Ryanair latest offer!

Had another look at Ryanair and there is another offer on the return flight on 14 March! £2.50!

mardi 27 janvier - deuxième partie

Apologies to Claire. David was at pains to say the game  was  a joint effort. Also to Tracy who showed us her sterling money activities from last year. Good to see you rethinking previously used activities.

Reminder: if you have anything digital to share please email it to me . I'll make any corrections to French so don't worry about that and upload to my teaching files

(pw valley) so that you can all download

Re writing - a few  grammar points

How to express you have been doing something for a spell of time. English would be something like …
I've been married for 10 years
I've lived in Ayr since 1982
I've been teaching for 5 years
If in English it is "have been … or have done … for a length of time or since with a date" then the construction in French is the Present tense of the verb not past tense as in English and preposition depuis
je suis marié(e) depuis dix ans
j'habite à Ayr depuis 1982
j'enseigne depuis 5 ans

Possessive adjectives my, your etc - there are notes in your booklet for this.
Remember the key is that they are adjectives and agree with the following noun
so mon mari my husband - it the husband that is masculine and son père does double duty for his or her father depending on what went before

use of c'est for he is / she is  ce sont  they are used if followed by a noun or adj + noun

cf il est grand he is tall

c'est un grand homme he's a tall man

ce sont des jumeaux they are twins

VOKI

www.voki.com

Well done to Lesley whose perseverance was successful:-


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If you want to try this out -
Create an account (free)
You need an active email to confirm account.
Create.
Give your character a voice - text to speech. Choose language French and a suitable voice. Try different voices.
Beware of typing names - the French voice simulator will have trouble eg to get it to read Kay I typed quai. Probably best to avoid names. Also it will only accept about 3-4 sentences. If words running too fast try an extra space between words. or try a different voice.
If you know how to record your voice on to the computer you could try that. It will let you record longer maybe 60 seconds.
You should also see if it is going to work in school websense etc.
"Publish" when finished "Send to a friend" ie email it to me
Try it out in school - firewall may not like it. Ask for site to be unblocked if ot doesn't work. They are used in schools a lot!

READING
Meant to show you another site. This is a French news website for children. Could be good for similar exercise - pupils will have an idea of what the news story is about, hopefully! For example here is the story about the plane landing in the Hudson river

mardi 27 janvier

Tracy a fait l'appel aujourd'hui. Olivia est-ce que tu pourras le faire la semaine prochaine?

On a corrigé les devoirs puis David nous a montré son jeu. On s'impatiente à y jouer la semaine prochaine. 

J'ai trouvé un site super childtopia avec les mêmes pages en anglais et en français (ainsi qu' en espagnol)

Go to maths> buying and selling for money counting in euros then change language to French.

Quote from HMIe Jane Renton  "Today w're going to do something fun We're going to something really difficult." A good point indeed - the satisfaction got from succeeding at something challenging.

We looked at some real French web pages to see how much we could work out. The idea is from a friend who is Faculty Head at Tobermory High School. This is her blog post

We started on the lion page. We discussed the sort of things we would expect to find on a factfile about wild animals. If we had been in the room with the IWB would have highlighted known words and words that looked like English words on the IWB with suggestions from class. Instead they worked on the paper page. A fair proportion of the page was highlighted. Then we worked out the text with some judicious questions.  A lot would depend on the pupils' level of English vocabulary (eg longevity) and general knowledge but this would be an excellent Literacy across the curriculum exercise. Perhaps differentiated tasks could be assigned different abilities. Then I gave a different animal page to groups of 2 with the task of finding 10 facts.

Other points: there will be words that an average French person would not know, there was a word I did not know on the lion page le garrot = withers! Not a word that crops up often in conversation. 

Will post about the voki later. Dog is demanding my attention!

personal writing

Personal writing homework. Try and base your writing on what you know or have seen.
Type your submission in comments. Keep it simple!
If you have trouble doing accents, copy and paste these!
é è ê à

The Simpsons write about themselves here. Use these as an example! Think we may have done them before.

Here is a bit about me
Je m’appelle Kay McMeekin. J’ai cinquante-huit ans et je suis mariée avec David depuis 22 ans. Nous avons deux enfants - une fille qui s’appelle Laura et qui a 21 ans et un fils David qui a 20 ans. Mon mari est prof de langues à la retraite. Nos enfants sont tous les deux à la fac à Glasgow. Laura étudie l’archéologie et David étudie le génie civil. J’habite à Darvel qui se trouve à 35 km de Glasgow. Je vis avec mon mari et notre chien qui s’appelle Holly. Nos enfants vivent à Glasgow dans des appartements loués. Ils nous rendent visite de temps en temps. C’est tout pour le moment!

Listen to Laure! Ill show you how to do this next week.

Beauvais 14 March

Alors, c'est fait! Je viens de réserver ma place!
Bizarrely the handling charge was £9.50 and it was £10 on Saturday, so it actually cost £29.50

Beauvais day trip

OK

I went to book for 14th March @£20 to discover, as I think Ann was saying in class, that it actually costs £30 with £5 handling charge per person per flight. This is not sounding so cheap at all! 

Shall we hang fire and see if the next offer is better or do think £30 is OK?

Beauvais day trip UPDATE

Tracy and I have been doing some research on Ryanair. All Saturdays in April, May are dear. But at the moment Saturday 7 March is £11 return!! BOOKING PERIOD FOR THIS FARE ENDS THIS SUNDAY 18 JAN. 

The other March Saturdays are £20. This is the same time we went last year and it was fine.
What do you think? Reply in comments below!

When booking make sure you get no bags and priority boarding then you can check in online so you don't need to be at the airport too early!

Last year's visit

YIKES went to book 7 March and price has changed!  14 March is still £20. Again will need to book by Sunday.  Comments please!!

Nasal Vowels Games

Created this in minutes at classtools.net - dustbin template

Click here for full screen version

these one in quia.com
French nasal homonyms - Java game

Match the vowel sound - columns

and this one in quizlet.com

homonyms

Another dustbin game

Click here for full screen version

euros

If anyone can bring some euro coins along tomorrow we can use them to liven up an activity!!

la fête des Rois

La fête des rois, the feast of the Kings is celebrated in French homes throughout January. There is an excellent post about it here

Pictures of the cake here

le roi - the king

la reine - the queen

la galette - the cake

la fève - the bean

la couronne - the crown

Chanson

J'aime la galette

Savez-vous comment?

Quand elle est bien faite

Avec du beurre dedans

Tra la la la la la lère etc

I love the kings' cake

Do you know why?

When it is wll made

with butter inside

tra la etc