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2011 WJEC French GCSE

Mrskelsall — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:29:08 CDT

GCSE French : the 2011 exam
Controlled Assessment Speaking:	Weighting: 30%		Length of exam: · Structured Conversation: 4-5 mins · Presentation & Discussion: 5-7 minutes Untiered		· Takes place in class · Examined and marked by class teacher. · Samples sent off for moderation to the WJEC · Can take in 30 words as bullet points (notes must be handed in and kept by teacher) No dictionaries allowed during assessment
Part One: Structured Conversation (4-5 minutes)Have a conversation lasting 4-5 minutes with your teacher based on a concept web (mindmap) that has been provided by the exam board. You will see the concept web 2 weeks before the test.
Part Two: Presentation (2-3 minutes) followed discussion (3-4 minutes) Give a presentation to your teacher based on a topic chosen and researched by you. This will last 2-3 minutes. This will be followed by a discussion with the teacher on your chosen topic, which will last 3-4 minutes. You can take in 30 words as bullet points and pictures to help you, plus a small prop such as a postcard or small object.
Controlled Assessment Writing:	Weighting: 30%		Length of exam: 1 lesson (60 minutes) per piece of writing 2-week preparation period between seeing the task and writing it out under exam conditions.		· Written in class. · All writing will be sent off to the WJEC exam board for marking · Dictionaries allowed · 40 words of notes as bullets points can be used during the test, plus pictures.
· Prepare 2 pieces of writing from different contexts. Both pieces must be submitted by the beginning of May. Two weeks will be allowed between seeing the task and writing in out in class under exam conditions. It must be completed in one session of up to 60 minutes. You must sign a form to confirm that you written work is all your own and that it has been completed under exam conditions. The teacher is not allowed to mark your work during the 2-week preparation period, but can give you general advice. All notes and advice given to you must be sent off to the exam board with your final pieces of work. · For grades C-A*, write at least 200 words per piece (400-600 words for both) · For grades G-D, write at least 100 words per piece (200-300 words for both)
** put in chosen task bank questions here, eg: 1. Write a blog entry about a holiday you have spent abroad with your school. 2. Design a web page about the area where you live and compare it with a similar area in a French-speaking country.
External assessment Listening and Responding		Weighting: 20%		Length of exam:35 mins (F) 45 mins (H) + 5 minutes reading time at the start		External exam paper All questions and answers in English Held in a classroom in school No dictionaries allowed
The exam is designed to allow you to show that you are able to understand spoken French in a variety of situations. Each item will be heard twice. You are allowed five minutes to study the questions before the tape is played. The paper includes box-ticking, multiple choice and matching. The kind of items you will hear are public announcements, instructions and requests, interviews, news items, short dialogues and monologues such as weather forecasts.
External assessment Reading and Responding		Weighting: 20%		Length of exam: 35 mins (F) 45 mins (H) +5 minutes reading time at the start		External exam paper All questions and answers in English Held in the gym No dictionaries allowed.
The exam is designed to allow you to show that you are able to understand and respond to written French in different styles and contexts and from different sources. The paper includes box-ticking, multiple choice and matching. The kind of reading items you will see in the paper are written public notices and signs, magazines or newspaper articles and personal information such as that found in letter, notes, e-mails or messages.

Languages Club

Mrskelsall — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:42:31 CDT

Year 7

Mrskelsall — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:29:35 CDT

7VB French

Well done 7VB on the fantastic speaking tests you did, all learned off by heart - unfortunately, the sound files are too long to put on a Voki - I'll have a try with goanimate.com so watch this space!

Here's the goanimate cartoon of Beth and Nicola - hope you like it!

Year 8

Mrskelsall — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:50:08 CDT

8LP - Homework (due in Monday 16 March 2009)

Create a dialogue on Mes Passetemps (my hobbies)

A sample for you to base your dialogue on is below.

A: Tu as un passe-temps?
B: Oui, je fais du judo
A: Tu fais ça quand?
B: Le vendredi soir
A: Tu fais ça avec qui?
B: Avec ma copine, Jess
A: C'est bien?
B: Oui, c'est super parce que j'adore le judo et c'est très amusant

Je fais	du	vélo / judo / shopping
Je fais	de la	danse / natation / marche
le	lundi / mardi / mercredi / jeudi / vendredi / samedi / dimanche	matin (morning) après-midi (afternoon) soir (evening)
ça dépend

Remember, this is only a very basic dialogue, and you must try to extend your sentences by:

- Using et (and), mais (but) and parce que (because).

