Chiltern Edge MFL

Avoir - to have

"Avoir" (to have) is a really important verb in French, one that you'll need to use in almost any situation. To help you learn it from memory click on the link below and use the activities to help you practise:

Studystack - Avoir

The song below might help you to remember it - if nothing else it's catchy!     

La Fête des Rois

The "Fête des Rois" is a celebration that takes place in France, and in many other Catholic countries, to celebrate Epiphany (often known as "Twelfth Night" in the UK). 

I wrote a post about the "Fête des Rois" a few years ago. Click on the link below to find out more:

 http://chilternedgemfl.typepad.com/chiltern-edge-mfl/2010/01/la-f%C3%AAte-des-rois.html

 

Year 7 - Ma famille

Year 7, you are currently learning to talk about your family and pets. You can download a copy of the core vocabulary by clicking on the following link:

Download Yr7 Unit 1 family learning mat

You can listen to the vocabulary being read aloud here:

FLA recording - Ma famille

or can download the sound file by clicking on the link below:

Download FLA recording - Ma famille

 

Year 8 French - Là où j’habite

Year 8 - your current unit of work is called  "Là où j’habite". In it, you are learning to describe your local area, your house and your bedroom. You can download a copy of the core vocabulary sheet here:

Download Yr8 Unit 1 Where I live learning mat

You can listen to a sound file of this vocabulary here:

FLA recording La ou j'habite

To download the sound file, click on the link below:

Download FLA recording La ou j'habite

 

 

Eurovision@ChilternEdge 2012

On Thursday 4th October Chiltern Edge once again played host to their annual "Eurovision" competition. Children from four local primary schools competed to win the coveted award. Standards were extremely high this year and competition was fierce. After a short break, the adjudicators announced their final decision. It was a close fought battle, but the winners this year were Micklands Primary School. Congratulations to everyone who took part - we at Chiltern Edge were extremely impressed by the quality of singing, the originality of ideas, and the range of languages used. Click on the links below to watch the video recordings of the performances:

 Download Micklands

Download Caversham Park

Download Emmer Green

Download Sonning Common French

Download Sonning Common Italian

 Later the same day, Year 7 classes also performed in their own version of "Eurovision". Each class had written their own version of a Take Ten song, and had created their own props and actions to help convey the meaning of their song. After much deliberation, a tie was announced for first place. Congratulations to 7S and 7T who were joint winners.

Well done to everyone who took part in making Eurovision@ChilternEdge such a successful day, and a special thank you to Mrs Crawshaw and Ms Biddiss for organising the day.

Farewell to our Foreign Language Assistants

At the end of May we said goodbye to Juliette Duthoit and Anna Reuling who have been our French and German language assistants for the last 8 months. They have been taking students regularly out of lessons in small groups to give them more practice in speaking and have coached GCSE students at lunchtimes. We are very grateful to them for all their work in school and the extra dimension they have given to language learning, as our students have gained greater insight into the customs and way of life in both France and Germany.

Thank you, merci, danke!

Le sport par 7T

7T have  just learnt the names of various sports and have been thinking about how to transer key language from one topic to another. When talking about school, welearnt to express opinions and tried to extend our work by giving reason for our opinions. We decided we could do the same with sports. Have a look at our work below - how many of us were successful? We'd love to read your comments and advice! Click on the grey bar under each "Bookr" to see them in full size.

Le commerce équitable - 9fr1

9fr1 have been learning about Fairtrade, or "le commerce équitable" in French lessons recently. For a homework task, they were asked to answer the following question: "Qu'est-ce que c'est le commerce équitable?"

 

Take a look at what they thought by clicking on the link below:

 http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/9french1

Carnaval de Nice - 9fr4

9fr4 were given the task of finding out about the carnival which takes place in Nice once a year. Take a look at what some of them found out.

Festival de nice lauren a

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Carnival de nice promotion task connor

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Carnaval de nice promotion task grace

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L'heure - Year 7 French

Check out these videos to help you learn how to tell the time.