7C+French

Bonjour to everyone in 7C French!! Welcome to your Wiki page!!

First of all, I would like to tell you all how well you have been doing this term in French, and what a wonderful effort so many of you have been putting in during your first term at high school!

Now that we are only a couple of weeks away from the end of term 1, we have assessment tasks coming up...so it's really important to revise all the work that we have been studying during term. This means you need to review:
 * How to ask about someone's name and age, and how to say your own name and age
 * How to ask about where someone lives, and how to say where you live
 * How to count to 30
 * The months of the year
 * How to ask when someone's birthday is and how to say when your own birthday is
 * Animals and how to say which animals you have at home
 * Whether you have any brothers or sisters

In total before the end of term, you will have to submit reading, writing and speaking assessment tasks, but don't worry, you will be guided through these and given class time to do them :-)

Good luck everyone!!

Miss Gregory

__14th March 2010__ Hi there everyone! Hopefully you are enjoying your weekend :-)

Just a little update about our French classes and tasks.


 * Don't forget that right now you all have your speaking assessment task due on Tuesday 16th March in our French lesson.**

Even though we went over the task sheet on Friday, make sure you read over it again before Tuesday to make sure you are certain you have covered all the requirements for the assignment. You should be spending some time over the weekend working on your assignment so that you are all ready to go on Tuesday - remember it is **//your responsibility//** to get together with your assignment partner before Tuesday and practice your script as there is no more class time left to work on it. Remember this assignment is pair/group work and so it is expected that everyone plays an equal role and does and equal amount of work in preparing.

Good luck to everyone, and I can't wait to hear all your wonderful French scripts on Tuesday!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend :-) Miss Gregory

__17th March 2010__ Hello everyone!

Just a little note to update you on your speaking assessment tasks.

A very big thank you to those of you who performed your speaking tasks yesterday. It was wonderful to see so many of you ready and confident to perform in front of your peers in another language! Well done!

I have been busy finalising your results, and will have give you feedback next week.

Before the end of term 1, you will also have to complete a **//reading assessment task//** and a **//writing assessment task//**. Please read the information below for more details about lesson plans and dates for your assessments.
 * __Upcoming assessment tasks__**

During our lesson on Friday 19th March (period 2), you will receive a **//writing assessment task//**. To complete this task, you will have to write some things in French, but don't worry, everything that you will need to write will be material which you have learnt in French during term 1. You will have class time to work on this task, and you will be able to refer to your text book and note book to look up spelling and French expressions to help you to complete the task. Please look at the timetable below so that you know what you should be doing in French class.
 * //Writing assessment task//**
 * **Friday 19th March** - **period 2** - you will receive your **//writing assessment task//** and will have **the entire lesson** to work on this task.
 * **Tuesday 23rd March - period 2** - you will continue working on your **//writing assessment task//** for **half the lesson**.
 * **Friday 26th March - period 2** - you will have **the entire lesson** to work on your //**writing assessment task**//, and you **__must hand in this task at the end of this lesson__**.


 * __WRITING ASSESSMENT TASK DUE DATE: FRIDAY 26TH MARCH - PERIOD 2__**

During our lesson on **Tuesday 23rd March (period 2)**, you will spend the **first half of this lesson** doing a **//reading assessment task//**. This means that you will be asked to read something in French and then answer some questions about it. Don't worry, everything in the task will be material that you have learnt in French during term 1. However, **you will NOT be allowed to refer to your text book during this reading task**, and so it is really important that you revise all the material that we have studied this term so that you are ready for the assessment. Please see the list above which tells you the things you need to study.
 * //Reading assessment task//**

Good luck everyone, and I will give you more specific information and criteria about these tasks in our next French lesson :-) Miss Gregory

Hello everyone and welcome back to term 2! I hope you are all well rested and ready to have another wonderful term in French!
 * __TERM 2 - WEEK ONE__**

Thanks to everyone for your super efforts at the end of last term with your assessment tasks. I was especially impressed with the speaking task, your enthusiasm to practice your dialogues and your courage to speak in French in front of your classmates. This was a challenging task and you all deserve congratulations for doing such a great job!
 * //Term 1 Assessment Tasks: Report and Update//**

//**Important Notice: Writing Assessment Tasks**// Thank you to those of you who handed in your writing assessment tasks for me to mark over the holidays. I saw some wonderful posters which were extremely creative and artistic, and it was clear that you had understood and were able to use the words and phrases that you learnt during term 1.


 * For those of you who did not hand in your writing task posters last term, you will have one last chance to do so in order to gain marks for this assessment. In order to have your writing assessment considered for marking, it must be handed to me or put on my desk (200 block staffroom) **no later than Monday 19th April at 3pm**//.// Please come to see me if you need another assessment criteria sheet.*

In our first lesson for French this term we focussed on learning a poem titled "La Baleine" (The Whale). Over the course of the lesson we translated the poem into English and then practiced the pronunciation of the poem in French, firstly as a class altogether and then as pairs. This was both fun and challenging, and everyone did very well to try their best with this task.
 * //Poetry Lesson//**

The purpose of learning this poem was to inspire students to take part in the **Berthe Mouchette Poetry Competition** held by the Alliance Francaise later this term. If anyone is interested in learning the poem "La Baleine" off by heart to enter the competition, **please come to see me by** **Friday 23rd April.**

During the next couple of lessons we will be completing a cultural task. Students will complete a map of France and surrounding countries in order to learn more about the geographical location of France and the nature of the landscape. The completion of this map will be done as a guided step-by-step process. Upon completion, the tasks will be marked and some will be put on display at Open Night later this month to show off the great work that everyone does in year 7 French!!
 * //Upcoming Lessons//**

Miss Gregory

Hello everyone! I hope you are all settling back into the routine of school now that it is week 3. I just want to give you all an update on our progress and to inform you of the upcoming text book unit :-)
 * __TERM 2 - WEEK THREE__**

We have so far spent a couple of lessons working on our cultural task about France. Students have been guided step-by-step to fill in a map of France inlcuding many rivers, mountain ranges, cities and the surrounding seas and countries. Students have done well to fill in their maps with lots of colour and I have seen some wonderful and clear labelling on the maps as well.
 * //France Cultural Task//**

The second and third parts of this task asks students to answer a few questions about France as a whole (currency, population etc), and also to choose a few cities which have been labelled during the mapwork activity and find out some extra facts about them. Students will be making use of computers in class to access the internet in order to carry out some research to complete these activities.

Our aim is to have these cultural tasks finished by the end of this week, and I am really looking forward to seeing some excellent researching and reading some interesting information about France from year 7!!

The unit for term 2 from our text book is called "Ma Famille" (My Family). Students have recently begun learning about the words for different family members in French. As we continue over the next week or so, students will apply this information to state the names and ages of their family members, and will also apply some information from last term's work (pets) to talk about any animals they have at home.
 * //Ma Famille Unit//**

As the unit progesses more, students will also learn how to describe themselves and their family members in terms of personality and appearance. However, more about that later!! :-) Miss Gregory

Hi everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that because of some alterations to lesson times (NAPLAN and House Cross Country) our listening test is now scheduled for **//Tuesday 18th May, period 2//**.
 * LISTENING TEST*****

Please be prepared to do this listening task by doing some revision before hand. You will need to revise the following things for this listening task: - How to ask about someone's name and answer your name - How to talk about if you/someone else has any brothers or sisters - Numbers 1-20 - How to talk about pets If you have any questions about this test, please feel free to come to see me before hand. Miss Gregory