jpm11French

Reading comp Practice

Try these 100 GCSE reading quickies. Work with a friend or online translator if you need to but make sure you get the exact answer. Don't jump to conclusions, look carefully at each one.

Media- leisure topic

Here's a prezi to help with Year 10 controlled assessment

 Work on this at home. Happy zooming

Practice writing (grade C/B level)

Self test Writing Practice Revision: School

Self-Test Writing Practice: Home, family, routine

Self-Test Writing Practice: Town

Self-test Writing Practice: food, drink, health leisure 

Self-Test Writing Practice:Holidays

Self-Test Writing Practice: Work

 

 Do these in chunks of 5 sentences at a time. 

 Note down the ones you get wrong and repeat until you get them right.  

Then you can have some chocolate or 20 mins on 'Savage Cannibal Rampage 3'  Enjoy! 

Cartoon explained:  "Yes yes mum; I'm revising for my A-Levels  on the internet" (French  comic strips are very popular. They often use non-standard spellings which are closer to the spoken language. Ouais = oui. More like 'yeah').

 

Practice revision material for listening and reading

Work through  this material carefully; you probably need a French teacher to guide you through some of it.  There are vocab grids for each question of the 2008 higher  listening (from qu 2). Underneath,  there are gap-fills and synonym examples  which correspond to each vocab box, showing the words in context, 

work for Monday 8th

Apologies - I won't be in due to illness.  

Writing Practice

On lined paper and hand in at the end: Yes, I know we've done it. It should be near perfect by now. You will be ranked in your groups on how well you do this.

1) que fais tu normalement le samedi

2)  et ton meilleur ami - que fait-il le samedi, d'habitude?

3) qu'est-ce que tu as fait samedi dernier?

4) Quels sont tes passetemps?

5) Quels sont tes projets pour le weekend prochain?

Higher people: do the above + describe an amusing incident that happened last weekend

Normal service

We will be working on the following areas up to half term:

1) Conversation  topics 4 & 5; you must get used to preparing notes for your first chosen conversation topic

2) Reading paper practice:

Here's a resource to be used in conjunction with Foundation Reading 2008 Part 1

 once you have worked through the resource, try the Fling the Teacher game (flash version) 

3) Higher writing people should work through the texts and tasks in the previous blogs

Les petits boulots

boulots = emplois.

Here's an A / A* sample text about les petits jobs. It's long so it's divided into 4 parts. Study it carefully, note key words and phrases.  Do the related activities and learn! 

Read part 1 above carefully, then try this activity

Read part 2 above carefully then try this activity  Flashcards and a few (very) retro games

Read Part 3 carefully then try:  Multi-choice game (flash version)       (html version)

Read Part 4 carefully then play this   Hoop shoot game (Flash version)

Sample higher writing - un OVNI

Below is another higher writing sample with activities for practice. Read carefully, do the activities then try to reconstruct the French as accurately as possible. Use the  'back or reverse  translation' method:

Step 1: Make vocab and phrase notes about the text

Step 2: Write 15-20 key sentences in English, based on the original text (this is basic translation)

Step 3: Put the original text away. Using only your  notes, and your English sentences, try to put your sentences back into French without looking at the original. Do about 5 at a time.

Step 4: Check each of the 5 sentences you have written by comparing them with the original French.

Step 5: Build up your 'back translation' skills by redoing them and building up the number you do at a time

OVNI -

Common writing errors

multiquiz 1

multiquiz 2

Have a look here for more  GCSE silly mistakes exercises (Click French then it's under Topics Units about half way down the page)

Higher writing- short sample narrative

Here's another sample text  to work on. Analyse it closely.  Make  notes, especially of the phrases in red.

Use the following technique for effective results:

Step 1: read the text carefully and make sure you understand it. 

Step 2: write 10 key sentences in English, based on the text. They could be direct translations

Step 3: Then, look back over the original French.  make notes

Step 4: Then, without looking at the original French, put your 10 sentences back into French

If you would like me to provide a translation, please let me know. 

Planned texts to follow: 

un OVNI       

pour et contre les petits jobs