X factor // Christmas

Bonjour a tous

Le refrain de la chanson a été préparé avec Johanne, l'assistante de français. Pourraient ils gagner X-Factor? A vous de juger...

Goûter avec la classe de Higher

Des crêpes et des croissants avec du nutella pour célébrer Noel avec la classe de 5eme année.



Joyeux Noel et bonnes vacances à tous

M. Buré et Johanne

Listening Skills

A lot of you will find these websites usesul as they provide lots of exercise to practise your listening skill.


1) Lucas, a British journalist, wakes up in a hotel room with the mother of all headaches. He can’t remember a thing. Room service brings him breakfast and a parcel containing 20,000 euros, a Walkman® with a minidisc and a note: "A bientôt, Nadia". So, he must be in Paris, but who’s this Nadia? Next, a police officer asks him to come to the station… Is he an accomplice or a victim of a crime? Lucas decides to trust no-one and to carry out a private investigation – rather a tall order for someone who has lost his memory and doesn’t speak French beyond "bonjour" and "au revoir".
http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/pages/001/liste_adc_anglais.asp


2)Eva finds herself in a race against time and an enemy who wants to return France to the era of Napoleon III and restore the Second Empire. Her goal: to save the French Republic from its downfall.
http://www.missioneurope.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=49


3) http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp


4)http://french.about.com/od/beglisten/Beginning_French_Listening_Exercises.htm

5) http://french.about.com/library/listening/bl-listeningindex2.htm


And don't forget the SQA website / past papers to get some practise at the others skills.

Int 2 and Higher: Health and Well being

Bonjour a tous et a toutes

Voici des liens pour travailler sur ce nouveau sujet.

Video
http://monjtquotidien.com/video.2162.une-etude-recente-montre-que-le-vin-est-mauvais-pour-la-sante-meme-a-petites-doses.php

http://monjtquotidien.com/video.2383.des-ambulances-a-3-roues-parcourent-le-sud-du-soudan-pour-transporter-les-femmes-enceintes-a-l-hopital.php

Worksheet:
http://www.languagesresources.co.uk/french%20resources%20_healthy%20living.htm

http://www.languagesresources.co.uk/FrenchIndex.html

www.languagesonline.org.uk
Topics unit==> forme et santé

http://www.oup.com/uk/i-cafe/main/index/fr/issue_24/02/

http://www.oup.com/uk/i-cafe/main/index/fr/francelive/
Work on worksheets 6-13-16

Newspaper article:

http://www.lyoncapitale.fr/lyoncapitale/journal/univers/Guide/Junior/L-angoisse-de-l-assiette

http://www.lyoncapitale.fr/lyoncapitale/journal/univers/Guide/Bien-etre-Tendances/Alcool-les-pieges-a-eviter

http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-societe/2009-12-08/bien-etre-les-aliments-alleges-pesent-lourd/920/0/402627

Expressions iodimatiques françaises

Johanne has made a compilation of French idioms. Take the quiz and count how many sentences you have correct.

Expressions iodimatiques françaises

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French idioms and English translation

Johanne has made a compilation of French idioms. Take the quiz and count how many sentences you have correct.

Joyeux Noel!!!!!

Here is a selection of websites based on Christmas:

To try out first:
http://www.vivenoel.com/

http://www.pere-noel.com/sallejeux.htm

If you still have time:
http://www.pour-enfants.fr/noel/jeux.htm

http://www.jeux.fr/jeux/noel/noel.html

http://auxpetitesmains.free.fr/noeljeux.htm

http://noel.momes.net/

Spanish song

Here is a video of a spanish song done by 1.3.

Breakfast !!!!!!!!!!

A Second year Spanish Class had the chance to have an Argentinian breakfast thanks to Paula's hard work.

Here are a couple of pictures and a video about that event held in the canteen area at school.

Opinions in French

A short video to express your opinions.The pictures are quite explicit, I don't it needs any translation.

How To Describe Emotions In French (Family & Education)

Speaking practise

To make sure you sound as close as a native, I invit you to use this website

Text too speech

It will help us to correct your pronunciation and make you more confident if you go abroad or for the work done in the classroom.

Au revoir
Monsieur Buré

Football !!!

Due to the ENORMOUS controversy following the game France - Ireland, I could not let the world go by without mentionning a few links:

To see the goal again:



If you want to know what the world thinks of that have a read at this article


For more of it in English clik here

or here

But, remember, It is only football...

