Practise your reading and listening

Work for 29th April

Here's the 2010 paper. Remember if you're really stuck you can access the transcript on the SQA website but see how you get on without looking.

Higher
audio file & question paper - please access via link to sqa page - just scroll down to past paper & marking instructions and choose 2010 audio file. Left click on the file and your media player should launch automatically, or you can right click if you want to save the file to your computer. Click on 'Higher all' to get all the question papers for that year.

Int 2
Once you've completed under exam conditions (30 mins) have a look at the transcript and note any vocab you didn't know which provided answers - dates, months, days, weather, etc, etc.
audio file & question paper - please access via link to sqa page - just scroll down to past paper & marking instructions and choose 2010 audio file. Click on 'Int2 all' to get all the question papers for that year.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: I've decided we'll do the Lang in Work writing NAB on Wed afternoon and not on Tuesday (will explain on Tues - hope that's ok with you guys.)

Work for Friday 22nd April

Here are the 2009 papers. Thought it might be good for you to try under exam conditions. If you're really stuck you can access the transcript on the SQA website but see how you get on without looking.

Higher
I've put the essay question on aswell as we really need some timed exam practice (remember you have 1 hour for the whole paper and can use dictionary) - I'll take in the writing to mark and we'll mark listening in class - enjoy :-)

audio file - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/janice.levens/H_2009.mp3
question paper - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/janice.levens/2009_L&W.pdf

Int 2
Once you've completed under exam conditions (30 mins) have a look at the transcript and note any vocab you didn't know which provided answers - dates, months, days, weather, etc, etc.
audio file - please access via link to sqa page - just scroll down to past paper & marking instructions and choose 2009 audio file.
question paper - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/janice.levens/2009_Int2_L.pdf

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Exam Guide

Check out this link to an exam guide. It may be from 2006, but if you compare it to the one produced recently, the tips are the same. Check it out! Exam guide

R8 my m8s!

Nous voilà!






Let's get cracking 'n' see if the technology will work...

Click this link


to the wiki page and follow the instructions to upload your files. We can also listen to other people's presentations there, but remember to comment on this page!


Give the name of the file you're commenting on and remember, this is all about helping each other, so it's important to be positive but also to be honest - 2 stars and a wish.

Why? Because you're worth it....

R8 my m8s! Chart my chat!! Track my talk! Whatever...

Okay folks, here's a couple of short examples to get you started. As soon as your confident, get a paragraph or two on yourself. Once we get into the swing, I'll put some real examples of actually Speaking Assessments for you to have a listen to - but only when we've all posted :-)



And remember, post your comments on the blog!




Pres 1


Pres 2

R8 my m8s!

Il y a une semaine on a fait un grand débat au sujet des femmes. Voici 6 exemples de notre travail. Vous devez...








1. écouter chaque exemple



2. expliquer en anglais 5 points que chaque group a donné



3. donner deux choses que vous avez trouvées bien



4. citer un exemple de quelque chose qu'on pourrait améliorer

Group 1

Group 2

Group3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Les amis - les devoirs

Bonsoir à tous! Voici les devoirs pour ce soir...






Je m'intéresse à des détails en anglais - surtout aux activités qu'on fait avec ses amis...



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Improve Your Listening! - 2

Okikokay - listen to the text then answer the following questons (remember to give as many details as you can):

1. What's been happening over the last few years in Europe?
2. Since when has this been the case in France?
3. When were the very first laws against tobacco passed?
4. What examples are given as situations where smoking was seen?
5. What are you told about smoking in schools?
6. What changes did the new law in 1991 make?
7. What statement might you now see on a cigarette packet?
8. Where might you still see people smoking in France and why?

NB: listen by clicking here! (apologies for the naff background music!)

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Improve Your Listening! - 1

Okay, here's a wee bit of practice for you...

As every good band knows, practice makes perfect! So, get onto itunes, get episode 'les vacances s'organisent' of 'one thing in a French day', listen and answer the following questions:

1. What happened yesterday?
2. Why is Brittany mentioned?
3. What booking has been made?
4. Why needn't she have worried?
5. Have Annette & Betrand also booked?
6. What does Christine ask about her daughter?
7. What animals are mentioned? Give any extra info you can.
8. Why does Christine end the call?

Post your answers so I can check them for you!

Quelques podcasts pour vous amuser ou aider!

Okay, get on to itunes and search education podcasts for the following...


1. one thing in a French day - good listening & provides text as well so you can check if you've understood



2. learn french with daily podcasts - dictation exercises are excellent listening practice - let me know if you find the transcripts tho' - :-/




3. radio-cartables - French children have created this podcast - check out the actualités podcasts for 'easy' news programmes. Look in 'info' for web address to get transcripts.



4. FRI - french radio station news bulletins - transcript available on the website (http://www.rfi.fr/radiofr/statiques/journauxFrancaisFacile.asp)



5. This one looks not bad. There's a variety of different topics and the texts are quite short. All of the transcripts are on a blog (houzekat.blogspot.com) and there's even the odd video - check out the one on French-canadian!