind map of vocabulary on the topics we have studied in order to be fully prepared for the listening assessment next week.
