Advanced Higher!!

Just in case I don't see you...

Your main focus during the holiday is to find information about l'exception Francaise.
What is it? Does it still exist? For how long? Is it normal to protect your "patrimoine" (heritage)? To what extent?

Some links found on google about it
(to get the gist of it, use google translator and your common sense to translate it)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_culturelle_fran%C3%A7aise

http://www.cafe-geo.net/article.php3?id_article=344

http://www.larevueparlementaire.fr/pages/RP889/RP889-AP-modele-social-francais.htm

http://passouline.blog.lemonde.fr/2007/05/15/vous-avez-dit-exception-francaise/

(book to dl
http://www.scienceshumaines.com/l-exception-francaise-mythe-ou-realite_fr_153.htm)
Further information will come later on

Mr Buré

Higher Christmas holidays

I'd like to wish you a good holiday, have a nice christmas.

Next topic in class will be "education and work". In order to prepare this, can I ask you to write an essay (what?!? another one...)

About 150 words for those bullet points:
What you study at school.
What makes a good school
What you think of Portlethen Academy
What would you like to study in the future

Mr buré

Debout la dedans!!!!!!! C'est pas le moment de dormir!!

Good morning pupils and thank you for looking at this post. e

S1 - S2: The raffles have been postpomed until beginning of january. Mylo score will stop TOMORROW during the day. You have one more day to reach a higher score. Can I remind you that the section " They need a challenge" is NOT to be done... Thanks you very much (and remember that I can check everything...) Try to finsh and complete the activity without using the try again button. If you are bored of Mylo, go on to those websites

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

http://www.vivenoel.com/atelier/intro.htm

http://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm

http://www.cartoonito.co.uk/french

S3: SQA writing has been postponed, keep working on your essay. If school's open tomorrow, test might take place tomorrow... Something to think about. Websites mentioned above are worth a try as well.
But you might prefer this one: http://www.zut.org.uk/index.html (only accessible outside school hour)

Go outside and enjoy the snow as well.

Feeling cold? Then get your brain working...

c'est Noel!!!

christmas is here with a lot of fun times ahead!!

Start to get in the mood by watching the videos and carry on by visiting Santa's clause house..

Oh Oh Oh Oh

http://www.vivenoel.com/atelier/salon.htm

Snow day?!?

On va arreter l'hémoragie les élèves...

S1 / S2= Play around with MYLO and linguascope website. Remember NOT to go to the "challenge section3 in Mylo. Password for linguascope : portlethen / porty

S3: Remember the penpal letter. Has to be send / handed in ASAP. (should have been done already..)

S4: BBC website, languages section and linguascope.

Higher: Essay for next Monday: 150 words (in French) on what you have been doing the last 5 days. Include some past tense, present tense and complex sentences. Try to relate it to what we have learnt (e.i. living in the country is amazing because buses can not come to pick us up on a snow day...)

Kirsty , still waiting for your presentation on Scotland.
Hannah, same for your personnal presentation.


Int 2: Enjoy the snow :)

AH: Same as the higher but 250 words.
Don't forget the two essays on TV / media.

A vos crayons / souris
Passez une bonne journée

M. Buré

Ever wondered where beer was from?!?

Here is your answer:

Bavière : Du champ de houblon à la pinte de bière from Ulysse, la culture du voyage on Vimeo.

Je tiens à rappeler que l'abus d'alcool est dangereux pour la santé.

Ipad or not Ipad?

Another quizz based on the same one as the phone ones but for the ipad (and Co) this time.

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/visuel/2010/11/26/les-tablettes-tactiles-au-banc-d-essai_1444040_651865.html

See comments for more explanation.

Mr Buré

Higher Homework 29th November

Bonjour les éleves!

1) Higher pupils: Could you do the following for next monday?
Complete the vocab pages in the booklet (pages 1&2)
Answer the following questions (100 - 150 words)

Que pensez-vous de la qualité de vie à la campagne?


