All Saints Languages Blog

La fête du citron, Menton - Cultural Awareness

As part of their homework, year 7 were asked to research this festival.

Here are 2 amazing exmaples of year 7 work which describe (in English) what the festival is.

Bravo girls!

 

Did you know February 2010 is DISCOVER LANGUAGES MONTH!

Find out more here:

www.discoverlanguages.org

Take a quiz - Are you smarter than a language teacher?

http://www.discoverlanguages.org/files/public/DL_teacherquiz.pdf

Answers here:

http://www.discoverlanguages.org/files/public/areyousmarterthan_answers.pdf

GET YOURSELF INVOLVED AND EARN TEAM POINTS AND FAB PRIZES FOR YOUR EFFORTS!

TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE LIKE YEAR 9 - LEARN THE BASICS OF A NEW LANGUAGE OVER HALF TERM.

CHOOSE FROM RUSSIAN, JAPANESE OR NORWEGIAN.

HERE IS THE LINK YOU NEED: http://bit.ly/bqp8sp 

International Advent Calendar

Many thanks to my Twitter friend Clare Seccombe for this amazing resource:

http://www.sunderlandschools.org/international/advent-calendar.htm

http://www.csdraveurs.qc.ca/musique/noel/calendrier/default.htm

no 12 and no 4

Spotlight on Senegal - Cultural Awareness

See more at http://www.epals.com/media/75/default.aspx

Please leave your comments IN ENGLISH to let me know what you think of these video clips.

Pocket Money (Y91FL) - Barney in York, England and Hassan in Morocco

 

Compare the lives of the two boys and look for similarities and differences.

Why are certain words hilighted in red?

Write a similar account about yourself and post it as a COMMENT below.

Don't forget to include PROF - Past Reasons Opinions and Future.

What do you know about Morocco? 

Check out the Morocco section on the blog including a brilliant Fling The Teacher Quiz!

:) Madame Bewell

 

 

 

Moi et mon argent de poche - Barney en Angleterre et Hassan au Maroc

View more presentations from suzibewell.

 

Tour de France game - fill in the town/city names

We will be playing this game in class soon - in preparation can you send a comment with the names of the missing towns and cities.  You are given the first letters as a clue!

Free running could be taught in secondary schools - The Independent on Sunday 25 January 2009

Have you heard of the French sport Free Running (also known in French as le parcour)?

Check out the video below (taken from the film Casino Royale)

and read the article from this week's press

- would you like a chance to try this out in school??? (please comment)

 

 

Pilot scheme in London shows that the sport,

which combines running with gymnastics, helped to cut youth crime by 30 per cent.

Free running – the sport based on running and leaping over and across buildings and urban obstacles – could be taught in every secondary school in the country under radical proposals to cut youth crime. The mix of running and gymnastics, also known as parkour, is frequently featured in TV advertisements and to spectacular effect in the James Bond film Casino Royale. Now talks are under way to bring it to schools after a successful three-year pilot project in London, which is claimed to have cut youth offending by as much as 30 per cent.

 

View the full article by clicking on the link below:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/free-running-could-be-taught-in-secondary-schools-1515326.html

Paris pour les touristes

Write a short paragraph IN FRENCH and mention 5-10 things you can see or do in Paris based on the clip

- think of a variety of sentence starters and

- aim to include some opinions and quantifiers

Les Skatiens - trop cool! Skaters take a look.

Skatiens
envoyé par misterpuma

Maroc Tourisme

La Guadeloupe vue du ciel

View the clip and then comment including links to other clips or supply information you have found out (preferably in French) about this beautiful French island.

Paris Break - Cool break dancer + major sights of Paris. Well worth a watch!

Prize for the person who can spot the most major tourist spots of Paris from the clip.

Add comment below and send with your answers.

Competition ends last day before Christmas holidays 2008 so get a move on folks!
Paris Break
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