Y11/Y12 French Transition Work 2020Work during school closure To accommodate remote learning, we have signed up for Hodder’s Dynamic Learning and we have created 4 transition sessions on the following topics:

1. La famille2. La technologie3. Le patrimoine 4. La musique

Each session covers a variety of listening, reading and translation tasks as well as grammar and vocabulary practice on Quizlet / Memrise. You can also find some research and extension tasks on cultural aspects of the French-speaking world. In order to access the this material / login details for Hodder’s Dynamic Learning, please contact Mme Pugh: s pugh @stmaryschesterfield.org.uk

Work during the summer1. Vocabulary on Quizlet / Memrise

Join the Quizlet and Memrise groups:https://quizlet.com/join/rqm2pBaRV https://www.memrise.com/group/398496/

Revise all the GCSE NCELP vocabulary sets. Practise the Hodder transition vocabulary (La famille, La technologie, Le

patrimoine, La musique). Practise the Oxford vocabulary. This is the book we are going to use in

September and we will provide you with a copy.Module 1 : La famille en voie de changement1.1. La vie de couple : nouvelles tendances1.2 Monoparentalité, homoparentalité, familles recomposées1.3 Grands-parents, parents et enfants : soucis et problèmesModule 2 : La « Cyber-société »2.1 Comment la technologie facilite la vie quotidienne2.2 Quels dangers la cyber-société pose-t-elle ?2.3 Qui sont les cybernautes ?

2. Grammar Buy / borrow from school the AQA French grammar

and translation workbook. Complete the transition pages and bring

your work to your first lesson in September. For further grammar practice:

https://conjuguemos.com/activities/french/verb/1 https://francais.lingolia.com/en/grammarhttps://www.bonjourdefrance.co.uk/learn-french-online/grammar/choose-levelhttp://www.columbia.edu/~ab410/drills.html

3. Listening Watch some French programmes on Netflix or ALL 4 World drama.

https://www.channel4.com/categories/world-drama Both have got a great selection of French programmes and films with

English subtitles. The more you watch, the easier it will get.

4. Reading

Have a look at one of the following webpages. Print one article and read for gist. Look up some words in an online dictionary e.g. www.wordreference.com and keep a list of the new vocabulary (it might be useful to keep all your new vocabulary in an exercise book or you could create a Quizlet set with new vocabulary that you learn).

www.lemonde.fr French newspaper www.liberation.fr French newspaper www.tv5monde.com good for news, culture, video, games and quizzes www.radiofrance.fr access all public radio stations www.francetvinfo.fr good radio site for French and international news www.france24.com good for news and current affairs with video clips www.ina.fr very good site for tv and radio archives https://www.1jour1actu.com/ lots of videos answering key current

questions

5. Interactive practice

Any problems? Please get in touch:Miss S Pugh spugh@stmaryschesterfield.org.uk

Bonnes vacances et on a hâte de vous voir en septembre !

Mme Murray, Mme Smith et Mme Pugh

https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/ https://www.duolingo.com/ www.german-grammar.de https://lyricstraining.com/fr/