TGS Higher French

Listenings to Help your Revision

Here are some Listenings from the next theme we shall be looking at, Education and Work. I suggest you use them as practice for your forthcoming prelim. I have detailed the exercises you are to do from the booklet.
Please have them all completed by the time you return from study leave.

1. La Discipline en France
Complete Stage 1 Comprehension
Download 15 14. la discipline en france

2. Rapports avec les profs
Complete Stage 1 Comprehension
Download 16 15. rapports avec les profs

3. Differences entre les lycés.....
Complete Stage 1 Comprehension and Stage 2 Language.
Download 17 16. differences entre les lycees

In each case do not refer to the transcript or answers until having completed the exercises.

SQA Listening Exemplars

In order to scare help you with your speaking (and listening) for your prelim, below are two examples of ACTUAL listening tests from last years diet of exams.

Remember, the test itself consists of a presentation on a topic of your choice from those covered over the year, and a discussion which will start on this theme and lead into one more.

I want you to listen to the tests and do a few things:

1. identify good phrases used by the candidate in both the presentation and discussion
2. identify 2-3 major errors
3. grade the overall peformance using the grade related criteria provided noting reasons why you would give it that grade

You will need to listen more than once to these tests. Think about the sorts of things we discussed in class. Hopefully by doing this it will give you a good idea of what you are in for.

 

Here is a document containing guidelines for your speaking:

Speaking Guidelines - Free Legal Forms

A Catch up tutorial for Work Experience

So I don't have to repeat a lesson here's some of what you have missed. Please catch up by next week.

Listening Exercise for Your Holidays

As if you haven't already got some stuff to do, here are a couple of listening exercises I would like you to do for the first week back...Monday:((

In each case do Stages 1 AND 2 from the booklet. And yes that means looking beyond the thick black line.

besancon

cote_ouest

Utterly utterli.com

As I mentioned in class you are going to prepare a speaking assignment during the holidays. This will be assessed on the Friday of the week we come back and it will be in the form of a 2 minute presentation with only brief notes to help. You have the details in your Wider World booklet.

In order to assist you in this task you are going to enter the wonderful world of web 2.0 technology. Before the hols are over you are (hopefully if the tech works) to submit your draft version via a private group on a website called utterli.com.

You will be able to submit your draft in one of two ways but first you will have to reply to an invitation to your email address from the group administrator, i.e ME. You will then have to sign up to utterli.
Once in you can use utterli for your own purposes but you will be a member of our private little group called...Higher French.
As I said there are 2 ways in which you can send you talk:

• via the website direct through your computer's microphone / webcam. Don't worry you don't have to send a video message although that would be fun.
• or by a simple phone call to a normal landline number, 02071001933 (If you have a mobile with contract minutes or your home phone has free minutes to ordinary numbers then it won't cost you anything.) On calling the number you will have to enter the account's registered phone number which is the school number BUT without the "0" i.e 1466792181. Then enter the PIN which I will give you in class. After that follow the instructions. Once you have recorded and saved it then it gives you an option to send it to your group (option 5 I think). By the way the lovely American lady keeps going on about the "pound sign" she means the # button.

Anyway click on this link to watch a helpful video.

Using Utterli

Happy uttering.

Past Paper Resources For Free

Leckie and Leckie have published the listening exams as mp3 files for your delectation. You can download the papers from 2003 - 2008:
http://www.leckiepastpapers.co.uk/past_papers/display/2

If you want more languages try here:
http://www.leckiepastpapers.co.uk/subjects/free

Pluperfect and Venir de exercises

Here are some exercises looking at what we did in today's lesson.

This one is about the pluperfect. Read all the weird stuff before answering the questions then check your answers.
Pluperfect
venir de + infinitive

Let me know how you get on.

Working on the passé composé

Please find below some links to sites which will help you with the Passé composé. They are not in any particular order of importance so juat have a look through them. Most involve some sort of game.

http://www.msdsteuben.k12.in.us/dblaz/grammar/passe_compose.htm

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~creitan/qchap5b.htm

http://www.quia.com/custom/1168main.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/1165main.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/1236main.html

http://www.quia.com/pop/2505.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/987.html

http://www.quia.com/hm/1043.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/7317main.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/10148main.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/1189main.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/1165main.html

http://www.quia.com/custom/3793main.html    (this one deals with the pluperfect)

 http://www.quia.com/jg/80631.html http://www.quia.com/pop/2494.html

Welcome to your blog...and some homework

Welcome back after your summer hols.

We have a lot of stuff to get through and I would like for you to do as many listening exercises as possible at home. In the next lesson (Monday 25th August) we will be starting the Language theme of Wider World.

Your first task to do at home is to listen to this text at home and do Stage 1 Comprehension and both exercises in Stage 2. Although the transcript is there TRY not to use it, especially for part 2 of stage 2.

If you get stuck feel free to email me at [email protected]

To download this file to your computer and thence to your mp3 player right click the link and select save target as.

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