- Saying when you do your hobbies:

le samedi matin - Saturday morning
le samedi après-midi - Saturday afternoon
le samedi soir - Saturday night

parfois - sometimes
souvent - often
chaque jour - every day
chaque soir - every night
toujours - always
but remember these words words have to go after the adjective, eg je vais parfois au cinéma; je vais souvent au centre sportif

- Giving opinions, eg c'est génial - it's great; c'est ennuyeux - it's boring; c'est amusant - it's fun; c'est délicieux - it's delicious. Use your dictionary to look up more interesting adjectives - make your work different from everyone else's!

- Use adverbs like très=very; assez=quite; trop=too (c'est assez intéressant=it's quite interesting)

- Saying who you do your hobbies with:

avec mes copains - with my friends
avec ma copine - with my friend (a girl)
avec mon copain - with my friend (a boy)
avec ma soeur - with my sister
avec mon frère - with my brother (careful with the accent!)
avec mon équipe - with my team
avec mon collège - with my school

Saying where you do your hobbies. Remember au / à la:

au collège - at school
chez moi - at my house
chez ma copine - at my (female) friend's house
chez mon copain - at my (male) friend's house
au parc - at the parc
au centre sportif - at the sports centre
au terrain de foot - on the football pitch.

Remember it must be a dialogue so that it will fit into Comic Life. Make it funny, interesting and original to get as many marks as possible. Merits and smileys for the ones where I can see you have made a good effort!

8LS: We've been learning to talk about La Maison - try this game:

An evil random name picker - IT COULD BE YOU!

Jack Ainsworth
Phoebe Arrowsmith
Gemma Asplet
Rebecca Avery
Lucy Challinor
Stephen Coombs
Katy Edwards
Ben Moore-Daniels
Abi Jones
Emma Jones
Jordan Jones
Georgia Kempster
Ellie Mooney
Tom O'Marah
Kaylesh Patel
Daniel Potter
Fern Roberts
Hannah Roberts
Michael Smaje
Thomas Squires
Ian Webber
Leanne Whitley
Louise Williams
Lewys Wilson
Richard McDonald
Sam Jones

un ordinateur*computer
une télé*TV
beaucoup de posters*lots of posters
un fauteuil*chair
une hi-fi*stereo system
une console de jeux*gameboy
un canapé*sofa
beaucoup de plantes*lots of plants
une table*a table
un magnétoscope*a video recorder

Les Passetemps

Mrskelsall — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:04:38 CDT

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I Love You - Valentine's Quiz

Mrskelsall — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:53:57 CST

Valentine’s Quiz I Love You – in languages from around the world Match up the language and the phrases by putting the correct number in the box

	I LOVE YOU	No	LANGUAGE
1	Bulgarian	a	Ich liebe dich
2	Burmese	b	Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai
3	Cambodian	c	Szeretlek
4	Croation	d	Tangsinul sarang ha yo
5	Czech	e	Mai taunu pyar Karda
6	Danish	f	Chit pa de
7	Dutch	g	Ljubim te
8	Filipino	h	Jag a”Iskar dig ta
9	French	i	Obicham te
10	German	j	Bon sro lanh oon
11	Greek	k	Ngiyakuthanda
12	Hungarian	l	Je t’aime
13	Italian	m	Mahal ka
14	Korean	n	Ik hou van jou
15	Mandarin	o	Jeg elsker dig
16	Polish	p	Dwi’n dy garu di
17	Punjabi	q	Miluji te
18	Romanian	r	Ch’an rak khun
19	Russian	s	S’agapo
20	Serbian	t	Wo ie ni
21	Spanish	u	Kocham cie
22	Swedish	v	Ti amo
23	Thai	w	Te iu besc
24	Urdu	x	Lubim te
25	Welsh	y	Te quiero
26	Zulu	z	Ya vas liubliu

Answers below - no peeking!
Valentine’s Quiz I Love You – in languages from around the world

ANSWERS
1i; 2f; 3j; 4x; 5q; 6o; 7n; 8m; 9l; 10a; 11s; 12c; 13v; 14d; 15t; 16u; 17e; 18w; 19z; 20x; 21y; 22h; 23r; 24b; 25p; 26k

