Friday, 24 June 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Vocabexpress Trials - Year 10
We trialled www.vocabexpress.com again today but with some of our year 10's this time. The girls were so engrossed I had trouble getting their attention to give me some feedback as to what they thought of the site!They liked the fact that you have to repeat the tests until you get it right. In our 20 min session one student thought that she had learned 15 new words. It makes you learn it as you cannot just skip past any stage that you are finding difficult.
Student Flag Art
We have some more flags that have been produced by our students that will be used on the menu on the right hand side. Thank you to all students who have made such an effort on these. Just the Japanese one to go!
Word of the Day (French)
We have some more entries for the Word of the day: "pneu" / tyre. Thank you very much to the students who have so far taken part!
Friday, 17 June 2011
Les Langues et La Technologie
We have a great opportunity to do an ICT project in this term with our year 9 French students. Projects so far include: an animation, a video, a French radio broadcast, an e-safety video, and a murder mystery themed www.voki.com project! I am really looking forward the results. More updates as we go along.Miss Hardman
Bradley Cooper speaks French!!!
Oh my gosh - in the languages department we are very excited: Bradley Cooper of "Limitless" and "The Hangover" (1 & 2) fame, SPEAKS FLUENT FRENCH!! Click here for the link to the video recording.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Videoconference with Ourense pen pals
Our three Year 7 Spanish classes have been writing to their Spanish pen pals in Ourense this year. 7 Blue have been the lucky ones who did a videoconference with their friends in 5°B. Below are some photos that were taken in the Spanish classroom. Their school blog is here. Why don't you take a look?
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Word of the Day (French)
Yet again more entries for the Word of the Day homework. Well done to those completed so far! A wall display will also be created in the B corridor of all entries.
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Vocab Express Trial
Today we have been trialling an online vocabulary learning tool called "Vocab Express". Good features include tests where all words must be correctly translated (target language to English/English to target language) in a row. Any errors and the test has to be done again with those words causing trouble being repeated at the end. It is also case sensitive and necessitates the correct use of apostrophes in both the target language and in English. The vocabulary lists are also directly linked to the text books that we are using so it links nicely with any text book based work.Student reactions from today's lesson were as follows:
"I like the fact that if you get one wrong you have to do the test again. I prefer this to all the other websites as I've learned alot today"
"It helps you learn because if you get one wrong you have to go back so it is helpful with revision"
The students were certainly on task for the whole of the lesson and 100% indicated that they felt the process had help them learn new phrases. Students didn't want to log off at the end of the lesson!
Mlle Hardman
Friday, 10 June 2011
Word of the Day (un pneu)
Whey heyyy we have our first student entry into the "un pneu" Word of the Day homework. Très bien fait!
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Word of the Day (FR)
We have a new entry in for the Word of the Day from Mme Stockwell:"pneu" (m) (/pne(r)/)
...which means "tyre" in French.
What a fabulous word! I think we need to get some students taking photos with objects represented by these Word of the Day entries. Will update when we have some pictures to add...
In the mean time with 9D FR we have discovered this great phrase: Je n'aime plus le pneu!!! Quite a tongue twister.
Mlle Hardman
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