2) Int 2: Mon enfance Text A + B
Do it as a reading exercise

Register and score points on MYLO website
Upload documents on the Etwinning website (please, I am not far from begging you)

Mr Buré

A bit about Hip Hop!!

To know a bit more about the crazy sport!!



http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/infographe/2010/11/19/battles-de-hip-hop-la-danse-en-armes_1438935_3246.html

MYLO -- To all students from S1 to AH

New website for the school!!!

http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/

Please can you register before the nextlesson.

Register as "learners" and follow the step.
So far Portlethen Academy is 6th in the UK. Can we make it to the top and stay there!?!

I hope so!

M. Buré

French Radio in London!!!

French radio in London and the "small talks" it created 2 days ago.

Click HERE for the article in French

Click HERE for the article in English

Click here to listen to the RADIO

Bonne écoute

Mr Buré

Les médias Advanced Higher

Do as much as you can for thursday (rof the reading part) and choose two questions for an essay and write 100 words for each one of them. Question can be found at the end of the paper :)

Mr Buré

After school club

As already mentionned in class, there will be an after school club in French on MONDAY nights.

Two reasons for that:
1° To give the opportuinuty for the Higher class to catch up on the hours missed in In-service days / bank holiday

2° To give the opportunity for the Advanced Highers to watch movies to prepare the writing of the folio.

First session: 22nd November.

Further explanations will come in class.

Mr Buré

Iphone ou pas HTC? Lequel vous va le mieux?

Do the test and see which phone is better for you?

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/visuel/2010/05/13/quel-smartphone-vous-correspond-le-mieux_1351300_651865.html

Mr buré

Higher Homework 18th November

good morning!!

A couple of things on the aagenda for you today.
1) Essay on where you live: PN Past Paper 2006/07
Collette était assez contetne d'habiter en ville pendan les annees de ses études universitaires mais la vie è la campgane lui manquait. Est ce que vous habitez en ville ou à la campagne? Quels sont les avantages et les inconvemients à votre avis? Qu'est ce que vous espérez faire dans la vie et ou?

Write between 120 - 150 words on this essay.

2) Etwinning project:
Can all the pupils upload their presentation on the Twinspace. We are missing Hannah's, Sarah,s and Sophie's.
The Belgium team has uploaded a powerpoint about Belgium. Please read it, a few questions will be asked next week.
Can Claire and Kirsty do a similar thing on Scotland? The class will decide which one goes on the blog.

Enjoy your long break!!!

Enigmes!!

Jean de Machin a distribué ses terres entre ses trois fils. 15 ha pour Pierre, 15 Ha pour pour Paul. L’aîné, Alexandre, reçoit naturellement plus que ses deux frères, soit 4ha de plus que la moyenne reçue par les trois fils.

Quelle est la superficie du domaine à partager?

S2 Invitations

Good morning Pupils Well done to all the groups who took part in the lesson yesterday!! You will be able to vote to your best group (no allowed to vote for yourself though) and a ticks will be handed out to the best three groups!! Bon vote! Mr Buré

Tuesday afternoon

Good afternoon

This is a message for everybody willing to go to the Franco - Scottish Society conference on Tuesday the 9th November.

The meeting will start at 7pm at the Total French School (behind the Aberdeen Grammar School). The conference will be about "Aristocratic Childhood", still waiting for some details about it, followed by an informal conversation in French.

http://www.franco-scottish.org.uk/aberdeen.htm

A French movie will be shown at school from 4 to 6pm for any interested pupils. I am willing to take pupils to Aberdeen, to the conference (depending on numbers of pupils and parental consent). Parents would have to come to pick you up at the end (around 8.30 - 9.00pm)

Any questions let me know
(Email address available on this blog)

Mr Buré

Verbs + prepositions HIGHER

Look at the word document and try to complete the story with the correct preposition (a + de + No preposition).
Not all the verbs are in the list I gave you. You will have to look them up in the dictionary / follow the link to find the correct preposition.
Due for Monday 8th November

Pierre et son aventure anglaise verbs + prepo

View more documents from Portlethen Academy.

