Wakefield City High School – MFL Blog

Hello to all pupils new and old, and welcome to the Wakefield City High French Blog! This blog was set up some six months ago to allow you to access as many cool resources and games from home as possible.

Now, with the new virtual learning platform to come into effect at City High in the next few months, we will hopefully be able to update this blog with more fun and interesting games, and leave the homework and more serious stuff to that VLE, but til then, here are the resources that you have been working with this first month, to allow you to consolidate the stuff you know!!

Year 7

Numbers-1-10-french

Numbers-10-100-practice

Alphabet

Talk-Phrases

Year 8

Personal Information

Il-and-Elle-metro-2-vert-p8-and-9

After School Activities – La-semaine-de-pascal-metro-2-vert-p-12-13

Year 9

Metro-3-a-la-decouverte-de-la-france

Metro-3-rouge-a-la-decouverte-de-la-france

La-france-des-villes-m3-rouge-p8

Year 10

Expo-4-p-6-hobbies-likes-and-dislikes-revision

ID Card – Profile-of-a-famous-person-categories

Characteristics-adjectives

Parents-jobs-expo-p-23

Where-people-work – Expo4-P13

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Welcome back to all our pupils, but especially to our Year 11’s as you enter your crucial final year. As you know, this year we have got double French on a Thursday (I can already hear the groans and complaints from you, Miss Rusling)

Still, what this will hopefully mean, is that you all can have a go developing your French skills using my new computers, kindly donated by Mr. Chippendale (he had no say in the matter I might add) in my brand new room! And to start, we have a little online task for you to have a bash at. Type your answers after the questions, before printing them out, and before you do, please format your work so that the text and questions all appear on one page!!

Online House and Home Comprehension

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As you know, I have a love of penguins. Seriously. I think it may date back to when I was 3 and my mum took me to Edinburgh Zoo, and I spent best part of 10 minutes having a staring contest with a penguin through a wire fence…

So, to annoy you even more, have a look at what I’ve just found – Pigloo! Penguins in French!!!! My day couldn’t get any better!

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d1dc761ad8717c352da9

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How many of your favourite footballers can you spot in this advert? How many languages do you reckon were used? It’s a really cool advert showing the power of being able to communicate with people from all around the world, in many different languages.

Whatever your thoughts on the players, what they do show you, is that being able to understand them, appreciate them and learning languages… is cool!

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Year 7 – you will shortly be completing your end of year test in your French lessons. Here is a little revision worksheet that will help you to prepare!!!

If you have any questions, put a comment at the end of this post and we’ll get back to you!!

Bon courage!!

Year 7 end of year test revision

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For the whole of Year 10, we will be doing a complete mock GCSE exam for your end of year assessment and achievement grades. As you know, the exam is in 4 parts – writing, reading, listening and speaking. Your writing grade will be based on the two pieces of coursework you have done this year, so don’t worry, there won’t be a writing exam.

As for the rest, your reading test will be in your normal lesson on Wednesday 25th and your listening test will be in lesson time on Tuesday 1st July. The speaking exams are done slightly differently, and will be carried out on Thursday 3rd July, between periods 1 and 3.

Speaking Exam

Your speaking exam on Thursday 3rd July (during periods 1-3 and you will be given your time later)will be in two parts – 2 role plays followed by your conversation questions that we have done in class, that you were given to take home and learn last week. Below are a few things for you to look at and revise from, should you get stuck…. Bonne Chance!!

Year 10 Speaking Exam – \’A\’ role play revision

Year 10 – Speaking Exam – \’B\’ Role Play Revision

Year 10 – Conversation Questions – Revision

Year 10 Speaking Exam – Conversation Questions

Year 10 Speaking Exam – Conversation Questions Examples

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As we’ve covered in Thursday’s lesson, my top set year 9’s, 9H1, are going to be doing a levelling activity during Monday’s lesson, period 1. This is because we have to give you a true achievement mark for this year – the equivalent of your French SAT.

It will be a reading activity, where you read a poster detailling 7 funnily named villages in France and then have to answer a series of questions based on what you have read. You will be able to use a dicitionary during the activity, and only have to give one word (names of the villages) as answers.

Below is the revision lesson covered on Thursday, and make sure you look at the two slides concerned with using a dicitionary. Any problems or concerns, then leave a comment either in your year 9 page at the top, or at the end of this post!!

level-6-task

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45 intrepid explorers and 5 incredibly brave teachers – Mrs. Barnes, Mr. Hill, Mr. Griffiths, Miss Annetts and Miss Hawkshaw – take on the best that the metropolis of Paris has to offer… in the middle of December!

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Continuing on from our end of Module assessment, we’re going to be looking at places that you can find in town – and below is a resource for you to practice your French from home! There are also some directions and prepositions, which we will cover next lesson!

You’ll have to excuse some of the pictures – they’re not my finest efforts! But if you want to mention anything about, or comment about these activities, remember to do so in your own space at the top of the blog!!

Year 7 – Places in Town and Simple Directions

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There are a few people getting a little worried about the speaking test that we’re going to be doing on Monday, so here’s a reply to a question from Ben, which was left hidden as a comment on another post, that will help you.

Remember, you can still access the revision materials by clicking on the link in the post below this one, or by clicking on ‘Year 9′ in ‘Categories’ on the right!

What will happen on Monday is that a blank question sheet will be in front of us, and I will ask you the 5 questions in order…You won’t be able to look at your own answers, try to remember them, then say them You have to learn them by heart.

Firstly, you will be able to remember more than you think!! A couple of tips…

1. Revise Q1, then Q3, then Q5, in that order and not 1-5… And remember, its just 3 sentences per question… The reason behind this, is that Q2 is very similar to Q1 as is Q4 to Q3 – just different tenses really… once you have nailed these 3 questions, you’ll find it much easier to then learn Q2 and Q4…

2. Hold your revision sheet slightly to your left, and say the sentences out loud, then look away quickly when you’ve said one sentence…You brain can act like a camera, so by doing this, it is taking ‘photos’ of the revision.

3. Say a sentence out loud maybe ten times, then try and say it without looking at your sheet… keep going until you can say it without looking, then move on to sentence 2 and do the same. Once you feel comfortable with that, try and then say sentences 1 and 2 together, without looking at them…you’ll be linking them together and surprised by the results…

Finally, you can type your answers to the questions into this website, http://www.text-to-speech.imtranslator.net and it will say it back to you in perfect French, so you can practice your accent!!

Also – don’t get stressed about it all – you will be fine!! The fact that you’re on this blog on a Friday night shows that you care and are going to be really trying over this weekend – and that’s all that I can ask for – that you just try your best!!!

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