Back to Square One

After attending going to the Isle of Wight for Joe Dale's fantastic conference on ICT in MFL, I was truely inspired and looking forward to experimenting with his ideas in my ICT specialist status school.

Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was deflated at the first hurdle; I set up a Blogger blog for my kids, put loads of work into it, only to find it was blocked at school!

I soon got overwhelmed with other things that NQTs get overwhelmed with and my ability to try new things became inpracticle.

Then came 2008! New start, new blog, new ideas. I have a few projects in the pipeline and am looking forward to blogging about the success and the failure. I am not gonna give up again this time!

Posting Comments

Thanks for your posts so far! Hope everyone is enjoying the half term break. Just to remind you, when you leave a post- just write you first name. Keep the homework comments coming :-)

Year 8 Half Term Homework

Your task is to use your new-found dictionary skills to look up at least 10 new words to do with yourself. Post these words as comments on my blog. Don't worry if you can't do this, just write it in your book. If you don't have access to a dictionary at home, you could go to the library, stop by L2 before Wednesday's lesson to borrow one of mine, or use www.wordreference.com (although you won't be able to practice your skills as well with this!)

Below is the powerpoint from today's lesson, just to remind you!

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Year 12 Half Term Homework

Lovely year 12 (although I am not so sure you are that lovely after the things you did with my dodo), please find your half term homework below. You will need to look at the powerpoint, which you should have received by email, then answer the following questions. You should have received this by email, but have put it on my blog just in case. You can also post any questions on here, should you have any. When you come to question 10, please write it on the blog as a comment. That way we can get ideas and learn from eachothers' mistakes.

Bonne Chance!

Homework: Didi the Dodo

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Useful vocab

se rétablir to recover/ get well
méchant mean, nasty, bad
bavarder to chat
être humain human being
reconnaître recognise, acknowledge
la vie life
réfléchir to reflect, think


Questions

1. What is ile Maurice in English? Where exactly is it?
2. In French, write 3 example of the imperfect tense that appear on slide 2
3. What would the equivalent of faire une cure de rehabilitation be in English?
a. Curate himself in rehab
b. Rehabilitate himself
c. To go into rehab
4. What time did Didi board the ferry?
5. What did Didi drink on the ferry?
6. Where did the ferry go?
7. Why did Didi feel better when he got back to the hotel?
8. What did Didi dream about that night?
9. The next morning, what was Didi contemplating by the sea?
10. What happened next? Write approx 200 words to end Didi’s adventure. Remember to use the perfect tense.

Apres le college

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Expanding our horizons

As you can see, we are trying a few new things, in the form of a blog! And that is only the beginning! For those of you who don't know, a blog is traditionally seen as a type of online diary, or a 'web log'. Nowadays, people use blogs for all sorts of things.

At Sneyd, a select few classes will be using this blog this term to try a few things out. It means that it won't be just me and you that see your hard work- but your class mates, aunty in Australia and the rest of the world!

I am super excited about it, and I hope you will be too. This not a 'Madame Bégué project, but something we can create together, so any input and ideas will be welcomed (unless it involves having a day off school to 'work from home').

Watch this space!

Madame B