Try to print the paper, if you can't, copy it and paste it on a new word document. Otherwise just write it down :)

Mr Buré

Grammaire

A few links for tomorrow

http://french.about.com/cs/grammar/a/verbswithprep.htm

http://french.about.com/library/prepositions/bl_prep_verbs.htm

http://french.about.com/library/prepositions/bl_prep_a_verb.htm

Back to popular demand!!

Le Mime Marceau!!

South Park et facebook!!!

Advanced Higher!!

Here is an article about immigration in France. Evertything you need to write an essay is inside it.

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2010/10/27/dans-certaines-banlieues-les-jeunes-ont-pris-le-pouvoir-sur-les-adultes_1431987_3224.html

We will try to study it in class.

Mr Buré

Etwinning project

Here is the link for eTwinning and post documents on the 'twin space'

For wednesday: 120 words about yourself, your school, hobbies, blablabla

M. Buré à Paris

Paris ville magique!!

Photos à venir!

Attention TALENT

Un artiste que l'on va découvrir cette année.



Mr. Buré

Advanced Higher homework October hols

Bonsoir

Je vous ai prévu 2 essais pour ces vacances. Le premier sera sur l'immigration en France et sur son futur.

1) Comment voyez vous l'évolution de la population en France dans les prochaines décennies? La France peut elle redevenir une terre d'accueil? Ou bien se refermera sur elle même? Qu'en pensez vous?


2) Pour préparer le prochain sujet (les médias et internet), réfléchissez à cette question et écrivez une centaine de mots: Les médias (journaux, internet, TV, magazines...)sont partout dans notre société. Leur accordez-vous beaucoup de place au quotidien? Lequel est votre préféré? et pourquoi?

Bonnes vacances
felices fiestas (from google translate^^)

Un peu d'histoire française

Articles from Le Monde that shows and explains how Africa gained their independance in the 60's.

Click here to read it

bonnes vacances à tous

M. Buré

un petit vote, ca me ferait plaisir!!

Boys and girls, I need you

Within a few click, you can make a massive difference.

http://www.berghaus.com/en/adventure-challenge/shortlists
Go on that website, scroll down, enter the voting page and vote for the dude with he yellow helmet. (Yes, it is me!!)

You can do it up to several times a day.

If i win, It is not one dish I'll get you but a proper three course meal!!!

Thanks for your vote.

Mr Buré

Bon appétit

Voila la vidéo de Mme Hunter

Les escargots et la raclette

Here are a couple of pictures from the lunch.




Thanks for all of you to take part in the meal yesterday. i really enjoyed it.

Higher Homework during the holidays

Bonjour les élèves.

Afin de ne pas vous ennuyer pendant vos vacances, je vous ai prépapré un peu de travail. Travail que vous devez me rendre lundi 25 ocotbre.

1) Tout d'abord, le dernier essai, issue du P/N past paper 04/05 sur la famille. Voici l'énoncé:
Les parents d'Emma n'étaient pas tres heureux quand elle ne voulait plus faire ses activités compétitives, et il y avait des problemes.
Et vous? Est ce que vous vous entendez bien avec vos parents, ou est-ce que qu'il y a des choses qui posent problèmes entre vous comme les sorties, les copains, les études?
A votre avis,est-ce important pour les jeunes d'avoir de bons rapports avce les parents?
Écrivez 120-150 mots pour exprimer vos idées.

2) Pour commencer le nouveau chapitre, (ma ville), pouvez vous me parler de votre ville / région. Aimez vous habiter là? Quels sont les avantages et les inconvénients?

