Friday 4 August 2017

Shy holiday Britons 'point at menus' to avoid foreign words

BBC News article -

The Populus survey found 37% of British holidaymakers always tried to speak a few words in the local language but 29% said they were too scared to try.
It also found that 36% felt guilty at asking locals to speak English, while:
  • 56% resorted to pointing at menus
  • 45% relied on the assumption that all locals would speak English
  • 42% spoke English more slowly and loudly
  • 15% even tried speaking English in a foreign accent 
Previous research by the British Council, the UK's international culture and education organisation, has found that the UK has a shortage of people able to speak the 10 most important world languages, which is likely to hamper the country's future prosperity and global standing.

To read the full article click here.

Wednesday 19 July 2017

What languages can I do at JFS?

Chinese Mandarin
普通

Every Monday after school in room 52, all students welcome. Option to get a GCSE after a few year’s work. Teachers from the Nihao Mandarin language club, special price for JFS students.


Portuguese and Italian
Português and Italiano

Every Monday after school in rooms 54 and 53a for students with already some knowledge to native level speakers of the language. EDEXCEL GCSE and A level option. Very low price, co-financed by the Portuguese and Italian embassies.


Spanish, French and German
Español, Français and Deutsch

Mother tongue students (of the above or any other language if the family can support them in their studies and there is a GCSE available in EDEXCEL exam panels. If Edexcel does not have your language, we can consider other panels) need to speak with Mr. Ordóñez about their GCSE options.


Polish
Polszczyzna

Students are referred to their local Polish school. Please ask Mr. Ordóñez for more details.


Latin
Lingua latina


For year 9 and 10 groups only. There will be a free course in Latin at Trinity School, 4-5pm on Thursdays, commencing on Thursday 21st of September. 

Monday 27 March 2017

New GCSE - foundation speaking assessment

What should my exam look like if I want to get a 5?
  • Little hesitation
  • Fairly accurate
  • Fairly good accent
  • minimum of 3 tenses (past, present and future)
  • extended opinions, some of them complex
  • all questions fully answered
  • variety of vocabulary, including connectives and adverbs

Friday 10 March 2017

Memrise


https://www.memrise.com/courses/english/spanish-spain/?q=gcse





I have researched some ideas to improve our vocabulary knowledge and I would like you to try Memrise. It has hundreds of specific French GCSE vocab revision courses. Please try it out and tell me if you like it!

11A2 French PAR
11D French EVA

Saturday 8 November 2014

LA GRANDE GUERRE



Special 14-18


http://www.rtbf.be/tv/emission/detail_special-14-18/enfants?emissionId=6086#contenu

La guerre expliquée aux enfants


Tuesday 21 October 2014

GCSE FRENCH Speaking Assessment 1 stimuli

French GCSE
Controlled Speaking Assessment 1 – Term 1 Year 11
Theme 3 – (Business, Work and Employment)

Job Interview
Situation:
You want to spend a ski season working in Les Deux Alpes.
NB Your assessment should contain detailed information, views and reasons to back up any statements and examples of the present, past and future tenses(Higher Tier – conditional, imperfect and pluperfect tenses also)

·         If you are aiming for the Higher Level standards you must also include phrases and structures studied in class in order to make your work more personal.

You may wish to include the following information in your letter!

ü  Personal details
ü  Personality
ü  Education
ü  Work Experience
§  Where
§  When
§  Start/ finish times
§  Travel and duration
§  Lunch
§  Your role/ specific tasks
§  Colleagues/ Employer
§  Wage
§  Opinions with reasons
ü  Part-time jobs
ü  Pocket money
ü  ‘A’ Levels
ü  University
ü  Future career plans