SNOW: MFL ADVICE & GUIDANCE: UPDATED WEDNESDAY 13th

Here we go again! Updates for Wednesday 13th are in red below We all hope that you are enjoying your extended break because of the snow and ice. However, we also recognise that you are beginning to miss out on your language learning and here are a few ideas to keep you busy over the next few days...

Year 11
Use the opportunity to catch up on any speaking exam preparation that is not yet completed or coursework completion / improvement. Use the vocab lists in Linguascope KS4 for help as well as your workbook and notes made in class.
As you probably know from the Gillotts website, the mock oral exams have been postponed and will now take place in term 4. This is no bad thing as you will now have an opportunity to run through the full speaking exam about a month before the real thing. By that time, you will have prepared everything that needs to be prepared and it will be a real boost for your confidence!
Remember that there are dedicated sections on Moodle to help you practice for the exams and support you with your coursework:
French Listening exams
French Speaking exams
French Reading exams
French Coursework
French Voila workbooks listening material
German Listening material for Logo
For German students, spend some time practising your spoken presentations as you will all be spending some time with Nicole when we get back to school.
Past papers can also be accessed via the exam board website:
AQA French
AQA German
AQA Spanish
If you have any questions for your GCSE languages teacher, you can use the email contacts on the right of this page (you'll need to scroll down a bit) to email them directly.

Year 10
All Languages
You all have a textbook: take some time to revise and practice the key tenses by reading through the relevant grammar section at the back of the book and trying some of the exercises after the explanation. To achieve grade C or above you need to be able to make references to past, present and future. To achieve the higher grades you also need to be confident using extra tenses such as the imperfect or conditional tenses - practice those as well if you are aiming for the higher grades!
German
Freetime: Work through the vocabulary on P. 164 and then P. 184
Go onto www.atantot.com - user name : g******* Password: 7988 and follow this path: German - KS3 - Freizeit. Work through all the exercises - Grammatik - Past tense ( revise the perfect tense )
In www.linguascope.com - Intermediate -user name g******* password H****y - German - Die Hobbys - work through exercises and then print out ' resources to print out '.
Write a paragraph in your exercise book on your freetime interests.
Why not spend some time exploring the online support available for the French / German / Spanish Extra programmes that you may have watched at school. You can even watch the programmes themselves by visiting the Teachers' TV website. Alternatively, don't forget that the Linguascope (username: G******s, password: H****y) intermediate section is written specifically for students studying at GCSE level. Or why not rent a foreign language film from Blockbusters or I Love Film? You can even get some French films that were shown on BBC4 last weekend via the BBC i-player, including the Oscar winning La Vie en Rose.

Year 9
French: Parts of the body - use Linguascope to revise!
Go to the Teachers' TV website and watch all about the Wombats on tour in Europe and see how their three "fixers" got on helping them arrange their European tour. It'll get you thinking about how you could possibly use your French / German / Spanish once you have left school!
Year 9 German: use your workbooks to complete the work on shopping and pocket money from unit 2.

Year 8
French: Use Languages Online (www.languagesonline.org.uk )to revise the past tense that most of you were beginning to study at the end of last term.
You guys could watch the Wombats on tour as well or use Linguascope - password details above - or use the Moodle versions of Expo / Echo Electro: the links for those are over there on the right!
Year 8 German: use your workbooks to complete the work on food from unit 2.

Year 7
If you did have a lesson earlier this week and you did recieve your new workbook, use the opportunity to look back over the exercises in the first two units of the book. It is excellent revision of the things that you studied in terms 1 and 2!
Many of you are about to start learning Spanish or German - why not try some of the sections in Linguascope and impress your new Spanish or German teacher in your first lesson next week! For those of you lucky enough to be in one of the new CLIL groups, find out what CLIL is by clicking here! Get your parents to look at the website with you as it will help them to understand what you are going to be doing as well - we didn't get a chance to explain to them this week as the meeting was cancelled due to the weather.....

See you all next week.
Your MFL teachers.