Podcast Entry - YR7German Speaking Assess

We have recently completed some Year 7 German Speaking assessments. Play the entry on the Podcast and leave your comments - What did she do well (WWW)? Even better if (EBI)? Work out what level you think she might be (including sub level and your reasons for it:

Year 8 voki project

Year 8 class talking about their hobbies in French. ( Miss Figueira)


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Get a Voki now!


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Get a Voki now!


Get a Voki now!

Wiki Presentations Year 10 French

Today we started work on some oral presentations in year 10 French. We used a Wiki which had the task instructions on a welcome page, then the students had their own personal pages to write their preparation work on. Online based work means the teacher gets access to multiple students' work in one place and is able to see immediately at what stage the student is at. Student's can also see the work of their peers for ideas to improve their own. A "Comments" facility enables the students to ask questions to the teacher who can answer them directly. This provides another avenue of communication of the student were to be unable to find the teacher during the school day for example. The students were very motivated especially at the prospect of being able to peer correct each other's work. We will continue to experiment with capabilities of Wikis as the project develops. (We have kept the Wiki closed to public access for child protection purposes).

Madamoiselle Hardman

8S Spanish Invitation Dialogue Medley

¡Hola!

Today we recorded some dialogues in Spanish using our Easi-Speak microphones. The sound files were then combined into a medley using Audacity software and then uploaded to our Podcast. Listen to the podcast entry for today's date and leave some comments below.

What do you think the students did well (WWW) and what could they improve on (EBI)?

Señorita Hardman

Languages Laboratory - Teacher review

I loved our lessons in our languages laboratory today. My year 10 pupils had the opportunity to record a conversation complaining about a campsite that they had stayed at. This followed on from a written homework of the same nature. Each pupil then listened to another pupil's recording. They were provided with the Edexcel speaking criteria and a peer assessment sheet where they could comment on their partner's achievements within this speaking activity. Well done to all of them for their hard work today.

Miss Hardman

STARTING JAPANESE

This is what Year 7 students say about learning Japanese at Weald...

"At first I thought that Japanese would be really difficult but now I've been doing it for a whole year it's not. I actually understand the language! The most difficult part was learning hiragana. English only has 26 letters. Hiragana is over 46 symbols and sounds."

"I found travel easiest to learn. I found remembering the 46 hiragana the hardest."

"Interesting and fun things about Japanese: playing games while learning, working in groups, doing origami, creating things, being able to write hiragana with fun added!"

"At first I thought Japanese was going to be really hard but by the time I was on my 5th lesson I found it easier. We learnt about nationality and pets which were fun to learn, as everything is."

"At WOK Japanese is great fun and extremely interesting. It gives us a chance not only to learn the language but to explore their culture as well. Learning the Japanese script has been interesting but very challenging as there are 4 Japanese alphabets! (hiragana, kanji, katakana and romaji!!) At the start of the year most of us knew little to no Japanese, but now we can confidently give a short speech about ourselves to the entire class!"

Listen to some of our interviews!

http://mbm-wok.podomatic.com/entry/2009-07-12T14_55_05-07_00
http://mbm-wok.podomatic.com/entry/2009-07-12T14_43_30-07_00