3)Choississez une ville (en Ecosse / en France / ou autre part) et faites un powerpoint comme Antoine, pour décrire votre ville. Powerpoint doit etre en francais et doit durer 10 mins.
Claire: Toronto (Cnada)
Sophie: Perth (Australie)
Hannah: Paris
Kirsty: Londres
Jodie:
Raegan: Glasgow
Sarah: Aberdeen

History Lesson about Brugges

One of the best medieval cities in Europe.

http://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/video/2010/09/30/une-balade-sur-les-canaux-de-bruges_1418454_3546.html

Advanced higher grammar

Follow the instructions and print it / send it it to me with your answers for thursday 7th of October

Advanced higher grammar

View more documents from Portlethen Academy.

More on Immigration
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2010/09/29/de-giscard-a-sarkozy-l-immigration-reste-un-theme-phare-de-la-droite_1416885_3224.html

Not a good image of France!!

Spanish Vocab

Here is the booklet for S1

http://www.scribd.com/full/38304647?access_key=key-ltp680w7m9kx4mhyja3

Enjoy

Scotland is not really part of the UK or is it?!?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/sep/22/happy-dont-live-uk?CMP=NECNETTXT1349

Interesting study

Mr Buré

Vocab booklet 1st year + 2nd year

Good evening pupils!!

You will probably find this handy if you are fed up of writing the vocab from the board! Just print it from home and take it to class.

Vocab booklet

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Vocab booklet s1 + 2

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If you fancy some homework, the booklet is there for you. Enjoy :)

Homework booklet s1

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Another way of revising / working on your french skills is to go on the Internet:
www.linguascope.com
www.languagesonline.org.uk


Any questions, drop me an email (can be found at the righthand side of the page), parents welcome as well!

Good luck
Mr Buré

Advanced Higher Grammar Indirect Object + essay

Bonjour voila quelques exercises pour les compléments objets indirects (indirect object pronouns)

1
2
Assez dur. A faire en dernier!!!


Essay title: (due for 30/09)

La France: terre d'accueil?


Bonne chance et n'hésitez à venir me voir si vous avez des problèmes!!!

Mr Buré

Higher Grammar Grammar (direct object) + Essay

More practise on the Direct Object (Follow the links)

Essay title:
Comment est ce que vous vous entendez avec les personnes dans votre famille? Quand est ce que vous pensez quitter la maison de vos parents? Quels sont vos projets pour l'avenir? 120 words - 150 W

Good luck

M Buré

1
2
Test

Advanced Higher

Bonjour les filles.

Deux choses pour vous ce soir.

Tout d'abord, voici d'autres articles pour en savoir plus sur les Roms en France, qui peuvent vous être utile pour les essais à venir:

La vie dans le tunnel

Les dates principales


Ensuite, et je sais que l'une d'entre vous me dira merci, voici un peu de grammaire. entrainez vous, et essayez de faire les exercices pour jeudi prochain.

1
2
3
Test

Bon courage


Merci
M. Buré

Higher homework Grammar

Click here to find the homework

Good luck to everybody.

homework is due for wednesday 22th

M. Buré

De la grammaire!!!

Some useful websites to revise (ok, maybe just to learn) the basics of French grammar:

http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/gramm.shtml

http://fr.tsedryk.ca/

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/index.html

http://www.languageguide.org/french/

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~creitan/grammar.htm

http://www.lefrancais.com/French_grammar/

http://french.about.com/od/grammar/French_Grammar.htm

Hit 40

Stromae, First French song to enter the infamous Hit 40 on the BBC for a long time.

Massive hit this summer when I was in France.



Mr Buré

Summer in France

Fancy a job in the summer?
This family would welcome you for a ocuple of weeks in a lovely part of France. All you have to do is speak English to the "pupils" there.
Any advice / questions, get in touch with Mr Buré

Coco Chanel

Good evening pupils

Here are a couple of links that might help to write the essay on Coco Chanel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Before_Chanel

http://www.leportaildesantiquaires.com/index.asp?id=652

http://www.biography.com/articles/Coco-Chanel-9244165


Quizz about Coco Chanel


http://www.examiner.com/arts-education-in-atlanta/chanel-no-10-10-things-young-artists-can-learn-from-coco-chanel


Quotes from Chanel

Mr Buré

World cup!?!