	I LOVE YOU	No	LANGUAGE
1	Bulgarian	i	Obicham te
2	Burmese	f	Chit pa de
3	Cambodian	j	Bon sro lanh oon
4	Croation	x	Ljubim te
5	Czech	q	Miluji te
6	Danish	o	Jeg elsker dig
7	Dutch	n	Ik hou van jou
8	Filipino	m	Mahal ka
9	French	l	Je t’aime
10	German	a	Ich liebe dich
11	Greek	s	S’agapo
12	Hungarian	c	Szeretlek
13	Italian	v	Ti amo
14	Korean	d	Tangsinul sarang ha yo
15	Mandarin	t	Wo ie ni
16	Polish	u	Kocham cie
17	Punjabi	e	Mai taunu pyar Karda
18	Romanian	w	Te iu besc
19	Russian	z	Ya vas liubliu
20	Serbian	x	Lubim te
21	Spanish	y	Te quiero
22	Swedish	h	Jag a”Iskar dig ta
23	Thai	r	Ch’an rak khun
24	Urdu	b	Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai
25	Welsh	p	Dwi’n dy garu di
26	Zulu	k	Ngiyakuthanda

Useful websites

Mrskelsall — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:41:32 CST

http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/chansons/index.htm
This site contains loads of French songs from all eras, with grammar exercises - have a listen!

http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/otherdownloads.htm
Look at this for links to Task Magic (you can download it free at home) and for the Text to Speech software - you can download this and it will help you with your pronunciation

www.zut.org.uk

www.linguascope.com - you're familiar with this one too. In Year 10/11, look at the Linguastars section for GCSE topics and some great games

www.bbc.co.uk/languages - look at Ma France for video clips

http://www.sunderlandschools.org/mfl-sunderland/resources-startersplenaries-frgcse.htm - good for gcse revision

http://cymraegargoed.wetpaint.com Welsh dept website (mine is the yr 7 page)

http://argoedfrench.wetpaint.com Mrs Holton's website

http://www.frenchinaclick.com/?gclid=CNOT9a6OyY8CFQ9tMAodNinozw

http://www.frenchrevision.co.uk/
www.atantot.co.uk

http://quizlet.com/set/366123/
and http://www.mystudiyo.com/act72007/mini/go/argoed.year_10._home_town
www.languageskills.co.uk
www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/shared
www.s-cool.co.uk
www.york.ac.uk/depts/educ/gcse (for reading)
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/french
www.sunderlandschools.org
www.mrskfrench.wetpaint.co.uk
http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/TMDFrench_General.htm (TaskMagic Games)

Year 9

Mrskelsall — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:21:05 CST

Le Week-end Dernier:

http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0so1OBTjvDHA?utm_source=emailshare&uid=0hp0fuHhfhh4

Mon ma mes:

Look at powerpoint attached below

See page 6 in topic workbook.

Put the correct word for "my" in front of following words:

le livre
la trousse
la jupe
les parents
le chat
les poissons tropicaux
la gomme
les bics
la classe
la soeur
le frere

Page 10 of topic workbook
ex1: find 10 countries and write them down
Note that some are masc, some are feminine!
Read Grammaire

Look at powerpoint attached below, then complete ex 2a on page 10 of topic workbook

Letter on Last Weekend

Mrskelsall — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:47:46 CST

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7TaJKe Tutor Group

Mrskelsall — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:56:00 CDT

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Home

Mrskelsall — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:55:11 CDT

Argoed is featured on a CILT DVD - see a feature on how Argoed is using digital voice recorders:

http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/page/2/

Here is my website, I hope you like it and find it useful.

Here, you'll be able to find everything you need to help you do well in French.

Post a comment! Let me know what you'd like to see here, or you can ask me a question about your work and I'll answer it.

Bonne chance et amusez-vous bien!

Greetings - European day of Languages

Mrskelsall — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:04:01 CDT

Country	Hello Greeting	How to say it!

Czech Republic	Ahój	“ahoy”
Latvia	Sveiki	“svayekey”
Hungary	Jó Napot	“yo-na-po”
Estonia	Tere	“tere”
Cyprus/Greece	ΓεІα σας	“ya-sass”
Malta	Hellow	“hello”
Lithuania	Labas	“labas”
Slovakia	Dobry Deň	“dobry yeny”
Slovenia	Zdravo	“drra-vo”
Poland	Cześć	“chashed”
Italy	Buongiorno	“bon-jawno”
France	Bonjour	Bonjour
Spain	Buenos días	“bwenos dias”
Wales	Bore Da	“boh-ray-dah”
Finland	Moi moi	“moy-moy”
Sweden	Hej	“hedge”
Norway	Hallo	“hallo”
Ireland	Dia dhuit ar maidin	“dya dweet ar maydin”
Netherlands	Goeiedag	“huy-ay-dag”
Croatia	Dobar dan	“doh bah dan”
Germany	Guten Tag	“goot-en targ”

