Grangefield Languages

'Foux du Fafa' Flight if the Conchords !!? (juste pour rire!)

Parlez-vous français - Art vs Science

2010 Highlights of the Tour de France! The 2011 Tour de France starts in the Vendée this Saturday!!

Many thanks to Mme Plouchart for this suggestion!

TV, pop and the internet are 'turning teenagers off learning foreign languages', warns Kate Adie

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007751/TV-pop-internet-turning-teenagers-learning-foreign-languages.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

There was also a similar article in the Telegraph on Saturday 25th June 2011,

Danza Kuduro - Don Omar ft Lucenzo letra (lyrics)

Many thanks to Sinead in 9f1 for this suggestion !!!

Pupils of the week - week ending 24th June - Lewis McDonald, Shahaawaz, Corin Newman and Emily Kemp !!!!!

FCSE exam dates - listening and reading tests for French and Spanish - YEAR 9

These will take place in the hall as follows:-

Tuesday 12th July - FRENCH - F band - lesson 2

Wednesday 13th July - FRENCH - G band - lesson 1

Thursday 14th July - SPANISH - F band - lesson 2

Thursday 14th July - SPANISH - G band - lesson 5

Pupils should go straight to the hall at these times.   

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 24th June 2011

Mrs Roe's weekly update

Time is running out this term but our pupils are still working hard.  The FCSE speaking and some writing tests have taken place this week, and the last listening and reading tests will take place week beginning 11th July.  I will put the exact dates on the blog after this entry.  Pupils who went on the Pas-de-Calais trip have been handing in their completed booklets and we hope to award certificates soon. Next week we will be asking our year 8's to fill in a questionnaire giving us their opinions on the language Carousel this year.  They will also be able to give their preference for their second language and we will try our best to give pupils their first choice, but because of class sizes and teacher availability, this may not be possible but pupils should get their first or second choice.  We are now busy, trying to organise events for next year, so watch this space! We have the Language Olympics coming up in September, the European Day of Languages also in September, we will develop the Carousel idea, hope to embed more languages into the curriculum, there may be some more trips, language projects  etc ............ exciting times!

HOMEWORK

Ms Lindley’s classes

7G3 & 7F5 – Revise numbers, colours and birthdays

8G3 & 8F1 – Collect items for project.  Learn top ten vocab and put into sentences. Learn 6 for presentation.

9G2 – Practise for speaking test

9F5 – Learn the mini rap

Miss Bell’s classes

8F1 – Complete bar chart on opinions (¿Cuál es tu color preferido?)

9G1 – Holidays worksheet to complete.  Learn 3 paragraphs for writing exam.

9F3 – Learn 3 paragraphs for writing exam.

Mr Hussain’s classes

8F – Learn to describe a room you want to book in a hotel

8G – Revise difficult words for test

9F – Learn to tools in Urdu for test

9G – Learn difficult words

Year 10 – Complete questions on leisure topic

Mrs Cox’s classes

9F4 & 9G3 – Learn weather vocab

Mrs Roe's classes

Year 7 G/F - go on linguascope and learn weather phrases - la météo

Year 8 f/g - learn parts of the body, illness and the illness/advice vocabulary we covered today.  Use the sheet you have been give and go on linguascope - le corps et les douleurs

 Year 9 f/g - revise for last speaking and writing FCSE meeting people assessment.

 Year 9 f1 - Spanish - revise shopping for food vocabulary

 Year 10 - Translate the sentences into French on household tasks and time.

Pupils of the week ending 17th June 2011 - Samantha Cook, Sasha Jackson, Mearya Mahmood, Naveed Khan and Dana Hammond !!!!!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 17th June 2011

To the parents

Well, the dust has settled after  last week and the Pas de Calais, and it was a great trip – worth all the hard work – and thanks too, to the parents who thanked us – much appreciated, but I have to say that your children are a credit to you and the school.  Pupils who participated in the trip had to hand in their work booklets to their group leader by today, but if they haven’t already done so, they should hand them in on Monday.  We had a lot of positive feedback, and already this week, with year 8, we were at the ‘pharmacie’ and we had to find one in France, and in one of our Métro topics we saw a BD or comic which one of our observant year 7’s remembered she’d seen at the hotel.  So, there were lots of benefits!!   Some of our year 10’s took their first written controlled test this week, and we’re busy preparing our year 9’s for their final topic for the FCSE.  Samples were sent off to moderators for this year’s FCSE entries, this week, so, now, we just have to wait for the results!  We said goodbye to Miss Salkeld this week, and lots and lots of thanks from all of us for all her hard work with our pupils and lots of luck for the future.                            

Now, am just about to do the Pupil of the week – and then tomorrow, it’s off to the Lake District – Windermere and the Great North Swim, which I’m doing for the PCRF – just hope the water isn’t too cold! (it probably will be!) Bon weekend!

Homework

Mr Hussain’s classes

8F – Learn new words for test on body parts

8G – Learn difficult words and meanings for test

9G – Learn the Urdu names of the tools for test

Year 10 – Prepare the answer for health questions

Ms Lindley’s classes

7F3 & 7G3 – Revise for end of module assessment (activities, weather, sports)

8F1 & 8G3 – Revise for end of module assessment on body parts, pharmaceutical products, illness and family

9G2 – Practice for FCSE speaking tests using 10 word prompts

Year 9 taster – Practice the rap

Miss Bell’s classes

7F4 – Research Boulogne on Google – visit languages blog – note down 5 interesting pieces of information

9G1 – Holidays work sheet & learn vocabulary (30 words)

9F3 – Learn speaking presentation and make 10-word prompt card

Miss Salkeld’s classes

9G3 – Learn weather phrases

Mrs Roe’s classes

7g1/7f2 – worksheet on verbs in the present tense

8g1 – Métro worksheets (2) on body parts and illness

9f1/9g4 – learn speaking assessment test for the FCSE exam

Year 10 – Linguascope – les tâches ménagères and Linguastars – la maison