Forget about the glamourous side of the world cup. This documentary about South Africa will hopefully help you to understand a society divided in two, the society you will never hear during the games...

http://coupe-du-monde.tf1.fr/video/le-jt-de-20h-special-afrique-du-sud-5868935.html

Reulf

Competition World Cup

World Cup is fast approaching and I am sure you have a favorite for the competition. Mine is obviously "l'équipe de France", what's yours?

Drop me a comment about who you want to win the world cup.

Mr Buré

Life in Congo

Want to know more about life in Congo? Have a look at these videos and tell me what you think.

Link to the videos

Mr Buré

Vocabulary 4th year

Maybe too late for this year, but just on time for next year.

Vocabulary 4th year

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j'en suis resté bouche bée

Have a look, pretty amazing

video : le street tumbling

SQA Listening Past Paper HIGHERS

If you click on the S5 / S6 sections at the top, you will find a selection of listening exercise.

Past papers are available inn the departement.

Stromness Academy website

Higher Writing

Higher writing phrases

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Vocab list 4th year revision

Here is the list of words you came up with last Monday when ywe did the carousel. That is the minimum you should know before sitting your exam.

Vocab list 4th year revision

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Le petit éléphant

Good morning First years

Here is the play we will be working on. If you have lost yours, print it again from here.

Mr Buré

Le petit elephant

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Who is our best model?

Here is a selection of 1.5 doing their fashion show.

Vote to elect the best model and to elect the person that has described them best. Raffle ticket can be won.

M. Buré

Videos in French

Follow the adventures of Sam, an american in Paris and his new friends.

Adventures starts here!!!

Have fun watching them.

Mr Buré

Gruffalo script

Le gruffalo

You now have the chance to print off the script and come ready in class.

M. Buré

Gruffalo script

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Test in French

Here is a test that is going to challenge yourself.

1) do the test
http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/enseigner-apprendre-francais/TCF-FLE/p-6817-Accueil-TCF.htm


Don't forget to email me your score once you have done it!!
M. Buré

What's happenning in other parts of the world?

These two links will take far away from what you know.

The first link is a documentary, filmed in France about Wrestling. You wil learn about French wrestler, their habits, their styles and their life. The documentary is in French. Click here to watch it.

The second link will take you to Cuba and Miami (US). We will discover more about that growing South American Culture in the US. The videos are in Spanish with English subtitles. Click here to watch it.

Enjoy
M. Buré

Web addresses

http://www.olyfran.com/olyfran/
Competition en Francais

http://www.francophonie.org/

http://www.tv5.org/

http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/

http://www.cilt.org.uk/home.aspx

http://www.languageswork.org.uk/home.aspx

More addresses
http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/

http://www.all-languages.org.uk/community/committees_and_sigs/list_of_committees_and_sigs/french_language_committee

http://www.fipf.info/

More Adress from Dudee LTID

http://joedale.typepad.com/

http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/

http://languagesonscreen.org.uk/

Word of the Day

Linguascope stole my idea!!!
One day: one word in five different languages

European Project: Raising European Awareness

A l'intention des Highers et Advanced higher

Voici un site Internet très bien fait pour comprendre le role du parlement Européen a Strasbourg. Le site a été fait par des écoles écossaises. Le projet est Euroscola, voici un autre site pour en savoir un peu plus.

Mr Buré

Fin des jeux Olympiques

Voila, après deux semaines de neige, de brouillard, de chutes et de sauts en tout genre, l'aventure canadienne se termine. La France avec 11 médailles fait aussi bien qu'a Salt Lake City et mieux qu'a Turin :)

Les prochains jeux se tiendront en Russie, dans 4 ans. Y serez-vous?