Club de Langues Weekly Activities

Mrskelsall — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:53:48 CDT

Autumn Term – French
1-5 Sept	Week 1	Theme: getting to know each other Introductions – greetings in French (hello, my name is… and you?)
8-12 Sept	Week 2	Use DVRs to record introductions (which will then be made into vokis)
15-19 Sept	Week 3	Make a voki of introductions in French
22-26 Sept	Week 4	Watch vokis that have been put on website & European Day of Languages greetings – practise saying
29 Sept-3 Oct	Week 5	Make a comic life cartoon introducing everyone to put on website
6-10 Oct	Week 6	Finish off making comic life cartoons
13-17 Oct	Week 7	Look at each other’s cartoons on website
20-24 Oct	Week 8	Hallowe’en activities
27-31 Oct October Half Term - Spanish
3-7 Nov	Week 1	Theme: describing people Learn how to describe yourself – atantot/linguascope for vocab
10-14 Nov	Week 2	More vocab on self
17-21 Nov	Week 3	Make voki in language of choice describing yourself
24-28 Nov	Week 4	Watch each others’ vokis and play Guess Who in Spanish
1-5 Dec	Week 5	Xmas vocab (linguascope)
8-12 Dec	Week 6	learn a Xmas carol/ Xmas wordsearch
15-19 Dec	Week 7	Merry Xmas around the world quiz/ Xmas traditions in Spain.
19 Dec -5 Jan Christmas Holidays
Spring Term – French
5-9 Jan	Week 1	Theme: Food and drink Vocab games in French on atantot/linguascope
12-16 Jan	Week 2	More vocab games & food and drink wordsearch in French
19-23 Jan	Week 3	Learn how to say “I like”/”I don’t like” and put together with food to give opinions. Write down a dialogue
26-30 Jan	Week 4	theme: more on food Looking through French magazines (Julie mag has article about New Year’s resolutions)
2-6 Feb	Week 5	Food Tasting
9-13 Feb	Week 6	Research food in different countries and create your “dream” menu in different languages – rough draft
17 – 29 Feb February Half Term - French			Record vokis on food and drink likes/dislikes
23-27 Feb	Week 1	In IT room, make and print out own menus
2-6 Mar	Week 2	Write a script on a restaurant sketch (to be videoed)
9-13 Mar	Week 3	continue with restaurant script
16-20 Mar	Week 4	record and watch restaurant sketch (bring in costumes)
23-27 Mar	Week 5	Easter activities
30 Mar-3 Apr	Week 6	Easter activities
3 - 20 Apr Easter Holidays
Summer Term – Italian
20-24Apr	Week 1	About.com – Italian Gestures
27 Apr-1 May	Week 2	Gesture Games
4-8 May	Week 3	Atantot/linguascope vocab games
11-15 May	Week 4	Pop music around the world – watch videos from different countries and give opinions in different languages
18-22 May	Week 5	Eurovision party
25 - 29 May May Half Term - French
1-5 Jun	Week 1	Theme: travel and holidays
8-12 Jun	Week 2	French steps – holiday language
15-19 Jun	Week 3	More holiday language
22-26 Jun	Week 4	Essential holiday language
29 Jun-3 Jul	Week 5	Tour de France
6-10 Jul	Week 6	Tour de France
13-17 Jul	Week 7	Tour de France
17 Jul - 1 Sept Summer Holidays

How to organise your folder

Mrskelsall — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:24:25 CDT

You must have a tidy and organised folder! Here's how to divide it:

Topic Workbooks / Classwork
(put any workbooks/worksheets/miscellaneous classwork here)

Speaking
You need 2 sections under Speaking:

- Role Plays
- General Conversation Topics
(put any work relating to the 5 speaking topics you need to prepare for the final exam in here. These will be on the topics of Homelife, Freetime, Holidays, Education, Home town & Region - you could subdivide these 5 topics if you wish)

Coursework
You will complete 3 pieces of coursework during Year 10: Term 1 Coursework – Foundation 1: Write 10 sentences about your home town or village Coursework – Foundation 2: Write 10 sentences about your family Coursework – Foundation 3 / Higher 1: Write a letter to a hotel
Grammar
(put your grammar booklets and worksheets here)

Vocabulary
(put your vocabulary booklets here)

Year 7 English

Mrskelsall — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:05:51 CDT

7DaVB
This term we are working on autobiography - reading Boy by Roald Dahl and creating our own autobiographical project called My Family History".

