Grangefield Languages

Promoting languages - futures evening at Grangefield - 29th February 2012 !!

We've just had a successful Futures evening at Grangefield - we showed the following powerpoint, which is also on display on the screen in the MFL corridor !!

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Thomas Dutronc - Demain!

Pupils of the week ending 24th February 2012 - Sheila Risbourough and Ryan Poppleton

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 24th February

We're back after a relaxing half term and the pupils are already working hard! Our year 7's going on the Pas de Calais should have paid their full amount by now, and I'm sure are looking forward to the trip in June!  Year 9's and 10's going on the trip in October to the Somme should be soon paying their second deposit.  Although our year 8's all haven't received letters from their penfriends in Rwanda yet, the ones who have so far, were delighted to receive them, and hopefully we'll get the rest soon!  The Spanish  club on Tuesday lunchtime and the  French club on Friday lunchtime were well attended as usual this week, so well done to Susanna and Claire, and next week the Mandarin club will be launched and takes place on a Thursday lunchtime with Miss Xu.  Acitives planned include games, paper folding, watching Chinese films, seeing videos, and learning about school life in China, so should be loads of fun!   Please see Miss Xu, for an early lunch pass if you have school meals.  Our year 11's are working hard, and please remember that we are running extra revision classes on a Thursday evening after school.  The year 8's started the next language of the Carousel this week, and it is going well so far!  It is not too early for pupils to be thinking about their next project for the Carousel project week.

Homework

Mrs Roe’ s Classes

8G1 – 10 sentences in passé compose to translate

Y8 German – Find out an interesting fact about Germany

9G – Learn checklist to help with speaking FCSE test

9F Spanish – Learn household tasks

9G German – Worksheet on German numbers

Y10 – Worksheet on perfect tense and say in past what you did at the weekend

Y11 – Write a paragraph about future plans

 Mrs Cox’s Classes

7G2 – Learn subject and opinion sentences

8F3 – Learn daily routine phrases

9F2, 9G4 – Revision for FCSE exam

Year 10 – Revise future tense 

Miss Bell’s Classes

7F1 – Design your ideal uniform and write about it using “j’aimerais porter”. Include a picture and colours and styles in your description.

Y8 – Learn 2 of the “le matin” phrases off by heart.

Y9 – Revise 8 sentences for writing exam and produce cue card.

Y10 – Create an additional character for the Spanish soap opera. Include physical description as well as personality and what role they play.

Y11 – Prepare first 2 paragraphs for speaking exam, based on school. Use prompts to help. Include connectives, tenses and idiomatic expressions.

 Ms Lindley’s Classes

Y7 – Make a wardrobe of clothes

Y8 – Revision for assessments

Y9 – Redraft first attempt at writing assessment

Y10 – Use imperfect tense to describe what used to be worn in the sixties

 Madame Plouchart’s Classes

7F3 – Vocab test on school subjects out of 10 with help, out of 20 without help

7G3 – Write 5 sentences to give opinions about school subjects

7G4 – From module 3 write 5 sentences to give opinions about school subjects

8F1, 8G2 – Vocab test on past tense. Choose to work with or without help

9G2 – Learn speech for exam and produce cue card

Pupils of the week - week ending 10th February 2012 - Rachel O'Neill, Abdul Arshad, Lewis McPhillips, Shereen Akhtar and Kelsey Morris !!!

Mrs Roe's weekly update - week ending 10th February 2012

What a hectic week in the run up to the half term holidays!  The Mandarin club has recently begun on a Thursday lunchtime in C14, but will be advertised after half term.  Pupils are still coming along to the French and Spanish lunchtime clubs so many thanks to Miss Xu,  Susanna and Claire for all their hard work this half term.   The year 8's had their Carousel project week this week, and we had some excellent work done by our pupils - role plays and presentations were filmed in the media suite, or on our flip cams, pupils produced some impressive quizzes, tourist brochures, games, and other projects to show what they had been learning in their first taster language this week.  We are hoping to display their work in the MFL corridor and on the MFL screen - well done year 8's!!! The above shows some board games which are just two examples of what the pupils have been doing.  We sent off the first deposit for the year 9 and 10 French/History trip this week, so the countdown has begun!!  Final payments for the year 7 Pas-de-Calais trip are due after half-term, and Mrs Beadnall came into our assembly to talk about the proposed Science/Geography trip to Iceland next year!  How exciting is that!!!! So, on the whole, our pupils have worked really hard this half term.  Bonnes vacances!

Mrs Roe's classes

7F – Revise for Module 2 test

8G – Prepare for carousel project

9F, 9G – Learn for FCSE writing assessment on holidays.

Y10 - Write 20 sentences in French using the verbs we have been learning this week.

Y11 – Revise yellow vocab book – very important! Write about your work experience and what you would like to do in the future

Miss Bell’s Classes

7F – Complete and decorate Valentines poem

 9F, 9G – Learn a je suis allé(e) sentence off by heart Y10 – Prepare 1 minute speech for speed dating and write up results of speed dating task using the 3rd person

Y11 – Presentation using the imperfect tense to talk about when you went to primary school.

Mr Hussain’s Classes

Y11 – Learn by writing an essay about yourself

Y10 – Make a poster on social problems

9G, 9F – Learn about the animals you studied

Ms Lindley’s Classes

7F, 7G – Draw clothes symbols in white homework book – learn as many as possible

Y8 – Collect items for project

Y9 – Learn future rap, make own future sentence about next holiday

Y10 – Learn clothes vocab and imperfect pattern

 Mrs Cox’s Classes

7G2 – Learn the time 12 hour clock

8F3 – Carousel preparation

9F, 9G – Revise directions and positional adjectives

Y10 – Worksheet on future tense

HSBC advert - internationalism

HSBC advert - internationalism ............

"Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English? Britain's future economic and political wellbeing is being hamstrung by our reluctance to learn foreign languages"

Article in The Observer today by Will Hutton, principal of Hertford College, Oxford

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/will-hutton-learn-foreign-languages

Miss Bell's Spelling Bee !!!

COME ALONG TO FRENCH CLUB ON FRIDAY LUNCH TIME FOR PRACTICE OF SPELLING BEE WORDS - I WILL BE ENTERING THE BEST 4 PUPILS INTO A REGIONAL COMPETITION AND THERE ARE SOME FANTASTIC PRIZES TO BE WON PLUS CERTIFICATES!