If you own an iPad or iPhone, then you have a great tool to help you learn. Here is a guide to the best (mainly free) apps to help you revise. If you have any other suggestions for apps you have found useful, please let us know. DOWNLOAD Mrs Whitehead has kindly agreed to share some vocabulary learning top tips with you all:
"There is no quick way to learn vocabulary but you can experiment and see how you learn it best. The more regularly you expose yourself to the words, the quicker you will remember them. You could try post- it notes in prominent places around the house - in the kitchen, the loo and your room. Ask parents or friends to test you - remember at this stage you just need to recognise the word. Try recording the words on your phone, iPad etc and listen to them when you are doing other things or out and about. You could also create you own course at http://www.memrise.com/. If you find flashcards helpful, then you can make traditional card versions, download one of the many free flashcards apps or use http://www.studyshack.com/ where you can create your own to practise. You can find a list of the best apps at the link below: Flashcard Apps Good luck!" Another 15 minute revision wonder is Taskmagic. You might recognise it from lessons, but you might not know that it has a great selection of 1 and 2 player games. Jump is particularly good, as is Maze. Download the free for home use version here: http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/freeTMhome.htm And then get a huge selection of vocabulary from all the topics we've studied in Y10 and Y11 below! (You will probably have to unzip all it first to make it work.) Have fun!
The Easter Holiday will be a great time to work on your exam skills, and what better way to do that than with a past paper? There are only three WJEC past papers available. We have already done 2012, and we are going to do 2011 together in class, so that leaves 2010. All the files you need are available below, including mp3s for the listening, and a mark scheme so you can mark your answers after you finish. If you want more practice, papers from the other exam boards are good to work on as well. To find them, go to: http://web.aqa.org.uk/qual/newgcses/languages/new/french_materials.php http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-french-j730-j030-j130-from-2009/ http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/mfl/french/Pages/default.aspx The SQA qualifications are a bit different, but French is the same in Scotland, so have a go! http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/40154.html Enjoy!
Here are the revision snacks I emailed you all about. Keep doing them, and you'll keep getting better!
1. Spend 15 minutes on memrise.com - a great little website, and really good for learning vocab: One nice course is: http://www.memrise.com/course/52220/aqa-gcse-french-vocabulary/ It has a huge amount of vocabulary, but don't be overwhelmed, you should know a lot of it already! 2. Listen to the start of the news in slow french - this is a paysite, but the free sample is enough for a quick bit of listening practice! http://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?gclid=CPe6597jj7YCFeXLtAodUGcAbA If you like that, there is a demo episode as well: http://www.newsinslowfrench.com/weekly-news-in-slow-French/9999/2029/jan2929/transcript.html 3. Spend 15 minutes on your reading pack - focus on understanding the texts, and collecting useful vocabulary. If you have www.wordreference.com open, you can always check any words you don't understand. 4. Do some work on high frequency words - these are the little words that always come up on the exam. I've made a memrise course for you all, so have a look! http://www.memrise.com/course/79793/french-high-frequency-words/ 5. Practice your listening on lyricstraining.com Choose a French song, or try one of these: http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/7054/le_roi_lion/soyez_pretes http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/9168/le_roi_lion/lhistoire_de_la_vie http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/15497/les_parisiennes/il_fait_trop_beau_pour_travailler http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/9587/la_petite_sirene/sous_locean (Hard!) 6. Read a French newspaper, knowing you just have to click on a word you don't know to get an instant translation. Try: http://lingro.com/translate/http://www.20minutes.fr/economie/1123465-20130322-entretien-embauche-il-faut-toujours-sourire Or find your own article on 20minutes.fr, and read it through www.lingro.com. As a break from your Speaking CA preparation, and endless past papers, why not have a look at this song, a French classic, but made famous in the UK by, among others Patti LuPone, Anne Hathaway and Susan Boyle! You could even get in some sneaky listening revision by listening to it through and completing the worksheet too!
You all did really well in your mock speaking test, so well done. Remember that your homework is to have a go at the yellow worksheets that you started in the lesson today. We will go through them during the lessons on the Monday after half-term. If you are wanting to do build your vocabulary or simply work on your speaking then don't forget to use memrise, or have a go at improving the answers that you prepared for your mock speaking test.
http://zut.languageskills.co.uk/index.html Free after 9 p.m and has sound files and games. http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/french All these sites will allow you to do online revision.
http://www.memrise.com/ www.languagesonline.org.uk http://www.funwithlanguages.vacau.com/ http://www.jimmyp.me.uk/ www.hellomylo.com http://www.digitaldialects.com/ |
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