Start asking your family (grandparents especially) for some interesting anecdotes you can use in your project.

You'll also need pictures or diagrams so get thinking!

Year 10

Mrskelsall — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:04:19 CDT

Devoirs, Septembre 08 - Vocab sur Ma ville:

to help you revise for your test on home town and region, practise with the vocab on quizlet or mystudiyo - http://quizlet.com/set/366123/
and http://www.mystudiyo.com/act72007/mini/go/argoed.year_10._home_town

Year 11

Mrskelsall — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:55:04 CDT

Countries by Andy

Vocab Games
FOOD by Amy

HOMELIFE by Emma

PERSONAL DETAILS by Jayney

DESCRIPTIONS OF CHARACTER by Andy

Paris Trip Report

Mrskelsall — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:56:53 CST

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Happy Christmas in 23 Languages Quiz

Mrskelsall — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:12:49 CST

Merry Christmas in 23 languages of the world!
Match up the language with the Happy Christmas
(Answers below - don't cheat!)

1. Arabic:		Sawadee Pee Mai
2. Breton:		Joyeux Noel
3. Chinese: (Mandarin)		Nadolig Llawen
4. Cornish		Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
5. Czech:		Feliz Navidad
6. Dutch:		Kala Christouyenna!
7. English:		Buone Feste Natalizie
8. Eskimo: (inupik)		Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
9. French:		Nollaig chridheil huibh
10. German:		Froehliche Weihnachten
11. Greek:		Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
12. Hungarian:		Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
13. Italian:		Nedeleg laouen
14. Japanese:		Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
15. Polish:		Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
16. Portuguese:		Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
17. Russian:		Zalig Kerstfeast
18. Scots Gaelic:		God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
19. Spanish:		Merry Christmas
20. Swedish:		Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
21. Thai:		Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
22. Turkish:		Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or
23. Welsh:		Feliz Natal

Answers:

1. Arabic:	21	Sawadee Pee Mai
2. Breton:	9	Joyeux Noel
3. Chinese: (Mandarin)	23	Nadolig Llawen
4. Cornish:	22	Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
5. Czech:	19	Feliz Navidad
6. Dutch:	11	Kala Christouyenna!
7. English:	13	Buone Feste Natalizie
8. Eskimo: (inupik)	5	Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
9. French:	18	Nollaig chridheil huibh
10. German:	10	Froehliche Weihnachten
11. Greek:	1	Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
12. Hungarian:	12	Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
13. Italian:	2	Nedeleg laouen
14. Japanese:	14	Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
15. Polish:	4	Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
16. Portuguese:	17	Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
17. Russian:	6	Zalig Kerstfeast
18. Scots Gaelic:	20	God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
19. Spanish:	7	Merry Christmas
20. Swedish:	8	Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
21. Thai:	3	Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
22. Turkish:	15	Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or
23. Welsh:	16	Feliz Natal

Speaking Mock Exam Times, 11 Dec 07

Mrskelsall — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:42:52 CST

YEAR 11 FRENCH MOCK ORAL EXAMS Day: Tuesday 11 December 2007 Venue: Room 4 (Mrs Holton’s room) 5 mins preparation / 10 minute exam

Candidate	Prep time	Exam time
1. Tom Charnock	9.30	9.35
2. Matthew Connah	9.50	9.55
3. Emma Davies	10.10	10.15
4. Ryan Gillott	10.30	10.35
5. Andrew Howells	10.50	10.55

BREAK	11.10	11.20
6. Reece Lloyd	11.20	11.25
7. Alex Mason	11.40	11.45
8 Jayney Millward	12.00	12.05
LUNCH	12.50	12.55
9 Beth Nelder	1.15	1.20
10 Aby Norwood	1.35	1.40
11 Denise Williams	1.55	2.00
12 Robert Williams	2.15	2.20
13. Gemma Wilson 14. Amy Jones	2.35	2.40 2.55

Argoed HS/Mrs Kelsall's French Site - Recently Updated Pages

2011 WJEC French GCSE

Languages Club

Year 7

Year 8

Les Passetemps

I Love You - Valentine's Quiz

Useful websites

Year 9

Letter on Last Weekend

7TaJKe Tutor Group

Home

Greetings - European day of Languages

Country

Czech Republic

Malta

Club de Langues Weekly Activities

How to organise your folder

Year 7 English

Year 10

Year 11

Paris Trip Report

Happy Christmas in 23 Languages Quiz

Speaking Mock Exam Times, 11 Dec 07