S2 1st of March

Good afternoon Boys and girls

This afternoon, your task will be to investigate two webistes.

The first one is www.languagesonline.org.uk Your task will be to work on perfect tense and practise what we have done in class. Look at your notes if you are stuck. Remember to use the booklet and to see the work done in class.

click on French/Grammar/Perfect tense for beginner/do 1-2-3-4-5-6

The second website will be www.linguascope.com . You are asked to work on the beginner section and work through the green section on the top left corner.


Have fun and learn well
M. Buré

Time to use your iPhone in a sensible way

With an increasing number of pupils having a iPhone, The department thought it would be a good time to download some Apps to practise a language.
Here is a selection of apps available on the iStore. Some of them are free so feel free to have a look.

Click on the number to open the page and find out more.

1 One of the best to pass you exam and to revise

2 Problem with verbs, then here is your answer

3 Here is a free app to revise :)

4 Learn or refresh your French, anytime and anywhere with your own personal language lab. Personal tutor available

5 Some Spanish to revise. Based on Linguascope website, a favourite amongst students

6 The biggest database of French phrases so far, you can't go wrong.

7 Forget French and language and focus on the country: FRANCE. Pub quizz here we come!! This app has got all the info to be unbeatable about France for your next pub quizz

8 Aimed at beginner, succession of flashcard, quite useful to introduce new language. Available in 4 languages (German, Spanish, Italian, French)

9 Linguascope App in French this time.

10: the full list on the app store on Education. Very very helpful to revise while on the bus. Some of them are free, check them out.

Get downloading, and use them to revise the vocab seen in class.

Amicalement votre, le département de langues vivantes

Jeux Olympiques

Les jeux olympiques d'hiver se tiennent a Montréal au Canada en ce moment. Une nouvelle discipline est a l'honneur: Le ski-cross. Voici quelques extraits d'une course



Il n'y a aucune règle dans le sport, le premier à arriver en bas de la pente gagne la manche.

Lors de ma prochaine visite sur les pistes de Glenshee, je vais transformer quelques pistes en pistes de ski cross :)

A très vite pour d'autres nouvelles

Littérature francaise

La phrase préférée de M Stewart, très apprécié des profs, un peu moins des élèves :)

Gustave Flaubert a dit (ou écrit) "tais toi et fais"

Bien vrai

New websites for Portlethen

The department has subscribed to two websites. Password and username are now available from your teacher

1° linguascope

2° Zut

3° Ozzie
way

4 http://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm

a +

BBC Bitesize

For 4th year

The BBC has compiled a series of questions / exercises to help you with your exams. You should browse the two sites and work at an appropriate level. If the answers are not provided by the website, email it to your teacher so you can have the correct answer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/standard/french/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/french/



For Higher and Credit pupils:
Here is a reading paper from 2007 and 2008. The answers are attached to the page so it is easy to correct.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/FrenchExamQandAs_tcm4-544800.pdf

To BBC or not to BBC?

The BBC website has got a lot of resources to offer.
Here is a guide of how to use it, and what to do:

1) Test yourself: Always good to know where you are at.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/gauge/

2)A bit of Listening. Wtahc the different videos and train your ears to hear French. From S2 to S4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/talk/

3)Quick fix: Here is a list of essential phrases. Listen to them on your computer, or downlload them, your choice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/quickfix/

4)Real life French: Some handy sentences to know and a good way to revise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/menu.shtml

5)Ma France: Videos exploring different topics and checking your knowledge about France and French.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/flash/#

6)BBC, in collobaration with a Franco-German Radio gave us this programme both in French and in English and tells us a story about a French boy and an English girl. Want to know more, click here http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/deja_vu

C'est tout pour aujourd'hui, à vous de l'utiliser maintenant.
M Buré