Modern Languages at North Berwick High School

Salut! Both year groups have some important exams coming up… For S3, these may give rise to some class changes as people slot into different places depending on their attitude, ability and effort. For S4, it’s the last “Real Life (TM)” practice before the finals, which will be creeping up soon after the Easter holidays.
Help is at hand!!
Scroll down to the “blogroll” and use everything you can find to give your revision the edge.

* BBC Bitesize has help for French, German and Spanish. Based on the Standard Grade system, it gives really good feedback and can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

* MonJTQuotidien is a fabulous resource that allows you to develop your reading and listening skills at the same time as keeping you up to date with current affairs. Probably the best of the lot.

* Linguascope and Linguastars - old favourites. Language is topic-specific and the games are fun. And I know you all love the crab!

* Languagesonline - not as jazzy as linguascope, but top value for practising grammar and topic-specific language. Difficulty increases with these tasks and feedback is immediate. Excellent resource.

Bonne chance! Viel Gluck! Buen suerte!

Lots of people get stuck with certain letters when they try to say them in a foreign language. Here’s a guide to how to pronounce the alphabet in German.

German alphabet sounds

Lots of people get stuck with certain letters when they try to say them in a foreign language. Here’s a guide to how to pronounce the alphabet in French. 

French alphabet sounds

Hi Access 3!

Now you can even download the listening exercise that prepares you for a authentic shopping situation in Germany. See how much you can understand and try to remember the phrases - for personal use.

Viel Spaß!

Salut S3, now we’ve covered perfect tense regular verbs in class, have a look at the answer sheet and see if you can remember how to form the perfect tense with regular verbs. There’s a presentation to help you too. You could even leave it till next term and use it for revision purposes - see if you can get them all right now that you should know the answers!

(PS) To find the answers in the blanks, highlight the blank space and change the font colour from white.

Perfect Tense -ER verbs question sheet

Perfect tense presentation

Salut 3X2, here is the powerpoint that we looked at in class about jobs. The vocabulary talks about which job you do, why you like or dislike it, the hours you work and how much you get paid.

Les metiers

Voilà la conversation qu’on a étudié en classe. Bonne chance pour le test!

Au téléphone (conversation)

Salut! Here are some powerpoints for you, S2, to help with revision for the speaking and listening tests next week. Bonne chance! Also, go into linguascope (you’ll find the link if you scroll down to the “blogroll”) and open “Le Corps” and “Les Douleurs” for some games fun/revision. Obviously, for reasons to do with our subscription contract, I can’t post the username and password, but you should know it by now!

Make sure you’re “au fait” with vocab related to describing your family too (names, ages, appearances - how tall, how short, the tallest, the shortest, taller, shorter - etc.). the vocab for this will be on the photocopied sheet you have for module 3.
Need any help, just ask!

Questions for speaking

La famille

Le corps

J’ai mal

Salut S1! We’re about to embark on a new topic. Click on the powerpoint below to help you talk about where you live. Ready….steady….go….!

Chez moi