Monsieur Buré

Daniel Hip Hop teacher

Enjoy the work done by the highers and 3 first year pupils.
Questions will come soon.

The first 3 listening are accesible to everybody. The 4th and 5th year should work on the 4th one and try to understand as much as they can.



http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1481795?UserKey=

M. Buré

First Challenge!!!!

Oyé oyé élèves de Portlethen Academy

Here is the first challenge the Modern Languages Dept is offering you. The first challenge is a listening comprehension about the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Your mission, if you accept it will be to answer the following questions after having watched the videos.

First video:

1) How long has the wall been standing?

2) What does the fall of the wall mean? (2 answers)

3) Gives details about the communist system (details from the video) (3 answers)


second video:


1) Why do we keep "scars on the ground"?

2) Where can you find pieces of the wall? (2 answers)

3) In which countries can you still find a wall that separates people today? (3 countries)


Submit your answer to "spaburer@portlethenacademy.aberdeenshire.sch.uk" and if your answers are correct you might win a box of chocolates. Answers are due by the 27th of November.

Good luck to everybody
Monsieur Buré

Les radios!!!!

Time to change!!!

Are you fed up with Radio One? Are you bored with Chris Moyles’ jokes and don’t find find Scott Mills funny?

Well, it is time for a change. Down here, you have the best radio from Belgium, Switzerland and France.

I must admit that I am particularly keen on Couleur 3, radio from Switzerland. Their schedule is brilliant, and variety is pretty amazing. Couleur 3 will help you to widen your musical horizons, and impress your friends when playing “guess that tunes” :)

Feel free to listen to them in your spare time when doing your homework for examples.

In order of preference:
www.couleur3.ch from switzerland
http://www.lemouv.com/ from France
http://francosonik.gmt2.com/fluxrfp.php
http://pure.fm/index.php from Belgium
www.funradio.fr from France
www.nrj.fr from France

Bonne écoute et à très vite
M. Buré

S4 revision Prelim / exams

With the prelims approaching, I thought you might want to revise a bit more than usual, that's why I prepared some work for you.

Find a section you fancy working on and open the related Word documents. You will have questions at the end of the documents.

This website is the SQA website. Spend time on the papers you haven't done. Choose the subject you want to study from the list. Intermediate 1 is a good training if you do General / Foundation and Intermediate 2 is for Credit pupils.

This is a good way to study Listening.

Answers should be submitted via email to Mr Buré or Miss Urquhart.

Watch out for

Coming soon on the blog:

*Interview of Daniel (hip hop dancer)
*Summary of the conference about Tunisia held in Aberdeen
*Summary of Welcome, by the Higher class

And more.

If you would like to see anything, please leave a comment and we will include it in the blog.

Have a nice weekend

Welcome, the movie

Here are a few links that will give you more information about the movie.

1) Trailer


2) A couple of pages from the papers that you might find useful

from Le monde

from Google news

From le Monde

Link to go on the French Film Festival and work on the brochure (bottom of the page, Clik on the poster).

Intermediate 2 and Higher

Bonjour à toutes et à Kieron

Voila des resources pour vous aider sur le theme de l'environement.

1) Here is a link to watch thevidéo about bees in town.

2) Click here to find other documetns relatingto the theme. "listening and reading env" is really good for you are working on. "Town vs Country" will help you to express your opinion.

3) On this website, you will find easy ways to revise, in French, the different actions you have to do if you want to be "un éco-cityoen" (Vocabulary Units ==> The environement)

4)Here is a selection of website really useful if you are running out of ideas. Please browse through them and look up for words you don't know.


Debate done by pupils from French school.

Worksheet on the countryside

More people talking about their favorite place with other reasons

Welcome / Bienvenue

The staff would like to welcome Miss Urquhart in the department.

Mrs Holland, Miss Hunter, Mr Buré

Help!!! Au secours!!!!

Here is a selection of websites very useful when it comes to revision:

www.languagesonline.org.uk

http://www.languagesresources.co.uk/french.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

http://french.about.com/

Look out for the booklets to help you to revise.

One of my favourites

Dieu est mort (Votlaire 1775)

Voltaire est mort (Dieu 1778)

Thanks Mr. McMennemy

Bonjour à tous et a toutes :)

Voici le blog de francais et d'espagnol pour Portlethen Academy.

Le staff vous souhaite de bonnes vacances

Happy holiday to all